Tag Archive: North America/United States of America

Could COVID-19 Bring Down the U.S. Empire?

Released for Syndication: 04/10/2020

As U.S. COVID-19 cases double every few days and the death toll mounts, the U.S. seems to be caught in a “worst of both...

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Trump Sends Gun Boats to Venezuela While the World Partners to Fight a Deadly Pandemic

Released for Syndication: 04/03/2020

On April’s Fools Day, U.S. President Donald Trump gave a press conference where he announced a new “counter-narcotics effort” by U.S. Southern Command. “We’re...

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Has America Reached Its Endgame in Afghanistan?

Released for Syndication: 03/27/2020

In an extraordinary statement titled “On the Political Impasse in Afghanistan,” Washington has admitted to the failure of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s mission...

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When Economists Try to Solve Health Crises, the Results Can Often Be Disastrous

Released for Syndication: 03/27/2020

Classical economics helped kill millions in the British Empire’s famines—following economic orthodoxy today could be just as deadly.

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As the World Tackles the COVID-19 Pandemic, the U.S. Raises the Pressure on Venezuela

Released for Syndication: 03/26/2020

In a press conference on March 26, it was almost comical how little evidence the U.S. Department of Justice provided when it accused Venezuela’s...

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Why the Coronavirus Pandemic Poses Fundamental Challenges to All Societies

Released for Syndication: 03/25/2020

Quick and widespread testing and quarantine will help tackle the spread of COVID-19, not ultra-nationalism or hyper-capitalism.

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What Will the Post-Coronavirus Global Economy Look Like?

Released for Syndication: 03/17/2020

History has clear inflection points that have reshaped broad swaths of the globe seemingly overnight, but not all political leaders have recognized that yet.

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Libya Is Being Torn Apart by Outsiders

Released for Syndication: 02/04/2020

Ghassan Salamé is the head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya. He took over this job in 2017, six years after the...

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The War in Libya Will Never End

Released for Syndication: 01/29/2020

General Khalifa Haftar and his Libyan National Army (LNA) continue to partly encircle Libya’s capital, Tripoli. Not only does the LNA threaten Tripoli, but...

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The Current U.S. Approach to Nuclear Weapons Can Only Lead to Armageddon—Arms Control Provides the Only Path to Peace

Released for Syndication: 01/08/2020

The decade ends with two major threats to humanity: global warming leading to a climate catastrophe and the threat of a nuclear war extinguishing...

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