Thursday, March 19, 2026

Tag: foreign policy

‘The first victim was the truth’—the cognitive war on Venezuela

We can fight against this cognitive war by insisting on an alternative vision for U.S. foreign policy, one in which the country becomes a good neighbor by centering its relationship with the hemisphere (and the world) on peace, solidarity and shared prosperity.
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Iranian American scholars denounce US-Israeli attack, warn regime change efforts will...

Far from leading to a popular uprising against the government, as President Trump has encouraged, the U.S.-Israeli attacks have forced Iranians to worry about their immediate safety from the bombs.

Trump’s tariff move risks prolonged economic chaos

The United States remains an economy governed by decree and challenged by decree—a superpower struggling to define who is in charge of its checkbook.

Trump delivers lunch to Beijing

China is taking advantage of the fact that even the most even-tempered of allies have had it with Trump and his tantrums.

Trump’s Board of Peace is a dystopia in motion

If any entity requires immediate disarmament and deradicalization, it is Trump and his so-called Executive Board.

Trump just keeps on grabbing

Strangely, this garish statement perfectly encapsulates Trump's foreign policy. He sees a country and he wants to grab it, control it, exploit it.

The power play president

For Trump, peace negotiations and military operations are simply different means to the same end: total control.

Rubio confirms US effort to buy Greenland as White House keeps...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers the Trump administration is seeking to purchase Greenland, even as Greenland, Denmark, NATO allies, and members of Congress reject threats of annexation and warn against the use of force.

Top 5 mistakes Bush made in Iraq that Trump is making...

Violation of the UN Charter and the International laws of war.

Trump slashes U.S. humanitarian aid as global death toll mounts

A $2 billion pledge to the United Nations masks a historic collapse in U.S. humanitarian funding following the dismantling of USAID, as experts estimate more than 700,000 deaths linked to foreign aid cuts.

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Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...

The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.

DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure

On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
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Speeding up the ‘kill chain’: Pentagon bombs thousands of targets in Iran using Palantir...

The system, known as Project Maven, relies on technology by Palantir and also incorporates the AI model Claude built by Anthropic. Israel has used similar AI targeting programs in Iran, as well as in Gaza and Lebanon.

Searching for solace in a nuclearized world

The nightmare of Fukushima 15 years later.

Big Oil profits surge as Democrats push windfall tax tied to Iran war

Lawmakers and advocacy groups propose taxing fossil fuel windfalls as war-driven price spikes hit American households and deepen inequality.