A short guide on how to engineer a genocide by starvation and ethnic cleansing: 1. Choose your moment. OK, you’ve been ethnically cleansing, occupying, oppressing and killing your neighbors for decades. The international courts have ruled your actions illegal. But...
The last vice president to serve during wartime was also the last president to have done so: George H.W. Bush (1924-2018). Bush’s presidency, unlike that of his son’s, was marked, mainly, by a prudential approach to foreign affairs. Bush’s warning about the dangers of...
Today is the 139th anniversary of Randolph Bourne’s birthday. Antiwar.com named its parent institute for this early 20th century antiwar activist. Read Jeff Riggenbach’s biography of Bourne. [Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Randolph Bourne...
On May 21st a 30-year-old Chicago resident named Elias Rodriguez (allegedly) murdered two young Israeli Embassy staffers named Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgram as they were leaving the Jewish Museum in Washington DC. As he was arrested, he was recorded shouting,...
Peace talks between Russia and Ukraine have been rare since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Part of the blame falls on Europe and the mainstream media for attempting to suffocate diplomacy. When the first bilateral talks occurred in the early weeks of the war, the...
All attempts by the government to evaluate the content of speech and deter or punish what the government and its benefactors hate or fear is un-American, unconstitutional and unlawful; and if not stopped, will reduce the American people to serfdom. During the past...
Israel's claim that Hamas is "stealing aid" is so preposterous no serious journalist or politician ought to give it any kind of airing – yet there it is continuously cropping up in the coverage of Gaza. How do I know Israel’s claim is utterly worthless? For this...
On May 16, Russia and Ukraine held their first direct talks since the first months of the war. Despite the pessimistic evaluation by Ukrainian and European leaders, the return to diplomacy is itself a major achievement and step forward. The talks lasted an hour and...
Former FBI director James Comey has provoked a First Amendment firestorm with a display of sea shells that included the sequence: “86 47.” Many supporters of President Donald Trump note that in popular culture “86” frequently is used as slang for eliminating...
Deal-making is said to be President Trump’s specialty, yet after five rounds of indirect talks with Iran – most recently just days ago – we seem as far away from an agreement as ever. The fifth round ended last Friday with no breakthrough, but at least no breakdown....
