Who Is Listening to Dick Cheney?
Dick Cheney is a former vice president who had an enormous effect on public policy, and therefore on history. He should be interviewed by media outlets. He should be asked tough questions about every single aspect of his tenure in the White House. We cannot pretend...
ISIS Militants Execute Their Own; 321 Killed across Iraq
Politics 2016: Who Will Stand Up to the War Party?
For anyone with hopes of changing our foreign policy of relentless aggression, the presidential candidates now parading their wares before the public are truly a depressing sight. The Republicans are vying with one another for the “honor” of being the most warlike,...
Ron Paul and Lost Lessons of War
Former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul lays out a national security strategy for the United States in his book, Swords into Plowshares, which Carl von Clausewitz , the author of On War, would have approved. Clausewitz, a Prussian general in the early Nineteenth Century, is...
4,547 Killed in August Bloodshed across Iraq
Republicans Candidates Bashing Obama Over Iran Forget Bush’s Role
Rather than a contest between two or three viable candidates, U.S. presidential elections have historically been a referendum on the administration holding power. With at least some awareness of this fact, Republican candidates are busy criticizing President Barack...
Australian Bombs Won’t Bring Peace to Syria, So Why Do It?
It would appear that the Abbott government has its heart set on bombing Syria. But it is hard to understand why. Unlike Australia’s complicity in the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, this proposal has nothing to do with consolidating the US alliance. Speaking about...
Can the GOP Deal With Iran?
Ten weeks before the first U.S.-Soviet summit ever held in Moscow, in May 1972, North Vietnam, with Soviet-supplied armor and artillery, crossed the DMZ in an all-out offensive to overrun the South. President Nixon responded with air and naval strikes on the North....


