by Harry Blain | Aug 19, 2021 | Democracy & Governance, War & Peace
Although President Biden has held fast on his commitment to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan, he has thrown a few bones to advocates of U.S. power projection. One, in particular, stands out, and that is Biden’s promise to use our “counterterrorism...
by John Feffer | Aug 18, 2021 | War & Peace
It’s as if a sudden natural disaster has just struck Afghanistan. The scenes from the capital Kabul reflect the kind of panic that comes when a Category 5 hurricane makes landfall, when the waters rise and the levees are breached, when a forest fire jumps over a fuel...
by Tom Engelhardt | Jul 28, 2021 | War & Peace
It was all so long ago, in a world seemingly without challengers. Do you even remember when we Americans lived on a planet with a recumbent Russia, a barely rising China, and no obvious foes except what later came to be known as an “axis of evil,” three countries then...
by John Feffer | Jun 23, 2021 | Democracy & Governance, War & Peace
To some critics, U.S. elections are managed affairs. According to this cynical view, the “powers that be” narrow the field of candidates, the two parties don’t represent the real range of public opinion in the country, and periodic elections are just shadow plays...
by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies | Jun 23, 2021 | War & Peace
It was common knowledge that a U.S. failure to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal (known as the JCPOA, or Joint Cooperative Plan of Action) before Iran’s June presidential election would help conservative hard-liners win the election. Indeed, on Saturday, June 19, the...
