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One of Trump's most contentious sanctions decisions remains firmly in place: the use of measures usually reserved for dictators and terrorists against the staff of the International Criminal Court.
Why hasn't Biden reversed one of Trump's most controversial sanctions orders? Adam Taylor, The Washington Post March 4, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail It didn't take long for President Joe Biden to reverse many of former president Donald Trump's most controversial foreign policy decisions. Newly appointed U.N. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield listed a number of those rollbacks as evidence that "America is back at the table." The United States is "recommitting to defending democracy and human rights across the board," she told reporters this week. These high-profile U-turns include rejoining the...
by Binoy Kampmark / March 2nd, 2021 Every power worth its portion of salt in the Levant these days seems to be doing it. On February 25, President Joe Biden ordered airstrikes against Syria. The premise for the attacks was implausible. “These strikes were authorized in response to recent attacks against American and Coalition personnel in Iraq,” claimed Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, “and to ongoing threats to those personnel.” More specifically, the strikes were in retaliation for rocket attacks in northern Iraq on the airport of Erbil that left a Filipino contractor working fo...
Amid Riot Chaos, Some National Security Leaders Are Absent From View The Trump administration’s response to the attack, incited by the president, has lacked broad reassurances to a country on edge. Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director, has declined to speak directly to the public after the mob attack on the Capitol last week.Credit...Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times Jan. 13, 2021 WASHINGTON — Amid the sea of troubling facts, arrests and iconic images that have emerged in the days since the assault on the Capitol, one element remains largely absent: reassurances from some of the nati...