The “Hidden World” series in The Washington Post by Dana Priest and William Arkin reveals the true extent to which the U.S. government has become a secretive national security state.
The Times claims that Pakistan’s inequitable tax system helps drive the insurgency, but offers no proof.
Is it true that a nuclear weapons program is the way for a small state to level the playing field with a larger state in one fell swoop?
Just as America’s fear of communism stampeded it to make disastrous decisions, its fear of Islam drives its self-defeating policy toward Somalia.
The Israel-Palestine conflict has been at the heart of regional affairs since the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. This is the context wherein the “de facto” Iran-Turkey-Syria axis should be understood, although substantive normalization of relations in the last decade between Turkey and its neighbors Iran and Syria served as a pre-requisite for the supposed alliance.
Instead, increasingly acrimonious exchanges between Beijing and Washington reveal the contradictions inherent in attempting to shoehorn an authoritarian, mercantilist, and suspicious nation into a refurbished world system that ostensibly promotes democracy, open markets, multilateralism, while forcefully advancing American interests.
Two respected Korean-American researchers cast new doubt on South Korea’s conclusion that North Korea sunk the Cheonan.
An attack on Iran may be high on the wish list of U.S. and Israeli hawks, but a positive outcome is likely wishful thinking.
In its 2011 budget, the White House asked for over $80 million in military programs for Africa, while freezing or reducing aid packages aimed at civilians.
The U.S. has spent a trillion dollars since 2001 on military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, it is being estimated that another $800 billion plus will be added to the tab before the wars are ended, yet it’s questionable what the return on that investment is. New ideas and new perspectives are needed to rebalance a deeply dysfunctional system.