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Category: Foreign Policy

Senior analyst quits Defense Intelligence Agency, citing U.S. “slide into authoritarianism”

August 14, 2020 Gloria Shur Bilchik Democracy, Foreign Policy, Protest/Resistamce, Resignations, Widgets: Letters of protest Leave a comment

It was another of the many “last straws” in the Trump era. Kyle Murphy, a senior analyst in the US Defense Intelligence Agency, went

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Nauert: Another unqualified Trump appointee, another step backward in world affairs

January 3, 2019 Renee Shur Foreign Policy, International, Trump, United Nations Leave a comment

Sometime in early 2019 Heather Nauert, Donald Trump’s appointee for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, will go before the Senate for confirmation hearings.

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A New Deal for US foreign policy

October 21, 2018 Bojan Francuz Foreign Policy, International, Trump, United Nations Leave a comment

Instead of grieving for the past, or focusing on whether world leaders laughed at or with President Trump at the United Nations, grassroots progressives

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Venezuela

Imagine yourself in the nightmare that is Venezuela today

August 28, 2018 Christopher Burke Economy, Foreign Policy, Immigration, International 2 comments

Something monumental, and not in a good way, is going on in Venezuela. You might need to get out a map of South America

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UNA-USA

Unanswered Questions at a United Nations Association Conference

July 15, 2018 Adam Levin Foreign Policy, International, United Nations Leave a comment

I was not looking forward to The United Nations Association Leadership Summit. What concerned me was not the seminars or panels with veteran US

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Russian aggression

Beware of Putin after World Cup and meeting with Trump

July 13, 2018 Arthur Lieber Foreign Policy, International, War Leave a comment

Four and a half years ago, on Sunday, February 23, the 2014 Winter Olympics ended in Sochi, Russia. Four days later, masked Russian troops

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North Korea

North Korea, Iran and 45: a brief study in illogic

May 8, 2018 Amy Kuo Hammerman Foreign Policy, Trump Leave a comment

To recap: North Korea – Has threatened mission strikes on U.S. land; has missiles capable of said strike; continues to develop nuclear weapons; starving

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Trump transcripts: Latest “thinking” on Syria

April 25, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik Foreign Policy, Trump, War Leave a comment

For those who think that Donald Trump is thinking about issues, think again. From his utterances [let’s not dignify them by calling them “statements”]

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Francis Horton

What a Hell of a Way to Organize: An Interview With Francis Horton

February 14, 2018 Adam Levin Foreign Policy, Guns, Military, War One comment

(reprinted from Midwest Socialist) Francis Horton is that rarest of U.S. soldiers: a leftist and self-identifying socialist. Born in Missouri in 1983, he joined

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Myesha Johnson

What we don’t say about the Gold Stars

October 24, 2017 Arthur Lieber Foreign Policy, Government, Military, War Leave a comment

If we needed to be re-awakened, the PBS Series “The Vietnam War” reminded us that men and women who served in Vietnam were certainly

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