The Foreign Policies of Sanders, Trump, and Clinton

Written on May 27th, 2016 in politics Comments Off

… America and the world in 2016 and beyond – Published on New Politics, by Joanne Landy, May 20, 2016 (will appear in the Summer 2016 issue of New Politics).

… BERNIE SANDERS

The Sanders campaign has been a breath of fresh air on the American political scene. Bernie has taken into the political arena the Occupy movement’s outrage at the domination of the United States by the one percent. Whether or not he wins the nomination, his astounding success is a sign of the real potential for a new kind of politics in the country—inspiring whether or not one shares his Democratic Party strategy … //

… DONALD TRUMP

As I write this article in May 2016, Donald Trump’s foreign policy views have captured public attention. He said the United States should not tolerate the continuing failure of its NATO, Middle Eastern and Asian allies to pay their fair share of military costs — a common complaint in establishment circles—but then shocked the pundits by saying that Washington should be prepared to tell these allies that they must fend for themselves if they don’t pony up their contributions to the United States in return for Washington defending them. He has even said that he’s willing to have Japan, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia acquire their own nuclear weapons … //

… HILLARY CLINTON

Despite what she might say during the campaign to attract Sanders supporters, Hillary Clinton stands squarely within the longstanding bipartisan consensus on foreign policy, and indeed, along with many Republican politicians, is on the more aggressive end of that consensus.

It is highly significant that the Republican Party’s hawkish foreign policy elites, including many of the leading neoconservatives, prefer Clinton to Trump, even if some have said that they could not actually vote for her. One of the foremost neocons, Robert Kagan, told The New York Times that “I feel comfortable with her on foreign policy. . . . [I]t’s something that might have been called neocon, but clearly her supporters are not going to call it that.” Kagan himself prefers the term “liberal interventionist.”[41] Another neocon, Eliot Cohen, has said he would “strongly prefer a third party candidate” to Trump, but added: “Probably if absolutely no alternative: Hillary.” And one more luminary in this warmongering clique, Max Boot, has declared that Clinton “would be vastly preferable to Trump … //

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(Joanne Landy is an editor of New Politics and Co-Director of the Campaign for Peace and Democracy. She can be reached here. Thanks to Stephen Shalom, Thomas Harrison, and Dan La Botz for their invaluable help with this article. The author alone is responsible for the views expressed).

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Free Trade in Rhetoric, Not in Practice, on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, May 26, 2016;

The Role of the Left when Venezuela’s Imperfect Revolution is under attack, on ZNet (first on Venezuelanalysis), by Tamara Pearson, May 25, 2016;

Your Money: Among all types of debt funds, gilt funds carry least credit risk, on The Financial Express, May 24, 2016: Gilt funds are also the best option to invest in among debt funds when long-term interest rates are expected to fall

La fin possible d’un «égosystème» capitaliste, dans La Liberté.ch, par Guy Sansonnens, le 24 mai 2016;

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Swiss to vote on giving away €2,226 to each person, on The Irish Times, May 23, 2016;

Sovereign ratings downgrade will usher in recession, warns Standard Bank, on MoneyWeb.co.za, by Hanna Ziady, May 23, 2016: the real economy smashes only after a downgrade happens – Goolam Ballim;

Sweden pays parents for having kids — and it reaps huge benefits – why doesn’t the US? on VOX, updated by Dylan Matthews, May 23, 2016;

La crise de compassion de l’Europe de l’Est, dans HuLala, le 12 mai 2016: Les Européens de l’Est sont-ils des ingrats ? N’ont-ils pas le sens de la solidarité ? D’une certaine façon, oui, écrit l’économiste Zoltán Pogátsa*. Mais ce n’est pas aussi simple que ça…;
- published first in english as Eastern Europe’s crisis of compassion, on openDemocracy, Jan 25, 2016: why has eastern Europe has become synonymous for animosity towards refugees and migrants?

Leaked treaty texts confirm it: TTIP is a trade deal that threatens democracy, on IUF.org, May 11, 2016;

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New Jersey anti-BDS bill is an affront to the first amendment and basic human rights, on New Politics, by Stephen R. Shalom, May 22, 2016;

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