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Is Trump’s Iran War a Crime of Aggression?

AMHERST—Many commentators, including those on the right, have dubbed US President Donald Trump’s “Operation Epic Fury” against Iran “Operation Epic Fail”: an extravagant waste of money, military hardware, and lives in the service of an ill-conceived war with ever-changing objectives. Meanwhile, most legal observers consider the operation an illegal act

American Jews’ Netanyahu Problem

Israeli officials would say that this was a defensive maneuver because the Democrats were drifting away from Israel. But this

Trump Is Showing China How to Seize Taiwan

The suffering is the point: it is the lever Trump is using to apply pressure to the regime, whose fall,

America’s Year of Self-Destruction

Constitutionally protected civil liberties are giving way to comprehensive surveillance and control, administered by private companies like Palantir.

Trump’s Anti-Moral Morality

The course of international relations for decades to come will be determined by whether the rest of the world accepts

The High Cost of Trump’s Amateur Diplomats

Trump, now engaged in a brazenly neo-imperialist project in Venezuela, has handed China a golden opportunity to portray itself as

Donald Trump and the White Man’s Burden in Nigeria

Over the next decade, Kipling’s injunction became the leitmotif of the West’s “civilizing” mission, justifying the imperial scramble to annex African

Ukraine-Russia peace deal ‘closer than ever’, says Trump amid talks…

Washington DC, Dec 16: US President Donald Trump on Monday (local time) stated that the peace deal to end the

The G20 Must Help Africa Escape the Financial Death Trap

US President Donald Trump may not be attending the first G20 summit to be held in Africa, but his tariffs

Trump says to meet with Xi at South Korea summit

Washington, Oct 17:  Donald Trump will hold talks with China’s Xi Jinping during the upcoming APEC summit in South Korea,