Venezuela and Trump’s Throwback Imperialism

Michelle Goldberg discusses the bizarre buildup to a U.S. attack on Venezuela: To hear the administration tell it, our hostilities with Venezuela are largely about the country’s role in drug trafficking. But fentanyl, the drug at the center of America’s addiction...

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What Is a Lawful Order?

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Again, this is big picture, and I’m not a lawyer. Laws only mean something – they only have real authority – when powerful entities are held to account. If only the weak are subject to laws, whereas (for...

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The Beat of UK War Drums

In fascist lockstep, the entire British media, broadcast and print, corporate and state, is leading with a Ministry of Defence press release about a “Russian spy ship” inside “British waters”. No British media appears to have been able to speak to anybody who knows...

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John Mearsheimer asks: Would Israel Nuke Iran?

Reprinted from John's Substack:  On 20 November 2025 I was on “Judging Freedom” with Judge Napolitano. We talked about the Trump administration’s efforts to cut a deal with Russia to bring the war in Ukraine to an end. It appears that the president is accepting...

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