Advertisements On Monday, Donald Trump announced that he was accepting a $335 million payoff from the government of Sudan in a successful extortion scheme where Trump would not remove Sudan from the state sponsors of terrorism list kept by the State Department. That’s not the way it’s been reported, ofContinue Reading
Advertisements In the latest episode of the ReThinking Foreign Policy podcast, I argue that the deals struck between Israel and the UAE and Bahrain this week in Washington not only are mislabeled as “peace agreements,” but are actually a recipe for greater conflict and hold no hope for real peaceContinue Reading
Advertisements Mike Pompeo’s decision to air a remarkably dull speech from Jerusalem to the Republican National Convention stirred great controversy. But that controversy overshadowed what was a dismal failure of a Middle East trip for the Secretary of State. Indeed, it only served to highlight this administration’s inability to capitalizeContinue Reading
Advertisements One of the more loathsome ways in which Donald Trump has denigrated the already bloody and lawless foreign policy of the United States is to reduce those policies to little more than cover for what would otherwise be shady arms deals. In a world which, in pursuit of aContinue Reading
Advertisements In my latest Rethinking Foreign Policy podcast, I talk about some specific ways progressives need to strategically influence a Biden administration toward a better foreign policy, and the need to strategize about that now, not after the election. With all of our energy understandably focused on securing a JoeContinue Reading
