Rajan Menon

Rajan Menon is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of International Relations at the Powell School, City College of New York, and Senior Research Fellow at Columbia University’s Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. He is the author, most recently, of The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention.

Drugs

Not at the Border: The Real Nat’l Emergency is People Dying of Opioids

Rajan Menon

Since 1999, 400,000 Americans have died from overdoses of opioids, including legally prescribed ones

Donald Trump

Shattering Europe? The Debris of Trump’s Paris Fiasco

Rajan Menon

Even before Air Force One touched down in Paris, Trump took aim on Twitter at his host, French President Emmanuel Macron

Yemen

Yemen’s Descent into Hell: A Saudi-American War of Terror

Rajan Menon

(Tomdispatch.com) – It’s the war from hell, the savage one that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, along with seven other Middle Eastern and North African states, have been waging in Yemen since March 2015, with fulsome support from the Pentagon and American weapons galore. It’s got everything. Dead children in the dozens, a […]

National Security State

For 40 Million US Working Poor, Trillion-Dollar Foreign Military Adventures Don’t Bring Security

Rajan Menon

The greatest threat day-to-day threat for millions of Americans isn’t terrorism or North Korea, it’s economic insecurity

Donald Trump

Dr. Strangelove in the 21st Century: Trump’s Pentagon lowers Nuclear Threshold

Rajan Menon

( Tomdispatch.com) – If you’re having trouble sleeping thanks to, well, you know who… you’re not alone. But don’t despair. A breakthrough remedy has just gone on the market. It has no chemically induced side effects and, best of all, will cost you nothing, thanks to the Department of Defense. It’s the new Nuclear Posture […]

North Korea

A Second Korean War, this Time with Nukes?

Rajan Menon

( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Most people intuitively get it. An American preventive strike to wipe out North Korea’s nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles, or a commando raid launched with the same goal in mind, is likely to initiate a chain of events culminating in catastrophe. That would be true above all for the roughly […]

Donald Trump

Inequality Rising: When will Trump’s base get wise to his populist charade?

Rajan Menon

Tomdispatch.com | – – Among the stranger features of the 2016 election campaign was the success of Donald Trump, a creature of globalization, as an America First savior of the white working class. A candidate who amassed billions of dollars by playing globalization for all it was worth — he manufactured clothes and accessories bearing […]