A leading progressive voice on US foreign affairs for nearly 50 years.
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Two Years Later
How the United States can work to end the war and the atrocities faced by Palestinian civilians and Israeli hostages, for long-term peace.
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Trump’s Wag The Dog Moment
In our policy journal, Senior Non-Resident Fellow Michael Paarlberg argues that the illegal killing of Venezuelans on a boat in the Caribbean is not just a direct departure from the contraband seizures historically done by the Coast Guard, but a criminal form of gunboat diplomacy.
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Arming and Expanding ICE: The Cost to American Taxpayers and Liberties
If compared to military forces, ICE’s new budget would rank it among the top-funded 15 militaries in the world – an ominous buildup of armed loyalists that Trump is demonstratively deploying alongside other law enforcement and the national guard in cities and states he regards as resisting his authority.
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International Policy Journal
Curious about what policies can be taken to make the world a better place? Explore the International Policy Journal (IPJ), a platform dedicated to discussing foreign policy priorities within a progressive agenda.
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America Is Cursed by a Foreign Policy of Nostalgia
In a provocative new essay published by Foreign Affairs, Nancy Okail, President and CEO of the Center for International Policy, and Matt Duss, the organization’s Executive Vice President, present a sweeping critique of the entrenched U.S. foreign policy orthodoxy and lay out a bold blueprint for reform.
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The Center for International Policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable U.S. approach to foreign policy.
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WATCH: Senior Fellow @MPaarlberg analyzes Trump’s meeting with María Corina Machado, the implications for Venezuela’s future, and her prospects for shaping Trump’s policy.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/trump-meet-venezuelan-opposition-leader-vowed-share-nobel-129248497
LISTEN: What would U.S. military action against Iran actually achieve? @NancyGEO talks with @ianmastersmedia about why military intervention will not liberate the Iranian people and alternative paths forward.
Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background...
soundcloud.comTrump’s claim that killings in Iran had stopped may have helped justify avoiding escalation. As @SinaToossi told @AJEnglish "Trump's had an aversion to getting sucked into big, open-ended military conflicts, and with Iran, that risk was on the table."
Trump has threatened to attack Iran, prompting Tehran to warn of retaliation amid growing fears of conflict.
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Join my @CIPolicy colleagues @NegarMortazavi and @SinaToossi for this discussion, which could not be more timely as reports of an imminent U.S. attack on Iran circulate.
Entrevista con @SinaToossi del @CIPolicy en @larazon_es
El especialista en las relaciones Irán-EE UU analiza la revuelta iraní y la deriva política que puede alcanzar
www.larazon.esWATCH: Senior Fellow @NegarMortazavi speaks with @ABC about protests in #Iran, domestic instability, and the potential regional implications of renewed U.S. economic pressure.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/video/death-toll-continues-rise-iran-protests-intensify-129151417
Iranian protesters are being met with bullets.
Now that violence is being used to sell another idea: that U.S. military force would somehow help.
@NancyGEO and I argue this is a false choice—and a recipe for making things worse.
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The Iranian people are once again caught between their own brutal regime and the U.S. war machine. There has to be a better way forward.
"In a world where international law has been weakened and civilian protection treated as conditional, Trump offers war as a substitute for politics," @NancyGEO and @SinaToossi write.
The Iranian people are once again caught between their own brutal regime and the U.S. war machine. There has to be a better way forward.
In @newrepublic, @NancyGEO and @SinaToossi argue that lasting change in Iran must be driven from within, not by U.S. military intervention that risks eroding international law.
https://newrepublic.com/article/205176/iran-crackdown-force-us-military
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