The U.S. occupation force and its Kurdish proxy SDF in northeastern Syria are supposed to fight the Islamic State in its last hold out northeast of Euphrates. But the operations against the handful of towns ISIS (grey) still holds – launched only after long and unexplained delays – shows little progress. Last week it received […]
U.S. and South Korea Again Call Off a Major Military Exercise…
The United States and South Korea are scrapping another major military exercise this year, a Pentagon official said Friday, citing a push for diplomatic progress with North Korea. The top Pentagon spokeswoman, Dana W. White, said Washington and Seoul are suspending an air exercise known as Vigilant Ace “to give the diplomatic process every opportunity […]
Mnuchin Pulls Out of Saudi Conference…
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced Thursday that he will pull out of a major economic conference being hosted by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman next week in Riyadh, amid tension over the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. “Just met with @realDonaldTrumpand @SecPompeo and we have decided, I will not be participating in the Future […]
Saudi Conference No-Shows…
U.S. Announces Intent to Withdraw from Universal Postal Union…
The United States says it intends to withdraw from the 192-country Universal Postal Union (UPU), an agency that governs international postal rates, the White House announced on Oct. 17. The yearlong withdrawal process was set in motion via a Letter of Denunciation served in Switzerland on the same day. During the process, the Trump administration […]
A Short History of U.S. Meddling in Foreign Elections…
Meddling in foreign elections is bad. I think we can all agree on that. And almost everyone — bar Donald Trump — seems to believe that the Russian government meddled in the 2016 election. So that should be condemned. Here’s the problem, though: U.S. politicians and pundits cannot credibly object to Russian interference in U.S. […]
A Warning From Europe: The Worst Is Yet to Come…
On December 31, 1999, we threw a party. It was the end of one millennium and the start of a new one; people very much wanted to celebrate, preferably somewhere exotic. Our party fulfilled that criterion. We held it at Chobielin, the manor house in northwest Poland that my husband and his parents had purchased […]
Tensions Grow as China, Russia and Iran Lead the Way Towards a New Multipolar World Order…
Kim Asks for 2nd Summit With Trump, Promises Swift Surrender of Nuclear Arsenal…
Even though North Korea has reneged on similar promises in the past, Kim Jong Un’s promise to allow international observers into the isolated country to monitor the dismantling of the North’s Yongbyon nuclear reactor and several missile-launching sites has apparently persuaded the US to restart negotiations to drop sanctions against the regime after they stalled […]
Pyongyang Agrees to Start Denuclearization Process…
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