Category Foreign Policy
Iraq War Syndrome – The Democrats, neocons and Donald Trump
It remains odd from my perspective that the war in Iraq didn’t create the level of activism and anger in its aftermath in this country that Vietnam did. Iraq quite possibly did have more of an impact on the view of the United States and the nation’s moral authority abroad than Vietnam, but it didn’t […]
UK Election – a victory for the true left and a defeat for austerity, the media and “moderation”
The third way is dead in Britain. Parties running to the hard-left captured a total of 306 seats in the 650 seat UK House of Commons last night (counting Sinn Fein seats which will not be filled as the party as usual will NOT take their seats in the Commons). The revitalized Labour Party picked […]
Memorial Day – We beat fascism once. Time to beat it again at home and abroad
Today we honor those who have fallen in the name of preserving our way of life. This includes but is not limited to the greatest generation that kept us safe – those who fought and destroyed fascism in the 1930’s beginning with those who volunteered against future right-wing US ally the fascist Franco in the […]
Palm Beach Democratic activists lodge complaint about Wexler/Turkey link
The names of those who have signed this letter about former Congressman Robert Wexler’s new lobbying relationship with the Turkish Government headed by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have been withheld in order to protect the anonymity of those who privately have expressed concerns. The letter was released to The Florida Squeeze under that condition. The content […]
Ballard Partners and Robert Wexler to represent Turkey’s Erdogan Government (UPDATED)
Ballard Partners, the firm headed by Brian Ballard, Donald Trump’s “longtime lobbyist” (as described by Politico) has been hired by Government of Turkey per the publication’s Marc Caputo. The Erdoğan government in Turkey has completely changed the direction of that country, turning the secular pro-western republic of Atatürk into an authoritarian theocracy in alliance with Saudi […]
TFS writers discuss the Trump threat to civilian rule, North Korea and other foreign policy issues
When President Harry S. Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War he probably saved the republic from a situation where military men ran roughshod over civilian rule when it came to the prosecution of foreign affairs. Today we face a potentially similar crises as the Trump Administration is filled with military men making […]
Audio: TFS writers discuss President Trump’s Syria attack
In the near future here at TFS we’ll be bringing you a regular podcast that is downloadable on iTunes and Google Play. In the meantime, Brook Hines and Kartik Krishnaiyer are recording audio discussions on various topics of interest. Below we have a spirited discussion on Syria and in the coming days we will release […]
Trump’s Syrian gambit – Chance for a grand bargain between great powers?
I’ve always found it ironic that the Republican Party, the great defenders of Christianity have it out for every secular ruler in the Middle East. Those leaders that protect Christians from slaughter and even take them into their Government have been earmarked for eradication time and again by neoconservatives in GOP while alliances with right-wing […]
Donald Trump: Making China the lone global superpower one executive order at a time
Donald Trump’s Climate Change executive order is not only horrible for the environment, but as Damian Carrington in The Guardian correctly points out, it cedes American leadership in the greatest foreign policy matter of this generation to the Chinese. Climate Change is the single biggest geopolitical issue facing policymakers today and the US has now unilaterally […]
Are major Iran sanctions returning under Trump? One strong indicator says YES
Since Donald Trump ascended to the Presidency he has attempted rhetorically to undermine President Obama and Secretary Kerry’s remarkable achievement in negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran and thawing relations that had been moved to a frozen chill by neoconservatives and other American policy makers. It appears based on events in India that Trump’s Administration […]
The Florida Squeeze 