Reese Erlich’s nationally distributed column, “Foreign Correspondent,” appears regularly in The Progressive. His book The Iran Agenda Today: The Real Story from Inside Iran and What's Wrong with U.S. Policy is now available. Follow him on Twitter, @ReeseErlich; friend him on Facebook; and visit his webpage.
Noor Al Hassan
Once again, people in the Middle East want democratic reforms and an end to corruption and foreign domination. Read more
Brexit presents a serious conundrum for left and progressive forces. Liberals and social democrats suddenly find themselves in bed with Britain’s largest capitalist corporations. Read more
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They say politics makes strange bedfellows. So does war. Read more
Mahmoud Hassino
So far, the scheme isn’t working so well. Read more
The United States has become a high-tech Bluebeard. Read more
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Despite legitimate concern over economic inequality there, the movement has pro-Western elements and has been encouraged by Washington in familiar, odious ways. Read more
Reese Erlich
For the past year, the U.S. has escalated economic warfare with grudging acceptance by high-level Democrats and Republicans. Read more
It’s for many of the same bad reasons used by the United States to justify its military interventions. Read more
Edward Kimmel
Warren’s troubling foreign policy history includes uncritical support of Israel, supporting sanctions on Venezuela, and vilifying Russia and China as national security threats. But her views are also evolving. Read more
Iris Ton
China and Hong Kong will be struggling for many years to determine exactly what “one country, two systems” really means. Read more
Reese Erlich
The Iranian government saw the President’s vacillation as a sign of weakness, one journalist tells me: “Iran was ready to retaliate on an unbelievable scale.” Read more
Reese Erlich
By trying to isolate Russia and Iran, the United States is only isolating itself. Read more
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He was well known in the 1980s as an articulate, English-speaking defender of Kremlin policies. Then he began describing himself as a “man of the left.” Read more
Reese Erlich is on assignment in Moscow. He offers this humorous memory about a long ago visit to that famed city. Read more
Biden backed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, and saw the expansion of U.S. militarism in the Mideast during his vice presidency, while Sanders has opposed all recent U.S. wars of aggression. Read more
“I’m sure he’s going to get a kangaroo court. I don’t see the government allowing Assange to put on a vigorous defense.” Read more
Yaroslov Burdovich
Will the next president of Ukraine pursue reconciliation with Russia? Read more
Reese Erlich
Whenever officials in Washington, D.C. set out to overthrow a foreign government, mainstream U.S. media outlets are there to give a helping hand. Read more
Umar Jamshaid
Kashmir—a long-contested region between India and Pakistan—is a spectacularly beautiful former tourist destination. But to live near the border these days means hunkering down in bomb shelters. Read more
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