Are Hillary Clinton's presidential ambitions clouding her morals?

Are Hillary Clinton’s presidential ambitions clouding her morals?

Whether or not Clinton has formally announced her candidacy, her silence on Iran speaks louder than words. Asked in an interview this week about her presidential ambitions, Hillary Clinton gave an answer that qualified as a howler even by Clinton standards: “I’m not thinking about it.” Clinton is widely considered the presumptive Democratic nominee for […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, left, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry after a statement Nov. 24, 2013, in Geneva, where world powers and Iran agreed a landmark deal halting parts of Iran's nuclear program.Denis Balibouse/Reuters

Kinzer in Al Jazeera America: US-Iran detente will be biggest geopolitical story of 2014

Predicting which geopolitical events and trends will shape the coming year is a pastime as speculative as it is irresistible.

There is plenty to anticipate: China and Japan may become more aggressive and provocative over the disputed Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, contributing to instability in East Asia. Radical fundamentalists will wage war from new bases in Mali, Libya and Syria. Turkey may become more polarized and fail to recover the promising role it played in regional politics until a couple of years ago. Nationalist and far-right political parties will gain strength in Europe. President Barack Obama’s decision to approve or reject the massive Keystone oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico will profoundly affect global energy markets. If King Saud dies — he will turn 90 this year — Saudi Arabia will be racked by an intense struggle over succession and the direction of the kingdom.

Invading Iraq was dumb enough. Now Congress wants to derail the Iran deal

Invading Iraq was dumb enough. Now Congress wants to derail the Iran deal

No step the United States could take anywhere in the world would bring strategic benefits as great as detente with Iran The diplomatic bargain struck by the United States and Iran this week is the Obama administration’s greatest diplomatic triumph. Efforts by the US Congress to derail it would, if successful, constitute a self-inflicted strategic […]

Stephen Kinzer, former New York Times bureau chief in Istanbul and author of the new book “The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War,” sat down with Keenan Duffey, president of the Middle East Discussion Group at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, for a discussion of the role the Dulles brothers played in the Middle East.

 

How the worst blot on JFK's presidency happened

How the worst blot on JFK’s presidency happened

Was Allen Dulles’ early dementia to blame for the Bay of Pigs?