
The Irony of the CIA’s Russia-Trump Story
During the Cold War, the CIA did just the kind of meddling in foreign elections it’s accusing Russia of doing today — and more.
During the Cold War, the CIA did just the kind of meddling in foreign elections it’s accusing Russia of doing today — and more.
Nothing defines Trump’s predictability more than his aggressive, Islamophobic, and anti-diplomatic choices for his foreign policy team.
A relentless, four-year onslaught by Donald Trump and his allies will have a terrible effect.
After a mere eight years in which diplomacy narrowly edged out militarism, the foreign policy elite rallying around Clinton has forgotten the lessons of the George W. Bush era.
When it comes to their foreign policy proposals, Clinton’s is irresponsible and Trump’s has no content, Phyllis Bennis tells the Real News Network.
Syria is emerging as a metaphor for the fragmentation and chaos that the modern world barely contains.
Problems with Turkey, Eastern Europe, and Donald Trump could tear the rickety alliance apart at the seams.
IPS’s Phyllis Bennis tells Common Dreams that the kind of bombings these officials are calling for is very dangerous and further antagonizing Russia will do nothing to bring peace to the Syrian people.
Syrians are paying the price for the regional and global proxy fights taking place alongside the civil war there.
The former secretary of state attacked the NSA whistleblower without bothering to get her facts straight.
The U.S. has a moral responsibility to address the Syrian refugee crisis after The Guardian reveals Russia offered to help depose Assad three years ago.
Asia may turn out to be more receptive to Russian business
Convergence theory predicted that the world would become like Swedish social democracy. Why has the opposite happened?
Vladimir Putin is not reviving the Cold War. Rather, the U.S. failed to end it when it had the chance.
Phyllis Bennis discusses the possibility of a renewed Cold War, longstanding tragedies in the Middle East, and the decline of Israeli influence.