Category: Foreign Policy

Chris Hedges: The Exterminators

Genocide lies at the core of Western imperialism. It is not unique to Israel. It is not unique to the Nazis. It is the building block of Western domination.

Chris Hedges: Let Them Eat Cement

Israel is not only decimating Gaza with airstrikes but employing the oldest and cruelest weapon of war — starvation. Israel’s message, on the eve of a ground invasion, is clear. Leave Gaza or Die.

US Declares ‘War’

Michael Brenner subjects the audaciously aggressive U.S. strategic posture to the kind of examination that he finds remarkably absent, even at the highest levels of government.

Slovakia Moves Away From EU-NATO on Ukraine

The foreign policy of the Slovak Social Democracy Party, which won in last week’s parliamentary elections, represents a 180-degree turn from the position of the current government, Joyce Chediac reports.

Patrick Lawrence: Unsweet Dreams

The Ukraine question hung over the recent G20 summit even though  members have repeatedly signaled their wish to avoid the new cold war that Biden and his foreign-policy people are building.

Avoiding Nuclear War

The road to possible nuclear Armageddon has been littered with lost opportunities for peaceful co-existence with Russia and signposted by repeated U.S. provocations, but Ukraine’s neutrality remains key to everyone’s security, writes Edward Lozansky.