Sunday, December 22, 2024

It’s time to make a deal with North Korea

If the U.S. made a deal with Maoist China in the 1970s, it can surely cut one with North Korea today.

What mission accomplished? More questions than answers after Syria bombing

Hopefully, policy makers in the future will realize that drawing 'red lines' in terms of conflicts in other countries creates dangers of its own.

From Drone Strikes to Black Sites, How US Foreign Policy Runs Under a Cloak...

For years, the U.S. did not even publicly acknowledge the existence of the drone strikes. This, among other foreign policy issues, brings about the debate over our national security and secrecy.

Keep your LAWS off my planet

New LAWS for a new age—lethal autonomous weapons systems.

Turkey Stages Coup Against Its Own Press and Generals in Bid to Arm Syrian...

While Turkey is roiled by a war on journalists, the arms flowing through the country are allowing the Salafi fighters to withstand the Russia air campaign south and east of Aleppo.

In the Ukraine conflict, fake fact-checks are being used to spread disinformation

“It’s the first time I’ve ever seen what I might call a disinformation false-flag operation. It’s like Russians actually pretending to be Ukrainians spreading disinformation.”

U.S. progressives and a Biden foreign policy

With more progressives than ever in the country’s federal government, there may be an opportunity for the United States to really re-evaluate its foreign policy and place in the world.

Emperor Weather

for the moment, it seems, humanity still has the chance to write its own history in a fashion that would allow for a perhaps less welcoming but still reasonably palatable world for our children and grandchildren to live in. And be glad of that.

‘US leadership’—and other euphemisms for war

If the pundits get their way, Biden could secure “U.S. global leadership” by flattening large parts of the planet.

Four Hospitals Bombed in One Day in Syria, Including Doctors Without Borders Facility

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu blamed Russia for the airstrikes in Azaz.