US to Bar its Citizens from Travel to North Korea: What Comes Next?
Today North Korea, tomorrow– who knows? US ban on travel by its citizens to North Korea revives a problematic Cold War practice.
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War & Cholera Decimate Yemen, But Saudi Bombing Gets More US Help
As Yemen’s cholera epidemic spirals out of control and millions face famine, Ben Norton calls out US complicity in the Saudi-led war.
Read more...Are The Arab Nations On The Brink Of War? The Rift Between GCC Monarchies Saudi Arabia and Qatar
With reference to military confrontation, there is very little to suggest that any internal armed confrontation among GCC members will take place.
Read more...Lee Camp: Have No Fear – Trump Is Lying Us Into War Just Like All The Presidents Before Him
The Donald is completely conventional in having the media assist him in fomenting war on trumped-up grounds.
Read more...Only $60 Oil Can Save the Aramco IPO
The Saudis’ price expectations for their floatation of Aramco looked, ahem, ambitious from the get go. They look even more questionable now.
Read more...Seymour Hersh: Trump Ignored Intel Before Bombing Syria
RNN’s Aaron Maté and legendary correspondent Seymour Hersh discuss Hersh’s latest Syria story, originally published in Die Welt.
Read more...JP Morgan Slashes Its 2018 Oil Price Forecast By $11
After some optimism about oil prices, an unexpectedly high EIA inventory report plus “no end in sight” in shale v. OPEC has analysts rattled.
Read more...Patrick Cockburn: U.S. & Russia Bomb Syria’s Civilians When They Could Help End its War
Analyzes developments in Syria and says war could end if the U.S., Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Iran were willing to make an agreement. If only.
Read more...John Helmer: The President’s Inferiority Complex, Zbigniew Brzezinski’s Russia-Hating Obsession, and the Putsch Plotter with the Itchy Trigger Finger
Sequel on the baneful influence of Zbigniew Brzezinski on Jimmy Carter, an influence that continues to haunt US foreign policy.
Read more...John Helmer: Zbigniew Brzezinsku, the Svengali of Jimmy Carter’s Presidency, Is Dead, But the Evil Lives On
Brzezinski’s baneful foreign policy influence survives both his tenure as Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor and now outlasts him.
Read more...Yet Another Video Shows U.S.-Funded White Helmets Assisting Public Executions in Rebel-Held Syria
Why reporting by and about the State Department funded White Helmets needs to be taken with a fistful of salt.
Read more...Saudi Finance Minister: “I Wouldn’t Care If The Oil Price Is Zero”
The Saudi government has developed plans for root and branch economic change. But how can they cope if (when) it falls short?
Read more...Peter Van Buren: Whistleblowers, Moral Injury, and Endless War
Introduces new novel, Hooper’s War, about the moral injury suffered in war. Did this motivate Chelsea Manning to become a whistleblower?
Read more...Tom Engelhardt: America’s Globalization of Misery
A hard look at the results of one of America’s globalization projects, that of the casual creation of failed states.
Read more...Andrew Bacevich: What Obsessing About Trump Causes Us To Miss
Why fixating on Trump has the convenient effect of shifting attention away from other important topics. Cui bono?
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