foreign policy
Today in history: Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty is signed in 1972
May 26, 2015The U.S. and USSR agreed not to build defensive missile systems and thus to limit escalation of the nuclear arms race.
Read moreKenya’s sorrow: the U.S. connection
April 29, 2015Absent from most of the mainstream American media was an examination of exactly what role the U.S. has played in Somalia over the past decade.
Read moreAgain, UN General Assembly rejects U.S anti-Cuban blockade
October 30, 2014The UN General Assembly voted Oct. 28 for the 23rd consecutive year on a Cuba resolution calling upon the United States to end its economic blockade against the island.
Read moreIran and U.S. cooperating on ISIS fight? Not as far-fetched as it seems
September 26, 2014Iraqi President Fuad Masum was asked whether it was U.S. airstrikes, with Iraqi fighters and Iranian militiamen, that helped liberate the town of Amerli. He confirmed that it was.
Read moreU.S. use of sanctions could spur dollar’s decline
August 28, 2014The recent round of sanctions aimed at Moscow over the crisis in the Ukraine could backfire by accelerating a move away from the dollar as the world's reserve currency.
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