Ever since Donald Trump entered the presidential campaign of 2016, he has been attacking the July 2015 agreement that Iran signed with P5+1 – the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany – officially known as the Joint Comprehensive...
In Catalonia, Proud To Be an Agent of Sedition
Now they’re calling us seditious. They accuse us, all of us, tens or even hundreds of thousands of people that have protested in support of Catalan institutions, of being agents of sedition. This is what the assistant state prosecutor, Miguel Ángel Carballo...
Shirqat Nearly Liberated; 297 Killed in Iraq
Turkey Desperate to Stop Kurdish Vote; 41 Killed in Iraq
Catalonia: Spanish Centralism or Self-Defeating Hubris of the Authoritarian Mind?
On Wednesday, the Spanish government conducted a number of armed raids upon government ministries in Barcelona, and effectively suspended the charter of the autonomous government to which they belong in order to interdict the circulation of that most dangerous of...
It’s Time To Make a Deal With North Korea
The United States faces a new nuclear power ruled by a communist dictator. Washington is worried that the leadership of that country is crazy enough to use its new weapons – even against the United States. Meanwhile, other countries fear that the “madman” in the Oval...
Operations Launched in Hawija and Shirqat; 70 Killed in Iraq
Reclaiming the Truth About Vietnam
“From Ia Drang to Khe Sanh, from Hue to Saigon and countless villages in between, they pushed through jungles and rice paddies, heat and monsoon, fighting heroically to protect the ideals we hold dear as Americans. Through more than a decade of combat, over air, land,...
Dealing With North Korean Missiles
Small powers often have leverage well above their size and capabilities. North Korea is the example par excellence today: It has a primitive economy by all the usual standards, no reliable trade or security partners, and depends on the outside world for essentials...
Catalonia: Do the Unionists Really Think They Can Give Us Lessons in Democracy?
There are politicians that believe performances can change anything. There are those that do it the old-fashioned way, with the most precise and abominable of cynicisms, with an irritating professionalism. There are also those that seem to have concluded at some point...


