Tag Archives: US foreign policy

With ever bigger military budgets, and ever growing ambitions, the U.S. military is relentlessly building up potency, which is nevertheless always framed as defensive, even benign. Something tells me the Russians don’t see it this way. Bracing ViewsRelentlessly Building Potency: The U.S. Military Encircles Russia William J. Astore, retired lieutenant colonel (USAF) and history professor who has taught at the Air Force Academy, the Naval Postgraduate School, and the Pennsylvania College of...

Sone who has been around the block tells like it is.Sic Semper TyrannisAmerica, Desperately Seeking An Enemy Publius Tacitus

US-Russian relations continue hanging in the balance with NATO's expansion in Eastern and Central Europe and the Pentagon's controversial actions in Syria. While the US continues portraying Moscow as an adversary, the standoff is unlikely to translate into a nuclear conflict, American academic Vladimir Golstein told Sputnik.The US and the NATO are no longer hiding their goals, they are beefing up their military presence on Russia's borders, Vladimir Golstein, Associate Professor of Slavic...

This is pretty incendiary in that UN Ambassador Haley apparently went around US Secretary of State Tillerson. The question is who is running US foreign policy, the secretary of state or an ambassador?If this is true and Tillerson has any cojones, he will resign and let Trump appoint Haley, to whom he initially offered the position of secretary of state.At this point, Tillerson is not only damaging his reputation but he is also looking like a fool. He should bow out.Oh, and it gets worse....

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S administration is facing strong backlash from civil rights groups after voting against a U.N. resolution that condemns using death penalty to punish “consensual same-sex relations.” The U.N. Human Rights Council approved the measure on Friday with a 27-13 vote, with seven countries abstaining.... The InterceptThe U.S. Voted Against a U.N. Resolution Condemning Death Penalty for LGBTQ PeopleAlex Emmons

Ten years ago, John Mearsheimer and I published a controversial article and subsequent book examining the impact of the “Israel Lobby” — that is, a loose coalition of pro-Israel individuals and organizations like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Anti-Defamation League, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Christians United for Israel, just to name a few. We argued that decades of unconditional U.S. support for Israel — the so-called “special relationship” — is...

Apropos in light of all the furor over "Russian influence," what about Israeli influence through the American neocons? Philip Giraldi had the temerity to ask and found that it is not only politically incorrect, but it is also a firing offense.The Unz ReviewHow I Got Fired Philip Giraldi | former counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, and a founding...

Even as China and Russia strategize to build an opposing pole of power, neither is immune to these truths. Both nations still crave positive relations with the United States. However, the window of US advantage to use its leverage is also closing. Therefore, it is imperative that the United States leverage its powerful alliances and global influence so that it negotiates effectively with both China and Russia to gain access to new markets and, more important, is not left out as a major...

Full transcript. Preparatory to Bernie running again?VoxRead: Bernie Sanders's big foreign policy speech Alex Ward

In discussing President Trump, there is always the soft prejudice of low expectations – people praise him for reading from a Teleprompter even if his words make little sense – but there is no getting around the reality that his maiden address to the United Nations General Assembly must rank as one of the most embarrassing moments in America’s relations with the global community.  Trump offered a crude patchwork of propaganda and bluster, partly delivered as a campaign speech praising his...