It’s blustery nationalism plus the conventional pieties of the foreign policy establishment.
Trump’s New Foreign Policy Is the Worst of Both Worlds
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The Neocons Are Almost Giddy Over Trump’s Syria Strike
Many architects of the Iraq War openly hope Trump will go further in pursuing regime change in Syria — and then Iran.
After the Chemical Attack, It’s Time to Get Rid of the ‘Muslim Ban’
Now that he cares about the fate of Syrian children, Trump should open up our country — not bomb theirs.
We May Be on the Verge of a Return to the Bush Administration’s Worst Abuses
The Trump administration may be preparing to bring back torture, extraordinary rendition, and indefinite detention — with Neil Gorsuch’s help.
The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process Is Over. What’s Needed Now Is a Boycott.
With the U.S. now firmly in the pro-settler camp, nonviolent campaigns to impose a cost on Israel’s occupation matter more than ever.
Donald Trump: Invasive Species
Can one determined and willfully ignorant man both stem the green tide and push the world over the brink into ecocide?
These Lawmakers Are Trying to Curb Trump’s Authority to Launch a Nuclear War
Without so much as a vote by Congress, our whole planet could be destroyed.
How the Iraq War Gave Us Trump
From 2003 to 2017, the U.S. went from from sole global superpower to potential super-pariah.
Under Trump, the U.S. May Now Be Killing More Civilians Than Russia
With mass-casualty events from Raqqa to Mosul, some think the U.S. military is scrapping rules designed to protect innocents.
Why Spend $54 Billion More on the Pentagon? To Start a War, Obviously.
The president apparently wants to put the U.S. on a permanent war footing to sustain his unpopular presidency.