Is America Fit To ‘Lead’ the World?
America’s most fervid cheerleaders sometimes make the most devastating criticisms of the U.S. Although usually inadvertently. For instance, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently took to twitter to declare that "The Islamic Republic of Iran is not a normal...
Iraq Daily Roundup: Six Militants Killed
The Pentagon Took Money for Covid-19 Relief and Bought… More Weapons
As the pandemic continues to claim lives across the country, new information keeps coming out about how the Trump administration has made it harder for Americans to protect themselves. We now know, for example, that early in the pandemic the U.S. Postal Service had...
Iraq Daily Roundup: Seven Killed
The Leahy Laws: Why Biden’s Promise to Israel Is Illegal
While co-hosting an interview on the Palestine Chronicle, I asked Dr. Richard Falk, former UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights, about his thoughts on Kamala Harris’ promise to maintain unconditional aid to Israel. "I am disappointed of course by the...
No Dog in the Fight: Nagorno-Karabakh’s Conflict Isn’t About Us (or Russia)
Journalists and geo-strategists call it a "frozen conflict" – one of several such deadlocked disputes under tenuous ceasefire in the post-Soviet states. Only now, the long-standing battle between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) is anything but....
Two Years After Khashoggi’s Brutal Murder, Why Is America Still an Accomplice to MBS’s Crimes?
Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered on October 2, 2018 by agents of Saudi Arabia’s despotic government, and the CIA concluded they killed him on direct orders from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS). Eight Saudi men have been...
The Continuing, Poisonous Russia Obsession
This originally appeared at the Future of Freedom Foundation. For more than a decade, there has been pronounced animus toward Russia in the American news media and among hawks, especially congressional Democrats, in the political community. That hostility surged when...
Fight Over the Mediterranean: France’s Proxy War and the Budding Turkish-Russian Alliance
Overwhelmed by uncontrollable circumstances, the Greek government is bracing for another financial crisis that promises to be as terrible as the last one in 2015. Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, announced, on September 12, that Athens has made a...


