by Michael Klare | Apr 4, 2018 | Redev, War & Peace
Think of it as the most momentous military planning on Earth right now. Who’s even paying attention, given the eternal changing of the guard at the White House, as well as the latest in tweets, sexual revelations, and investigations of every sort? And yet it...
by Medea Benjamin | Nov 15, 2017 | Democracy & Governance, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev
On Wednesday, November 8, just as President Trump was clinching new business deals with the repressive Communist government of China, the Trump administration announced its new rules rolling back President Obama’s opening with Cuba. The new regulations restricting...
by Conn Hallinan | Jan 27, 2017 | Redev, War & Peace
In his Jan. 13 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson made an extraordinary comment concerning China’s activities in the hotly disputed South China Sea. The United States, he said, must “send a clear...
by Conn Hallinan | Aug 17, 2016 | Redev, War & Peace
A combination of recent events, underpinned by long-running historical strains reaching back more than 60 years, has turned the western Pacific into one of the most hazardous spots on the globe. The tension between China and the United States “is one of the most...
by John Feffer | Jul 26, 2016 | Redev, Uncategorized
It has not been a good month for China. On July 12, an international court of arbitration at The Hague handed the Philippines a huge victory over China in the struggle over the South China Sea. A few days before that, South Korea decided to go forward with the...
