Brave prosecutors in Guatemala are trying to enforce accountability for government-sponsored rapes, tortures and murders in the 1980s, a time when President Reagan and his administration were complicit in the atrocities but remain respected U.S. figures, as Allan Nairn explained to…
Category: Foreign Policy
Assessing a Murder Case Against Putin
The Iraq War’s Known Unknowns
The Limits of Jihadi Nihilism
US Abets Saudi War Crimes in Yemen
Yemen as Vietnam or Afghanistan
Can US Break with Jihadist Allies?
Encountering a Sophisticated Putin
The Game of Demonizing Putin
Official Washington influences the opinions of the American people about world affairs by demonizing certain foreign leaders, making them objects of both revulsion and ridicule, thus justifying “regime change” strategies, a particularly dangerous game when played against nuclear-armed Russia, as John…