President Donald Trump’s nominations of Gina Haspel to lead the CIA and Mike Pompeo to be America’s top diplomat are the latest indications of steadily eroding human rights standards in the United States and the rollback of the rule of law that has characterized U.S. counterterrorism policies since Sept. 11, 2001.
President Donald Trump’s nominations of Gina Haspel to lead the CIA and Mike Pompeo to be America’s top diplomat are the latest indications of steadily eroding human rights standards in the United States and the rollback of the rule of law that has characterized U.S. counterterrorism policies since Sept. 11, 2001.
Under the guise of operational security, the Pentagon is being increasingly illusive on reporting the number and nature of US airstrikes in Afghanistan and Yemen.
Under the guise of operational security, the Pentagon is being increasingly illusive on reporting the number and nature of US airstrikes in Afghanistan and Yemen.
The Robert Mueller indictment is more about imperial powers competing for oil and gas than it is about alleged election interference on behalf of Russia.
The Robert Mueller indictment is more about imperial powers competing for oil and gas than it is about alleged election interference on behalf of Russia.
Whatever anti-imperialist intentions the notoriously zig-zag Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte may have begun with, his natural affinity for the like-souled Trump has quickly brought him around to the traditional symbiosis with the U.S. and its use of his country for a regional launchpad.
Whatever anti-imperialist intentions the notoriously zig-zag Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte may have begun with, his natural affinity for the like-souled Trump has quickly brought him around to the traditional symbiosis with the U.S. and its use of his country for a regional launchpad.
A military attack on Venezuela from its Colombian and Brazilian borders is not far fetched.
A military attack on Venezuela from its Colombian and Brazilian borders is not far fetched.
“A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.”— Abraham Lincoln
“A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.”— Abraham Lincoln
Documents reveal ‘regime change’ aspirations were pursued under the cover of ‘democracy promotion’ programs.
Documents reveal ‘regime change’ aspirations were pursued under the cover of ‘democracy promotion’ programs.
