Exclusive: Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal remains a top global security threat, as Islamic jihadists penetrate many of the nation’s political, educational and military institutions, says Jonathan Marshall. By Jonathan Marshall Dozens of world leaders are arriving in Washington, D. C. for…Read more →
Exclusive: The E.U.’s crisis – with the post-World War II project to unify Europe spinning apart amid economic stress, refugees and terrorism – can be traced back to E.U./U.S. neo-imperial wars in the Arab world, says Jonathan Marshall. By Jonathan Marshall…Read more →
Some of our special stories in February focused on the early U.S. presidential race, the continuing U.S.-Russian tensions, and the bloodletting in Syria. “Feeding the Military-Industrial Complex” by Jonathan Marshall, Feb. 1, 2016 “Hillary Clinton’s ‘Progressive’ Persona” by Jeff Cohen,…Read more →
Exclusive: While loudly complaining about “Russian aggression,” the U.S. government escalates plans for encircling Russia in a modern “Great Game,” writes Jonathan Marshall. By Jonathan Marshall Two hundred years after the “Great Game” for domination of Central Asia began with the…Read more →
Exclusive: The Obama administration, eager to assuage Saudi Arabia’s anger over the Iran nuclear deal and the failure to achieve “regime change” in Syria, has turned a blind eye to Riyadh’s savaging of Yemen, even though that is helping Al…Read more →
Exclusive: President Bill Clinton’s Kosovo war of 1999 was loved by neocons and liberal hawks – the forerunner for Iraq, Libya, Syria and other conflicts this century – but Kosovo’s political violence and lawlessness today underscore the grim consequences of those strategies even when they “succeed,” writes Jonathan Marshall. By Jonathan Marshall The insatiable appetite…
Exclusive: France’s response to last year’s terror attacks in Paris imposed draconian measures that waived basic civil rights during the immediate “emergency,” but the French parliament is now considering making those rules permanent, as Jonathan Marshall explains. By Jonathan Marshall When Islamist radicals destroy centuries-old artifacts, from Bamyan to Palmyra, civilized people everywhere register their…
Exclusive: Official Washington’s demonization of Vladimir Putin and the neocon “group think” about “Russian aggression” have fueled a reckless drive to move NATO forces up to Russia’s border, thus heightening risks of nuclear war and not serving real U.S. national interests, writes Jonathan Marshall. By Jonathan Marshall Twenty-seven years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, NATO is…
Exclusive: NATO keeps backing Turkey, one of its members, despite its aid to the Islamic State and other jihadists fighting Syria’s secular government — and even though Turkey’s erratic President Erdogan may be leading NATO into a risky showdown with Syria’s Russian allies, writes Jonathan Marshall. By Jonathan Marshall Turkey’s embattled President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is resurrecting the “deep…
Some of our special stories in January focused on the worsening crisis in relations between the United States and Russia, the danger of a wider war around Syria, the triumph of propaganda over reason in American foreign policy, and developments in Campaign 2016. “Hearing the Russian Perspective” by Gilbert Doctorow, Jan. 2, 2016 “How Obama…
