US Foreign Aid: Bad for America, Bad for the World
Ahead of a vote in the United Nations’ General Assembly on a resolution condemning US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, president Donald Trump and UN ambassador Nikki Haley threatened states voting for the resolution with the loss of US...
Intel Vets Tell Trump Iran Is Not Top Terror Sponsor
MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity SUBJECT: Is Iran the “World’s Leading Sponsor of Terrorism?” EXECUTIVE SUMMARY/BACKGROUND We are concerned by recent strident and stark public statements from key members of your...
Militias Battle Themselves in Tuz Khormato; 15 Killed in Iraq
Militiamen fought each other in Tuz Khormato where militia groups have caused problems since the ouster of ISIS in 2014.
read more2017 Was a Banner Year for the Arms Industry
Arms companies have had a good year. The top 100 learned in July that their annual revenues amounted to a healthy $364.8 billion, with American companies – as usual – dominating. While the military itself has suffered several calamities – the...
Selling Drones, Exporting War
The business of America is weapons sales. That much is true when you consider the following snippet today from FP: Foreign Policy: Drone sales. The United States is looking to make changes to a major international arms control treaty that would open the door for wider...
Kurdistan Riots Turn Deadly; 25 Killed, 111 Wounded in Iraq
Three Administrations, One Standard Playbook
Originally posted at TomDispatch. In a Washington politically riven in ways not seen since the pre-Civil War era, take hope. Despite everything you’ve read, bipartisanship is not dead. On one issue, congressional Democrats and Republicans, as well as Donald...
Trump’s ‘National Security Strategy’ Is the Opposite of National Security
The Goldwater-Nichols Act requires the president to submit a “National Security Strategy” report each year. Every president since Ronald Reagan has failed to comply with the law in one or more years of his administration, but on December 17 Donald Trump...
