IntroductionSyriaIranRussiaCubaIsrael & PalestineConclusion Introduction John Kerry earlier this month penned an op-ed for the New York Times touting “America’s leadership” as “essential and effective” thanks largely to the...
I appeared on Press TV to discuss the US airstrikes in Libya and how doing more of the same that caused the rise of ISIS in the first place won’t solve the...
IntroductionSo what is a free market?But what about fraudsters?On “Neoliberal” Foreign PolicyTake the Federal Reserve… Introduction There is a tendency, particularly among liberals, to reflexively blame “the free market” for various economic woes, including the...
David Brooks in the New York Times repeats the myth that there was an “intelligence failure” leading up to the Iraq war. He writes: From the current vantage point, the decision to go to war was a clear misjudgment, made by President George W....
“The United States policy to use all elements of power to secure our core interests in the Gulf region, and to deter and confront external aggression against our allies and partners, as we did in the Gulf War, is unequivocal.” — The White...
The New York Times tells the story of how the U.S. lobbied for the ousting of Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) José Bustani in 2002 because he understood that Iraq’s chemical weapons were...
The Obama administration is trying to persuade the Afghanistan government under President Hamid Karzai to accept U.S. terms for a status of forces agreement to prolong the U.S. war there, but Karzai is sticking to his own terms. The New York Times comments:...
FPJ — A headline in the New York Times yesterday stated as fact that “With the World Watching, Syria Amassed Nerve Gas”. The lead paragraph asserted that “Syria’s top leaders amassed one of the world’s largest stockpiles of chemical weapons with help from...
This article from Seymour M. Hersh in the New Yorker, March 5, 2007, is relevant for understanding the current situation in Syria; namely, how there has been perfect continuity between the Bush and Obama administrations in U.S. policy towards that country. Hersh...
“Our intelligence community has carefully reviewed and re-reviewed information regarding this attack. And I will tell you it has done so more than mindful of the Iraq experience. We will not repeat that moment.” — John Kerry, August 30, 2013...
In Sentencing, U.S. Tries to Prove Harm by Manning So read the New York Times headline last week. The lede: FORT MEADE, Md. — As the sentencing phase began Wednesday in the court-martial of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the government tried to demonstrate...
The New York Times comments on the U.S. invasion of Iraq: Before the invasion, Iraq’s oil industry was sputtering, largely walled off from world markets by international sanctions against the government of Saddam Hussein, so his overthrow always carried the promise of...
The great John Pilger has an article in The Guardian on the detrimental effects on the health of Iraqis of the U.S. use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions. Pilger writes that among the doctors he spoke with, there was little doubt that DU was...
My friend Nima Shirazi tweeted: PJMedia’s @rogerlsimon is apparently unaware of the past 20 years of Israeli threats to bomb Iran. This is bizarre: pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/02…— Nima Shirazi (@WideAsleepNima) February 21, 2013 So I checked it out. Indeed, it is...
ICYMI: @JeremyRHammond's obliteration of Robert Jervis' awful Foreign Affairs article is genius. http://t.co/74hBlWTM via @ForPolJournal — Nima Shirazi (@WideAsleepNima) February 12, 2013 FPJ — The January/February issue of Foreign...
FPJ — There was an instructive moment in the third presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, which focused on U.S. foreign policy, when they got into a spat over the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. The spat began when Obama criticized Romney...
IntroductionHow the CIA Coordinated a Campaign of DisinformationA Counterintelligence SuccessConclusion Introduction Download this paper (PDF) The George Washington University National Security Archive recently published a newly released CIA document from January 2006...
Ron Paul gives an excellent speech on Liberty. At about 49 minutes in, he says: Now, in talking about foreign policy like this and emphasizing blowback, somebody rather nastily said the other day on the internet, they said, “Oh, yeah, if those Paul people...
Introduction Briefly, for background: Matt Johnson wrote a column critical of Ron Paul’s foreign policy positions at PoliticalFiber.com titled “The Rest of the World: Ron Paul Revelations”. I wrote a rejoinder at Foreign Policy Journal titled “Ron Paul’s Crimes...