National Security

Korea Olympics

The Winter Olympics Offers a Glimpse of Peace for Korea The Winter Olympics Offers a Glimpse of Peace for Korea

But will it last—and can it rein in Trump’s dangerous saber rattling?

Feb 1, 2018 / Tim Shorrock

Richard Falk UN

A Conversation With Richard Falk, Part 2 A Conversation With Richard Falk, Part 2

On Israel, Palestine, and his work as a UN special rapporteur.

Jan 31, 2018 / Patrick Lawrence

LAX Protest

Trump’s Xenophobic Vision of America Is Inciting Racist Violence Trump’s Xenophobic Vision of America Is Inciting Racist Violence

Attacks against Muslim, South Asian, Sikh, Hindu, Arab, and Middle Eastern communities in the US were up a staggering 45 percent in 2017.

Jan 27, 2018 / Suman Raghunathan

Turkish Soldiers in Afrin

Showdown in Afrin: Turkey’s Attack on Syria’s Kurds Threatens That Country’s Most Democratic, Pluralist Force Showdown in Afrin: Turkey’s Attack on Syria’s Kurds Threatens That Country’s Most Democratic, Pluralist Force

The Kurds have said they will fight to the death before they give up an inch of Afrin.

Jan 26, 2018 / Meredith Tax

Red Square in Moscow

The American Bipartisan Policy Establishment Declares Its ‘Second Cold War’ vs. Russia After Years of Denying It The American Bipartisan Policy Establishment Declares Its ‘Second Cold War’ vs. Russia After Years of Denying It

The most influential US foreign-policy membership society has issued a report affirming the new Cold War and its eagerness to fight it.

Jan 24, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen

Trump’s Nuclear Posture Review: Back to Armageddon

Trump’s Nuclear Posture Review: Back to Armageddon Trump’s Nuclear Posture Review: Back to Armageddon

It calls for increasing the role of nuclear weapons in US strategy, which will only increase the risk of confrontation.

Jan 18, 2018 / Michael T. Klare

Roosevelt Churchill Stalin

Democrats Are Repudiating FDR’s Precedent of Détente With Russia Democrats Are Repudiating FDR’s Precedent of Détente With Russia

By criminalizing alleged “contacts with the Kremlin”—and by demonizing Russia itself—today’s Democrats are becoming the party of the new and more perilous Cold War.

Jan 17, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen

North Korea Protest Summit in Vancouver

Women’s Peace Groups in Vancouver Press for Korea Negotiations Women’s Peace Groups in Vancouver Press for Korea Negotiations

A US-proposed naval blockade “is not diplomacy,” they tell UN member states.

Jan 16, 2018 / Tim Shorrock

Trump War Protest Bethesda

Will Our Endless Wars Fuel the Next Populist Revolt? Will Our Endless Wars Fuel the Next Populist Revolt?

The lives lost and money wasted are real. The only question is who has the courage to state that the emperor has no clothes.

Jan 16, 2018 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

trump battleship

Fortress America Is Crumbling Fortress America Is Crumbling

Trump’s inept one-man diplomacy is wrecking US foreign policy.

Jan 16, 2018 / Alfred McCoy

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