Richard Falk, emeritus professor and one-time thesis adviser of Princeton student Robert Mueller III, is a leading intellectual of leftist foreign policy thinking. In this piece for Counterpunch he takes a look at Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, the Hawaii Congresswoman, now running for president. She’s controversial for meeting with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and Indian president...
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The National Security Status Quo Is Dying of Unpopularity
In Time, Ian Bremmer makes a key point about the 2020 presidential election. The U.S. policymaking elite (“the blob”) and its militarized interventionist foreign policy is threatened by popular rejection. According to a recent poll, substantial majorities of both Democrats and Republicans want to put the era of Endless War behind us. No matter what party they...
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Antiwar.com: Why Trump Is Trying to Link Iran with al-Qaeda
In a city of unwieldly acronyms AUMF is the least pronounceable–and perhaps most important. AUMF stands for Authorization for Use of Military Force. It is the legal justification for the endless wars that the US is fighting in 40 percent of the world’s countries. (Source is solid: Watson Institute at Brown University) Antiwar.com has the...
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Facebook Praises the MEK, an Iranian Cult Movement Known for Killing U.S. Citizens
Facebook has a foreign policy, and it seems to skew toward Israel and Iranian crackpots. Last month, the social media giant announced that (with the advice of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Lab [DFRLab]) it had removed 783 assets — pages, groups, and accounts — that the company assessed to be associated with an Iran-based network for “coordinated inauthentic...
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Elliott Abrams ‘Cabaled Quietly’ to Spring a CIA-Connected Drug Trafficker
Surely, this is just another “loony left” headline about Elliott Abrams, the administration’s point man on Venezuela, whom some say has been unfairly pilloried on Capitol Hill. If you read this September 1986 National Security Council email, written by NSC staffer Oliver North, you’ll see the headline is not over-stated but factually precise and faithful...