The famines threatening many parts of the world today have one thing in common: Western aggression and destabilization. In February of this year, the world’s first famine in six years was officially declared in South Sudan. A month later, the UN’s humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien warned the Security Council that three other countries – Yemen,…
A trail of imperialist militarism and super exploitation Note: This paper was prepared and presented in part for a panel at the Left Forum held at John Jay College of the City University of New York (CUNY) on Sat. June 3, 2017. The panel was hosted by the United National Antiwar Coalition where the author…
Bookmakers must be wondering how many wars he’ll wage during his tenure. He continues Bush/Cheney/Obama wars, escalated them in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, likely intends more combat troops for Afghanistan, threatens nuclear war on the Korean peninsula, and targets Somalia for the first time since US forces were withdrawn in 1994. Sending dozens, perhaps scores,…
President Donald Trump seeks to fulfill his campaign promise to “put America first” in his proposed 2018 budget. “This includes deep cuts to foreign aid,” Trump said in his opening message to his proposed budget. “It is time to prioritize the security and well-being of Americans, and to ask the rest of the world to…
The situation in Algeria, regardless of the advanced age of President A.A. Bouteflika, with all economic complications in the country, the food crisis is stable due to the purge of the elite, which periodically encircles the head of the government. It weakens the governing clans and does not strengthen them to such a degree as…
Neo-Ottomanism is the driving ideology behind contemporary Turkey’s domestic and foreign behavior It’s no secret that Turkey endeavors to restore its Great Power status all across its former Ottoman realm, driven in part by the strategic calculations outlined by former Foreign and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and carried through to its present iteration through the…
