Iran Iran has announced this week they will be enriching Uranium to 5%, which is over the 3.67% cap agreed to in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) signed under the Obama administration in 2015. Most mainstream news outlets are running headlines like, “Iran Announces Further Uranium Enrichment in Breach of Deal,” but the…
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Weekly U.S. War and Foreign Policy Roundup 6/30/19
North Korea President Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to step foot in North Korea on Sunday, in an effort to reopen talks with North Korea’s Chairman Kim Jong Un. The two met in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas. The impromptu meeting was Trump’s idea, “We were in Japan for the…
Let’s Not Forget About Yemen
Recent tensions between the United States and Iran have been dominating mainstream media headlines, leaving little or no room for coverage of the war in Yemen, or as the UN calls it “the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.” Since 2015, the U.S. has been backing its allies, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, among others,…