by John Feffer | Apr 17, 2019 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
Two major public figures lost their protected status last week. British authorities dragged Julian Assange, the co-founder of Wikileaks, out of the Ecuadorian consulate and into custody. Meanwhile, months of public protests finally dislodged Omar al-Bashir, the...
by Daniel DePetris, Richard Sokolsky | Apr 10, 2019 | Redev, War & Peace
The decision by the Trump administration to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organization marks another dangerous step in the relentless campaign Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor John Bolton...
by John Feffer | Mar 20, 2019 | Democracy & Governance, Environment, Human Rights, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
Donald Trump has shaken up U.S. foreign policy. Most of what he has done has been disastrous, like pulling America out of the Paris climate accord and the Iran nuclear deal. He has been erratic, unprincipled, aggressive, and unilateral. And yet, he has also created...
by Jakob Reimann | Feb 18, 2019 | Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
The last great revolution on the world’s battlefields began with the advent of the drone era. Particularly in the Middle East, the drone became the symbol of the U.S. empire operating in a legal vacuum. In the first decade and a half of the “War on Terror,” the U.S....
by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies | Feb 6, 2019 | Democracy & Governance, Energy, Human Rights, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
In 1995, William Blum wrote a masterful book, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II, in which he chronicled 55 U.S. regime change operations around the world, from China (1945-1960s) to Haiti (1986-1994). Since 1995, the U.S. has been...
