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Much of Latin America’s Left Has a Blind Spot: The Environment March 17, 2021 As center-left leaders in Europe and the U.S. prioritize the fight against climate change, the same cannot be said of their Latin American peers. Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaks during a press conference on March 10, 2021.Alexandre Schneider/Getty Images SÃO PAULO – When former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made his much-awaited first speech as a de facto 2022 candidate last week, he cleverly projected himself as the exact opposite of Jair Bolsonaro: statesmanlike, centrist, pro-science and well-connected across the world. The former president also lambasted Bolsonaro’s mishandling of the pandemic, the economy and his controversial foreign policy, describing the former army captain as both divisive and incompetent. ....
Life Magazine cover celebrating the Israeli victory in the 1967 war. Screenshot from “The Occupation of the American Mind.” I’m excited to take part this Sunday in a panel about American foreign policy in the Middle East and the role of Israeli propaganda and the Israel lobby. The panel will feature Diana Buttu, the Palestinian human rights lawyer, and Sut Jhally, professor and producer of the great documentary, “The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel’s Public Relations War in the United States.” I just rewatched the film to prepare myself and though it was made in 2016, it’s sadly, stunningly fresh. Little has changed! Israel still manages to wrap American opinion and foreign policy around its little finger through a sophisticated propaganda operation. ....
President Joe Biden has entered office promising reform at home and restoration abroad. But American foreign policy needs new thinking, not a return to the past. Despite the serial incompetence of the Trump administration and the poison pills it left behind, the two decades preceding Donald Trump were a time of massive American overreach, and yes, “endless wars.” As the fight to shape Biden’s foreign policy begins, the administration should pause before just pressing the reset button. For the past twenty years, U.S. foreign policy has been dominated by a group of hawkish, Middle East‐centric scholars and officials. The results have been disastrous. Since the September 11 attacks, the United States has squandered more than $6 trillion on wars in the Greater Middle East. It has won none of them. Now, under the auspices of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), many of those same scholars have written a monograph urging the continuation of these polic ....
No Substitute for Strategy: What’s Wrong with “Defending Forward” The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies latest report promises a restoration of the worst foreign policy ideas since the end of the Cold War. It should be ignored. President Joe Biden has entered office promising reform at home and restoration abroad. But American foreign policy needs new thinking, not a return to the past. Despite the serial incompetence of the Trump administration and the poison pills it left behind, the two decades preceding Donald Trump were a time of massive American overreach, and yes, “endless wars.” As the fight to shape Biden’s foreign policy begins, the administration should pause before just pressing the reset button. ....