Thursday, March 5, 2026

Tag: foreign policy

Biden administration discarded internal finding on Shireen Abu Akleh killing, former...

A former U.S. Security Coordinator official says evidence showed Israeli soldiers intentionally shot the Palestinian American journalist, but senior officials removed that conclusion and the State Department called it “the result of tragic circumstances.”

Trump’s boat strike in international waters triggers legal firestorm and charges...

Administration claims an attack killed 11 members of Tren de Aragua in international waters, but offers little proof as legal experts, rights groups, and lawmakers cite violations of international and constitutional law.

More Americans now sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis

For the first time, the percentage of Americans who say they sympathize with Palestinians exceeds the percentage who sympathize with Israelis.

Trump administration to burn $10 million in contraceptives meant for global...

Despite offers to deliver them at no cost, the Trump administration is incinerating nearly $10 million in contraceptives—enough to cover years of reproductive health needs in low-income countries—as part of a broader rollback of U.S. foreign aid programs.

The genocidal partnership of Israel and the United States

Are the two countries function as accomplices while methodical killing continues in Gaza?

Is the World Order Collapsing?

Will world order will continue as is, with occasional disruptions and non-compliance?

Trump dismisses intelligence on Iran’s nuclear program as Israel escalates war

Despite U.S. intelligence confirming Iran is not developing nuclear weapons, Trump threatens military action and pushes for escalation, evoking parallels to pre-Iraq War propaganda.

The end of human rights?

The Trump administration’s assault on human rights comes against the background of years of policy decisions in Washington that too often cast aside such concerns in favor of supposedly more important “strategic” interests.

Department of government chaos, revenge, and patronage

And MAGA, in the end, is just a load of DoGCRaP

Trump’s policy toward Latin America: Even anti-communist zealots in Miami don’t...

But just how committed is Trump to fighting communism in Latin America at this particular moment—in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua?

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A First Lady in a New York Cell

One year later, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, languishes in a cell in New York City, having been dragged out of her room and kidnapped by U.S. forces on the Jan. 3 attack on Venezuela.

Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues

"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”

Why guns?

From personal power to autocracy in Donald Trump's America

Homer nails uncivilized, all-devouring MAGA Trump brutality – and strategic aikido to return fire

As Polyphemus falls to the aikido of seeming weaklings, Trump underestimates top experts, battling Democrats, anti-oligarchy citizens and committed activists promoting prosperity for the many, even (yikes!) sharing the wealth.
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Iranian American scholars denounce US-Israeli attack, warn regime change efforts will backfire

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.