by Peter Certo | Dec 20, 2018 | Democracy & Governance, Health, Human Rights, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
Each New Year’s, my wife and I indulge one of our favorite traditions: the household purge. We scour our closets for stuff that’s just taking up space, quietly draining our home’s energy, and move it along. I can’t recommend it enough. This year, America’s doing the...
by Jakob Reimann | Nov 8, 2018 | Redev, War & Peace
In September, at the Air Force Association’s annual Space & Cyber Conference, Heather Wilson — Donald Trump’s Secretary of the U.S. Air Force — presented the Trump administration’s new roadmap for the U.S. Air Force: the historic expansion of the already, by...
by John Feffer | Oct 24, 2018 | Democracy & Governance, Environment, Human Rights, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
In his recent speeches and articles, Bernie Sanders has been talking about forming a Progressive International. It’s about time. The alt-right, thanks in part to Steve Bannon, has formed an international network centered in Europe on the National Front in France and...
by John Feffer | Oct 17, 2018 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights, Redev
Russia, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia are the latest members of a select international club. Assassins Without Borders has roots that go back, in the modern era at least, to the policies of the Soviet Union, Chile, Israel, Bulgaria, and the United States. All of these...
by William Hartung | Oct 16, 2018 | Human Rights, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
If the Saudi government is indeed behind the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi there should be consequences — political, military, economic, and reputational. Unfortunately, President Trump begs to differ. His reaction to questions about whether the United States...