Africa
When humanitarian intervention leads to crimes against humanity
A new report finds atrocities rampant in Libya due to the civil war that sprang up in the wake of the US-led regime change.
October 12, 2021
obama
Military Industrial Complex
How the 'self licking ice cream cone,' prolonged the 20-year war
Institutional interests, including military budgets and self-preservation, will drive bad national security decisions every time.
October 04, 2021
Latin America
Human rights won't happen in a vacuum in Cuba
Normalizing relations with the island would go a long way towards promoting one of the president's "core pillars" of US foreign policy.
June 17, 2021
Middle East
Why Biden may not be able to extricate the US from its Middle East quagmire
Few empires that have been able to unclench their fists and let go of self-destructive commitments.
June 13, 2021
Middle East
Ronald Reagan wasn't afraid to use leverage to hold Israel to task
In fact, GOP presidents were much tougher on Tel Aviv in the wake of its aggression against neighbors, settlements, and civilian attacks.
May 24, 2021
Middle East
'Accomplice to carnage' belies a perilous overreach in Yemen
As Obama-era policymakers wrestle with their role in the war, they betray a certain naivete about their Saudi partners at the time.
April 29, 2021
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