Last week the U.S. Army released a new strategic policy document entitled Regaining Arctic Dominance, an exhaustive 48-page work with valuable background information and striking graphics. Because of its length an attempt to summarize it with the accuracy and...
US, NATO Plan to Recruit India Into Global Alliance Against China and Russia
Call to admit India to NATO partnership to sever ties with Russia, confront China The policy he is promoting, faithfully echoing as he does the global strategic plans of Washington and Brussels, is to end 74 years of Russian-Indian military cooperation, supplanting...
‘Death Falling From the Sky’: Report Spotlights Civilian Harm From US Drone Strikes in Yemen
A report published Tuesday by Yemeni human rights defenders examines dozens of casualties resulting from U.S. drone strikes and other attacks on civilians in the war-torn nation in recent years, incidents the publication says often occur without accountability,...
Iraq Daily Roundup: 30 Killed, Mostly Militants
The Failure of Huff and Puff Foreign Policy
For all their talk of peace through strength, American hawks favor windbag diplomacy. In their view there is no international problem that cannot be solved with theatrical hyperventilating leavened by threats and insults. The more serious the challenge, the more they...
This Is Their Year!: The Taliban MLB Franchise Favored To Win It All
Let the record show that the almighty American military machine was soundly defeated by an enemy that didn’t like fighting either in the dark or cold. Talk about bad medicine that’s good for a society (somehow still) desperately in need of a decisive case study in the...
The Urgent Need for a Biden-Putin Summit
Last week’s outbreak of rhetorical hostilities between the White House and the Kremlin has heightened the urgent need for a summit between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin. The spate of mutual denunciations is catnip for mass media and fuel for hardliners in both...
Calls Grow for Biden To Fully Withdraw US Troops From Afghanistan by May 1
As President Joe Biden mulls missing the May 1 deadline for withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan, he faces growing calls from voices across the political spectrum to stick to the date set by his predecessor and end the longest war in American history. Last week,...
If Israel Accuses Iran of Doing Something, Israel Is Likely Already Doing It
Reprinted with permission from MondoWeiss. Israel has accused Iran of doing many nefarious things. But the historical record shows that whatever Israel accuses Iran of, it is likely that Israel is already doing it. For example, Israel has repeatedly accused Iran of...
Capitulation Diplomacy: Washington Keeps Making Unrealistic Demands of Other Countries
The Biden administration seems intent on maintaining an especially counterproductive practice in U.S. foreign policy. For decades, US officials have insisted in making utterly unrealistic demands on other governments in its diplomatic interactions. In such cases,...


