Trump’s Historic Gamble
President Donald Trump appears to belong to what might be called the Benjamin Disraeli school of diplomacy. The British prime minister once counseled, "Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel." At his...
How the Corporate Media Enslave Us to a World of Illusions
For several years now, I have been writing regular posts on my blog with one end in mind: to help open a door for readers and encourage them to step through. I select issues, usually those that dominate western media coverage and represent a consensus that...
It Didn’t Take a Village of Deep Staters – Just The Donald
The village idiots of Imperial Washington are having conniption fits about the Singapore summit. That's because after 65 years of lobbing military threats and diplomatic poison pens at Pyongyang, the Donald showed the way to resolving the North Korean file in just six...
How the Last Superpower Was Unchained
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Think of it as the all-American version of the human comedy: a great power that eternally knows what the world needs and offers copious advice with a tone deafness that would be humorous, if it weren’t so grim. If you look, you...
Euphrates Fills with Bodies Floating in from Syria; 18 Killed or Found Dead in Iraq
South Korea Delivers Promised T-50 Jets; Six Killed in Iraq
Singapore Summit: A Victory for Peace
You could hear the cries of anguish and the gnashing of teeth emanating from Washington, D.C., and the isle of Manhattan, as the media and the political class mourned the coming of peace to the Korean peninsula. Max Boot, one of the primary leaders of the anti-Trump...
North Korea: Pelosi versus Peace
Which is worse: The specter of nuclear war, or giving US president Donald Trump credit for a significant diplomatic accomplishment? In her official statement on Trump’s Singapore summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, US House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi...
Beating the US ‘Veto’: Palestinians Need Urgent Protection from Israel
What is taking place in Palestine is not a "conflict". We readily utilize the term but, in fact, the word "conflict" is misleading. It equates between oppressed Palestinians and Israel, a military power that stands in violation of numerous United...


