On the Brink With Russia in Syria Again, 5 Years Later
The New York Times, on September 11, 2013, accommodated Russian President Vladimir V. Putin’s desire “to speak directly to the American people and their political leaders” about “recent events surrounding Syria.” Putin’s op-ed in the Times appeared under the...
Defeat the Deep State
The crisis is upon us, and yet hardly anyone outside of a few old-fashioned liberals sees it. Their view is obscured by the Brobdingnagian figure of Donald J. Trump towering over us all as left and right battle it out in his shadow. Yet the real battle, and the actual...
Tensions with Iran Continue; Six Killed in Iraq
John Bolton vs. the International Criminal Court: A Simple Solution
In a September 10 speech to the Federalist Society, National Security Advisor John Bolton offered “a major announcement on US policy toward the International Criminal Court.” The US government, per Bolton, considers the court “fundamentally...
The Anonymous Anti-Trump Op-Ed Inadvertently (?) Exposes Real Danger
On September 5, the New York Times published an op-ed supposedly written by an anonymous official within president Donald Trump’s administration. The snobbish and self-serving hit piece paints Trump himself as dangerously immature, incompetent, and unstable,...
Bombing Yemeni School Children for Profit
As if the horrific Saudi bombing of a Yemeni school bus that killed 44 children on August 9, 2018 wasn’t bad enough, CNN reported that the bomb used in the attack was manufactured by Lockheed Martin, one of the major U.S. defense contractors. Nima Elbagir, reporting...
Seven Executed in Iraq; 27 Others Killed in Random Attacks
Everything About 2018 Shows Why Americans Should Remember World War I
It wasn’t the good war. But, in our popular imagination, it wasn’t the bad one either. Instead, it’s identified by a vague mixture of concepts, names, and events: the Lusitania, “Wilsonian Idealism,” Versailles, Theodore Roosevelt. The First World...
Why Are We Siding With al-Qaeda in Syria and Yemen?
Last week, I urged the Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to stop protecting al-Qaeda in Syria by demanding that the Syrian government leave Idlib under al-Qaeda control. While it may seem hard to believe that the US government is helping al-Qaeda in...
