Reprinted from John's Substack: On 15 October 2025, I was on Glenn Diesen’s podcast with Jeff Sachs talking about Jeff’s newly minted concept of “spheres of security,” which he sees as a major advancement over “spheres of influence.” He opened the discussion by making...
Reprinted from John's Substack: On 17 October 2025, I was on “Judging Freedom” talking with the Judge (who is in Moscow) about the Gaza ceasefire, Tomahawks for Ukraine, and Venezuela. Regarding the last issue, we talked about the ludicrous claim made by Senator...
Reprinted from John's Substack: On 13 October 2025, I spoke with Glenn Greenwald on his show — “System Update” — about President Trump’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza and about where events are headed in the Russia-Ukraine war. We covered lots of important issues,...
Reprinted from John's Substack: On 13 October 2025, I was on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” talking about President Trump’s grandiose claims about his success at ending the war in Gaza (genocide would be a more accurate term) and facilitating the “historic dawn of a new...
Reprinted from John's Substack: On 15 July 2025, I did an interview with Professor William Hurst, who teaches at Cambridge University and co-directs its Centre for Geopolitics. We had what I thought was an excellent discussion about war and international politics.
Reprinted from John’s Substack: On 9 October 2025, I was on the “Deep Dive” with Lt. Col. (ret.) Danny Davis. We talked mainly about Trump’s Gaza plan, which will hopefully shut down the genocide for good, but which promises no hope for settling the conflict. The...
Reprinted from John’s Substack: On 9 October 2025, I was on “Judging Freedom” talking with the Judge about the possibility of the US selling Tomahawk cruise missiles to the Europeans, who will give them to Ukraine to fire deep into mother Russia. I do not think this...
Reprinted from John’s Substack: On 7 October 2025, the second anniversary of Hamas’s breakout from the Gaza concentration camp, I was on the Katie Halper show with Susan Abulhawa, a prominent Palestinian writer and activist, talking about what has happened in Gaza...
Reprinted from John’s Substack: On 8 October 2025, I was on Glenn Diesen’s podcast talking mainly about the failure of the elites in the West to act in strategically smart or morally correct ways in their dealings with the Gaza genocide and the Ukraine war. Many trees...
Reprinted from John’s Substack: On 6 October 2025, Trita Parsi and I were guests on the “Community Alliance 4 Peace and Justice.” We discussed the Israeli policy behind the genocide in Gaza; the chances that Trump’s 20-point plan will shut it down; and the likelihood...
