How To End the Korea Crisis
The descent of US/North Korea “crisis” to the level of schoolyard taunts should be remembered as one of the most bizarre, dangerous, and disgraceful chapters in US foreign policy history. President Trump, who holds the lives of millions of Koreans and...
Iraq Executes Dozens of Convicts; 116 Killed in Iraq
Doctor’s Note
Having some medical problems today, so my regular Monday column is unfortunately canceled. However, I’ll be back, so stay tuned. NOTES IN THE MARGIN You can check out my Twitter feed by going here. But please note that my tweets are sometimes deliberately provocative,...
Deconstructing Neoconservatives’ Manifesto for War With Iran
Ever since Donald Trump entered the presidential campaign of 2016, he has been attacking the July 2015 agreement that Iran signed with P5+1 – the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany – officially known as the Joint Comprehensive...
In Catalonia, Proud To Be an Agent of Sedition
Now they’re calling us seditious. They accuse us, all of us, tens or even hundreds of thousands of people that have protested in support of Catalan institutions, of being agents of sedition. This is what the assistant state prosecutor, Miguel Ángel Carballo...
Shirqat Nearly Liberated; 297 Killed in Iraq
Turkey Desperate to Stop Kurdish Vote; 41 Killed in Iraq
Catalonia: Spanish Centralism or Self-Defeating Hubris of the Authoritarian Mind?
On Wednesday, the Spanish government conducted a number of armed raids upon government ministries in Barcelona, and effectively suspended the charter of the autonomous government to which they belong in order to interdict the circulation of that most dangerous of...
It’s Time To Make a Deal With North Korea
The United States faces a new nuclear power ruled by a communist dictator. Washington is worried that the leadership of that country is crazy enough to use its new weapons – even against the United States. Meanwhile, other countries fear that the “madman” in the Oval...


