The discrepancy is significant because it reduces the Israeli violence to an exclusively Turkish grievance.
Key Fact Suppressed in the Israel-Turkey Reconciliation Story
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Nixon’s “Madman Theory” Was Not the Vietnam War’s Only Nuclear Weapons Test Case
Nuclear weapons vastly complicate foreign policy.
Emphasis Added: The Foreign Policy Week in Pieces (3/22)
Emphasis, as always, added.
Ugandan Human Rights Group Using U.S. Law to Sue Anti-Gay Pastor
The suit against Scott Lively maintains that his rhetoric threatens the safety of an already persecuted population, thus making it a crime against humanity.
Ten Years After Iraq War, Neo-Cons Struggle to Hold Republicans
Ten years after the Iraq War, the domination of neo-conservative ‘defense hawks’ in the Republican Party is increasingly under siege, not only because of the growing national consensus that the Iraq invasion was a major strategic debacle, but also because of the increasing popular concern – noted in a number of major polls over the past six months – that Washington simply can no longer afford the kind of imperial vision the hawks have promoted.
Emphasis Added: The Foreign Policy Week in Pieces (3/19)
Is a country ever mature enough to possess a nuclear-weapons program?
Intrigue Surrounds U.S. Arrest of Iran-based Bin Laden Son-in-Law
While U.S. politicians Friday debated whether Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden and former Al-Qaeda spokesman, should be tried in New York City, foreign policy analysts were speculating about the circumstances under which he was apprehended by U.S. authorities.
Emphasis Added: The Foreign Policy Week in Pieces (3/8/13)
Retaliate against hackers with nukes!
Ability of Nuclear Deterrence to Defuse Crises Exaggerated
Nuclear deterrence’s inflated reputation is beginning to come back down to earth.
GM Seeds and the Militarization of Food (And Everything Else)
Jon Letman of Truthout interviews Dr. Vandana Shiva—a globally respected Indian physicist, philosopher, and activist—on Hawaii’s role as a testing site for both GMO crops and the military, Hawaii’s relationship with Asia, and on the largely unspoken connection between GE crops, climate change, militarism, and what Shiva calls “a war against the earth.”