El gobierno de Trump está tratando de trasladar miles de millones de dólares destinados a ayuda humanitaria directamente al Departamento de Estado, evitando parcialmente a USAID y otorgando a la Casa Blanca un control discrecional casi total sobre cómo y a quién se asignan esos fondos en todo el mundo.
In Trump’s White House, the most dangerous industry on earth has a stranglehold on U.S. foreign policy.
It’s said that you can tell a lot about people by the company they keep. And the shady characters President Trump has surrounded himself with represent a new low even by Washington standards. One thread that ties many of these people together is their deep connection with the fossil fuel industry — and their willingness to
Diplomacy is for wimps. Let’s show all those upstart nations and that upstart commander-in-chief who’s boss.
I wonder how Rex Tillerson feels about being the first high-level federal official to be fired publically and online, in one brutal tweet. I’m sure he expected the hammer to come down on him, but not like that. And I wonder if he will come forward to describe what led up to it. Unlikely, as he’s an extremely wealthy and still
None of the 23 analysts at the anti-propaganda office who have been tasked with countering Russian “disinformation” even speaks Russian, while a partial hiring freeze ordered by Tillerson has prevented the department from hiring IT professionals capable of tracking Russian experts.
The U.S. press is currently in an uproar over the shoddy state of affairs at the Department of State’s new propaganda department, the Global Engagement Center (GEC) -- with blame being laid squarely on the shoulders of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. In our
Congress held up a similar sale last year over Bahrain’s myriad of human rights abuses.
The US State Department has approved $3.8 billion in weapons sales to the tiny island nation of Bahrain. The Pentagon confirmed the approval and the State Department has
“Continued drivers of violence included a lack of hope in achieving Palestinian statehood, Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank, settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank…»
The US State Department’s annual terror report offers a surprising amount of criticism of Israel, uncharacteristic for the Trump Administration, which has made a point of being outspokenly favorable toward the Israeli government from day one. The report detailed several lone-offender attacks by Palestinians against Israelis, as it does every
The long-awaited volume supplements an earlier publication that whitewashed American and British roles in the coup.
The State Department today released a long-awaited “retrospective” volume of declassified U.S. government documents on the 1953 coup in Iran, including records describing planning and implementation of the covert operation. The publication is the culmination of decades of internal debates and public controversy after a previous official collection
