Category: Foreign Policy
The Russians Have Won the Arms Race
by Scott Ritter | Mar 20, 2017 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsOn October 26, 2016, amid the hubbub of a rancorous American presidential election that dominated the headlines, an event took place in Russia that escaped the attention of those not otherwise involved in monitoring the esoteric world of strategic weapons research and development. This event, a test of a ballistic missile carrying a payload known […]
Donald and the Ayatollahs
by Lou Dubose | Mar 14, 2017 | Foreign Policy, Politics“My number-one priority is to dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran,” presidential candidate Donald Trump told the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee last March. “And let me tell you, this deal is catastrophic for America, for Israel, and for the whole Middle East.” Earlier in the campaign, Trump had been more nuanced about the Obama […]
More Evidence Suggests Radiation Caused Illness in U.S. War Zones
by Barbara Koeppel | Mar 13, 2017 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsAlthough the United States and its allies call their newest weapons conventional, which means non-nuclear, the truth is more complicated. Scientists I interviewed here in the United States, and in Canada, Europe, and Lebanon describe this latest generation of weapons as radioactive and chemically poisonous. While not nuclear, they leave high levels of radioactive uranium […]
Accelerated Change
by Gordon Adams | Mar 9, 2017 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsWell, Trump has certainly done what he promised he would do, and more, especially on foreign policy. No fake news there. In only the first three weeks of his presidency he set in motion an almost total disruption of U.S. foreign policy as we have known it for the last seven decades. From this apparent […]
Going Nuclear
by Scott Ritter | Nov 3, 2016 | Foreign PolicyIn a defiant speech in late September, North Korea Foreign Minister Ri Young warned the U.N. General Assembly that the Korean Peninsula “has now been turned into the world’s most dangerous hot spot which can even ignite the outbreak of a nuclear war.” This was not speculation, but rather a warning from the former Chief […]