Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton's position on the Israeli occupation of the West Bank does not bode well for her future foreign policy By Stephen Zunes On July 2, former secretary of state and frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination Hillary Clinton...
After Greece thumbed its nose at Greece's international creditors by voting "no" in a referendum to their most recent bailout offer, negotiations with Greece on further bailouts should have been summarily terminated. Alexis Tsipras, the leftist prime...
Note to the reader: I just recovered from a flu, so in lieu of new material, and in honor of Henry David Thoreau's birthday last Sunday, here is an essay I published on my own site earlier this year. “No” is often treated as a bad word, especially when used by...
That we have to take Donald Trump seriously confirms my longstanding prognosis that we've entered another dimension in which up is down, black is white, and reason is dethroned: in short, we're living in BizarroWorld, and the landscape is not very inviting. Yet...
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Since November 2002, when a CIA drone strike destroyed the SUV of “al-Qaeda's chief operative in Yemen,” Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi (“U.S. kills al-Qaeda suspects in Yemen”), it’s been almost 13 years of...
Regime change is a complex and messy thing. Attempts at regime change always involve three parties: the government who desires to carry out the regime change, the regime it wishes to change, and the domestic group meant to replace the current regime or at least...
President Barack Obama decided this week against achieving a final agreement before the expiration of the July 10 deadline, which would have limited the period of Congressional consideration of the agreement. The motivation was the desire to neutralize criticism that...
Baghdad suffered several bombing attacks on Sunday but, in good news, the World Bank has agreed to supply Iraq with some reconstruction funds. The World Bank has agreed to lend the Iraqi government $350 million to fund emergency infrastructure repair in towns rescued...
