Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission.I was bantering online with an old friend and fellow historian and I hit him with my best shot: history is un-American. If you think like an historian, and especially if you think America and its future actions...
The US Should Not Be in the Business of Regime Change
Eric Edelman and Ray Takeyh want the US to “help” Iranian protesters:They want regime change. The United States should help from afar by increasing sanctions and improving communication among the demonstrators. If most Iranians want to change their political system,...
John LaForge Set To Be First US Activist Jailed in Germany for Anti-Nuke Protests
As Russia's invasion and NATO's support of Ukraine have heightened nuclear tensions in Europe to their highest level since the Cold War, a Wisconsin peace activist is set to become the first American jailed in Germany for an antinuclear protest. John LaForge,...
Conflicts of Interest: Zelensky Visits Washington to Collect a Big Check
On COI #364, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman cover Twitter’s collaboration with U.S. Central Command’s Middle East psyops, Washington’s deployment of nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to South Korea for war drills, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s trip to...
Top Israeli Intel Official Admits: ‘We Failed To Quell the Lions Den’s Motive To Fight’
Members of the Lions' Den marched through the West Bank Askar refugee camp in Nablus in an armed military parade in early December last year. Two months earlier, the Israeli Prime Minister brushed the group off as only having 30 members and being disorganized, vowing...
Facing the Failure of Our Cruel Venezuela Policy
Venezuelan opposition legislators voted last week to dissolve their interim government, and with that they have ended the project of trying to replace Maduro with Juan Guaidó:But nearly four years later and with little to show for the effort, the experiment has come...
Israel’s Ben-Gvir Postpones Visit to Al-Aqsa Amid Warnings That ‘People Will Die’
Editor's Note: Ben-Gvir entered Al-Aqsa Wednesday morning.Israel's far-right national security minister on Monday postponed a planned visit Islam's third-holiest site amid warnings from the country's opposition leader and Palestinian officials that such a...
Decry the Merchants of Death
Days after a U.S. warplane bombed a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing forty-two people, twenty-four of them patients, the international president of MSF, Dr. Joanne Liu walked through the...
Putin Apologists?
Former U.S. Ambassador to the USSR Jack Matlock says in Ukraine: Tragedy of a Nation Divided:Interference by the United States and its NATO allies in Ukraine’s civil struggle has exacerbated the crisis within Ukraine, undermined the possibility of bringing the two...
Are Foreign Forces on Their Way Out of Syria
News about the impending removal of foreign forces from Syria that you will not get…from Western mainstreamHappy New Year 2023 to one and all. With some luck we may all make it through the next 12 months intact.My purpose in violating the sanctity of New...


