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Cruelty Prompts Trump’s Deal of the Century in the Middle East
By Prof. Stuart Rees
The Trump/Kushner Israeli/Palestinian Peace Plan, ‘the deal of the century’ was presented in a workshop held in the Manama Hotel, Bahrain on June 25. Criticized because it put economic proposals before political considerations, this US deal has a more sinister policy objective: the crafting of every conceivable cruelty towards Palestinians. Read more...

Henry Wallace’s Internationalism: A Path that American Foreign Policy Could Have Taken and Still Can
By Dr. Dennis Etler
Following twenty years of decay, US foreign policy has spun out of control since Donald Trump’s ascension to the presidency. It appears that the traditional post-war US foreign policy goals of free trade, collective security and foreign aid, meant to cement worldwide US geopolitical and economic dominance, have crumbled and the crude pursuit of raw economic power has become the primary game in town. Read more...

Nuclear Experimentation: Year 74
By Ethan Indigo Smith
Nuclear experimentation began with the first detonation of the Manhattan Project. The first detonation began the unstable and unceasing chain reaction that is the nuclear era. Read more...

On Trump’s “Misguided Trade War” with China

By Allen Yu
Trump started his trade war with China over a year ago. After a year of escalations, two high-profile G20 meetings and months of on-off-on again negotiations, the trade war has the world tittering on the edge of a global recession. Read more...

Stifling “The Amman Message”: Threat to Bomb Islamic Studies Venue in Kuala Lumpur
By Dr. Chandra Muzaffar
Threatening to bomb a place constitutes an act of terror. While there have been instances in the past when force has been employed by groups to disrupt peaceful public gatherings, this is perhaps one of those rare occasions where an individual blatantly links himself and the group he is representing, Gerakan Banteras Syiah (the movement to stop the spread of Syiah) to a terrorist threat. Read more...

The Death Penalty as a Political Weapon: The Execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
By Rossen Vassilev Jr.
June 19 marked the 66th anniversary since the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a young Jewish-American couple from New York City, whose alleged guilt as Soviet “atomic spies” has never been proved—in spite of the numerous lies, forgeries and other hoaxes of white, gray and black propaganda thrown against them since then. Read more...

America, The Incredible Disappearing Country
By Helen Buyniski
Freedom of speech, so important to the national identity it leads the Bill of Rights, has been so vilified in the media that the very notion of “defending free speech” has come to be associated with the extreme Right in establishment reporting. Read more...