In recent speeches, presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have laid out distinct visions for a new U.S. foreign policy. Both Sanders and Warren argue, in different ways, that the spread of populist authoritarians around the world can be traced to an entrenched global economic order that betrays the interests of ordinary people everywhere....
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Grassley Blocks Controversial Counterintelligence Nominee
Senator Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is blocking the nomination of former FBI agent Bill Evanina for the nation’s top counterintelligence position. The back story here is — what else? — the Trump-Russia investigation. Evanina was the government’s most senior counterintelligence official during Russia’s hack and release influence operation aimed at undermining...
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Bolton Takes Control of Trump’s North Korea Policy
Joe Cirincione, chief of the disarmament group Ploughshares, has a cogent analysis of why the Hanoi summit of President Trump and North Korea leader Kim Jong-un failed. The opportunity, he notes, was this: In Hanoi, North Korea wanted to trade some of their nuclear capability for most of the sanctions. Trump offered some of the...
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Erik Prince Still Wants Blackwater to Replace U.S. Troops in Afghanistan
When the idea of replacing U.S. troops in Afghanistan with mercenaries was first proposed, Defense Secretary James Mattis said, rather generously, that “it was not a wise idea.” In fact, it’s a crackpot scheme that refuses to die, mostly because of Prince’s connections to the Trump White House. Prince is on good terms with the...
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Mass Surveillance Program Ended By Trump Uncovered Exactly One Case of Terrorism
The mass surveillance program, launched by President Bush, defended by President Obama, and now reportedly discontinued by President Trump, was spectacularly unsuccessful at achieving its stated goal of making Americans safer. Susan Landau, a professor at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, explains: While initial statements by the intelligence community brought up 54 incidents in...