foreign policy

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• SOURCE: Al Jazeera
  2/11/20
  

  America held hostage

  by David Marks

  Forty years after the Iran hostage crisis, its impact endures.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  2/9/20
  

  World War III’s Newest Battlefield

  by Michael T. Klare

  U.S. Troops Head for the Far North

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/5/20
  

  How the US repeatedly failed to support reform movements in Iran

  by Pardis Mahdavi

  For 40 years, the relationship between the U.S. and Iran has been marked by disagreement – but also by a series of missed opportunities.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  1/23/20
  

  The American Chaos Machine: U.S. Foreign Policy Goes Off the Rails

  by Danny Sjursen

  President Trump’s rash, risky, and repugnant decision to assassinate Iranian Major General Qassem Suleimani on the sovereign soil of Iraq was only the latest version of what has proven to be a pervasive state of affairs.

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• SOURCE: LawFare
  1/21/20
  

  Why Haven't the Afghanistan Papers Gotten More Attention?

  by David V. Gioe

  The Afghanistan Papers and the Perils of Historical Analogy

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  1/13/20
  

  Assassination as Cure: Disease Metaphors and Foreign Policy

  by Sarah Swedberg

  Kinzinger’s words fit within a long historical tradition of badly used disease metaphors that often accompany bad outcomes.

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• 1/12/20
  

  Do Morals Matter in Foreign Policy?

  by Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

  Examining 14 presidencies since 1945 shows that a radically skeptical view of morality is bad history. Morals did matter.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/7/20
  

  Why Did the U.S. Kill Suleimani?

  by Elizabeth Cobbs and Kimberly C. Field

  The attack illustrates America’s lack of a clear grand strategy — and why we need one immediately.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  1/4/20
  

  Soleimani Assassination Marks 'Peak Hatred' In History Of U.S.-Iran Animosity

  NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Karim Sadjadpour, a senior fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about how tensions between the United States and Iran got to where they are.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  12/19/19
  

  How War Targets the Young

  by Andrea Mazzarino

  War on Terror, War on Education

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• 12/19/19
  

  2020 Will Be More Turbulent Than 2019, Unless…

  by Alon Ben-Meir

  The year 2020 will most likely be as turbulent if not more so than 2019 due mainly to the lack of American leadership and the rush of other powers, especially Russia, China, and to a lesser extent Turkey and Iran, to fill the vacuum the US is leaving behind.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  12/15/19
  

  Lessons From Battling the Pentagon for Four Decades

  by William D. Hartung

  The Stubborn Persistence of the Military-Industrial State 

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  12/17/19
  

  The (Failed) War on Terror's Precursor

  by Danny Sjursen

  It Was “Progress” All the Way Then, Too

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• 12/15/19
  

  A Real Red Wedding Massacre Puts Lie to Trump's Claim That he "Obliterated" ISIS

  by Brian Glyn Williams and Javed Rezayee

  The human cost of the war in Afghanistan. 

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• SOURCE: War on the Rocks
  12/4/19
  

  The History That Happened: Setting the Record Straight on the Armenian Genocide

  by Ryan Gingeras

  For a brief moment this fall, world interest fixed its attention to an event of the past. News that the U.S. Congress approved a formal resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide was carried as a leading story by media outlets worldwide. 

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• 11/26/19
  

  Legalize Torture? It’s Tortured Logic

  by Sam Ben-Meir

  The Report is largely about another single-minded individual, Daniel J. Jones (Adam Driver), lead investigator of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who spent five arduous years doggedly uncovering the CIA’s suspect detention and interrogation program following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

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• 11/24/19
  

  The Mysterious Assassination That Unleashed Jihadism

  by Thomas Hegghammer

  The story of Abdallah Azzam suggests that a root cause of modern jihadism was the collapse in respect for religious authority among young Islamists in the late 1980s.

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• 11/3/19
  

  A History of Why Trump Abandoned the Kurds

  by Ed Simon

  That the Kurds are associated with socialism, anti-fascism, and radical democracy isn’t incidental to Trump’s abandonment of them – it’s the reason why he has.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  10/26/19
  

  Russia’s Long and Mostly Unsuccessful History of Election Interference

  by Casey Michel

  Trump’s willingness to allow foreign governments to influence American elections is historically unprecedented. Just how unprecedented becomes clear when you look back at the long history of attempts by foreign powers (almost always Russia) to tip an outcome to their advantage.

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• 10/20/19
  

  The Greatest Danger in the Kurdish Crisis

  by Zaman Stanizai

  If the heavy-handedness of the Turkish military is any indication, Erdogan seems to be bent on the ethnic cleansing and relocation of Kurds in northern Syria and resettling their lands along the Turkish border with Arab Syrian refugees currently residing in Turkey.