For the uninitiated, the Monroe Doctrine is neither treaty nor law. It began life as a simple statement, issued by President ...

By his account, Donald Trump has repeatedly been denied the Nobel Peace Prize he was due. Like the 1980s stand-up comedian Rodney Dangerfield, he complains: “I don’t get no respect.” ...

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Yale historian Greg Grandin believes that President Donald Trump’s foreign policy is putting the US on a dangerous course ...

Kim criticized the Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy, complaining that it “would abandon American global leadership.” He was upset that the NSS doesn’t mention North Korea: ...

The last two decades of the 20th century were packed with newsworthy events, and some of them coincided with the year of your ...

Debate over the verdict in Jimmy Lai Chee-ying's national security case has been framed by Western critics as a clash between ...

Europe has repeatedly rejected peace with Russia at moments when a negotiated settlement was available, and those rejections ...

The new designation will serve the domestic US crackdown on Muslim civil society, pushed by Arab autocrats using outdated 'war on terror' framework ...

Counterfire writers recommend their favourites from this year with a mixture of the new, the classic, fiction and analysis Michael Lavalette Sam Dalrymple, Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the ...

The strategy of US imperialism in relative decline mirrors the brutality of British imperialism at a similar stage in the ...

Japan’s Master Plan, if carried out without first attacking Pearl Harbour, would have allowed Japan to dominate everything from East Asia to the Suez Canal plus liberate India and Ceylon from British ...