Despite the high-speed impression created by events in the past few weeks, the shifting trends of Russian and U.S. influence on the region have been underway for years.
Category: Trump Administration
Panel Finds Gaping Holes in OPCW Report on Alleged Syrian Chemical Attack
US Troops Staying in Syria to ‘Keep the Oil’ Have Already Killed Hundreds
Hundreds of American soldiers are remaining in Syria, not to ensure to safety of any group of people, but to occupy the country’s oil reserves and block the Syrian government from revenue needed for reconstruction, reports Ben Norton.
US Democrats Cultivated the Barbarism of ISIS
The Islamic State didn’t emerge out of nowhere, writes Jonathan Cook. It was entirely a creation of two decades of U.S. interference in the Middle East.
THE ANGRY ARAB: Trump & the Turkish Invasion of Northern Syria
Civil Rights on High Court Chopping Block in New Term
The cases concern everything from firing people who are LGBTQ, to abortion restrictions that disproportionately affect low-income women, to deportations, to the scope of the Second Amendment, writes Marjorie Cohn.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Predictable Mess on Syria’s Border with Turkey
Aid Groups Warn of Humanitarian Crisis from Turkey’s Assault on Syria
Trump, Impeachment & Forgetting What Brought Him to the White House
Nobody’s Century: Deglobalization and its Discontents
Despite concern inside the U.S. about rising authoritarianism, Chas W. Freeman Jr says what we are really witnessing is the retreat of representative democracy, constitutionalism, secularism and a rule-bound international order.