Biden Administration disappoints on Khashoggi anniversary
All signals point to no real arm twisting during the first high level meeting with MBS, who has been linked to the journalist’s murder.
All signals point to no real arm twisting during the first high level meeting with MBS, who has been linked to the journalist’s murder.
The president’s actions speak louder than his lofty rhetoric on democracy and human rights, as autocrats cash in.
Congress is ahead of the Biden administration with a proposal to cut military aid.
Respect for life, dignity, and liberty should undergird foreign policy. But that doesn’t justify reckless, harmful intervention.
After the withdrawal the US can use aid as leverage, but it can no longer ignore the corruption festering in the system.
El Beblawi is one of Egypt’s most notorious human rights abusers, and yet arms sales to Cairo seem to come first.
Media invoke the language of human rights and humanitarianism to convince those to the left of center to accept, if not support, U.S. actions abroad.
MBS’s projection of a moderate Saudi Islam is designed to bolster the kingdom’s quest for leadership of the Muslim world.
An intense lobbying effort had little effect in watering the measure down.
Rep. Ilhan Omar raised concerns in a hearing this week about whether Biden is legitimizing Trump’s attacks on the ICC.
The Times said Turkey is ‘the only international force’ protecting civilians without telling the full story.
Loujain Al-Hathoul is everything the new president should stand for, but is he ready to stand up to MBS?
After a 20-year ban, the DoD is extending ties to Prabowo Subianto, a man who has never been held accountable for his crimes in Indonesia.
America’s racism is destroying its advanced status in real time — and with it, the most redeeming parts of liberal internationalism.
In some ways the COVID-19 pandemic is but a dress rehearsal for climate change, and the world has been granted a golden opportunity to change its ways before the worst is upon us.
The United Nations needs soldiers of its own — to put a stop to genocide and crimes against humanity when national governments are unwilling to dispatch their own forces to do so.
Under international law, a foreign military occupying another territory is responsible for meeting the population’s humanitarian needs.
Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden are saying the right things on foreign policy, but they’re not talking as much about how they’ll work within the confines of the United Nations.
Nine years after Bahrain’s uprising, its human rights crisis has only worsenedIt’s been nine years since Bahrain’s February 2011 uprising. […]
“Now more than ever, there is room for a new consensus — one that rejects the warmongering and militarism of the past and looks toward a more hopeful, peaceful world.”