How the New US-Afghanistan Peace Deal Rekindled a “Business Friendly Taliban”

America’s relationship with the Taliban has always been determined by how useful they are at advancing US interests in the region and the Trump administration’s recent efforts to make “peace” with the group are no exception.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
US Taliban Peace Deal Feature photo

President Trump, who is up for re-election this year, has added another “peace” deal to his credentials, a deal that the president, his re-election campaign and his supporters have promoted as proof that Trump is willing and able to resist the U.S. foreign policy establishment and its ceaseless push to keep the U.S. embroiled in “forever

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Can Colombia’s Peace Process Survive the Coming Hard-Right Regime of Ivan Duque?

Ivan Duque’s stated “obsession” with security measures and alignment with hard-right politicians, as well as the continued hype surrounding the bogeyman of a “Refounded FARC,” offer ominous signs to the marginalized rural poor and national minorities of Colombia.

Elliott Gabriel
By Elliott Gabriel
Colombia's President Ivan Duque, right, speaks to the media as his vice-president Martha Lucia Ramirez stands next to him at the Presidential Palace in Bogota, Colombia, June 21, 2018. Fernando Vergara | AP

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA – Leaked reports from the Colombian Armed Forces have alleged that scattered groups of dissident former members of the dissolved Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC-EP) plan to hold a guerilla conference and formally unite as a large new guerilla force in the country’s lawless border regions and rural

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The Peace Deal That is All Israel

The “grand” deal has nothing to do with the ends of justice but is all about personal partisan profit.

Stanley Cohen
By Stanley Cohen
White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, takes his seat to watch Vice President Mike Pence administer the oath of office to U.S. Ambassador to Israel David M. Friedman, March 29, 2017. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Honor, like integrity, is not a commodity,  like a gilded condominium in New York City for sale to the highest bidder. Nor does it license a messenger to whisper through a backdoor that which cannot be said through the front because it’s been closed for want of fairness and respect. Yet, having been rebuked by Palestinian leadership due to the

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Colombian Voters Reject FARC Peace Deal, Risking Cessation Of War

Voters in Colombia have narrowly rejected the peace deal between the government and FARC rebels in a referendum. The deal was supposed to end a 52-year conflict that has killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced millions.

Jason Ditz
By Jason Ditz
Supporters of the peace accord between the Colombian government and rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, follow on a giant screen the results of a referendum to decide whether or not to support the peace accord in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016.

In a shocking turn today, the Colombian referendum on a peace deal designed to end a 52-year war with Marxist insurgent group FARC has narrowly failed, with a slight majority of voters backing the continuation of the conflict. The two sides signed a ceasefire back in June, which was seen as the beginning of the end of the conflict, but

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Netanyahu: Syria Peace Deal Must Meet Israel’s Needs

“These are the red lines we have presented from the start, and they will remain our red lines.”

Jason Ditz
By Jason Ditz
Benjamin Netanyahu (Debbie Hill/Pool Photo via AP)

Speaking today ahead of a cabinet meeting, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that Israel “welcomes” the ongoing Syrian ceasefire in theory, but insists that the international community recognize that any peace deal ending the Syrian Civil War has to comply with Israel’s needs. Netanyahu and other officials were vague on exactly

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Ukraine And Russia Presidents Talk ‘Cease Fire’

Phone conversation between Poroshenko and Putin lays groundwork for peace deal

Jon Queally
By Jon Queally
Petro Poroshenko

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday has offered an outline of a 14-step peace plan process designed to end the months long violence and political upheaval in Ukraine following a late night telephone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. The two leaders spoke Tuesday night and Poroshenko says the first step will be a

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