Fool’s Errand EPUB Now Available

The electronic version of my book is now available on Barnes and Noble, Apple Books (no link, but it’s there on the app), Kobo, Smashwords and very soon will be on Google Play books as well. The paperback and Kindle versions and all these above are the very latest...

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Fool’s Errand Turns 1

My book, Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan came out a year ago today. It was good timing since I knew that Trump was about to launch his first escalation there and that other than that, the status quo would hold: the Taliban would continue to slowly...

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What Would Richard Holbrooke Say?

Yesterday would have been uber-diplomat Richard Holbrooke's 72nd birthday. He died December 13, 2010 while on the job as our top envoy to Afghanistan, and one can't help thinking that whatever 1960's idealism still existed in terms of making that country a better...

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“…Turns out it was 11”

Photographer and antiwar activist Jayel Aharem quipped on twitter, "'Yesterday in San Diego, we chanted "B.A.R.A.C.K. how many kids did you kill today?' Turns out it was 11 http://is.gd/9pCMZA." Antiwar.com's Jason Ditz delivers the punch line.

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