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After a week of fruitful discussions between the parties to the Joint Comprehensive Program of Action – the JCPOA, better known as the Iranian...
As the countdown closed in on the point of no return regarding any chance of salvaging the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA, better known as...
Joe Biden unveiled phase one of his ambitious “American Jobs Plan” in a speech delivered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania earlier this week. The...
It seems a week cannot go by without US Secretary of State Antony Blinken bringing up the specter of the ‘rules-based international order’ as an...
The legend of the founding of the White House Press Corps holds that the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, was out wandering...
Democracy is a fragile institution which must be nurtured in accordance with the rule of law if it is to survive the foibles of the human condition...
President Joe Biden has defined his administration with the mantra of “America is back,” hinting at a return to what he and his supporters believe...
Former President Donald Trump was fond of bragging about how tough he was when it came to Russia. “There’s never been a president as tough on...
Back in 2001, former General Wesley Clark described a memorandum issued by then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld which outlined a plan, as General...
A dust storm originating in the Sahara Desert swept across parts of Spain, France, the UK, and Ireland last month. In addition to bringing a red tinge...
In a front-page story, the New York Times disclosed that the Biden administration was planning a range of “clandestine” cyber-attacks targeting...
The US Senate confirmation hearings for President Joe Biden’s nominee for the position of deputy secretary of state, Wendy Sherman, offer...
In an official statement last week, the special envoy of the president of Russia to Syria, Alexander Lavrentiev, indicated that Moscow was rapidly...
President Biden ordered US military aircraft to strike targets on Syrian soil that the US claims were affiliated with two pro-Iranian militias, Kataib...
Late last month the Polish military reportedly conducted a war game simulating a general war between Poland and Russia. Dubbed ‘Winter-20’, the...
The US Senate recently passed the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), allocating some $1.5 billion for research and development of a new...
The recently concluded virtual meeting of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) defense ministers has been billed as President Joe Biden’s first...
Military flight operations are inherently dangerous, whether conducted in peacetime or during actual operations. As the child of a career US Air Force...
“America is back. America is back. Diplomacy is back at the center of our foreign policy.” With these resounding words as his starting point,...
A pair of recent articles have raised the question as to whether America is well-served by the all-volunteer military that has existed since the end...
President Joe Biden has made rejoining the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA, popularly known as the Iran nuclear deal) one of the top...
This article was originally published by Energy Intelligence under the headline Biden-Putin: Facing the Real Risks, and appears on RT with that...
I did not vote for Joe Biden. Truth be told, I never would have, regardless. My personal history of interaction with the former Senator from Delaware...
A recent survey commissioned by the European Council on Foreign Relations has found that most Europeans look to Germany rather than the United States...
According to a statement released by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “due to the lack of progress in eliminating the hindrances for further...
One hour into the two-hour debate, it became abundantly clear that President Donald Trump was destined to become the first American President ever to...
According to Mike Pompeo, it was a tale as old as time – the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism colluding with the world’s most...
The new president’s selection of retired US ambassador William Burns as the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a welcome...
The permanent suspension of President Trump’s Twitter account, carried out unilaterally and devoid of any pretense of due process or appreciation...
In the interest of full disclosure, I supported Donald Trump’s candidacy in 2016, and again in 2020. This was not because I bought into his ‘Make...
January 6, 2021 was supposed to be a day of constitutionally mandated ceremony, where the vice president of the United States presided over a joint...
Iranian domestic politics have supercharged the nation’s diplomatic posture as it awaits the transfer of power in the United States from President...
In comments made to the media on Christmas Eve, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov was critical of US policy toward Russia. Discussing the...
In the aftermath of the revelations regarding the stunning SolarWinds cyber attack which has exposed the computer networks of multiple US government...
Biden’s choice of retired US Army General Lloyd Austin marks the first time that a black man has been nominated to serve as the senior civilian...
The murder of Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh on November 27, just outside the Iranian capital of Tehran, was an act of such brazenness that most observers...
On the night of November 3, as the results from largely 'in-person' votes were tallied across the nation, by all appearances, it looked as if...
In an analysis written for the European Council on Foreign Relations, Gustav Gressel, a senior policy fellow, argues that the extensive (and...
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was the shadowy father of Iran’s nuclear program; his existence, let alone his work, was barely acknowledged by Iran. A brigadier...
The withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty on November 22 is just the latest in a series of departures on the part of the US from arms control...
If one listens to Joe Biden and his closest national security advisors, all it will take to undo four years of Trump-era foreign policy is a few dozen...
The US-Taliban peace plan has always been just a political cover for Trump to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. By failing to do so before he leaves...
On Tuesday, the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced it conducted a test of an Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) System-equipped Arleigh...
To those watching the drama unfolding in Washington, DC around the stalled efforts on the part of nominal President-elect Joe Biden in forming a...
In what has become a force of habit for President Donald Trump, he announced the termination of his Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper, and the...
Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign slogan, Make America Great Again, or MAGA, has been seized upon by Americans from all political walks of...
If the press reports are true, it appears that much of the world joined the roughly 50 percent of Americans who celebrated the news that Joe Biden had...
The German head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Michael Georg Link, has told reporters that he was “very...