Category: Foreign Policy
Tom Engelhardt: North Korea, the War on Terror and the Enemy-Industrial Complex
by Tom Engelhardt | Apr 15, 2013 | Foreign Policy, National SecurityThe communist enemy, with the “world’s fourth largest military,” has been trundling missiles around and threatening the United States with nuclear obliteration. Guam, Hawaii, Washington: all, it claims, are targetable. The coverage in the media has been hair-raising. The U.S. is rushing an untested missile defense system to Guam, deploying missile-interceptor ships off the South […]
M.J. Rosenberg: No Chance of Peace with Netanyahu, Time for Obama to Push Back
by M.J. Rosenberg | Apr 11, 2013 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsIn 1990, Secretary of State James Baker had basically had it up to here with the Israeli government. The (George H.W.) Bush administration had been trying to entice Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir into negotiations with the Palestinians but he kept adding new conditions to get the U.S. off his back. To be acceptable to Shamir, […]
M.J. Rosenberg: Only Muslim Nuclear Bombs Scare Us
by M.J. Rosenberg | Apr 5, 2013 | Foreign Policy, National SecurityThe Obama administration, Congress and the media are finally showing some concern about the threats that have been emanating from North Korea since the beginning of the year. The Pentagon is moving an advanced anti-missile system to Guam just in case North Korea’s threats turn out to be more substantial than the administration clearly thinks […]
M.J. Rosenberg: Democrats Are Just Not That Into Israel Anymore
by WS Editors | Apr 2, 2013 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsA new Pew Research Center poll demonstrates that Republicans are much more sympathetic to Israel than Democrats, a wider partisan divergence than has ever existed before. The poll finds that when asked if their sympathies are more with Israelis or Palestinians, 66 percent of Republicans choose Israel compared with 49 percent of independents and just […]
Speaker’s Corner: Ghosts of the Vietnam War
by Nick Turse | Apr 1, 2013 | Foreign Policy, MediaJust over 40 years ago, the United States signed an “Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam.” It did neither. President Richard Nixon called it “peace with honor.” But it wasn’t. All the agreement did was end direct U.S. involvement in the war, but certainly not the war itself, nor the conflict […]
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