foreign policy

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• 2/18/19
  

  Proof that Bombs Can Stop Genocide

  by Rafael Medoff

  If President Roosevelt had heeded the pleas that were made in 1944 to use force against the machinery of genocide, many lives could have been saved.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  2/14/19
  

  Veni, Vidi, Tweeti (I Came, I Saw, I Tweeted)

  by Tom Engelhardt

  An Obituary for the Republic

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  2/12/19
  

  The Most Dangerous Weapon Ever Rolls Off the Nuclear Assembly Line

  by James Carroll

  The history behind the latest nuclear weapons. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/10/19
  

  The Iran Revolution at 40: From Theocracy to ‘Normality’

  Forty years ago, Iranians swelled with pride, hope and the expectation of a better future.

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• SOURCE: Lobe Log
  2/11/19
  

  The 1979 Revolution: Unfinished Business In Iran

  by Shervin Malekzadeh

  One thing that must be understood about Iran, about living there, is that the Revolution is never officially discussed as a finished event.

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/6/19
  

  How the U.S. Departure From Afghanistan Could Echo Kissinger's Moves in Vietnam

  by David Kaiser

  Neither involvement, in retrospect, was ever likely to have succeeded, because the political forces the U.S. chose to support were too weak to deal with an armed opposition supported from a neighboring territory.

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• 2/10/19
  

  The American Tourist in Paris: A Retrospective

  by Lauren Jannette

  Although no longer breaking furniture, running out on checks, and throwing racist fits about the evening’s entertainment, Americans remain an integral part of Paris’s continued debates over the benefits and detriments of being one of the world’s largest tourists destinations. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/7/29
  

  The mistake NATO was formed to correct — and how President Trump is repeating it

  by Gregory Mitrovich

  Allies abandoned one another in the 1920s and 1930s. In the 1940s, they paid the price.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  2/5/19
  

  Lost in TrumpWorld

  by Andrew Bacevich

  War in the Shadows (of You Know Who)

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  2/4/19
  

  Don’t Let Democrats Become the Party of War

  by Trita Paris and Stephen Wertheim

  The gambit to out-hawk Trump is a dangerous one.

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• 2/5/19
  

  Don’t Invade Venezuela

  by Alan McPherson

  Contrary to what most believe, a military intervention in South America would be unprecedented

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• 2/2/19
  

  Is This the Right Way to End a War?

  Many experts worry that the U.S. is repeating the mistakes of Vietnam in Afghanistan.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  1/29/19
  

  Our Man From Boeing

  by Mandy Smithberger and William D. Hartung

  Has the Arms Industry Captured Trump’s Pentagon?

• 
• 1/24/19
  

  Why is the Doomsday Clock Set at 2 Minutes to Midnight?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  As Nations Get Ready for Nuclear War, Their Governments Work to Create the Illusion of Safety

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  1/24/19
  

  Amnesia in Washington

  by Tom Engelhardt

  Afghanistan and the Implosion of America

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• 2/10/19
  

  We Need to Re-think Our Characterization of Trump’s Trade War, and “Mercantilism” Just Doesn’t Cut It

  by Randal Grant Kleiser

  Characterizing Trump as a “mercantilist” misleads the public into thinking he follows a stable, precedented, and predictable ideology on trade.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  1/6/19
  

  The Crisis of Imperialism And Why It Will Only Get Worse

  by Tom Engelhardt

  A tale of imperial power gone awry that could hardly have been uglier. Yet, it’s hard to imagine how things won’t, in fact, get uglier still.

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• 12-7-2018
  

  History Is Likely to Credit George H. W. Bush with These Two Foreign Policy Accomplishments

  by Joe Renouard

  And they are a really big deal.

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• 11/9/18
  

  Woodrow Wilson Is Misremembered. This Has Warped Our Foreign Policy for a Century.

  by Roger Peace and Jeremy Kuzmarov

  How idealistic was he, really?

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  10-22-18
  

  For Trump, foreign policy is all about the money

  by Max Boot

  It’s a recipe for failure.