Day: September 26, 2019

The US Is Conspiring With The Quad to Kill RCEP and Force China’s Capitulation

September 26, 2019 Opinion

The US believes that the clinching of bilateral trade deals with the other three members of the so-called "Quad" -- Australia, India, and Japan -- could kill China's plans for the Regional Comprehensi…

The Real Reason the US Is Staying in Afghanistan and a Peace Deal With the Taliban Is Impossible

September 26, 2019 Opinion

As someone who lived and worked at the field level in Afghanistan for six years (2008-14) implementing projects for the U.S. Agency for International Development, I am bemused by the fact that the mai…

Will More US Troops in Saudi Arabia Make America Great?

September 26, 2019 Opinion

President Trump deserves credit for resisting the war cries from neocons like Sen. Lindsey Graham and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after last week’s attack on two Saudi oil facilities. Pompeo was ea…

Are Netanyahu and Gantz Really So Different?

September 26, 2019 Opinion

It would prove to be a difficult task to find essential differences between the leaders of the two largest parties in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Likud and Blue and White Chairma…

Washington’s Arctic Antics

September 26, 2019 Opinion

The Pentagon’s recent Report to Congress on Arctic Strategy makes it clear that the US considers the region as “US homeland” and therefore “When necessary and appropriate, the United States will chall…

Rotten in Tunisia: The Corrupt Rule of Ben Ali

September 26, 2019 Opinion

He was the prototypical strong man softened by tactical reforms, blissfully ignorant before the fall, blown off in the violent winds of the Arab Spring. Having come to power in 1987 on the back of a c…

Media Disinformation and the Houthis

September 26, 2019 Opinion

There is another twist in the Iran vs. Saudi Arabia narrative, according to the Wall Street Journal. . . . . https://twitter.com/DionNissenbaum/status/1175739725979820032 The Houthis were never partic…

Fighting Back Against the Israel Lobby

September 26, 2019 Opinion

During many years of writing about or describing the terrible damage that the “special relationship” with Israel has done to the United States the question occasionally comes up “Given the enormous po…