There are two brand new ways to avoid any military draft that should come along.(I know you’re not worried about a draft, but the numbers of failed coup attempts in Venezuela and of failed attempts to start a war on Iran are both approaching the number of years of war...
L’etat C’est Moi! (I Am the State!)
Trump has vetoed Congress’s effort to keep him from going to war against Iran unilaterally. Nothing remarkable there. We’ve come to expect such things from the fraud who posed as antiwar.What’s interesting is that Trump has reminded of what a...
Trump’s Contemptible War Powers Veto
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.The president once again showed his contempt for the Constitution with his veto of another war powers resolution yesterday:President Trump vetoed a Senate resolution on Wednesday that would have required him to seek...
McMaster and the Myths of Empire
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Ethan Paul dismantles H.R. McMaster’s “analysis” of the Chinese government and shows how McMaster abuses the idea of strategic empathy for his own ends:But the reality is that McMaster, and others...
Mapping Militarism 2020
A new collection of maps found here displays what militarism looks like in the world. Here’s a brief guide to using and understanding them.Across the top are 10 drop-down menus on these topics: Wars, Weapons, U.S. Weapons, Money, Nukes, Chemical and Biological, U.S....
New START and the China Diversion
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.New START has a little over seven months left to live, and the Trump administration remains fixated on its impossible and bizarre condition of bringing China into the treaty:The Trump administration is increasingly set...
Will Coronavirus Kill – Or Embolden – Neocon Foreign Policy?
Will a bankrupt nation suffering from a massive six trillion dollar bailout hangover lose its appetite for interventionism overseas? Or is the global coronavirus just the kind of "Pearl Harbor event" the neocons have long pined for to again launch their global war...
Elbe Day 75th Anniversary Conference Celebrates the Past and Presents Hope for the Future
This April 24, a major conference took place online to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the iconic Elbe Day embrace of American and Russian troops along the Elbe River organized by the president and founder of the American University in Moscow, Dr. Edward...
Pompeo’s Cynical Attack on the Nuclear Deal
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.The Trump administration has been desperately trying to kill the nuclear deal for the last two years after reneging on it. Now they will try to kill it by pretending to be part of it again:Secretary of State Mike Pompeo...
Turkey’s Erdogan Tangled in His Own Web of Deceit
“Zero problems with neighbors” – this was the catchy motto selected by then Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Erdogan for his country’s foreign policy not so long ago. These days, when the relations of Turkey with neighbors and more distant...


