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The White House has distanced itself from the US House speaker’s potential visit to Taiwan. But does it still signal a shift in policy over diplomatic ties with the island?
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hasn’t confirmed when – or even if – she is to visit Taiwan. Yet such is the sensitivity over (...)
Biden’s Israel trip didn’t accomplish much, but it symbolized the increasingly passive US role in the region.
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DAZED AND DISORIENTED in his public appearances, President Joe Biden has often seemed to (...)
“I do not accept second place for the United States of America.” That simple statement, delivered to rousing effect by Barack Obama in his first State of the Union, in January 2010, managed to summarize the current American strategic horizon in a single sentence.
For decades, the United States (...)
President Joe Biden’s trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia, with a short three hour stop off with Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas sandwiched in between, began in Israel.
An article in the New York Times from Jerusalem said, “A year and a half after Donald J. Trump left the White House, (...)
To be scrupulously fair to Joe Biden: No one who may have expected that Biden’s presidency would represent a new direction in U.S. policies toward Palestine or the region’s dictatorships can claim they were deceived — any such hopes were only self-delusion.
Nothing in his record, his rhetoric, (...)
Joe Biden is set to make his first visit as president to the Middle East, during which he will meet the Saudi crown prince the US accuses of ordering the murder of a journalist.
Even before setting foot in the Middle East for his first visit to the region as president, Joe Biden felt compelled (...)
America must be consistent. It cannot pick and choose when to follow international law.
Last December, as Russian forces encircled Ukraine, the Biden administration and its allies delivered a stark warning to Vladimir Putin : “Any use of force to change borders is strictly prohibited under (...)
In the face of daily news out of Ukraine, Joe Allen writes on the recent history of the anti-war movement to explain its current weak state, and to point to the urgency of rebuilding it.
We haven’t had an anti-war movement in the United States for so long it’s hard to remember what one looks (...)
A long two-part series in the December 19 New York Times and in the online version of the Times Sunday December 31 magazine, exposes that since 2014, in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria thousands of non-combatants were killed in over 50,000 air strikes by drones.
This was covered up by the U.S. (...)
The U.S. Congress is completely divided, Republicans versus Democrats. Except when it comes to the military. Bills for working people can’t be passed. But there’s always money for the generals and the arms-makers.
Military budget of different nations.
Among specific provisions of the bill are (...)
HAS THE U.S. population become convinced that the “war on terrorism” promoted after 9/11 is a fool’s errand, or are there other enemies that can be conjured up?
Certainly, as Washington has withdrawn its troops after a 40-year intervention in Afghanistan, the answer may be yes. It is a bitter yes (...)
President Joseph Biden has refocused U.S. foreign policy and military strategy on America’s two great power imperial rivals: Russia and China, particularly the latter. With the world’s second largest economy, still growing phenomenally at almost 8 percent per year, with it’s multi-trillion dollar (...)
Vice President Kamala Harris recently returned from a trip to Singapore and Vietnam, where she offered Vietnamese officials an increased US Navy presence as a way to put pressure on China’s maritime activities. Speaking in Singapore, Harris accused Beijing of implementing an intimidation (...)
The new military alliance between the United States, Britain and Australia is aimed at China.
By providing Australia with nuclear powered submarines, highly enriched uranium to power them, and the top-secret nuclear technology to operate them, Biden has intensified Trump’s confrontation with (...)
Joe Biden’s appointments on China policy suggest he’s uninterested in breaking with America’s long legacy of putting the protection of corporate profits at the heart of its foreign policy vision.
According to Washington’s most practiced specialists, the South China Sea is now the frontline of the (...)
Nation-building in Afghanistan and Iraq was the resurrection of a doctrine that should have been buried after Vietnam.
In one of his interviews before the Taliban retook Afghanistan, John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser, blamed the American failure in Afghanistan on a change (...)
The United States suffered grave losses in Iraq and Afghanistan, just as it did in Vietnam. But we shouldn’t mistake revisions of US military strategy after calamitous failures for a turn away from US imperialist ambitions.
The debacle of the US-sponsored Afghan puppet government has inspired (...)
Joe Biden’s first 100 days as US president were met with enthusiasm by many of those who regarded Donald Trump’s four years in office as an unmitigated nightmare. Financial Times columnist Rana Foroohar told her readers: “Most Democrats I know are positively giddy about Joe Biden’s presidency”. (...)
Biden has promised an end to the endless wars. But such promises are not easy to keep. [This is the first of two articles on the legacy of Osama bin Laden.].
Next September, when the last C-130 cargo aircraft and Chinook transport helicopters take off from the infamous Bagram Air Force Base (...)
With the outbreak of renewed fighting between Israel and Hamas on May 10, leading to scores of deaths, including of children, President Joseph Biden, like all U.S. presidents before him, expressed his support for Israel, stating that Israel has a right to defend itself from Hamas’ rockets. But (...)
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