US foreign policy
Should Henry Kissinger Mentor a Presidential Candidate?
by Medea Benjamin
At the February 11 Democratic Debate, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton had a spirited exchange about an unlikely topic: the 92-year old former Secretary of...
Sri Lanka, not Sri Lankans, the OHCHR agenda
by Tamara Kunanayakam
It should by now be obvious to any keen observer of events in Geneva and vacillations of Sri Lanka’s ruling class that...
American Aggression Against China
By Christopher Black
On January 30th the United States committed a deliberate act of aggression against China when it sent the guided missile destroyer USS...
Neorealism (Structuralism)
An American political theorist Kenneth Waltz is seen as the creator of the neorealism. Waltz sophisticates the realist scheme, including in it the “structure”...
A useful reminder: Death Squads in El Salvador
by Allan Nairn (The Progressive, May, 1984)
Early in the 1960's, during the Kennedy Administration, agents of the US government in El Salvador set up...
Hillary Clinton wants war with Russia and Arabs
During the Dec. 19 Democratic presidential debate in New Hampshire, moderator Martha Raddatz of ABC News generally steered the candidates toward hawkish positions on...
America’s Asymmetrical War Against Muslims
by Sheldon Richman
The demagogic exaggeration of the “terrorist threat,” which was the centerpiece of the last Republican debates, is easily deflated with just a moment’s thought....
Under the Guise of Protecting Human Rights and Establishing Democracy: US...
By Jamili Natasha Gooneratne
The paper argues that strong US intervention in Sri Lanka after the end of the island’s armed conflict in 2009 is...
The Empire Strikes Back: Hillary Clinton and the military-industrial complex
President Obama was elected in office as a reaction, both inside the establishment and US public opinion, against the totalitarian folly of Neoconservatives. But...