Diplomacy

Blinken does not seem to have repented from his fundamentalist belief in American imperial goodness, notwithstanding his appeal for “humility”.

(Photo credit: National Press Club) President Biden’s commitment to re-entering the Iran nuclear deal—formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA—is already facing backlash from a motley crew of warhawks both domestic and foreign. Right now, opponents of re-entering the deal are centering their vitriol on one of the nation’s foremost experts […]

The Biden administration has a chance to salvage the agreement in the next few months. If they do that and the U.S. rejoins the JCPOA and lifts both old and new sanctions, then we can expect that Iran will be ratifying the Additional Protocol in just a couple years.

The storms are not yet over, but it seems that Biden may eventually be able to restore calm to a divided nation, Brian Cloughley writes.

A depressing amount of Washington’s foreign policy comes down to cash and the preferred route to commercial gain seems to involve hostility.

The big question concern’s Biden’s intentions. Does he really consider that President Putin “has no soul” and is “the biggest threat” to America?

We have reached a point in history where confrontation and conflict are no longer justifiable in any form. The only way forward is for cooperation in the spirit of common humanity and mutual economic planning. And there is much to be hopeful for.

In August 2020, we wrote about a sex scandal involving a high-ranking South Korean diplomat – one that forced him to become the topic of conversation among the country’s top officials: On February 28, 2020, a New Zealand court issued an arrest warrant for a South Korean diplomat named Kim on charges of indecent behavior […]

Looks like the West is beginning to suspect that it's going down and wants to hide it while the Russians know they're rising and are happy to show it.

Veteran US diplomat Chas Freeman says that despite talk of a New Cold War between the US and China, the US in reality is reacting aggressively to a rising Chinese power whose economic gains threaten US global supremacy. “We’ve become […]