Armistice Day and the Empire Remarks delivered at Community Church of Boston, November 9, 2025 (transcript edited for clarity and corrections). Thank you so much for having me again. It means a lot to get asked to speak to this group. Smedley Butler was just...
Reprinted from Matt’s Thoughts on War and Peace. I shared yesterday with Danny Davis my views on the October 7 attacks, views I have held since before that day. This is important because the right of the Palestinians to resist occupation is the most cogent and sincere...
Reprinted with permission from Matt’s Thoughts on War and Peace. Cross-posted by Eisenhower Media Network. Bodyguard of Lies, featuring senior fellow Matthew Hoh, is an unflinching, unvarnished deep dive into the brutality of the Afghanistan War and the double-talk of...
The future ain’t what it used to be. ~ Yogi Berra Just in time for the flurry of political theater, to put it politely, of the last several weeks between the United States and [insert European country], I had an interview published yesterday in Kommersant, one of...
And Jesus said: “Where death is, there a gathering of vultures will be.” ~ Luke 17:37 My initial thoughts on one of this century's most alarming and potentially consequential press conferences. First and foremost: Will American soldiers take part in deliberate crimes...
I was honored to be the keynote speaker for the North Carolina Palestinian American Inc.’s Inaugural Roots of Resilience Banquet this past weekend. Below are my transcribed remarks, edited and amended for clarity and length: …But essentially what we're looking at is a...
I'm back in Jordan after eight days in Palestine. I was in Palestine as part of a delegation to be in solidarity with and learn from those engaged in Palestinian liberation. We visited and had dialogues with Palestinians and Israelis in Bethlehem, Hebron, Jerusalem,...
As I said to Judge Napolitano earlier today, I am so happy I might cry, and so angry at what they did to Julian and his family I might put a fist through a wall in my house. I think most of us are heavy with emotion while trying to understand what comes next. Here’s...
The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in Engines stop running, the wheat is growing thin A nuclear era, but I have no fear 'Cause London is drowning, and I live by the river ~ The Clash Two weeks ago, in London, I took part in a panel discussion on the...
I gave a Saint Patrick’s Day speech at a rally for Palestine yesterday. Last year, I spent Saint Patrick’s Day standing in a bar with a fellow Marine veteran. In 2010, he had been a mortar man with Third Battalion, Fifth Marines, in Sangin, Helmand Province,...
