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On Monday, August 21, President Donald Trump delivered a prime-time speech almost shocking in its ordinariness. It was such an address as either of his immediate predecessors, George W. Bush or Barack Obama, could easily have given over the previous decade and a half. While hinting at nebulous new strategies and ill-defined new metrics to measure success, President Trump announced that the 17 year old war in Afghanistan will go on pretty much as it has. And the establishment breathed a sigh of
USS Porter enters Black Sea to strengthen NATO defenses – Stripes
Russia to respond to possible US increase of military presence in Ukraine – Sputnik International
Secretary of State statement on the United States’ engagement in South Asia: ‘We stand ready to support peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban without preconditions’ – state.gov
Trump not making women’s rights a precondition of Afghan, Taliban talks: Tillerson – washingtonexaminer.com
Russia urges US to clarify its stance on contacts with Taliban without preconditions, Lavrov
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When historian Alfred McCoy began his long journey to expose some of the darkest secrets of the U.S. national security establishment, America was embroiled in wars in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Almost 50 years later, the United States is, in one way or another, involved in so many more conflicts from Afghanistan,
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If you happen to be a dystopian novelist, as TomDispatch regular John Feffer is, then you’re in business these days. Back in 2015, when Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency was just heating up and Feffer was writing Splinterlands,
Syrian Army secures strategic town Hamimah near Deir Ezzor from ISIS (VIDEO) – almasdarnews.com
Rebel spies exterminate ISIS gathering in Deir Ezzor, 8 jihadists killed – almasdarnews.com
ISIS’s Baghdadi is believed to have moved to eastern Deir Ezzor: source – almasdarnews.com
Syrian Army takes ISIS-held town Huwaysis near strategic gas field in central Syria – almasdarnews.com
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Pardon Me!
High Crimes and Demeanors in the Age of Trump
By Tom Engelhardt
Let me try to get this straight: from the moment the Soviet Union imploded in 1991 until recently just about every politician and mainstream pundit in America assured us that we were the planet’s indispensable nation, the only truly exceptional one on this small orb of ours.
We were the sole superpower,
Address by Canada Foreign Affairs Minister Freeland on the modernization of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) – Canada.ca
U.S. trade vets say Canada’s NAFTA demands a ‘long shot’ – torontosun.com
The A team across the table: The top US, Canada and Mexico negotiators – Bloomberg
William S. Geimer
Author: Canada: The Case for Staying Out of Other People’s Wars
Blog: DearVirtualEditor.com
A number of important matters are being ignored in the latest furor of North Korea. One is the fact that the U.S. created North Korea and South Korea, and then rejected the only democratic option for unification. The U.S. made these moves with little or no regard for the wishes of the Korean people, and at the cost of millions of their lives. To date, it has been clear that Korea is no