
William Hartung reviews the 50-year history of U.S. dominance of the Middle Eastern arms trade.
The country’s new president faces a series of domestic and foreign policy challenges reminiscent, though not identical, to the events that preceded the 2013 Euromaidan, write Stefan Wolff and Tatyana Malyarenko.
Caitlin Johnstone discredits a CNN listicle on Trump’s “softness” towards Moscow. In fact, she writes, the U.S. president has actually been consistently reckless towards Moscow, with zero resistance from either party.
New York and Louisiana are two examples of high corporate incentives aligning with high inequality, writes Joshua Jansa.
Brian Terrell reflects on the trial of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7.