Tom Engelhardt: Donald Trump – Campaigning on America’s Decline
Trump’s campaign is proof of America’s decline….but not in the way you think.
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Mathew D. Rose: Merkel’s Refugee Strategy – A Brown Nose Becomes the Chancellor
Toadying up to dictators and intervening in failed states are major elements of Merkel’s new improved refugee strategy.
Read more...In America’s Drone Wars, Collateral Damage Comes Home
Why you should care about America’s drone wars: among other things, they radicalize populations against us and traumatize the operators.
Read more...The Dirty German Ditty That Got Erdogan So Angry That He Sued
It appears that Erdogan never got the memo: if you are going to be in politics, you need to have a thick skin.
Read more...Youth Unemployment in the Mediterranean Region and its Long-Term Implications
The data on European youth unemployment is sobering, and the migrant influx is making a bad situation worse.
Read more...Mathew D. Rose: The Remarkable World of Angela Merkel and Her Friends
With friends like Merkel’s, who needs enemies?
Read more...How the United States Became a Prisoner of War and Congress Went MIA
How Congress gave the President a blank check for never-ending war.
Read more...New Zealand Foreign Trusts and the Unaoil Scandal: More Chickens Coming Home to Roost, and They’re Big
First a political fracas in Malta, now a giant international bribery scandal: New Zealand Foreign Trusts cover themselves in more glory
Read more...Mainstream Media Ignores Blockbuster Expose of Massive Bribery in Iraq by Unaoil
Fairfax and Huffington Post have broken a monster story on bribery by Unaoil in Iraq that implicates major multinational corporations and officials all over the Middle East. So why the media blackout?
Read more...Louis Proyect: Is Kathryn Bigelow our Leni Riefenstahl?
How should we view Zero Dark Thirty versus other technically esteemed films with unsavory content like Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will?
Read more...The Refugee Crisis: A European Call for Action
A proposal for how to overcome the lack of consensus in Europe over the refugee crisis.
Read more...Peter Van Buren: Five Questions You Probably Won’t Hear in the Presidential Debates
The presidential debates carefully tip-toe around basic foreign policy and domestic security issues. Time to lift the cone of silence.
Read more...The Rationale Behind Russia’s Withdrawal From Syria
Russia has already secured important aims in Syria.
Read more...Oppose Turkish Persecution of Academics for Peace
Please sign a petition against persecution of academics in Turkey.
Read more...Mathew D. Rose: Chancellor Merkel Victrix
Merkel took a big setback in Sunday’s regional elections, but what do they portend?
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