Early in the year, State Department officials briefed Joel Rayburn from the Trump transition team there could be a humanitarian "catastrophe" in Gaza when a new Israeli law barring contact with the UN refugee agency for Palestinians takes effect at the end of the...
Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break the Silence
April 4, 1967, Riverside Church, New York The sermon which I am preaching this morning in a sense is not the usual kind of sermon, but it is a sermon and an important subject, nevertheless, because the issue that I will be discussing today is one of the most...
Tulsi Gabbard: A Switch in Time?
When she was a member of the House of Representatives, Tulsi Gabbard was a fierce defender of personal privacy rights protected by the Fourth Amendment. She consistently opposed permitting federal agents to spy on Americans without search warrants, and she...
Why Would Any Country Partner With the US?
Recent threatening statements by incoming President Donald Trump have raised the question of why any country would risk partnering with the United States. But the erosion in trust has not begun with the incoming Trump administration. Several years ago, Saudi Arabia...
Keir Starmer’s Support for the Gaza Ceasefire Is Riddled With Lies
There are so many lies, deceptions and misdirections in Sir Keir Starmer’s statement on the ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hamas yesterday that they need to be picked apart line by line. Starmer: After months of devastating bloodshed and countless lives lost,...
Israel Destroyed Gaza ‘for Generations To Come’ and the World Stayed Silent
The first official reference to Gaza becoming increasingly uninhabitable was made by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 2012, when the population of the Gaza Strip was estimated at 1.8 million inhabitants. The intention of the report,...
Joe Biden’s Legacy: Waging Proxy Wars, Spreading Terrorism and Killing Diplomacy
As the sun sets on Joe Biden's presidency, the Commander-in-Chief and his top staffers are using their final moments in power to convince the American people that we live in a safer and more stable world. “The United States is winning the worldwide competition...
Steady Progress Toward a War Against China
In March 2020, United States Marine Corps Commandant General David H. Berger introduced Force Design 2030, now known as "Force Design," an ongoing force restructuring plan to reshape its combat power for future adversary conflicts. The Marine Corps transformation is...
Will Trump End Washington’s Democratic Foreign Policy Façade?
Donald Trump’s political adversaries have long contended that he is a danger to democracy both at home and abroad. The alleged threat that he poses domestically is symbolized by the riot his supporters waged at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Opponents denounce...
Fiscal Redemption Requires a Republic, Not an Empire
There is not a snowball’s chance in the hot place of containing America’s public debt disaster unless the Empire is brought home and the national security budget is slashed by $500 billion per year. The merits aside, all the other big slices of the budget led by...


