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
There is a growing consensus that the West (meaning the United States with the help of the UK) wants to replace Ukraine’s president, Volodomir Zelensky. My friend and colleague Larry Johnson thinks the CIA
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Editorial The recent developments involving the United States and Sri Lanka have raised questions that demand a closer look at the real intentions behind a massive financial investment of $553 million in
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As reported earlier, the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) today announced that it has committed more than half a billion dollars to support the development of a deepwater shipping container terminal
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by Xiong Maoling and Matthew Rusling Recently released data showed that U.S. federal deficit in fiscal year 2023 expanded significantly, with already elevated U.S. debt piling up. Why U.S. budget deficit keeps
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SHOULD THE WORLD DOSCOUNT NUCLEAR ESCALATION? The world is watching apprehensively how the richest and the second richest countries in the world behave because unless they either fall into the Thucydides Trap
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On October 26, Republican Senator Josh Hawley successfully passed a resolution through the United States Senate effectively condemning Palestine solidarity organizing on college campuses. The resolution “denounces the rhetoric of anti-Israel, pro-Hamas
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US President Joe Biden has declared himself a `war president.’ He has ordered two US aircraft carriers, advanced missile systems and 2,000 Marines to the Mideast. It’s full-force war fever in Washington.
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On October 21st, 1973 during the Yom Kippur War, Henry Kissinger flew to Moscow. I remember his arrival there very well because I was with the US embassy’s Charge d’Affaires Adolph Dubs in his office
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One of the challenges of reporting on China, for the media and intelligence agencies alike, is sifting through the constant river of mis- and disinformation stimulated by the habitual secrecy of the Chinese Communist
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With at least two conflicts which are ongoing involving India’s main foreign military suppliers Ukraine and Israel/Hamas [Russia and Israel respectively] and a third being prepared for Taiwan [involving the United States],
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