Conflicts of Interest

January 12, 2022

On COI #214, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman cover the U.S.-Russia talks in Geneva, the JCPOA talks in Vienna, and the criminal legacy of America’s Guantanamo Bay torture prison. Connor updates Iran’s regional diplomacy and the nuclear deal talks. The Europeans are increasingly admitting progress is being made. Even the Israelis appear increasingly split on […]

Daniel Larison

January 11, 2022

Walter Russell Mead wants you to know that Things Are Happening in The World and Biden has not somehow magically stopped them from happening: Last week Russian troops fanned out across Kazakhstan; the Myanmar junta sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to four more years in prison; and China transferred a senior official from Xinjiang to […]

Conflicts of Interest

January 9, 2022

On COI #211, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman discuss Israeli apartheid and why Tel Aviv’s worries that awareness of their regime’s brutality will spread this year. Kyle and Connor then update the JCPOA talks, the slight potential for peace on the Korean Peninsula, and the latest on tensions in Africa highlighting Sudan’s unrest. Connor details […]

Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

January 9, 2022

Reprinted from Responsible Statecraft (Quincy Institute) with permission. A coalition of both conservative and progressive foreign policy organizations have delivered a letter to the White House, asking the president to pursue a broad diplomatic path with the Russians in the much-anticipated U.S.-Russia talks on Monday and in NATO meetings later next week. The letter, which […]

Lawrence S. Wittner

January 9, 2022

Late January of this year will mark the first anniversary of the entry into force of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This momentous international agreement, the result of a lengthy struggle by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and by many non-nuclear nations, bans developing, testing, producing, acquiring, possessing, […]

Brett Wilkins

January 7, 2022

Citing his role in the Iraq War and other devastating conflicts, hundreds of thousands of people in the United Kingdom and beyond are calling for former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to be stripped of his newly bestowed knighthood. As of Thursday afternoon, over 900,000 people had signed the Change.org petition seeking to have Blair’s […]

Conflicts of Interest

January 7, 2022

On COI #210, Scott Horton joins Kyle Anzalone to discuss Biden’s first year as president.  Scott breaks down Biden’s Afghanistan policy. Biden critically took the most important step of removing US troops from the long battered country. However, Biden played the role of a sore loser and waged an economic war on the Afghans. Now, […]

Robert C. Koehler

January 7, 2022

Love thy enemy? I get a chance to do so on a regular basis, thanks to the email (or nasty-mail) I sometimes get in response to my column, e.g.: "Must be a dearth of anyone with anything intelligent to say for the News to put your drivel out for us to chew on. Not going […]

Brett Wilkins

January 6, 2022

Press freedom campaigners on Wednesday marked Julian Assange’s 1,000th day of imprisonment in London’s Belmarsh Prison with renewed demands for the WikiLeaks publisher’s freedom ahead of his looming potential extradition to the United States. “Journalism is not a crime,” the Assange Defense Committee tweeted. “#FreeAssange. #DropTheCharges.” Assange’s partner Stella Morris said in a statement: “It […]

Conflicts of Interest

January 6, 2022

On Conflicts of Interest #209, Kyle Anzalone discusses the lasting impacts of America’s wars in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan.  The coming winter in Afghanistan is expected to bring extreme hunger – and even death – to millions of Afghan children. The cause of the acute starvation facing Afghan children is America’s economic war. Pressure […]