With the nomination of Gina Haspel to be director of the CIA, there's rightfully some interest in her record regarding torture.Of course, there are questions of legality and ethics and with respect to torture and it's possible as some have argued that the motivation...
Sure things don’t exist in international relations, but we seem to be witnessing an impending settlement of the nearly 70-year-old Korean War. Kim Jong Un recently became the first ruler of North Korea to officially visit the South, where he conferred with...
MEMORANDUM FOR: The PresidentFROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPs)SUBJECT: Being “Played” By Bogus Evidence on IranNOTE: The evidence presented by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on April 30 alleging a covert Iranian nuclear weapons...
This week President Trump will have to decide whether he will sign another waiver to keep the US in the Iran nuclear deal, or whether he will de facto pull the US out of the deal (which would likely result in the collapse of the deal and possibly war). The closest US...
An excellent interview where Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) argues to support peace in Korea, getting the US out of Syria, and preserving the Iran Deal.
This originally appeared at Antiwar.com on May 4, 2015It’s been 45 years since draft-deferred Ohio National Guardsmen aimed their M-1 rifles and .45 pistols at unarmed Ken State College students, killing four and wounding nine on May 4, 1970. You have to be well...
Scanning my email updates, I saw two articles dealing with allegedly declining militaries. The Weekly Standard complained that the British military is “damn, busted.” The article cites Britain’s lack of main battle tanks (only 227) compared to Russia’s 20,000,...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Nicholas Niarchos comments on the recent assassination of a top Houthi leader by a Saudi coalition airstrike:On Twitter, members of the Saudi royal family celebrated Sammad’s killing and touted it as a success for the...
President Trump's National Security Advisor, John Bolton, has long viewed peace and diplomacy as an abhorrent sign of weakness. We know from colleagues in the Bush Administration that he berated and pushed to dismiss any intelligence analyst whose conclusions did not...
