It's not just in domestic #US coverage that our #media is complicit with the abuse of power.

#Pakistan is one clear, decades-long example of this.

We create and maintain the "problem", then demonize our victims, everywhere in the world.

"Divorcing mainstream #American #news #media, an institution, from the institutions of #AmericanPower, like #ForeignPolicy, requires an entire remanufacturing of the #NewsIndustry itself."

"Creating caricatures dehumanizes people"

https://youtu.be/Uta2jdHgXfk?si=LTwkrvaYzOZJWEDq

Jeet Heer: Elon Musk is a state within a state. He's wealthy enough to have his own foreign policy. That's a problem.

#ElonMusk #Starlink #Ukraine #ForeignPolicy #NationalSecurity #RogueBillionaire

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/elon-musk-threat-democracy/

Simon Tisdall is rather caustic about UK #foreignpolicy:

'The UK once had a reputation for skilled diplomacy... But as its economic power & geopolitical leverage have diminished, along with the quality of decision-making, so too has traditional foreign policy realism. Now is the age of British foreign policy unrealism. Between fantasising post-Brexit Tories & the world as it truly is a huge, growing gap yawns'

Never was a Foreign Secretary's name so inaccurate!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/31/james-cleverly-china-visit-britain-values-trade

New Yorker: The Case for Negotiating with Russia https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/the-case-for-negotiating-with-russia #NewYorker #ForeignPolicy #VladimirPutin #News/Essay #Diplomacy #Ukraine #Russia #War

Italy's foreign policy under Giorgia Meloni is surprising her critics.

She set out to give her country a conservative agenda. But she is currently scoring points mainly on the foreign front.

Why the Italian head of government has found success in the diplomatic arena.

https://www.nzz.ch/english/italys-foreign-policy-has-been-a-pleasant-surprise-for-giorgia-melonis-critics-ld.1750197

#Italy #Meloni #Politics #ForeignPolicy #Diplomacy #Putin

Progressive members of Congress to visit Latin America, challenge Biden for continuing Trump's policies in the region.
#ForeignPolicy #politics https://portside.org/2023-08-03/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-other-progressives-visit-left-ruled-latin-american-nations

Saudi Arabia Extends Oil Production Cuts, Further Irking US Officials - Saudi Arabia announced it will continue limiting oil production through September,... - https://news.bitcoin.com/saudi-arabia-extends-oil-production-cuts-further-irking-us-officials/ #americangasconsumers #bidenadministration #voluntaryrestraint #mizuhosecurities #economicgrowth #u.s.government #bilateraldeal #foreignpolicy #oilproduction #energyagency #energypolicy #crudeprices #saudiarabia #brentcrude #pumpprices

New Yorker: Biden’s Moral Calculus in Brokering a Saudi-Israeli Peace Deal https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/bidens-moral-calculus-in-brokering-a-saudi-israeli-peace-deal #NewYorker #BenjaminNetanyahu #MohammedbinSalman #ThomasFriedman #ForeignPolicy #SaudiArabia #News/Q.&A. #JoeBiden #Israel #Iran

#books #reading #bookstodon
@PIL@mastodon.lawprofs.org
@pil@a.gup.pe #foreignpolicy @humanrights @politicowriter

Very interesting read ! How the Communist Party penetrates all forms of cultural and foreign exchanges and its various fronts

@cbcworld Interesting analysis: #Bidenadministration #Foreignpolicy and diplomatic efforts now successfully thwarted by insurgent GOP #misogynistic domestic politics. Provides historical summaries, but doesn’t argue that GOP has often attempted to broker illegal sideline agreements with international US opponents. It’s not just #whodoyoutrust

#Latvia's new #president, Edgars Rinkevics, has appointed his chief policy advisers and aides. Edvins Severs will continue as the chief #foreignpolicy adviser to Rinkevics, while Aivars Purins will become the president's chief #nationalsecurity adviser.

https://viabaltica.fi/latvia-pres-rinkevics-appoints-chief-policy-advisers-aides/

Once again, Biden is basically Trump minus the mean Tweets
#Biden #politics #ForeignPolicy https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/03/politics/elliott-abrams-public-diplomacy-nomination/index.html

Perhaps I was too kind when #RFKJr endorsed his grandfather’s #ForeignPolicy, questioning if he was just too stupid to follow the thread b/w the Kennedy patriarch’s anti-interventionism and virulent #antisemitism, and what that would have meant for #WWII. The Kennedy failson’s group has sought support from open white supremacists and conspiracy theorists on Gab. While those are the sorts of people who might be susceptible to his messaging, they don’t vote in Dem primaries https://t.co/FG8jlC95lQ

Perhaps I was too kind when #RFKJr endorsed his grandfather’s #ForeignPolicy, surmising he was just too stupid to follow the thread b/w the Kennedy patriarch’s anti-interventionism to his virulent #antisemitism, and what that would have meant for #WWII. The Kennedy failson’s group has sought support from open white supremacists and conspiracy theorists on Gab. While those are the sorts of people who might be susceptible to his messaging, they don’t vote in Dem primaries https://t.co/FG8jlC95lQ

Shout out to British government !
#Iran #British #military #foreignpolicy

https://www.thejc.com/news/news/iran's-'suicide-drones'-are-being-developed-at-british-universities-3lUpJ4vPCpCIqRaYwvkRR0

Heidelberg University and foundations called out. German institutions have been funding Chinese research on quantum technologies which will have a major impact on all aspects of human life, including how wars are fought in the future.

#military #foreignpolicy #Deutschland #Germany #Military #EuropeanUnion #Brussels #NATO #tech #China #EmergingTech #gruene @DieGruenen @PIL@mastodon.lawprofs.org @pil@a.gup.pe

The US greatly overuses sanctions against other countries which rarely work and frequently backfire against the US. (Link to get past paywall).

#ForeignPolicy
https://wapo.st/3MQBa35

While I don't agree with everything he writes it is good to see analyses such as these from the Rand Corp (hardly an organization of peaceniks) which are motivated to avoid a disastrous Forever War in Ukraine and point out the need for diplomacy.

#ForeignPolicy #Ukraine

https://reader.foreignaffairs.com/2023/06/05/an-unwinnable-war/content.html

The risks of a new Cold War with China
#ForeignPolicy https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/06/cold-war-china-risks/674272/

New Yorker: Ted Koppel on Covering—and Befriending—Henry Kissinger https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/ted-koppel-on-covering-and-befriending-henry-kissinger #NewYorker #HenryKissinger #ForeignPolicy #News/Q.&A. #VietnamWar #Journalism #WarCrimes