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After Trump

After Trump

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...
China is Flooding the Middle East With Cheap Drones

China is Flooding the Middle East With Cheap Drones

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....
The Dangers of U.S. Brinkmanship in Venezuela

The Dangers of U.S. Brinkmanship in Venezuela

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...
The U.S. Has a Secretary of Defense Contracting, Not of Defense

The U.S. Has a Secretary of Defense Contracting, Not of Defense

by William Hartung, Mandy Smithberger | Feb 6, 2019 | Democracy & Governance, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace

The way personnel spin through Washington’s infamous revolving door between the Pentagon and the arms industry is nothing new. That door, however, is moving ever faster with the appointment of Patrick Shanahan, who spent 30 years at Boeing, the...
Could Trump Really Launch a War With Iran?

Could Trump Really Launch a War With Iran?

by Conn Hallinan | Feb 1, 2019 | Redev, War & Peace

Keeping track of the Trump administration’s foreign policy is like trying to track a cat on a hot tin roof: We’re pulling out of Syria (not right away). We’re leaving Afghanistan (sometime in the future). Mexico is going to pay for a wall (no, it...
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