Recently, a classified report by a U.S. government watchdog discovered that Israeli military units have committed “many hundreds” of potential violations of U.S. human rights law in the Gaza Strip. The findings by the State Department’s Office of Inspector General...
The Perilous Norm of Weapons Testing
On October 29, just before meeting with China’s President XI Jinping, President Trump posted on the right-wing social media network Truth Social that “because of other countries [sic] testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our...
The Gospel According to the Military-Industrial Complex
“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.” ~ Thomas Jefferson For a man supposedly intent on winning a Nobel Peace Prize, Donald Trump spends an extraordinary amount of time waging war, threatening to wage war, and fantasizing about waging war. Notwithstanding his...
The Dark Crusade of ‘Little’ Wars
Reprinted from The Realist Review. Large, conventional wars break old structures and change the world around them. They shatter societies and individuals in a tempest of carnage and displacement. Even if the outcome is not decisive, as it often is not, the impact on...
Can the President Disrupt Free Speech?
While the country's attention was drawn to the federal government shutdown, President Donald Trump signed National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), which purports to designate the ideology of antifa as a "domestic terrorist organization" and directs...
Keeping Up With Ukraine’s Nazis
Washington D.C.’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine continues to grind up lives. Increasingly, the war looks like an indefinite hellscape, though there have been bright moments of hope. U.S. President Donald Trump has at times seemed sincerely committed to ending...
‘Regime Change’ in Venezuela Is a Euphemism for US-Inflicted Carnage and Chaos
For decades, Washington has sold the world a deadly lie: that “regime change” brings freedom, that U.S. bombs and blockades can somehow deliver democracy. But every country that has lived through this euphemism knows the truth – it instead brings death, dismemberment,...
Winter in Gaza
On Saturday, 8 November, 2025, Dan Perry wrote in The Jerusalem Post about Israel's projected lifting of the media blockade on Gaza. Perry laments that Israeli censorship has left all reporting of the atrocity in the hands of Palestinians, who refuse to be silent. To...
Congressional Republicans Must Stand Up to the President on Venezuela!
I recall when then-President Barack Obama was planning to send troops to enforce his “Assad must go” policy in Syria, many Republican US Senators passionately argued that the US President must come to Congress for approval before sending US troops into combat...
Honor Veterans by Ending Wars
One of my family’s favorite regular getaways is Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri. The roller coasters are top notch, the shows are fun, and everyone is in a constant state of joy; it’s great. It’s also a veteran’s hangout. Every day when the park opens they...


