Rep. Seth Moulton, a Massachusetts congressman and a former Marine, is contemplating a run for the presidency. He says national security and military issues are at the center of his message. He insists Trump’s handling of issues of war and peace gives an opening to Democrats in the 2020 election. “I recognize that the polling...
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Endless War Update: U.S. to Stay in Somalia Seven More Years
Somalia is America’s latest endless war, and it is often forgotten. There’s the Afghan war, now in its 18th year; the war against ISIS which originated from the invasion of Iraq 16 years ago. There’s the war in Yemen, now in its fourth year, despite the fact that both houses of Congress have voted to...
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Mueller’s Report and Trump’s ‘Cunning’
Some version of the report by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller III will be released on Thursday. In the following article, which first appeared in the London Review of Books, Yale professor David Bromwich puts the report—and the last two years of the Trump-Russian investigation— in context. By David Bromwich On 22 March, Robert Mueller, the...
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As U.S. Withdraws, CIA Director Haspel Visits Afghanistan
Just as the U.S. armed forces are stepping out of Afghanistian, the CIA is stepping in. CIA director Gina Haspel visited the Central Asian country where the U.S. forces have been fighting for 18 years. Her mission: maintaining or even expanding the U.S. intelligence presence there. Haspel met with Afghan government officials including President Ashraf...
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Trump Seeks Prosecution of Julian Assange, Pro-Trump Publisher
In December 2010, real estate mogul Donald Trump said Wikileaks, online publisher of leaked documents, was “disgraceful” and suggested the death penalty might be appropriate for its massive disclosure of U.S. government secrets. In the summer of 2016, when Wikileaks began to release hacked Democratic party emails, candidate Trump said “I love Wikileaks.” On Thursday,...