Nicolas J.S. Davies
Nicolas J.S. Davies is the author of "Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq" (2010). He also wrote the chapters on "Obama at War" in "Grading the 44th President: a Report Card on Barack Obama’s First Term as a Progressive Leader" (2012).
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Views Thursday, March 25, 2021 U.S. Joins "Rules-Based World" on Afghanistan On March 18, the world was treated to the spectacle of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken sternly lecturing senior Chinese officials about the need for China to respect a "rules-based order." The alternative, Blinken warned , is a world in which might makes right, and "that would be a far more... Read more |
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Views Friday, March 12, 2021 10 Problems With Biden's Foreign Policy—and One Solution The Biden presidency is still in its early days, but it’s not too early to point to areas in the foreign policy realm where we, as progressives, have been disappointed--or even infuriated. There are one or two positive developments, such as the renewal of Obama's New START Treaty with Russia and... Read more |
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Views Thursday, March 04, 2021 Trump & Biden’s Secret Bombing Wars On February 25th, President Biden ordered U.S. air forces to drop seven 500-pound bombs on Iraqi forces in Syria, reportedly killing 22 people. The U.S. airstrike has predictably failed to halt rocket attacks on deeply unpopular U.S. bases in Iraq, which the Iraqi National Assembly passed a... Read more |
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Views Friday, February 26, 2021 Biden’s Reckless Syria Bombing Is Not the Diplomacy He Promised The U.S. bombing of Syria on Thursday immediately puts the policies of the newly-formed Biden administration into sharp relief. Why is this administration bombing the sovereign nation of Syria? Why is it bombing “Iranian-backed militias” who pose absolutely no threat to the United States and are... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, February 23, 2021 What Planet Is NATO Living On? The February meeting of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Defense Ministers, the first since President Biden took power, revealed an antiquated, 75-year-old alliance that, despite its military failures in Afghanistan and Libya, is now turning its military madness toward two more formidable... Read more |
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Views Monday, February 15, 2021 Is Biden Committing Diplomatic Suicide Over the Iran Nuclear Agreement? As Congress still struggles to pass a COVID relief bill, the rest of the world is nervously reserving judgment on America’s new president and his foreign policy, after successive U.S. administrations have delivered unexpected and damaging shocks to the world and the international system. Cautious... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 03, 2021 The Decline and Fall of the American Empire In 2004, journalist Ron Suskind quoted a Bush White House advisor, reportedly Karl Rove , as boasting, “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.” He dismissed Suskind’s assumption that public policy must be rooted in “the reality-based community.” “We’re history’s actors,”... Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 28, 2021 Will Biden End America’s Global War on Children? Most people regard Trump’s treatment of immigrant children as among his most shocking crimes as president. Images of hundreds of children stolen from their families and imprisoned in chain-link cages are an unforgettable disgrace that President Biden must move quickly to remedy with humane... Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 14, 2021 Will the Senate Confirm Coup Plotter Victoria Nuland? Who is Victoria Nuland? Most Americans have never heard of her because the U.S. corporate media’s foreign policy coverage is a wasteland. Most Americans have no idea that President-elect Biden’s pick for Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs is stuck in the quicksand of 1950s U.S.-Russia... Read more |
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Views Monday, December 14, 2020 Will Biden’s America Stop Creating Terrorists? Joe Biden will take command of the White House at a time when the American public is more concerned about battling coronavirus than fighting overseas wars. But America’s wars rage on regardless, and the militarized counterterrorism policy Biden has supported in the past—based on airstrikes, special... Read more |