Ironically, the United States is warning of an Iran terrorizing the world with its bombs, funding “militias” across the world, and expanding its influence in the region by force as well as unprovoked aggression against specific countries.
Foreign policy analysts at the Brookings Institution urged Obama to begin ‘the provision of lethal assistance by an American-led coalition’ to Syrian rebels, while acknowledging the presence of al-Qaida fighters among their ranks.
MINNEAPOLIS --- Despite campaign promises to draw down U.S. involvement in wars in the Middle East in an atmosphere of fear and anti-war sentiment inspired by President George W. Bush’s invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, Barack Obama’s legacy has been one of widespread military intervention and empire-building. Under the influence of neoliberal
Clinton recently participated in a forum hosted by a U.S. foreign policy think tank discussion that largely revolved around U.S. support for Israel and the so-called “two-state solution” — a discussion that took place within narrow Zionist parameters.
The Center for Middle East Policy, a U.S. foreign policy think tank under the Brookings Institution, hosted the 11th annual Saban Forum from Friday to Sunday. Under the banner of “Stormy Seas: The United States and Israel in a Tumultuous Middle East,” participants
Is the U.S. ready to lift its own ban on exporting oil to foreign nations? Even Republican members of Congress are calling for an end to the law.
With U.S. oil reserves predicted to surpass that of giants like Saudi Arabia, a nearly 40-year ban on the selling of domestic oil abroad is being reexamined by congressional and business leaders, according to various reports Wednesday.
Top Republican on the Senate Energy Committee Sen. Lisa Murkowski said in a speech
The number of jobless Americans is still higher than when the economic meltdown began.
For unemployed Americans, there is cause for hope in the most recent statistics showing an increase in jobs in the U.S. labor market. Yet it’s a far cry from relief.
Unemployment figures show the number of job-seekers is down from its highest point during the recession. However, compared to 2007, the number of jobless
The trend closes a chapter of U.S. history, a time when living in American suburbs represented the dawning of the American Dream.
In a shift from trends seen in the 1960s, the nation’s poor are fleeing the city for more affordable housing in the suburbs, with the low-income population in areas outside Minneapolis, Minn., increasing 128 percent over the last
