MICIMATT for President!

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern coined the term MICIMATT to describe America’s sprawling national (in)security state. It’s an expanded version of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s...

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Genocide Historian Omer Bartov on Israel and Gaza

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Omer Bartov is a historian who specializes in German military history and genocide studies. I have three of his books: “The Eastern Front, 1941-45, German Troops and the Barbarisation of Warfare”; “Hitler’s...

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Escalation in the Russia-Ukraine War

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. It’s Friday the 13th, and though I’m not superstitious about the date, I’m not liking this headline in today’s New York Times: Top News The topic will be on the agenda Friday with the first official visit to...

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