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Jacobin magazine
March 26, 2018
This is the same John Bolton who wrote the forward for Pamela Geller's hate-filled book about President Obama, called on Israel to nuke Iran, urged the United States to bomb Iran and North Korea, abused a female US Agency for International Development (USAID) employee, advocated on behalf of theÃâà...
Qantara.de
March 26, 2018
I left Iraq a few months after the 1991 Gulf War and went to graduate school in the United States, where Iʹve been ever since. In 2002, when the cheerleading for the Iraq war started, I was vehemently against the proposed invasion. The United States had consistently supported dictators in the Arab worldÃâà...
Express.co.uk
March 26, 2018
Stephen Miles, the Director of the Win Without War coalition, a think tank program of the Centre for International Policy, stated the Republican firebrand's decision shows a stark change in US policy. He explained: "I think the message is pretty clear. “Trump is throwing in the towel as to whatever extent heÃâà...
New York Times
March 26, 2018
The United States would not be withdrawing its forces from Syria after the anticipated defeat of ISIS, as President Trump had been promising since his .... Days after Tillerson's announcement, the Turkish military launched a bombing campaign against America's Kurdish allies, and there is no sign yet of howÃâà...
New York Times
March 26, 2018
BENGHAZI, Libya — The United States military carried out its first ever drone strike against Qaeda militants in southern Libya this weekend, signaling a possibly significant expansion of the American counterterrorism campaign in the North African nation. Until now, the Pentagon had focused itsÃâà...
Seeking Alpha
March 26, 2018
China would be likely to rethink its trade alliances in the region and get closer to partners in Southeast Asia, Latin America and the European Union (EU). In particular, China would seek new sources for products that it currently imports heavily from the US. Examples include aircraft and parts; pork, which isÃâà...
CNBC
March 26, 2018
Some Asian markets recovered in late-afternoon trade on Monday as news emerged that the United States agreed to exempt South Korea from steel tariffs. That followed a global sell-off late last week amid fears that rising tensions between the U.S. and China could lead to a full-blown trade war. Even inÃâà...
CNBC
March 26, 2018
The Japanese currency has been mostly on the rise against the U.S. dollar as investors look for a safe haven amid fears of a global trade war. ... Data from the Japanese government showed last month that the country's trade surplus with the United States narrowed in January, dropped 12.3 percent from aÃâà...
New York Times
March 22, 2018
So 15 years ago this week, the United States careered into one of the most cataclysmic, expensive and idiotic blunders of the last half-century: We ... I have a grim feeling in my belly, a bit like I had in the run-up to the Iraq war, that we have a president who is leading us toward reckless, catastrophic conflict.
Newsweek
March 22, 2018
The U.S. and Turkey have offered conflicting statements as to whether Washington had agreed to allow Ankara to expand its war against Kurdish fighters operating alongside U.S. Special Forces in Syria. Meanwhile, new Turkish airstrikes targeted other Kurdish fighters in Iraq on Wednesday, signaling aÃâà...
War Is Boring
March 22, 2018
Overseas, the United States is engaged in real wars in which bombs are dropped, missiles are launched and people — generally not Americans — are killed, wounded ... More recent strikes by the Trump administration against a Syrian air base or the first use of the most powerful non-nuclear weapon in the U.S. arsenal, theÃâà...
WTRF
March 22, 2018
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) - The United States is targeting South Sudan's state-owned oil company, its oil and mining ministries and a dozen other oil-related entities in an attempt to stem the financial flow fuelling the country's civil war. South Sudan's government and "corrupt official actors" are using theÃâà...
The Intercept
March 22, 2018
This week marks the 15th anniversary of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. But what is almost never discussed is the fact that the U.S. has been waging war against the Iraqi people over the past six decades. This week on Intercepted: Jeremy digs deep into the U.S. legacy in Iraq, beginning with the CIA-backedÃâà...
Axios
March 22, 2018
We reported last week that, against the prevailing narrative that China has more or less already won the artificial intelligence race, some experts say there is still very much a contest: While China and its companies are spending a lot of money to dominate AI, we reported, they continue to be held back by intellectualÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 22, 2018
Human rights advocates and Yemeni activists are voicing their frustration after a US Senate resolution to end the United States' involvement in the destructive and deadly war in Yemen was rejected. The Senate voted 55-44 on Tuesday against the motion, which called for an end to US military aid toÃâà...
The National Interest Online (blog)
March 12, 2018
April 15, 1969 marked one of the deadliest days for the United States in postwar Asia. The shootdown of a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance aircraft off the coast of North Korea was unprovoked, and cost the lives of thirty-one Americans. Despite stern calls from Congress to avenge the deaths of the AmericanÃâà...
NPR
March 12, 2018
U.S. trading partners around the world are grappling with how to respond to President Trump's new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. ... NATO is a defense alliance between a large number of European countries and the United States of America, and the notion that they would be at war with each otherÃâà...
The Drive
March 12, 2018
After years of fighting limited conflicts, the U.S. military is reorienting itself to be better prepared for a potential traditional high-end conflict against a nation ... 5, 2018, approximately 4,100 troops from the United States, Albania, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and theÃâà...
CBS News
March 12, 2018
BEIJING— China said Sunday that it would not initiate a trade war with the United States, but vowed to defend its national interests in the face of growing American protectionism. "There are no winners in a trade war, and it would bring disaster to our two countries as well as the rest of the world," Minister ofÃâà...
The New York Review of Books
March 12, 2018
But the incident also called attention to a dangerous development at multiple levels of US politics. From a small village in rural Niger all the way to the White House, the US military has increasing influence over American foreign policy in Africa. American Special Forces have been operating in Niger since atÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 12, 2018
Second, there was a certain rough parity during the Cold War, but today the United States is vastly stronger on nearly every dimension that matters. The U.S. economy is about $20 trillion, while Russia's is less than $2 trillion. America is technologically sophisticated and highly innovative, while Russia'sÃâà...
TIME
March 12, 2018
Only Turkey has the credibility, resources and geopolitical heft to steward U.S. interests in Northern Syria. Alternatively, if left unmanaged, Turkey can spoil America's plans. We need to consider a Turkish security zone, which can function as a military and humanitarian buffer in Northern Syria. This is aÃâà...
CNN
March 11, 2018
They worked every day on the front lines of a war most Americans never see -- the war to heal the pain of those who have experienced combat. And make no mistake, it is a war. A forever war. And these three noble leaders, like most of us who do this kind of work, knew they were in danger daily. Yet theyÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
March 10, 2018
As World War II phased into the Cold War and the U.S.-Soviet arms race escalated, new sites were added in Ohio, South Carolina, Florida, Texas, Colorado and elsewhere. ... When the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991, the United States had mass-produced some 70,000 nuclear bombs and warheads.
Aljazeera.com
March 10, 2018
In a controversial move this week, US President Donald Trump has imposed steep tariffs of 25 percent for steel and 10 percent for aluminium imports to the US, which will take effect in two week's time. The plan would exempt Mexico and Canada, while reserving the right to change the terms for otherÃâà...
BBC News
March 10, 2018
A military parade requested by US President Donald Trump will take place on 11 November - Veterans' Day - in Washington DC, the Pentagon has confirmed. In a memo, it said tanks would not be involved to help limit damage to roads. Mr Trump had asked the military to organise a showcase back inÃâà...
The Guardian
March 10, 2018
Blast furnace B will fire up this summer in Granite City, Illinois, giving up to 500 steel workers a job and offering President Donald Trump a fitting emblem for his campaign to put America first. Mothballed for several years by US Steel, the blast furnace sits next to the Missouri river, north of St Louis, where itÃâà...
Stars and Stripes
March 10, 2018
Six members are currently in the nonprofit men's residential recovery program for veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars who suffer from PTSD or ... "She would sleep in her office more often than not because she had to be there to fill a shift, that's the kind of personal dedication she showed all of us,"Ãâà...
New York Times
March 10, 2018
LONDON — In the more than seven decades since the end of the Second World War, leaders of the planet's major economies have operated on a rough consensus that trade offers a potent form of inoculation against the outbreak of military hostilities. The United States and its allies have constructed anÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 10, 2018
Consider this: At a Senate hearing this past week on top U.S. security threats, the word "Afghanistan" was spoken exactly four times, each during introductory remarks. In the ensuing two hours of questions for intelligence agency witnesses, no senator asked about Afghanistan, suggesting little interest in aÃâà...
Newsweek
March 9, 2018
The leading U.S. general in Europe has said he did not have the resources necessary to tackle a hypothetical Russian attack against the multinational coalition he commanded. Curtis Scaparrotti, who serves as both the head of U.S. European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe for theÃâà...
euronews
March 9, 2018
The rumblings of a trade war continue as the EU warns Trump that they will seek 're-balancing measures' should the new steel and aluminum tariffs include EU countries. "We are friends we are allies, we work together, we cannot possibly be a threat to national security in the US, so we are counting onÃâà...
New York Times
March 3, 2018
You see, diverting demand equal to 3 percent of GDP from foreign to domestic products would not increase US output by 3 percent relative to what it would have been otherwise, let alone the 4.5 percent you'd expect if there's a multiplier effect. Why? Because the US is close to full employment. MaybeÃâà...
Newsweek
March 3, 2018
Military dogs that served in live-saving missions in overseas combat zones were mistreated when they returned to the U.S., according to a new Defense Department inspector general report. The inspector general launched an investigation after service personnel raised concerns that the canine warÃâà...
Voice of America
March 3, 2018
The United States first became a net importer of steel in 1959, when steelworkers staged a 116-day strike, according to research by Michael O. Moore, a George Washington University economist. After that, U.S. administrations imposed protectionist policies, only to see global competitors adapt and the U.S.Ãâà...
RT
March 3, 2018
The damage caused by a US war with North Korea would be “worth it,” Senator Lindsey Graham said. ... They've drawn a red line here and it is to never let North Korea build a nuclear-tipped missile to hit America." Graham's ... When you're president of the United States, where does your allegiance lie?
Express.co.uk
March 3, 2018
North Korea warns of 'dark clouds of WAR' if USA carry out post-Olympics drills with South. NORTH Korea has warned US President Donald Trump of a "dark cloud of war" and it will "counter" the United States plans for joint military drills with South Korea as the hermit state steps up fears of World War 3.
BBC News
March 3, 2018
US President Donald Trump has stepped up his war of words over trade tariffs, threatening to "apply a tax" on imports of cars from the European Union. Mr Trump ... It chimes with his "America First" policy and the narrative that the US is getting a raw deal in its trade relations with other countries. Mr TrumpÃâà...
Newsweek
March 2, 2018
The U.S., the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) and fighters supportive of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have all recently engaged in battles with one another in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, but recent developments have pulled both pro-Syrian government fighters and U.S.-backed Kurds awayÃâà...
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