Crimea: Defense Lawyers Harassed
(Kyiv) – Russian authorities have detained two human rights lawyers who represent prominent Crimean Tatar leaders, Human Rights Watch said today. The lawyers’ clients are being prosecuted on politically motivated charges in retaliation for their activism. Emil Kurbedinov, who was detained on January 26, 2017, and Nikolai Polozov, detained...
Trump Can Fix the Defects in U.S. Foreign Policy
Ted Galen Carpenter In administration after administration over the decades, U.S. foreign policy has habitually exhibited several of the same deficiencies. Although those defects and blind spots were evident throughout the Cold War, they have become more noticeable and worrisome since the end of that struggle. Today, they are glaringly apparent...
How to Make ‘America First’ Truly Great
Doug Bandow Only Donald Trump would attempt to rescue the phrase “America First” from its slightly discreditable heritage. Unfortunately, his sales job has been incomplete and unconvincing. Now, someone needs to rescue the same phrase from his crabbed, negative meaning. The dominant foreign-policy vision animating left and right in recent years...
Trump Should Copy Richard Nixon by Separating China and Russia
Doug Bandow Perhaps the greatest evidence of the hubris surrounding uberhawks of both neoconservative and liberal interventionist nature is their willingness, even determination, to make multiple enemies simultaneously around the globe. Hence their constant refrain that the world is dangerous and military spending must go up, ever up. Yet if the...
America’s Russian Problem
Russian-American relations over the past several years have taken on some of the most familiar aspects of the Cold War. The conventional wisdom is extremely one-side, concluding that Russian President Vladimir Putin is entirely responsible for the setback as a result of his actions in Georgia, Crimea, Ukraine and Syria, and that the Russian...
Goodbye Susan Rice, Hello National Security Options
Doug Bandow National Security Adviser Susan Rice needs a long rest. She recently stated that she didn’t “have the luxury of focusing on” only three nations, as suggested by the Washington Post in an interview. After a reporter (presumably jokingly) asked about Canada, she replied that it was one of the few countries on the planet that she...
Cyber-Spying Scandal Looms as Three Russians Arrested
Available reports suggest intelligence agents and Kaspersky Labs exec are suspected of giving information to a foreign government. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Jeffrey Sachs on America and a New World Order
“America first!” Donald Trump hammered out this message over and again in his inauguration speech a week ago today. He promised tariffs, a crackdown on immigration, and a restoration of American military might. He entered the White House as the least popular incoming president in 40 years. Not every liberal thinker is in a state of despair....
Russia uses repression to remove witnesses to illegal arrests in occupied Crimea
Russia is continuing to use docile judges in occupied Crimea to impose unwarranted penalties on Crimean Tatars for entirely peaceful demonstrations of solidarity with families facing armed searches and arrests …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
An Easy Target for Russia
The anti-Belarus smear campaign in Russian media has gained momentum and even led to arrests at the end of last year. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
