Tag: foreign policy
The ghost of Hubert Humphrey is stalking Kamala Harris
Hubert Humphrey faced the choice to keep supporting the war or speak out for a change in 1968. Kamala Harris faces it now.
The double crisis of US foreign policy
U.S. hegemony is increasingly fragile, while U.S. exceptionalism is increasingly unsupportable.
What do voters want?
When voters in democratic states decide, democratically, that they’ve had enough of democracy, it’s not just throwing away a vote, it’s throwing away the vote.
Trusting the ‘five eyes’ only
To get some appreciation for Washington’s isolation in international affairs, just consider the wider world’s reaction to the administration’s stance on the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
The United States is the main obstacle to peace in Palestine
What's the role of the United States in the crisis between Israel and Palestine.
Ukraine, double standards, and escalation management
The United States' restrictions on Ukrainian actions and its double standards vis a vis Israel are undermining international law.
The United States is an obstacle to peace in Gaza
“What we are doing today is very bad policy,” Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said on April 23. “We are aiding and abetting the destruction of the Palestinian people.”
Ukraine, Israel, and the incoherence of US foreign policy
The legislation that emerges from the U.S. Congress is often as ugly and unappetizing as the process that created it.
Round table on current US foreign policy: Militarism unhinged
How would you assess the most important aspects of current U.S. foreign policy?
Palestinian American Dr. walks out of Biden meeting, hands him letter...
The curtailed meeting was itself met with protests, including from Palestinian American emergency room physician Dr. Thaer Ahmad, who walked out after handing Biden a letter from an 8-year-old orphaned Palestinian girl
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House vote moves to undo Trump orders stripping union rights from federal workers
A bipartisan majority backed the Protect America’s Workforce Act to reverse what labor leaders call the “single-largest act of union busting in American history,” restoring collective bargaining protections for nearly 1 million federal employees.
FBI is making an enemies list—and most corporate media didn’t even check it once
The counter-revolution will not be televised.
Winter storm exposes Gaza shelter crisis as UN warns Palestinians left to freeze
As torrential rain floods tent encampments and an 8 month old baby dies of exposure, UN officials and aid groups say Israel’s continued blockade of shelter and supplies is deepening a humanitarian emergency despite ceasefire commitments.
We need to know how corporate Democrats made President Trump possible
Scrutinizing them now is vital not only for clarity about the past. It also makes possible a clear focus on ways to prevent further catastrophe.
Trump order targets state AI laws as critics cite Big Tech influence and federal...
A new executive order directs the Justice Department to sue states over “onerous and excessive” AI regulations and threatens funding cuts, drawing backlash from lawmakers, watchdogs, and governors who say it rewards major tech donors at the expense of public protections.