US officials are working to integrate the compact states more closely into the American empire in the Pacific Ocean. For the past year, US diplomats and military leaders have been advising the leaders of Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) that their...
It’s a privilege to be on the Antiwar.com team. I was happy when Eric Garris asked me to write a piece to support the fundraiser. I do hope you will be generous. Writing for Antiwar.com is a perfect fit. As a CIA analyst for 27 years, I learned the most while doing...
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On March 20, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told a CNN interviewer that he personally requested the leaders of NATO members "to say directly that we are going to accept you into NATO in a year or two or five, just say it directly and clearly, or just say...
"When militarism is addressed as a psychosocial disease, the absurd irrationality of its symptoms is clearly exposed." These words are from a 1992 essay by N. Arther Coulter published in a journal called Medicine and War. Who would have guessed? They're as relevant...
There is a concerted effort in the United States and Europe to intimidate, smear, and silence anyone who dares criticize Ukraine’s government or the Biden administration’s policy on the Russia-Ukraine war. The latest example was the decision of the Congressional...
The last two months have been good for Ukraine. In what once looked to be a war of attrition, Ukraine’s army has appeared to have turned the tables on Russia, making considerable gains on the battlefield while Russia looks to be in disarray. Two counter offenses have...
Don’t Look Up, the Academy Award-nominated film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, is one of Netflix’s most-watched movies this year. For good reason. It is the most potent political satire in recent memory — but not in the way it intends. The...
A Rose has bloomed In the Blinken/Sullivan/Biden desert of ideas on Ukraine. I refer to Rose Gottemoeller, 69, who was Under Secretary of State for Arms Control during the Obama/Biden second term and knows much more about the real world than the boys Biden has in the...
