Tag: foreign policy
Afghan crisis must end America’s empire of war, corruption and poverty
The United States can either stumble on in its fruitless attempt to control the world through militarism and coercion, or it can use this opportunity to rethink its place in the world.
The politics of American protest, with a North Korean twist
The right wing has attacked Gwen Berry for her Olympic trial protest. A North Korean defector has joined that chorus.
Liberal media propaganda tells the world: America is first
. . . toward America First-ism in foreign policy.
Building the world back better?
Instead of consigning China to the doghouse, why not create one big Green reconstruction team?
The pitfalls of US-South Korean economic cooperation
Seoul and Washington should be working together to bring China on board for the kind of economic transformation that the planet so desperately needs.
Biden’s appeasement of hawks and neocons is crippling his diplomacy
We hope he and his advisers are not too blinded by anachronistic imperial thinking or too intimidated by the neocons to make a fresh start and engage with the world as it actually exists in 2021.
Ten problems with Biden’s foreign policy – and one solution
Biden should jettison the worst of Obama’s and Trump’s policies, and instead pick the best of them.
Biden should stop payment on US funds to Sisi’s Egypt
They should put a “stop payment” on the U.S. taxpayer-funded check that has enabled Sisi to operate with impunity.
‘US leadership’—and other euphemisms for war
If the pundits get their way, Biden could secure “U.S. global leadership” by flattening large parts of the planet.
U.S. progressives and a Biden foreign policy
With more progressives than ever in the country’s federal government, there may be an opportunity for the United States to really re-evaluate its foreign policy and place in the world.
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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.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.