foreign affairs

Yemen: Biden Shrugs Off Campaign Promise as US Backs New Saudi Offensive and AQAP Support

The US has refused calls to stop arming Saudi Arabia amid its devastating war in Yemen and is now doubling down on a military solution, falling back on its reliance of armed militant groups that it used to devastating effect in Syria, Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq.
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American Tax Dollars Financing Israeli Tourist Park Atop Historic Palestanin Neighborhood

At least 1,500 Palestinian residents in Silwan, Jerusalem are at risk of ethnic cleansing in favor of a Jewish tourist park to be established on the site of their historic neighborhood.
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Suspected Assassins of Haitian President Moïse Trained by US, Linked to Pro-Coup Oligarchy

As the investigation into Moïse’s murder unfolds, the U.S. is laying the groundwork to deploy troops into Haiti for the fourth time in 106 years, at the request of a figure it has spent decades grooming.
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“Unchallenged Orientalism”: Why Liberals Suddenly Love the Lab Leak Theory

The lab leak theory bears a striking resemblance to the WMD hoax of 2002, not only in the fact that one of its key players is literally the same journalist using potentially the same anonymous sources, but also in the bipartisan political and media support it enjoys.
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Carlos Lazo: The Cuban American Leading the Charge to Transform US-Cuba Policy

While right-wing Cubans in Miami call him “comunista,” Carlos Lazo has no time for ideology. He is neither for or against the Cuban government; he is for the Cuban people, the Cuban families. And he is disgusted by the cruelty of the U.S. blockade
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As US Pivots from Afghanistan to Yemen, Al-Mahrah Copes with Increasing Military Presence

Residents in eastern Yemen see the surge of U.S. military personnel as malign and colonial in nature and worry that it will bring not only chaos and instability to their region but could also bring with it the infamous human rights abuses and horrific violations that took place in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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