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Claude Tellier: At first sight you may think our enemies are men. You can tell them from human beings by the color of their uniforms.

==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace Claude Tellier: The king who drags his people to those vast slaughter-houses known as battle-fields is a murderer. ==== Claude TellierFrom My Uncle BenjaminTranslated by Marie Lorenz “They take a man in the heydey of youth, put a gun in his […]

Then and Now: Dissenters From American Foreign Policy on Russia in the 1980s and Today

In my intense, nearly daily exchange of emails with the late Professor Steve Cohen in 2015 before and during our incorporation of The American Committee for East-West Accord, Steve often expressed his deep regret that American political dialogue on policy towards Russia had become so consolidated and closed to dissenting views, which were now vilified … Continue reading "Then and Now: Dissenters From American Foreign Policy on Russia in th

If We Fight a New Cold War, Who Are We Fighting It With?

President Biden’s words were hollow. The content had been cored because the words were empty of any real world content. On September 21, 2021, he told the UN General Assembly that the US is "not seeking a new Cold War or a world divided into rigid blocks." UN Secretary-General Antonio Gueterres disagreed, warning against the … Continue reading "If We Fight a New Cold War, Who Are We Fighting It With?"

The Untold Story of Why Palestinians Are Divided

The political division in Palestinian society is deep-rooted, and must not be reduced to convenient claims about the "Hamas-Fatah split", elections, the Oslo accords and subsequent disagreements. The division is linked to events that preceded all of these, and not even the death or incapacitation of the octogenarian, Mahmoud Abbas, will advance Palestinian unity by … Continue reading "The Untold Story of Why Palestinians Are Divided"

Video – The Twenty Year Post-9/11 War on Liberty

Here’s my spiel on the “Twenty Year Post-9/11 War on Liberty” from last night’s The Future of Freedom Foundation broadcast. If you like seeing federal agencies get thrashed, you might enjoy this show. TSA, FBI, NSA, DHS – they all caught hell.  The video wraps up with excellent questions from the audience & plenty of […]
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Remembering the Crime of War

The effort to make war more humane has had the regrettable and foreseeable effect of making war more tolerable and therefore much easier to perpetuate. Along the way, the focus on how wars are fought has distracted us from the even more important questions of whether to fight them and for how long. This is … Continue reading "Remembering the Crime of War"