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Meet Antony ‘Blinkered’ – Biden’s Choice for America’s Top Diplomat

January 28, 2021

Blinken does not seem to have repented from his fundamentalist belief in American imperial goodness, notwithstanding his appeal for “humility”. Barring an earthquake in Washington, Antony Blinken is s…

Pompeo’s Last Stand

January 25, 2021

Opinion

The neocons and the media demand tough talk and even tougher action from their candidate and Pompeo is already running hard to oblige them. It is finally over. Joe Biden has been inaugurated President…

Trump’s Foreign Policy Explained

January 1, 2021

Opinion

Trump arrived in Washington as a New York property man unfamiliar with the permanent DC establishment, but determined to make deals where others dare not go. Chaos was the result. Some friendly health…

Germany Unlikely to Pursue Independent Foreign Policy. Will Follow Biden

December 19, 2020

Opinion

In an interview with The Guardian in June, Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Germans grew up knowing that the U.S. wanted to be a world power. Despite Washington abusing its power against s…

The Appointment of Tony Blinken: The Good, the Bad, and Potentially Ugly

November 27, 2020

Opinion

President-elect Biden has reportedly chosen his longtime foreign policy adviser Antony Blinken as his nominee for Secretary of State. Blinken had previously served as Biden’s national security advisor…

The Pentagon and the CIA Are in Charge of Foreign Policy

November 25, 2020

Opinion

President Trump has announced that he is ordering a partial withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and Iraq during the waning days of his administration. Why only partial? And why now in the wanin…

Implications for the Deepening Political Crises in the United States

November 16, 2020

Opinion

Note: These remarks were delivered by Abayomi Azikiwe at the Michigan Coalition for Human Rights (MCHR) Virtual Forum held on November 12, 2020. The event was entitled: “What Now? A Post-Election Town…

Israel Wins U.S. Election

November 4, 2020

Opinion

The U.S. election will end today, more or less, and we Americans will suffer another four years of putting up with serial nonsense out of a White House and Congress that could care less about us no ma…