Recently, there’s been rather heated debate – a sort of progressive civil war – over what’s being called "lesser evil" voting. To Biden, or not to Biden; that seems the existential question. However, most discussion centers on whether Joe Biden would be a...
Should the United States Have Fought in World War II? No
Should the United States have fought in World War II? Given the remembrances across Europe and here this past weekend evincing the usual trope about the war being a patriotic, heroic, and unavoidable good-versus-evil clash for the United States, it’s a propitious...
Iraq Daily Roundup: Three Killed; ISIS Sets Fire to Crops
Iraq Daily Roundup: Eight Killed; Protests Resume
Ten Years After Regime Change: Libyans Are Dying Because of American Arrogance
It has been nearly a decade since Libyan dictator Moammar Khadafy suffered an ugly demise at the hands of insurgents. Few mourned his passing. When asked about his fate, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cackled maniacally: "We came, we saw, he died."...
Twin Pillars of Russiagate Crumble
House Intelligence Committee documents released Thursday reveal that the committee was told two and half years ago that the FBI had no concrete evidence that Russia hacked Democratic National Committee computers to filch the DNC emails published by WikiLeaks in July...
Facebook Removes News Outlets in Latest Orwellian Purge
Over the past three years, Facebook has been removing accounts for participating in what they call "coordinated inauthentic behavior" (CIB). According to Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, the Orwellian term refers to when "groups of pages or...
The White Lobby: When the US Was Sanctions-Buster Extraordinaire
The bullet holes were what stuck with me. I visited the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina during the summer of 2016, at the head of the West Point civil rights history staff ride – a two week trip across the American South...
Once We Were Allies; Then Came MICIMATT
Announcing Germany’s surrender and the end of war in Europe 75 years ago on May 8, 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was quick to acknowledge the vital role played by the Soviet Union in the Allied victory over Germany: “Today, perhaps, we shall think...
Biden vs. Trump on Foreign Policy
We all know that President Donald Trump’s foreign policy has been a disaster. But is Joe Biden’s any better? Trump promised to stop America's endless wars but has stationed some 80,000 troops in the Middle East. He pulled out of the Iran nuclear accord, and imposed...


