How US Foreign Policy Creates Shithole Countries

A new collection of essays, edited by former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, clearly shows that it is the U.S. that is largely responsible for the poverty and suffering in these very nations.

Robert Fantina
By Robert Fantina
A U.S. army soldier from Blackfoot Company, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment interrogates a Iraqis during an operation in the village of Walush in Diyala province, Iraq, Dec. 9, 2007. Marko Drobnjakovic | AP

In two years, the world has become accustomed to being shocked by the words and actions of United States President Donald Trump. In January of this year, he again showed his lack of diplomacy, tack and common decency, when he referred to many poorer countries as “sh*ithole countries”, asking, “Why do we want all these people from sh*thole countries

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Choosing Journalism over Cheerleading War: An Interview with RT America’s Anya Parampil

“As soon as I started looking closely at the inner workings of American foreign policy, I was forced to conclude my approach to producing and consuming news would never be welcome in the mainstream press.” — Anya Parampil

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
Anya Parampil | RT America

WASHINGTON -- When Anya Parampil was attending George Washington University and saw her peers trickle into the university’s well-entrenched State Department pipeline, she knew that the path most commonly walked by her peers wasn’t for her. Eventually, life led her away from a career in international diplomacy toward one in journalism, but not

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How the US Came to Adopt a ‘Me First’ Foreign Policy

The bitter reality is that U.S. foreign policy has no definable objective other than blocking the initiatives of others because they stand in the way of the further expansion of U.S. global interests.

Patrick Lawrence
By Patrick Lawrence
A float depicting U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un parades during the Nice carnival, Feb. 17, 2018, in Nice, southeastern France. The Carnival celebrates this year the "King of Space." Claude Paris | AP

The Trump administration has brought U.S. foreign policy to the brink of crisis if it has not already tipped into one. There is little room to argue otherwise. In Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, and in Washington’s ever-fraught relations with Russia, U.S. strategy, as reviewed in my previous column, amounts to little more than spoiling the

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Bolton Is Already Pulling the Strings

The hard-right national security adviser successfully tanked the Iran deal. His next target? The North Korea talks.

John Feffer
By John Feffer
National Security Adviser John Bolton listens during a meeting between President Donald Trump and Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in the Oval Office of the White House, May 16, 2018, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

For a man with a reputation for venting spleen and flying off the handle, John Bolton bided his time before finally rising to the position of power he now occupies. The former U.S. ambassador to the UN spent much of the last decade consolidating his political base through stints at right-wing institutes like the American Enterprise Institute,

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Watch: CODEPINK Founder on Military Industrial Complex & Victims of U.S. Foreign Policy

Medea Benjamin, the co-founder of CODEPINK, talks about the military industrial complex – it’s history and the cultural role it plays in our society, and sheds light on the victims of U.S. foreign policy and how her organization assists them.

Medea Benjamin
By Medea Benjamin
CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin, right and other CODEPINK protestors, a group opposed to U.S. militarism, disrupt the start of the Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing for John Brennan, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

The Military Industrial Complex In this video, Medea Benjamin, the co-founder of CODEPINK, author and activist, talks about the military industrial complex – it’s history and the cultural role it plays in our society. In addition, Benjamin surfaces the effects that the military industrial complex has on our democracy and security and whether

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We’re Screwed: Colin Powell’s Chief Of Staff On The Failings Of US Foreign Policy

In a sweeping interview with MintPress News, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson explains why the U.S. needs to make resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a bigger priority and how partnering with Iran could be the key to achieving greater regional stability.

Sean Nevins
By Sean Nevins
WILKERSON

Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell.  Now an outspoken critic of US foreign policy, Wilkerson told MintPress that you cannot have a strategy if you are constantly buffeted, and buffeted seriously, by the winds of domestic interest. BEIRUT --- One of the most important elections related to

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