(Tomdispatch.com) – During a lifetime of make-believe, Donald Trump has never pretended to be a conventional politician. When he finally decided to make a serious bid for office, he built his presidential aspirations on the flimsiest of foundations: a wild conspiracy theory about Barack Obama’s birthplace. His leadership bona fides were equally laughable, having presided […]
Republican Party Wants Trumpism, Just Without Trump
(Foreign Policy in Focus) – Critics like that anonymous op-ed writer have no problem with how Trump’s actually hurting people. They just want the leader doing it to look more presidential. The recent anonymous op-ed in The New York Times about the resistance to Trump within his own administration was supposed to reassure the American […]
Are Conservatives United Enough to get up an Iran War?
Washington, DC (Foreign Policy in Focus) – Division in the ranks of the conservative movement is a critical sign that a war with Iran isn’t inevitable. Tucker Carlson has impeccable conservative credentials. He started out as a low-level staffer at the Heritage Foundation and now he hosts a popular show on Fox News. In between […]
Trump & Dirty, Rotten Russian Money: Will it be his Downfall?
Washington, DC (Foreign Policy in Focus) – Russian money saved Trump when his projects were on the verge of collapse. Will it now be the cause of his political demise? Marty Byrde has a problem. His partner at the financial services firm has been skimming off the top of the money-laundering service they’re providing a […]
Is Trump finishing the Job that Bin Laden Began?
Washington, D.C. (Tomdispatch.com) – As presidencies approach their midpoints, pundits begin the inevitable search for that elusive creature: the doctrine. It’s often a quixotic quest, since presidents rarely boil down their foreign-policy visions — if they even have them — to some pithy essence. Then there’s Donald Trump. Conjuring up the current president’s foreign-policy doctrine […]
World to 22 mn Refugees: Only 200K of You can be Helped
Donald Trump is at the forefront of this scandalously cruel approach to refugees. But he’s not alone.
Racism as Foreign Policy: Trump and the White Savior Industrial Complex
The Trump movement uses racism and immigration to turn the Roseanne Barrs of the world from eco-feminists to Trump supporters
The Bolton Administration Has Already Begun
His next target? The North Korea talks
The CIA and The Banality of Haspel
It would be hard to find someone with more experience to run the CIA– and that’s why she’s a terrible choice
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