Editor’s Note: This essay was originally published in The New Yorker two months after 9/11. The tragedy re-engineered the West while imposing a huge cost on the rest of the world. Twenty-five
At the end of the 1960s and into the early 1970s, the influential international circles directly tied to David Rockefeller launched a dazzling array of elite organizations and think tanks. These included The
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Over 1,000 pro-Palestinian protesters have been arrested in recent days according to U.S. media reports, as the anti-war demonstrations at over 20 American universities continued on Tuesday. Some schools including Columbia University,
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A recently released report showed that defense spending by the United States — the world’s largest military spender — accounted for nearly 40 percent of world’s total military expenditures in 2023. In
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On Friday in Colombo, Alexis Taylor, Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), together with U.S. Ambassador Julie Chung, met with Sri Lankan President
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NATO is starting to deploy combat troops to Ukraine. They are in uniform and mostly are concentrated in the western part of the country, although in some cases they are close to the
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Once again, Washington has resorted to peddling baseless accusations of “genocide” and “forced labor” in Xinjiang to smear China. Despite its own chilling human rights records, the United States in the recent
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The US has announced the transfer of decommissioned USCGC Decisive (WMEC 629) to Sri Lanka next year. The US Coast Guard decommissioned the 210-foot vessel after 55 years of service, at a
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The U.S. has adopted a national strategy designed to use force without risking casualties of its own. This strategy has been on full display in Ukraine, where Washington has played a significant
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Here are the preliminary results from the Iranian attacks last night: 331 missiles and drones launched by Iran at Israel: – 185 out of 185 Kamikaze Drones were shot down – 103
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America’s mounting debt bill is the country’s greatest national security crisis-in-waiting, U.S. magazine The National Interest has reported. Noting that the country registered a 1.6 trillion-U.S. dollar deficit this year and a
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