As 2017 ended with billionaires toasting their tax cuts and energy executives cheering their unfettered access to federal lands as well as coastal waters, there was one sector of the American elite that did not share in the champagne celebration: Washington’s corps of foreign policy experts. Across the political spectrum, many of them felt a…
“America is addicted to oil” So said President George W Bush, echoing a contemporary cover of The Economist, in his State of the Union Address on January 31st 2006. Although President Bush’s speech was a lament for the fact that the United States is the world’s biggest consumer of oil (reaching 19.4 million barrels per…
Critics of US President Donald Trump were quick to point out that his alleged use of the term “s***hole countries” to describe Haiti and some African nations does not reflect what all Americans think of the rest of the world. And they are correct. There are indeed millions of Americans who feel genuinely disgusted that…
The U.S. is more and more isolated in international politics and even Europe is growing some spine and implements an independent foreign policy. U.S. imperialists are miffed but can do little about it. This development may well be part of Trump’s plan of “Making America Great Again”. After Trump declared that the U.S. sees Jerusalem…
Listen to the state-‘guided’ US media this past week and you’d believe a series of spontaneous anti-government protests broke out across Iran. The protests, according to President Donald Trump and his Israeli allies, were caused by `anger over Iran’s spending billions on wars in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon and helping the Palestinian movement Hamas.’ Trump…
Several events took place in December that demonstrated how far down the drain so many British people have gone in nationalistic zeal as regards Europe and Russia. First there was the bizarre outburst of rejoicing that the colour of the British passport is to change when Britain leaves the European Union — the looming Brexit…
