US foreign policy

Quite revealingly, the self-proclaimed crusader against genocide, Samantha Power, was awarded the 2016 Henry A. Kissinger Prize in Berlin. That Power would be awarded a prize named after one of the world’s great génocidaires, and that she would happily accept it, proves what many of us have believed all along – that she is more the clever apologist for U.S. crimes than a bona fide human rights advocate.

More than 50 U.S. State Department “diplomats” sent a “dissent” memo urging President Obama to launch military strikes against the Syrian army, another sign that Foggy Bottom has collectively gone nuts, writes Robert Parry.

While the Syrian Arab Army assisted by Russia is gaining ground in Syria, eliminating Daesh and al-Qaeda terrorists, Washington is yet to decide whom exactly it supports in the Middle Eastern region.

By Zalman Shoval In a recent New York Times piece by David Samuels, U.S. President Barack Obama's Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Ben...

By Noam Chomsky When we ask “who rules the world?” we commonly adopt the standard convention that the actors in world affairs are states, primarily...

The following article published in the review Salon has a lot of information and is characteristic of new geopolitical realignments, if not "regime" and...

  By Alexis Coleman The most serious fighting since 1996, with dozens of victims, has erupted between Azeris and Armenians, in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Karabakh conflict was “frozen”...

The Kurds, a nation numbering tens of millions of people is, along with Palestinians, one of the most persecuted and suffering nations during all...

Dear President Erdogan, Welcome to Washington. Your visit comes at a critical moment in U.S.-Turkish relations. Within the past decade, many of Turkey’s friends here were...

Robert Fisk, the Beirut based veteran correspondent of the British "Independent" for the Middle East has written a very interesting article comparing the situation with...