By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Iran’s clerical leader, Ali Khamenei, gave a speech in Qom on Tuesday, in which he warned Donald Trump that his “crazy games” would not go without a response. Western news outlets such as the NYT tried to represent this speech as a threat, and some outlets […]
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US Foreign Policy
America’s Biggest Mideast Foreign Policy Challenges in 2018
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In some ways, the United States faces a more favorable foreign policy environment in 2018 than it has in some years, with regard to facts on the ground. Ironically, some of the more severe challenges emanate not from objective conditions abroad but from the erratic and […]
How Trump could avoid another $7 trillion bill in Mideast: Back off war with Iran
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald Trump, having backed the losing (and objectionable) candidate in Alabama’s senate race, suddenly wants to cooperate with Democrats on infrastructure spending. At some point, and for the good of the country, I predict we will start working with the Democrats in a Bipartisan fashion. Infrastructure […]
How Hawks and ambitious Generals pioneered our generational Warfare
By Danny Sjursen | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – I remember the day President Obama let me down. It was December 1, 2009, and as soon as the young president took the podium at West Point and — calm and cool as ever — announced a new troop surge in Afghanistan, I knew. There wasn’t […]
Gold trader implicates Turkish Pres. Erdogan in Iran money laundering
EURACTIV.com with Reuters | – – A Turkish-Iranian gold trader yesterday (30 November) told jurors in a New York federal court that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan authorized a transaction in a scheme to help Iran evade US sanctions. Reza Zarrab is cooperating with US prosecutors in the criminal trial of a Turkish bank executive […]
Trump ‘Working Visit’ to Britain has to be Cancelled after he outrages all 65 million Britons
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – You can’t take him anywhere. And, he is leaving a trail of US diplomatic catastrophes even with close allies. In the aftermath of massive and almost unanimous British outrage at Trump’s retweets of anti-Muslim hate videos (one phony and two irrelevant to Muslims in general) posted […]
World, horrified at Trump, sends US Ranking Plummeting
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The US is usually number 1 in the German research firm Gfk’s rankings, headed up by political consultant Simon Anholt. They ask some 22,000 people around the world to rank countries on six scales. This year it fell five full places to number 6. No such […]
Can we survive Trump’s Rage-Based Iran Policy?
By Daniel Brumberg | (Informed Comment) | – – Both his disciples and his detractors would probably agree that Trump speaks from the heart or gut rather than the head. His approach to the domestic and global arenas is supercharged by his volatile moods and emotions. This is how he “connects” with followers and frightens […]
Kurds didn’t Get Independence, US Support or even Democracy
By Reese Erlich | ( 48hills.org | – – I stood at a border crossing as thousands of Yazidis and other refugees fled ISIS attacks on Mosul and nearby cities. Tens of thousands of refugees flooded into the Kurdish Region of Iraq as Kurdish relief workers greeted them with water and food. It was August […]
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