America wants peace. Israel wants war. The great majority of Americans want an end to the war against Iran. The great majority in Congress just want more contributions from the Israel Lobby and its supporters. Now, most members of Congress are really squirming. They...
The Defiant Republic: The Ideological Imperative of a Strong Iran
The February 2026 Iran war cannot be understood as an isolated event; but rather the outcome of over four decades of coordinated American and Israeli efforts to contain and topple the Islamic Republic. Similarly, Iran’s ability to withstand the military onslaught and...
Gen Z Is Tired of War
On September 5, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order which revived the original name for the Department of Defense, “The Department of War.” While technically the name remains the Department of Defense for legal purposes (as only an act of Congress...
The Islamabad Memorandum and the Decline of the Paradigm of Absolute Victory
Almost every war produces the same immediate question: who won? Yet the more consequential question is whether either side can convert battlefield pressure into a political order it can sustain. The Islamabad Memorandum, signed by the United States and Iran on June...
The Chancellor, the Asset Manager, and the Missiles
There is a particular kind of arrangement that no law forbids and no scandal quite captures, because nothing in it is hidden. It sits in plain view, in regulatory filings and procurement requests, and it works precisely because everyone involved can say, truthfully,...
Obliterating Gaza’s Children: The Damning UN Report
When I was working on The Fall of Israel (2024) and particularly The Obliteration Doctrine (2025), what I found most repulsive was the targeting of children in the Gaza Strip. By late 2024, the testimonies of health professionals on location indicated that the deaths...
The NDAA Proposed Merger of the US and Israeli Military Is Strategically Unwise and Inherently Unconstitutional
Reprinted with permission from The Kucinich Report. This article is Part 2 in a three part series on the proposed merger of U.S and Israeli intelligence, military and biotechnology. Read Part 1 here. Prior to the American Revolution being fought on battlefields, it...
Is Taiwan’s President Playing With Political Fire?
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te (William Lai) appears to be missing signs from multiple sources that he lacks both international and domestic support for pursuing a more assertive policy regarding the island’s de facto independence. Taipei heavily depends on two...
War and Constitutional Indifference
Since its inception, the government of the United States has inexorably exceeded its powers under the Constitution. All three branches have been complicit in a consistent pattern of constitutional indifference. Congress has regulated in areas of governance nowhere...
The Illusions of Western Virtue: Ursula von der Leyen and Europe’s Moral Bankruptcy
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has every right to condition European relations with any other country or bloc on respect for human rights. That, of course, would hold true if she genuinely cared about such values herself. In response to the June 19...


