Tag: International relations

  • Exceptionalism, Imperialism, and Morality

    It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world. — George Washington, Farewell Address to the People of the United States, 19 September 1796 American Exceptionalism There is an argument that, from post-WWII to the present, international relations and the state of the world would be […]

  • Realism and Ipse Dixit

    Realism and Ipse Dixit

    In a 3 July interview, judge Andrew Napolitano asked the University of Chicago political scientist, John Mearsheimer: “Why would the United States be putting missiles in the Philippines but to be provocative toward China?” Mearsheimer: “I don’t think that the United States is trying to be provocative. I think what the United States is interested […]

  • The War in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Will End

    The War in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Will End

    Jardy Ndombasi (DRC), Soulèvement populaire et souveraineté (‘Popular Uprising and Sovereignty’), 2024. On 20 June, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) condemned the attacks on civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ‘in the strongest terms’. In its press statement, the UNSC wrote that these attacks – by both the DRC’s armed forces […]

  • China: Wheat-smuggling US is “Undeniably Responsible” for Syria’s Food Insecurity

    According to CCTV’s latest investigative report, the US troops in Syria have been smuggling local wheat crops out of Syria, using more than 10 trucks every day. To cover the smuggling activity, local checkpoints would stop all passers-by and check their phones to delete any related photos. What’s your comment?  Mao Ning: Once a wheat […]

  • Does Canada Uphold Binding International Law?

    The Canadian government repeatedly tells the world that Canada upholds an international rules-based order that is the basis of democracy. What the Canadian government says is not true. The evidence that it is not true is indisputable. There is widespread concern that social media is putting out disinformation, that this practice is dangerous and harmful […]

  • George C. Marshall: Founder of Orwellian Deep State

    Most geopolitics’ nerds know George C. Marshall as President Harry S. Truman’s Secretary of State, 1947-49, and Secretary of Defense, 1950-51, credited with initiating $13 billion Marshall Plan for rebuilding European economies devastated by the war. But few people know that as Chief of Staff of the US Army during World War II, Gen. George […]

  • U.S. out of Africa: Voices from the Struggle

    As anti-imperialist sentiment gains momentum in Africa, the Alliance of Sahelian States has demonstrated a clear resolve to reclaim sovereignty from foreign powers. The backlash against Western presence, and French presence in particular, has ignited a broader conversation about the future of foreign intervention and the true path to self-determination for African nations. Yet, while […]

  • Confronting NATO’s War Summit in Washington

    Confronting NATO’s War Summit in Washington

    Anti-NATO protest in Chicago, 2012. Photo credit: Julie Dermansky. After NATO’s catastrophic, illegal invasions of Yugoslavia, Libya and Afghanistan, on July 9th NATO plans to invade Washington DC. The good news is that it only plans to occupy Washington for three days. The British will not burn down the U.S. Capitol as they did in 1814, and the Germans […]

  • Trump/Biden Debate Immigration: US Foreign Policy as a Driver Is Ignored

    Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! — Emma Lazarus’s inscription on the Statue of Liberty The contestants squared off in the first of the US presidential […]

  • The U.S. Has Imposed Sanctions on Georgia and Nicaragua …

    Source: Georgia Today Politicians in the small Caucasian nation of Georgia have been sanctioned by Washington for “undermining democracy” and depriving Georgian people of “fundamental freedoms,” simply because its parliament has passed a law to control foreign influence over Georgian politics. Politicians in another small country, Nicaragua, were subjected to U.S. sanctions for doing the […]

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