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.
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
Fahd Sadi
“It would affect their ability to fight immediately.” Read more
Reese Erlich
Perhaps the Trump Administration is hoping history will repeat itself, but so far Venezuelans aren’t going for it. Read more
Japanexperterna
So far, U.S. government attempts to kickstart a Twitter revolution have failed. Read more
U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Mitchell Ryan
For the ruling elite in Washington, there’s never a good time to end a war. But really, the United States lost the war in Afghanistan long ago. Read more
Kremlin.ru
Trump has committed multiple impeachable offenses. Colluding with Putin isn’t one of them. Read more
Felton Davis
75 percent of Americans oppose the Yemen War and 57 percent oppose all arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Read more
Reese Ehrlich
In Gaza this week, Israeli and Palestinian groups clashed and ultimately agreed to a ceasefire. Read more
Reese Erlich
Khashoggi’s death is finally focusing world attention on Saudi atrocities in Yemen, and U.S. midterm elections could reverse Trump’s policies that support the war. Read more
Reese Erlich
Once again, U.S. leaders label violence carried out by enemies as terrorism, but the same violence carried out by allies is ignored or downplayed. Read more
His murder set in motion the People’s Power Revolution of 1986. He continues to impact contemporary Philippine politics, as seen in the election of right-wing authoritarian President Rodrigo Duterte. Read more
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