Tag Archives: US foreign policy

Backgrounder.NEOIranian Protests: Deep State’s Unfinished Business Tony Cartalucci One factor that I seldom see mentioned in the extensive commenting on Iran both in the mainstream and alternative media is that the protests are grounded in Iranian politics and the contention for power between the conservative hardliners and the liberal government now in power. The Rouhani government is labeled "reformist" as if that is a good thing. "Reformist" means neoliberal. There are two major...

Backgrounder.NEOWill China Give North Korea Up? Konstantin Asmolov, leading researcher at the Centre for Korean Studies at the Institute of the Far East RAS

Ian sums it up. Short and harsh.Ian WelshRussia As An Enemy Of The United States

For all of these reasons, 2018 will be a year for vigilance and attention to detail in a world that is very troubled and moving towards disorder. US getting back at Russia for the defeat in Syria? The obvious outcome is that the US is on track to lose Europe.Une parole franche Herman Gref in "The Financial Times": a grave warning that merits our full attention Gilbert Doctorow | European Coordinator of The American Committee for East West Accord Ltd.

Gilbert Doctorow is generally positive about the 2017 National Security Strategy that was recently released by the White House. It indicates a shirt toward foreign policy realism and away from the foreign policy idealism that characterized US policy since Ronald Reagan's presidency under neoconservative and liberal internationalist influence in both the Republican and Democratic Parties.Une parole franche Kissinger’s Fingerprints on the Trump Security Doctrine, 2017Gilbert Doctorow |...

ABSOLUTELY MUST-READ!!! 'Nuff said.Une parole franche Speech to The National Press Club, Washington, D.C., 7 December 2017Gilbert Doctorow | European Coordinator of The American Committee for East West Accord Ltd.

In the context of the New Great Game in Eurasia, the New Silk Roads, known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), integrates all of China’s instruments of national power – political, economic, diplomatic, financial, intellectual and cultural – to shape the 21stcentury geopolitical/geoeconomic order. BRI is the organizing concept of China’s foreign policy for the foreseeable future; the heart of what was conceptualized, even before President Xi Jinping, as China’s “peaceful rise.” The Trump...

For any country, the foundation of successful diplomacy is a reputation for credibility and reliability. Governments are wary of concluding agreements with a negotiating partner that violates existing commitments and has a record of duplicity. Recent U.S. administrations have ignored that principle, and their actions have backfired majorly, damaging American foreign policy in the process.… In some cases, the US is unable to keep its agreements or honor its word over time, and in other cases...

What, then, is US policy in the Middle East—under Trump, Obama, Bush and Clinton (and even earlier)? When all the rhetoric has been stripped away, we can identity quite clear, precise, and fairly consistent major strategic policy positions. First, Washington accedes to almost anything that Israel wants. This is an untouchable posture, a third rail, beyond any debate or discussion lest we anger the powerful Zionist lobby of AIPAC and end up being labelled “anti-Semitic.” The New York...

CIA. U.S. Air Force Colonel Fletcher Prouty was the chief of special operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1955 to 1964, managing the global military support system for the CIA in Vietnam and around the world. Fletcher Prouty’s book, The Secret Team: The CIA and its Allies in Control of the United States and the World, was suppressed when it was first published in 1973. Thousands of copies disappeared from bookstores and libraries, and a mysterious Army Colonel bought the entire...