Eight ways we can serve US interests and pursue human rights too
Respect for life, dignity, and liberty should undergird foreign policy. But that doesn’t justify reckless, harmful intervention.
Respect for life, dignity, and liberty should undergird foreign policy. But that doesn’t justify reckless, harmful intervention.
If diplomacy really is back, President Biden should reconsider ineffective economic penalties used to solve complex issues.
A day after ending a war in Afghanistan, Biden seems to be going down the road of a new one with Moscow.
After the Cold War, Washington has relied on economic warfare to achieve its goals, but it hardly ever works.
The real political work will have to be done in DC, not Vienna, thanks to the new terror embargoes slapped on by Trump.
A bill to ban MBS from US soil and a federal lawsuit against the Saudi crown prince are moving forward.
The administration says it seeks a ‘democratic transition” — while making no move to lift economic sanctions crippling the country.
Reps. Ilhan Omar and Tom Malinowski each take aim at the crown prince for his connection to the Khashoggi Murder.
No one should have expected Tehran to leap into negotiations while Washington still refuses to lift sanctions, even minimally.
During the Trump era, Iran hawks employed a semantics game to prevent any future administration from reentering the nuclear deal.
He won’t be able to please everyone, so he should reverse Trump’s order getting out of the JCPOA first. That’ll set things off.
Without reform, the Iranian people won’t see big economic benefits from reviving the JCPOA.
International media has been riddled with horror stories about Iranians dying preventable deaths. Is Biden listening?
Whispers behind closed doors suggest Iran’s storied capacity to face down sanctions may finally have met its match in Covid-19.
There’s a more constructive way forward that doesn’t involve the military or incendiary rhetoric.
The U.S.’s use of torture in the so-called “war on terror” wasn’t something confined to the shadows, but a policy actively defended by administration officials — still to this day.
This new round of sanctions is targeted at anyone doing business with Bashar al-Assad, including Lebanon, a country that’s already dealing with economic crisis of its own.
The United States is plunging further into its self-defeating foreign policy with new “maximum pressure” sanctions on Syria and anyone doing business with it.
Team Trump’s show of force this week against the ICC was a metaphor for its disdain for international law and institutions.
The United States imposes sanctions on more countries than all other nations or international institutions combined.
It would be senseless for the U.S. to try to stop the petroleum transfer. It would be condemned by nearly every other country in the world as an abuse of U.S. power, with both Iran and Venezuela benefitting from political sympathy.