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America must be consistent. It cannot pick and choose when to follow international law.
Last December, as Russian forces encircled Ukraine, the Biden administration and its allies delivered a stark warning to Vladimir Putin : “Any use of force to change borders is strictly prohibited under (...)
In the face of daily news out of Ukraine, Joe Allen writes on the recent history of the anti-war movement to explain its current weak state, and to point to the urgency of rebuilding it.
We haven’t had an anti-war movement in the United States for so long it’s hard to remember what one looks (...)
A long two-part series in the December 19 New York Times and in the online version of the Times Sunday December 31 magazine, exposes that since 2014, in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria thousands of non-combatants were killed in over 50,000 air strikes by drones.
This was covered up by the U.S. (...)
The U.S. Congress is completely divided, Republicans versus Democrats. Except when it comes to the military. Bills for working people can’t be passed. But there’s always money for the generals and the arms-makers.
Military budget of different nations.
Among specific provisions of the bill are (...)
HAS THE U.S. population become convinced that the “war on terrorism” promoted after 9/11 is a fool’s errand, or are there other enemies that can be conjured up?
Certainly, as Washington has withdrawn its troops after a 40-year intervention in Afghanistan, the answer may be yes. It is a bitter yes (...)
President Joseph Biden has refocused U.S. foreign policy and military strategy on America’s two great power imperial rivals: Russia and China, particularly the latter. With the world’s second largest economy, still growing phenomenally at almost 8 percent per year, with it’s multi-trillion dollar (...)
Vice President Kamala Harris recently returned from a trip to Singapore and Vietnam, where she offered Vietnamese officials an increased US Navy presence as a way to put pressure on China’s maritime activities. Speaking in Singapore, Harris accused Beijing of implementing an intimidation (...)
The new military alliance between the United States, Britain and Australia is aimed at China.
By providing Australia with nuclear powered submarines, highly enriched uranium to power them, and the top-secret nuclear technology to operate them, Biden has intensified Trump’s confrontation with (...)
Joe Biden’s appointments on China policy suggest he’s uninterested in breaking with America’s long legacy of putting the protection of corporate profits at the heart of its foreign policy vision.
According to Washington’s most practiced specialists, the South China Sea is now the frontline of the (...)
Nation-building in Afghanistan and Iraq was the resurrection of a doctrine that should have been buried after Vietnam.
In one of his interviews before the Taliban retook Afghanistan, John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser, blamed the American failure in Afghanistan on a change in (...)
The United States suffered grave losses in Iraq and Afghanistan, just as it did in Vietnam. But we shouldn’t mistake revisions of US military strategy after calamitous failures for a turn away from US imperialist ambitions.
The debacle of the US-sponsored Afghan puppet government has inspired (...)
Biden has promised an end to the endless wars. But such promises are not easy to keep. [This is the first of two articles on the legacy of Osama bin Laden.].
Next September, when the last C-130 cargo aircraft and Chinook transport helicopters take off from the infamous Bagram Air Force Base in (...)
With the outbreak of renewed fighting between Israel and Hamas on May 10, leading to scores of deaths, including of children, President Joseph Biden, like all U.S. presidents before him, expressed his support for Israel, stating that Israel has a right to defend itself from Hamas’ rockets. But (...)
NOT THAT IT ever left, of course: The United States’ vocation to rule the world is a constant fact of global life and its multiple crises. What then is the meaning of President Joe Biden’s proclamation that “America is back,” warmly greeted in many capitals and among elite opinion-makers?
Biden’s (...)
U.S. Troops in Afghanistan 2001-2020
President Joseph Biden announced that the United States will remove its remaining 2,500 soldiers from Afghanistan on September 11, ending the nation’s longest war. The U.S.-Afghanistan War, which has lasted almost twenty years, has cost the United States (...)
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 (...)
In June 2019, candidate Joe Biden pledged to wealthy donors that ‘nothing would fundamentally change’ once he was elected. In Latin America at least, he is keeping that promise. The evidence so far suggests a continuity of policy objectives: promoting corporate profits, minimizing migration, (...)
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 (...)
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