Want to Know Who Influences US Foreign Policy? Follow the Money. Want to Know Who Influences US Foreign Policy? Follow the Money.
The defense contractors and foreign governments funding think tanks are pushing for a foreign-policy consensus reliant on weapons and war.
Nov 20, 2020 / Cassandra Stimpson and Holly Zhang
The Coup That Succeeded The Coup That Succeeded
The most dangerous blows to American democracy have come not from Trump but from the national security establishment.
Nov 16, 2020 / Jeet Heer
Biden Signals Flexibility on North Korea, but Peace Groups Are Wary Biden Signals Flexibility on North Korea, but Peace Groups Are Wary
Koreans fear a return to Obama’s failed “strategic patience” policy.
Nov 16, 2020 / Tim Shorrock
Homeland Security Thinks Everything Looks Like Terrorism Homeland Security Thinks Everything Looks Like Terrorism
Hammer, meet nail.
Nov 4, 2020 / Ken Klippenstein
Palestinian Maher Al-Akhras Demands: Freedom or Death Palestinian Maher Al-Akhras Demands: Freedom or Death
Most of the time, the death of a single Palestinian prisoner does not show up on the radar screen of Israeli or world consciousness. Maher Al-Akhras is putting his life on the line...
Oct 28, 2020 / Sally Abed
We Need to Think About Xinjiang in Internationalist Terms We Need to Think About Xinjiang in Internationalist Terms
Challenging the right wing’s cold war agenda means highlighting the Uighur re-education camps’ links to counterterrorism and global capital.
Oct 28, 2020 / A. Liu
Nuclear Weapons Have Always Been Immoral. Now They’re Illegal. Nuclear Weapons Have Always Been Immoral. Now They’re Illegal.
The UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons has reached the 50 ratifications needed to become international law.
Oct 27, 2020 / Ray Acheson
Bolivians Reclaim Their Democracy Bolivians Reclaim Their Democracy
The overwhelming MAS election victory is a repudiation of the racist coup regime as well as of the Trump administration and the OAS, which helped install it.
Oct 21, 2020 / Mark Weisbrot
Reimagining American Foreign Policy Reimagining American Foreign Policy
A new book examines the narrative framework around internationalism that foreign-policy elites coined in the 1940s, and which has shaped the world we live in.
Oct 20, 2020 / Andrew J. Bacevich
Trump Is Urging Republicans to Break the Law Trump Is Urging Republicans to Break the Law
He not only applauded the California GOP’s illegal use of mail-in ballot drop-boxes; he’s urging Republican officials elsewhere to do the same thing.
Oct 16, 2020 / Sasha Abramsky