Category: Foreign Policy
The Lies Still Killing Gulf War Vets
by Barbara Koeppel | Apr 1, 2015 | Foreign Policy“Every effort was made for years to hide the truth and deny the medical research needed to fully treat the U.S. troops suffering from Gulf War Syndrome. —Former U.S. Senator Don Riegle, 2014. During and immediately after the first gulf War, more than 200,000 of 700,000 U.S. troops sent to Iraq and Kuwait in […]
Bungling Agent Alan Gross Becomes Change Agent in Cuba
by Lou Dubose | Feb 1, 2015 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsMr. Gross is innocent, and his continued detention is unjust,” read a memo the United States Agency for International Development sent to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in 2010. At the time, the committee was chaired by Senator John Kerry. Congressman Howard Berman was chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Relations. The […]
A Primer on ISIS, Iraq, and Syria
by Helena Cobban | Jan 1, 2015 | Foreign PolicyIn June 2014, the organization known variously as “ISIS” (the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria), “ISIL” (… in Iraq and Levant), simply “the Islamic State,” or—from the Arabic—“Da’esh” burst dramatically onto the geopolitical scene by capturing Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul, from the country’s large, U.S.-equipped national army. ISIS’s capture of Mosul, coming after […]
To Save Syria, Save Assad
by Peter W. Galbraith | Nov 1, 2014 | Foreign Policy, National SecurityIn Syria, the United States has adopted a none-of-the-above strategy. President Barack Obama has launched airstrikes against ISIS targets in the Euphrates Valley and against an unrelated radical group near Aleppo. But the administration does not want airstrikes to benefit Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. So it proposes to spend $500 million to create a […]
The Tragedy That Is Iraq
by Lou Dubose | Aug 18, 2014 | Blog, Foreign Policy, National SecurityExit Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Not a day too soon and five years too late. The enormity of the tragedy he helped create is almost too great to grasp. Civilians murdered with weapons the U.S. had provided an Iraqi army that proved incapable of confronting a small but disciplined band of terrorists. Rape […]
Bad Faith Documentary
Bad Faith
“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns
Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones
“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024” – Variety
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Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism’s Unholy War on Democracy
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