Category: Foreign Policy
Taking Things Back
by Linda Kinstler | Jul 14, 2016 | Election 2016, Foreign PolicyTrump in Scotland in 2012. Photo Credit: Friends of the Earth Scotland/Maverick Photo Agency “You have here, Gentlemen, said the Earl, two of the noblest objects that can entertain the eye, the finest river, and the greatest city in the world,” begins Scottish politician Andrew Fletcher’s 1703 Account of a Conversation, a fictional dialogue […]
Alt-Right Emboldened
by Hannah Gais | Jun 28, 2016 | Election 2016, Foreign Policy, PoliticsImage Credit: European Union 2012 EP/Pietro Naj-Oleari While it’s too soon to tell what effect Brexit will have on the U.S. election in November, it’ll undoubtedly act as a shot in the arm for a resurgent far-right. Trump’s campaign has already energized the once-struggling white nationalist movement. Brexit—living proof that virulently nativist politics can […]
Behind the Brexit
by Gordon Adams | Jun 27, 2016 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsPhoto Credit: Theophilos Papadopoulos The elites really are out of touch! Watch out for the consequences. On the morning after votes were counted in the United Kingdom, I sat for an hour on a conference call hosted by the Atlantic Council, where the “policy 1 percent” talked about the implications of the British vote to […]
Juárez After the Storm
by Judith Torrea | Jun 13, 2016 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsCiudad Juárez Here in this desert city of 1.3 million, we have progressed from being the most dangerous city in the world for three years—from 2009 to 2011—to the second most dangerous city in 2012. In 2016, we’ve fallen from the grim annual rankings published by Mexico’s Citizen Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice. […]
Letter from Ethiopia
by Belén Fernández | Jun 8, 2016 | Foreign Policy, National SecurityPhoto Credit: AMISOM Public Information In April, the website of the U.S.-led Combined Joint Task Force–Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) announced that the United States and Ethiopia had signed a new agreement enhancing a “security partnership” in counterterrorism and other realms. In attendance at the signing in Addis Ababa was Amanda Dory, Deputy Assistant Secretary of […]
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