US Foreign Policy

US Criminal Hypocrisy At Work In Syria And Yemen

December 28, 2016 William Boardman, www.readersupportednews.org Educate! Syria, US Foreign Policy, Yemen

By William Boardman for Reader Supported News - On December 13, US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power offered up yet another stark exercise in imperial deceit, shedding crocodile tears for those suffering in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo, while continuing her strategically amoral silence about much greater suffering in the country of Yemen. The basis for this unconscionable choice is simple. Russia, Syria, and Iran are attacking Aleppo. The carnage in Yemen is led by Saudi Arabia, allied with eight other Sunni Muslim states (supported by another seven countries including Canada, UK, France, and Turkey) – but this 16-state war of aggression would be impossible without the exceptional 17th enemy of Yemen, the US...

US Government Quietly Starts Asking Travelers For Social Media Accounts

December 26, 2016 Nadia Prupis, www.commondreams.org Educate! ACLU, Privacy, Social Media, Surveillance, US Foreign Policy

By Nadia Prupis for Common Dreams - The U.S. government has quietly started to ask foreign travelers to hand over their social media accounts upon arriving in the country, a program that aims to spot potential terrorist threats but which civil liberties advocates have long opposed as a threat to privacy. The program has been active since Tuesday, asking travelers arriving to the U.S. on visa waivers to voluntarily enter information associated with their online presence, including "Facebook, Google+, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube, as well as a space for users to input their account names on those sites," Politico reports.

Trump’s Navarro Nomination May Raise Risk Of Sino-US Conflict

December 23, 2016 Staff, www.globaltimes.cn Educate! China, Donald Trump, Trump Administration, US Foreign Policy

By Staff of Global Times - US President-elect Donald Trump appointed China hawk Peter Navarro as head of the new National Trade Council Wednesday. Navarro's public image is largely shaped by his three books about China: The Coming China Wars, Death by China, and Crouching Tiger: What China's Militarism Means for the World. An article in The New Yorker once said Navarro's views on trade and China were so radical that it's impossible to "find another economist who fully agrees with them." Trump's Navarro pick is regarded as a signal that he will take more aggressive actions to promote his American interests first agenda.

Trump Lays Out Non-Interventionist U.S. Military Policy

December 13, 2016 Steve Holland, www.reuters.com Educate! Donald Trump, Trump Administration, US Foreign Policy, US military

By Steve Holland for Reuters - President-elect Donald Trump laid out a U.S. military policy on Tuesday that would avoid interventions in foreign conflicts and instead focus heavily on defeating the Islamic State militancy. In the latest stop on a "thank you" tour of states critical to his Nov. 8 election win, Trump introduced his choice for defense secretary, General James Mattis, to a large crowd in this city near the Fort Bragg military base, which has deployed soldiers to 90 countries around the world. "We will stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn't be involved with," Trump said.

Will Israeli Soldier Get Away With Videotaped Killing Of Teen?

December 12, 2016 Ali Abunimah, www.electronicintifada.net Resist! Israel, Militarization, Palestine, US Foreign Policy

By Ali Abunimah for EI - An Israeli soldier facing trial for the killing of an unarmed Palestinian teenager that was shown on TV screens around the world may now get away with a slap on the wrist. Israeli Border Police combatant Ben Dery is charged with manslaughter in the slaying of 17-year-old Nadim Nuwara on 15 May 2014 – Nakba Day, when Palestinians commemorate their 1948 ethnic cleansing from much of their homeland. But Israeli media are reporting that the manslaughter charge may now be dropped. Dery’s lawyer told the Tel Aviv newspaper Haaretz this week that prosecutors are discussing a plea bargain in which his client would admit only to “negligence”

The Coming War On China

December 10, 2016 John Pilger, www.newint.org Educate! China, US Foreign Policy, Wars and Militarism

By John Pilger for New Internationalist Magazine - A major US military build-up – including nuclear weapons – is under way in Asia and the Pacific with the purpose of confronting China. John Pilger raises the alarm on an under-reported and dangerous provocation. When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open. At a quarter past eight on the morning of 6 August, 1945, she and her silhouette were burned into the granite. I stared at the shadow for an hour or more, unforgettably.

When It Comes To U.S. Foreign Policy, The Truth Hurts

December 8, 2016 Ronald Thomas, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! NATO, US Foreign Policy

By Ronald Thomas for Black Agenda Report - A bill before Congress could be used to target “any website, or blog, that does not share the mainstream media’s proclivity to serve as the Public Relations arm of a given administration.“ All they have to do is claim it is being “manipulated” by the Russians. But, Moscow doesn’t have to lie to counter a lawless U.S. foreign policy. “The Russians only need to stick to the facts (omitting the pipeline) to ultimately win the propaganda war.” “The USA governing elite is sowing ever deepening dissent in the psyche of those Americans actually inclined to think, understand and know for themselves what is actually going on.”

Meet Jim “Mad Dog” Mattis, Trump’s Iran Hawk Choice For Secretary Of Defense

December 2, 2016 Yochi Dreazen, www.vox.com Educate! Donald Trump, US Foreign Policy

By Yochi Dreazen for Vox - President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the Pentagon, retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, has said “it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot” Taliban fighters, told Iraqi leaders that “if you fuck with me, I’ll kill you all,” and accused the Obama administration of naiveté for inking a nuclear deal with Iran that will slow, but not stop, Tehran’s path to a bomb. Don’t let those quotes — or Mattis’s nickname, “Mad Dog” — fool you. Despite his salty language, Mattis is a serious strategic thinker who is widely respected inside and outside of the Pentagon for his intellect and willingness to offer unvarnished assessments of White House strategy, despite the risks to his own career.

Close But No Cigar: How America Failed To Kill Fidel Castro

November 29, 2016 Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com Educate! Cuba, Fidel Castro, US Foreign Policy

By Duncan Campbell for The Guardian - From the famous exploding cigars to poison pills hidden in a cold-cream jar, the CIA and Cuban exile groups spent nearly 50 years devising ways to kill Fidel Castro. None of the plots, of course, succeeded but one of his loyal security men calculated that a total of 634 attempts, some ludicrous, some deadly serious, had been made on the life of El Comandante. On one occasion, aware that Castro was a keen scuba-diver, the CIA devised a cunning plan.

Lawsuit Aims To Block U.S. Aid To Israel

November 4, 2016 Grant F. Smith, www.wrmea.org Resist! Israel, Lawsuit, US Foreign Policy, USAID

By Grant F. Smith for Washington Report - ON AUG. 8 THIS writer filed a lawsuit in DC federal court challenging U.S. foreign aid to Israel. The U.S. is finalizing a new 10-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) which will reportedly boost that aid to between $4 billion and $5 billion per year, up from its current $3.1 billion annually. However, U.S. aid to Israel violates longstanding bans on funds to non-signatories to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) with nuclear weapons programs. Many have wondered why these bans are never enforced, but none have had standing to mount a challenge—until now.

Opposition Leaders Murdered In Honduras While US Supports Gov

November 1, 2016 Mark Weisbrot, www.thehill.com Organize! Honduras, Murder, US Foreign Policy

By Mark Weisbrot for The Hill - Since a 2009 military coup against the democratic government of President Mel Zelaya, Honduras has become the most dangerous country in the world for environmental and human rights activists. On Oct. 17, two more prominent rural organizers, José Ángel Flores and Silmer Dionisio George, were assassinated in Colón. Flores was the president of the Unified Campesinos Movement of the Aguán Valley (MUCA), and George was a well-known leader from the same organization.

US Hypocrisy’s Face At The UN – Samantha Power

November 1, 2016 William Boardman, www.readersupportednews.org Educate! United Nations, US Foreign Policy

By William Boardman for Reader Supported News - Samantha Power is the face of American diplomacy at the UN, where she gives ardent voice to American hypocrisy, deceit, intellectual dishonesty, and mockery of the rest of the world. Appalling as her performance has been, her portrayal is accurate, right down to her denial-laden confidence in American exceptionalism. Power’s comment above came in the midst of a discussion of the carnage in Syria, a discussion without substance or pity, without a care for ending the killing.

As Election Day Nears, Military Hawks Circle To Promote New Wave Of War

October 24, 2016 Lauren McCauley, www.commondreams.org Organize! Hillary Clinton, Russia, US Foreign Policy, Wars and Militarism

By Lauren McCauley for Common Dreams - Though the hawkish stance of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has been too often ignored this election season, new reporting on Thursday highlights how her presumed win in November will likely usher in a more aggressive, bipartisan foreign policy in the Middle East and beyond. "The Republicans and Democrats who make up the foreign policy elite are laying the groundwork for a more assertive American foreign policy via a flurry of reports shaped by officials...

Clinton Emails Reveal Direct US Sabotage Of Venezuela

October 24, 2016 Staff, www.informationclearinghouse.info Educate! Hillary Clinton, Sabotage, US Foreign Policy, Venezuela

By Staff of Telesur - October 20, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - "teleSur"- As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton led a team committed to delegitimizing the politics of the late Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution. While Hillary Clinton publicly welcomed improved relations with Venezuela as secretary of state, she privately ridiculed the country and continued to support destabilization efforts, revealed her emails leaked by WikiLeaks.

The New U.S. Way Of War

October 21, 2016 Staff, www.moonofalabama.org Educate! US Foreign Policy, Wars and Militarism

By Staff of Moon of Alabama - Would that "anarchic" nation Somalia still be "anarchic" if the U.S. would end its endless fighting there? That is very unlikely. Without outer interference Somalia would have been peaceful again many years ago. But the war continues, run not with regular U.S. forces, but with mercenaries, proxies, drones and a few U.S. Special Forces.

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