Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
A New Ancien Regime In The White House
The United States is indeed exceptional. It is the only country that ushers in a new presidency by displacing thousands of the highest executive branch officials. How do institutional integrity and coherent foreign policy survive this upheaval?Placed in historical perspective, it is striking that shifts by Washington, and hence adjustments...
More Evidence NATO is Past its Prime: European Shrimps Lecture American Whale
Denmark is a shrimp in the European ocean. A pleasant place to live, it is a geopolitical nullity. No one much cares what the Danes think about the world because, well, they can’t do much to change it. Unless they gain control of another nation’s military. Most notably that of the biggest whale around, the U.S. The last NATO Secretary...
Nationalist Eastern European Leaders Have A Deeply Troubling Vision For Europe
“Young people born in today’s Eurozone have no future ahead of them, unlike our youth born in the East,” Hungary’s brash, xenophobic Prime Minister Viktor Orban said at the 26th Economic Forum earlier this month. All eyes were on the mini-summit of Southern European nations that took place in Athens last week. But what if...
Oliver Stone: Snowden Is A Patriot Who Wants To Come Home
The famed director of “JFK” and “Wall Street” talks about his new film, “Snowden,” about Edward Snowden the man, the totalitarian character of “surveillance capitalism” and Russian President Vladimir Putin.You portray Edward Snowden in your film not as a traitor, but as an information age patriot defending American citizens from their own...
Obama’s Nuclear Deal Invalidated UN Resolutions That Curb Iran
The Obama administration has quietly voiced warnings that its putative deal with the Russian government is at a breaking point, and said it is running out of patience over Moscow’s prevarication and failed promises on Syria. However, there is a clear contradiction between the stance of the US defense secretary, Ashton Carter, who is skeptic...
Trump’s East European Achilles Heel
Donald Trump’s recent gains in some polls in the Middle West and Florida may prove to be a transient phenomenon if the Republican nominee’s pro-Russian, anti-NATO stance is hammered home to the regions’ large communities of Eastern and Northern European heritage. The ethnic vote in several battleground states could be decisive...
Hillary Clinton Hammers Donald Trump For ‘Throwing His Lot In With’ Putin
Hillary Clinton criticized Donald Trump’s lavish praise of Russian president Vladimir Putin, calling the GOP nominee’s flattering remarks “reckless and dangerous.” “Every day that goes by, this just becomes more and more of a reality television show,” Clinton said at the end of a press conference Friday afternoon. “It’s not a...
The Next UN Secretary-General: Time for an Eastern European?
As we enter the final months of the U.S. presidential campaign, most Americans are squarely focused on the race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump for the White House. At the United Nations, another important election with long term geopolitical implications for our world is currently ongoing. That is the selection of the next...
Russian Fighter Jet Flew Within 10 Feet Of U.S. Spy Plane, Officials Say
WASHINGTON/BERLIN (Reuters) – A Russian fighter jet carried out an “unsafe and unprofessional” intercept of a U.S. spy plane over the Black Sea and came within 10 feet (3.05 meters) of the American aircraft, two U.S. defense officials said on Wednesday.The incident is likely to cause more tension between the United States and Russia, who...
Donald Trump Thought A Saudi Plot Swayed The 2012 Election
President Barack Obama’s decisive victory in the 2012 presidential election was made possible by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, according to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.Trump made the claim in an appearance on CNBC five months before that year’s election. Commenting on the price of oil at the time, the bigoted...
