I was asked for my thoughts on what most concerned me about the expected US attacks on Iran following the death of three American soldiers over the weekend in Jordan. Some of those thoughts made it into Newsweek. Below, I’ve provided an extended set of thoughts on what we could expect from US attacks against Iran. … Continue reading "What the First Week of War With Iran Could Look Like"
The war in Ukraine is a complicated tangle of three wars in one. It is a civil war between Ukraine’s European leaning west and its Russian leaning east. It is a war between Ukraine and Russia. And it is a war between Russia and NATO. Ben Abelow’s book, How the West Brought War to Ukraine, … Continue reading "Richard Sakwa Explains How We Ended Up In a New Cold War"
The end of the first Cold War in the late 80s gave Americans a unique historical chance to stop worrying about nuclear war and get a well-deserved Peace Dividend. Instead, not only they lost it, but the talk about the inevitable nuclear WW3 became a routine discussion subject in the government, public, and media circles. … Continue reading "Who Lost the Peace Dividend After the End of the Cold War?"
The Two and Only — Brian Wilson and James Bovard S3 Ep 5 Imagining a Nikki Haley Presidency as only The Two and Only can! Talk show legend Brian Wilson and award-winning author, Jim Bovard parse the possibilities in this latest episode! Listen or Download the MP3 at this link We discussed Haley’s passion for […]
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American Conservative, January 31, 2024 Nikki Haley, Authoritarian-in-Waiting by James Bovard New advertisements from the Nikki Haley presidential campaign are touting the former South Carolina governor as the “better choice” for America. In a season in which the Biden re-election campaign is openly comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, Haley is increasingly portrayed as someone […]
In war, people die for absurd reasons or often no reason at all. They die due to accidents of birth, the misfortune of being born in the wrong place — Cambodia or Gaza, Afghanistan or Ukraine — at the wrong time. They die due to happenstance, choosing to shelter indoors when they should have taken … Continue reading "Remote Warfare and Expendable People"
Europe stayed silent when Israel began pounding the besieged Gaza Strip with the kind of ferocity that could only lead to a genocide. In fact, Europe remained silent when the word ‘genocide’ quickly replaced the earlier reference to the ‘Israel-Hamas war’, starting on October 7.
According to neoconservative theoreticians David Wurmser and Richard Perle, George W. Bush’s Iraq War II (supported by Senator Biden) was supposed to weaken Iran and Syria and therefore Hezbollah’s threat to Israel. Instead, the war empowered Iran as the U.S. put their best friends from the Hakim family’s Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq … Continue reading "USA Keeps Fighting for Iran"
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Greek and Roman writers on war and peace Plutarch: Selections on war and peace ==== PlutarchMoraliaPrecepts of StatecraftTranslated by Harold North Fowler …there are many acts of the Greeks of former times by recounting which the statesman can mold and correct the characters of our contemporaries, for … … Continue reading →
