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Trump, Netanyahu Keep Taking Shots at Iran Deal While Rest of World Shakes Its Head

How to Avoid Armageddon in Korea

Coming to terms with the reality of a nuclear-armed North Korea and trusting in deterrence may not sound like a perfect ending, but under the circumstances it’s undoubtedly the best way to avert catastrophe.

January 19th, 2018
Rajan Menon
January 19th, 2018
By Rajan Menon
A man walks by a TV screen showing a local news program reporting about North Korea's missile launch with an images of U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Dec. 1, 2017. (AP/Lee Jin-man)

Most people intuitively get it. An American preventive strike to wipe out North Korea’s nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles, or a commando raid launched with the same goal in mind, is likely to initiate a chain of events culminating in catastrophe.  That would be true above all for the roughly 76 million Koreans living on either side of

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US Response to Civilian Casualties Confuses Controversial Kunduz Strike

If the death toll of ten civilians is confirmed, it would make the Chardara strike one of the biggest mistakes US aircraft have made in Afghanistan this year.

November 16th, 2017
Jessica Purkiss
Ruhullah Khapalwak
November 16th, 2017
By Jessica Purkiss
And Ruhullah Khapalwak
Afghan villagers gather around a victim who was killed during clashes between Taliban and Afghan security forces in Taliban's controlled village, Buz-e Kandahari village in Kunduz province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Nov. 4, 2016. (AP/Najim Rahim)

The US has added to the confusion about a major civilian casualty allegation in Afghanistan, complicating its initial statement that there were no innocents killed in the 4 November airstrike in Kunduz province. Residents' claims in the media that the attack on Chardara district had killed civilians were denied in the days following the

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Energy Desperation: Why Trump Can’t Restore Relations With Russia

As the commander-in-chief of the US government, Trump is doing his job and trying to secure the profits of the USA’s billionaire elite, like almost every President before him.

September 26th, 2017
Caleb T. Maupin
September 26th, 2017
By Caleb T. Maupin
Traditional Russian Matreskas depicting Vladimir Putin, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump displayed in a shop in Moscow. Nov. 8, 2016. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)

Despite all the talk of Russia in 2016, and all the arguments and allegations around it, US policy toward the largest country on earth in terms of geography remains unchanged. This is due to the fact that policy is driven by Wall Street’s drive for profits, not the good or bad wishes of individual politicians. During the 2016 elections, it

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US Warns Syrian Military… Against Operating Inside Syria!

The empire creates its own logic and it is not for we mere mortals to understand it.

August 22nd, 2016
Daniel Mcadams
August 22nd, 2016
By Daniel Mcadams
U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Stephen Townsend, the commander of Combined Joint Task Force 10 and Regional Command East, speaks with Service members during a visit to Baraki Barak, Logar province, Afghanistan, Aug. 25, 2014. (U.S. Army photo by Master Sgt. Kap Kim/Released)

Just when you thought US foreign policy could not get more absurd. Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, who is listed as "commander of US forces in Iraq and Syria," has issued a warning to the Syrian military that if its counter-insurgency operations on Syrian soil leave US troops on Syrian soil "feeling threatened," the US military would "defend

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Do More Guns Really Mean More Safety? Ask Australia

Australia’s experience with guns proves that America’s problems with guns are not natural, nor are these problems simply the price we must pay for freedom. Australia is no less free a place for banning guns and is quite a bit safer because of it.

August 11th, 2015
Jeffrey Cavanaugh
August 11th, 2015
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh

Another month, another set of American gun massacres. This time it was the killing of three people at a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana, where a right-wing gunman took it upon himself to open fire on theatergoers watching an Amy Schumer movie on July 23. Just a few days prior, a troubled young Muslim man opened fire on a military recruiting

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Disregarding Human Rights Concerns, US Resumes Arm Shipments To Egypt

‘As usual,’ writes Glenn Greenwald, the US government is again ‘standing shoulder to shoulder with some of the region’s most oppressive regimes.’

April 1st, 2015
Jon Queally
April 1st, 2015
By Jon Queally
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi attends a meeting of Arab heads of state, in Sharm el Sheik, South Sinai, Egypt, Saturday, March 28, 2015.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi attends a meeting of Arab heads of state, in Sharm el Sheik, South Sinai, Egypt, Saturday, March 28, 2015. Despite widespread repression of human rights activists, political opponents, and journalists that have garnered worldwide condemnation, the Egyptian government will once again be the recipient

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