Category: Foreign Policy
The Wide Angle: Reality in Taiwan Differs from Perception in DC
by Dave Troy | Nov 9, 2023 | Foreign Policy, The Wide AngleIt has become an article of faith in Washington circles that conflict between China and Taiwan is a palpably real near-term concern. Most recently this idea has been given new life because funding for Taiwan is baked into the Biden administration’s massive $105 billion aid bill for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan — even though the […]
The Wide Angle: Combatting Putin’s War with a Forward Vision for the West
by Dave Troy | Jan 21, 2023 | Foreign Policy, The Wide AngleWar, beyond being just a struggle for territory, is a process. Long-running wars, in particular, have the potential to transform geopolitics, and this is playing out in Putin’s war in Ukraine. Sanctions initially intended to isolate Russia have created a bifurcated world where the G7 nations have shunned the slavic state, while other nations are […]
Contrary to Frothing Conspiracists, Beirut Warehouse Explosion Was the Result of Bureaucratic Failure
by Scott Ritter | Sep 18, 2020 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsShortly after the horrific explosion at a warehouse in the port of Beirut that killed some 200 persons and wounded many thousands more, Gordon Duff, the editor of Veterans Today, posted a YouTube video in which he stated that he had been in a conversation with a retired Lebanese general who claimed that the blast […]
Why Government Secrecy Is More Damaging to Public Health Than Nuclear Fallout
by Robert Alvarez | Sep 11, 2019 | Environment, Foreign PolicyMuch has been written about the strengths and flaws of Chernobyl—the HBO miniseries nominated for 19 Emmys that chronicles the catastrophe at the eponymous Russian nuclear power plant in 1986. In the mind of this reviewer, it’s a riveting if sobering television gem, and highly recommended. And to this newly enlivened debate over nuclear power […]
A Response to “About those Benjamins”
by Joanna Graham | Aug 11, 2019 | Foreign Policy, Opinion, PoliticsMort Rosenblum’s article “About those Benjamins” in our May 2019 issue generated a considerable amount of reader mail containing a variety of prescriptions for peace in the Middle East. The most original and certainly the most provocative of these, from Joanna Graham in Berkeley, California, is presented below. Mort Rosenblum’s article “About Those Benjamins” contains […]