US foreign policy

While the Obama administration promises to investigate drone strikes, civilians in Yemen are dying and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is garnering new recruits.

Foreign policy critic William Blum discusses Barack Obama, the media, the United States allying itself with terrorists, and more.

As the Executive Secretary for the Gore-Mbeki Commission Environment Committee, I sat at the negotiating table while the newly elected government of Nelson Mandela formulated its environmental policies.

Marsha Coleman-Adebayo witnessed the dawn of the Nelson Mandela government and the United States' back-door complicity with old-guard Afrikaner political officials.

Many publications have advice columnists, but none has our old friend Colonel Manners. His assignment: to answer questions from Americans puzzled by the abstruse intricacies of the American way …

The morning after Kennedy was buried, the country awoke to find a stranger in its bed. The indefatigable vulgarity of Lyndon Baines Johnson made unfavourable comparison inevitable.

For decades, the default ideology of Official Washingtonu2019s foreign policy has been u201ctough-guy-ism,u201d wielding sticks and mocking those who offer carrots, a pattern that could start a disastrous war …

At the United Nations this month, Brazil, China, Venezuela and other nations denounced U.S. drone wars as illegal.

So far only three countries are known to have used armed combat drones to carry out attacks: Israel, the US, and the UK. But this could soon change.

To look at the Syrian civil war in isolation and to entrust the US and its allies to take control of the situation would be a grave mistake.