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President Biden has made clear that in relation to China and Russia he is stepping up confrontation with both nuclear powers.
Recently his emphasis has been on China. There is consensus in the establishment of both the Democratic and Republican Parties that China has emerged as the most (...)
During the 2020 election campaign, the Biden camp didn’t place much emphasis on how it would conduct U.S. foreign policy. But now that the Biden administration is ready to take power, it’s important to assess what the administration’s policies to sustaining the U.S. empire will be.
This is (...)
Ashley Smith previews Biden’s foreign policy, arguing that what is coming is not simply a return to Obama-era multilateralism, but an attempt to deepen Trump’s focus on the great power rivalries, especially with China.
Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump to win the presidency in a contest almost (...)
Donald Trump broke with what had been seventy years of post-war U.S. foreign policy. Joseph Biden wants to return to the traditional post-war arrangements and more specifically to the era of President Barack Obama. The left will have to rebuild an anti-war movement to resist Biden and to fight (...)
SOMEWHERE IN THE depths of his prodigious ignorance, it evidently dawned on Donald Trump that his national security advisor and the Secretary of State are pushing the United States toward war with Iran. That’s exactly the kind of ruinous conflict that Trump said he’d avoid when he became (...)
With the threat of eviction, solidarity activists in the Venezuelan embassy in Washington DC released a statement saying that eviction and arrests would be unlawful.
Solidarity activists have mobilized to stop the Venezuelan embassy from being taken over by Guaido’s representatives. (Popular (...)
Capitalist-party politics in the United States remains in turmoil. There are investigations into Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia to steal the 2016 elections, as well as into his corrupt business practices on one side, and Trump’s mobilization of his white racist base on the other. (...)
Militarist hawks and liberal pundits alike are up in arms (figuratively speaking, of course) over Donald Trump’s “victory” proclamation and announcement of U.S. troops’ withdrawal from Syria. Howls of Republican outrage may signal a further deterioration of the big twit’s shrinking political (...)
With overwhelming support from both Democrats and Republicans in Congress, the new 2019 budget for the military, beginning October 1, is a 13% increase over 2017, and is even more than what Trump had proposed.
The U.S. spends more on its armed forces than China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Britain, (...)
Democratic Party politicians and media outlets that reflect their positions have attacked Trump with arguments to the right of him on certain issues.
One is U.S. policy on North Korea. Trump has been taken to task for meeting with Kim Jong-un, initiating discussions with the Democratic (...)
Emma Wilde Botta explains what’s at stake with Trump’s latest effort to “break the regime” in Iran—by renouncing the nuclear deal negotiated by his predecessor.
DONALD TRUMP’S announcement that the U.S. will withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and reimpose economic sanctions will intensify (...)
THREE FACTS STAND out about the April 14 U.S.-British-French missile strike on suspected (probable) Syrian chemical weapons facilities:
1) The action was blatantly illegal under international law, since Syria had not attacked or threatened a any of these three states.
2) It was illegal under (...)
Lance Selfa analyzes the first stages of the trade conflict with China—and explains why the most right-wing administration in decades has the support of liberals on this one.
“TRADE WARS are good, and easy to win,” proclaimed the Tweeter-in-Chief on March 2.
The next few months and years may (...)
Trump boasted after Thursday’s air strike in Afghanistan that he has given the military ’total authorization.’
President Donald Trump on Thursday praised the decision to drop a massive bunker-busting bomb in Afghanistan as an example of the “total authorization” he has given his military (...)
The president has steadily increased the use of force, relaxing the rules of engagement and giving his generals free rein.
The cruise-missile attack launched by US destroyers against an air base in western Syria in response to a chemical-weapons attack by Syrian government forces has been (...)
Rarely did such a limited attack as the one launched by the United States by means of cruise missiles against the Syrian air base of Shayrat provoke so much ado. US President Donald Trump authorized the attack in the evening of Thursday 6 April, shortly before having dinner with his Chinese (...)
The bombing of Syria lays bare the impulsive violence of Trump’s foreign policy and the rot of American democracy.
President Trump has begun bombing Syria . Having found domestic policy difficult, complicated, and time-consuming, he has turned to foreign affairs to try to strike a pose of (...)
Last night, supposedly in response to the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime, President Trump ordered a missile attack on a Syrian air base, the first U.S. military strike directly against the regime (though hardly the first U.S. intervention in the war). As socialists and (...)
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