Monday, September 14, 2026

Tag: foreign policy

Trump signals ‘peace’ while expanding military footprint in Iran conflict

Contradictory statements from the White House coincide with troop deployments, market volatility, and renewed scrutiny of the United States’ military infrastructure across the Gulf.

‘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.

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El Capitolio in Havana. Photo: Nigel Pacquette / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Forty-five groups urge House vote on Cuba war powers resolution

The coalition cites a 148 percent rise in Cuba's infant mortality rate since 2018 and a Senate companion measure that failed by four votes in April.
FEMA community relations workers at a disaster recovery center. Photo: George Armstrong, public domain via Wikimedia Commons

Federal judge rules Trump plan to halve FEMA workforce unlawful

The ruling covers the reservists who deploy after hurricanes and floods, with a decision on remedies due next month as hurricane season continues.
A petroleum pipeline right-of-way. Photo: Analogue Kid / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Energy Transfer seeks to overturn Pennsylvania clean water law after jet fuel spill

The 89-year-old law's mens rea challenge could also unravel other state statutes, from traffic offenses to hunting rules, if the company's argument succeeds.
Donald Trump Jr. speaking at a conference. Photo: Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large group of other Russian guests.
Demonstrators call for freedom in Iran at a solidarity rally. Photo: alisdare1 / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Iran: Ongoing Unlawful Execution Campaign Against Protesters

At least 60 more protesters face imminent execution, Human Rights Watch says, after summary trials relying on torture-tainted confessions.