Reprinted from CommonDreams. There are three basic problems with the CIA: its objectives, methods, and unaccountability. Its operational objectives are whatever the CIA or the President of the United States defines to be in the U.S. interest at a given time, irrespective of international law or U.S. law. Its methods are secretive and duplicitous. Its … Continue reading "How the CIA Destabilizes the World"
Reprinted from Consortium News. As U.S. House members grapple with whether to give $60 billion more to Ukraine, they must also grapple with the checkered nature of the intelligence they’ve been fed. On July 13, 2023, President Joe Biden announced Russian President Vladimir Putin “has already lost the war.” That was six days after C.I.A. … Continue reading "Throwing Good Money After Bad in Ukraine?"
Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution provides that the President ”may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them….” Time to seize the initiative from the flailing and chaotic subversive MAGA Mike, who is determined to serve Putin and Trump; The example of Harry Truman, who won re-election in 1948 despite dismal [...]
On February 8, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was in Washington on an official visit, aimed at working jointly with the United States to make “sure that Israel has what it needs to defend itself”. If such a statement was made soon after the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation of October 7, one may cognize its logic, based … Continue reading "The Unrepentant West: Olaf Scholz and the Right to Commit Genocide in Gaza"
Originally posted at TomDispatch. War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. So that classic late 1960s song claimed. Still, for Bill Astore and me (and, I have little doubt, Joe Biden, too), such a thought didn’t cross our minds as we played with toy soldiers on the floors of our rooms as kids. I … Continue reading "Bombing Muslims for Peace"
The Biden administration has seemingly adopted a foreign policy doctrine in which they nurture a war while attempting to manage it, preventing it from becoming a wider war. The doctrine has been applied in both Ukraine and Gaza. In Ukraine, war has been nurtured by snuffing out the possibility of a diplomatic settlement while feeding … Continue reading "Joe Biden and Mismanagement of the Wars"
Reprinted with permission from Responsible Statecraft. The Israeli government is preparing to launch a ground assault on Rafah in southern Gaza as their devastating military campaign enters its fifth month.
Brian Wilson and I had fun riffing on Biden’s latest swooning and swaying. We played off a New York fashionista advice for Biden, reeling in some jibes from my Monday New York Post piece. Show Notes Is anybody votin’ for a sharp dressed man? – The Two and Only, Brian Wilson and Jim Bovard, debate […]
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==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace Hubert Monteilhet: Slain by their own swords ==== Hubert MonteilhetNeropolisTranslated by Christopher Robinson “Things are going badly. The worm is in the bud, and has been for a long time. Roman civilization is myself and a handful of distinguished people … … Continue reading →
