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Nation-building

The march of an illusion from the Philippines to Afghanistan In one of his interviews before the Taliban walkover, John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser, blamed the American failure in Afghanistan on a change in Washington’s mission from anti-terrorism...

Leila de Lima

Filipino political prisoner refuses to surrender to despotic Duterte Philippine Senator Leila de Lima is one of the world’s best known political prisoners. Framed on false charges of being at the center of the illegal drugs trade and mercilessly flayed by President...

Why Biden might not be able to extricate the US from its Middle East quagmire

Biden has promised an end to the endless wars. But such promises are not easy to keep. Read the article here

Osama Bin Laden’s Ghost and the Multi-Trilion-Dollar Cost of Endless War

Twenty years of military quagmire of the Middle East has contributed to the fraying of the U.S. economy even as China has rapidly become the new center of global capital accumulation. Read the article here

Osama and Trump

Two bookends to the downspin of an empire The end of 2021 and the beginning of a new year is a convenient time to take...