Sometimes a seemingly insignificant story tells one more about what is going on than the attempts being made to perceive the larger reality. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with his army the big developing story was the Roman Republic’s impending Civil War...
When Trump declared Pope Leo “terrible for foreign policy,” the US intelligence community took the president’s remarks as a directive to prioritize spying on the Vatican. It has for years, sources tell me. The CIA has human spies working inside the Holy See...
President Donald Trump, in his first and second administrations, broke with American tradition and rejected International Law and institutions. Washington’s foreign policy is fully militarized and is characterized by power politics. The present long-planned war...