MEMORANDUM FOR: The PresidentFROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: War With IranIntroductionIn our December 21st Memorandum to you, we cautioned that the claim that Iran is currently the world’s top sponsor of terrorism is unsupported by...
Life isn’t fair: that’s a lesson my dad learned growing up during the Great Depression and working hard in the Civilian Conservation Corps and local factories in the 1930s. He also learned it during World War II, when he was drafted and eventually assigned...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The International Rescue Committee dismisses the Saudi-led coalition’s “aid” plan for Yemen:“The name in itself is misleading: it is neither comprehensive, nor particularly humanitarian,” said Amanda...
Now that I have been nominated again – this time by author Paul Craig Roberts – to be CIA director, I am preparing to hit the ground running.Last time my name was offered in nomination for the position – by The Nation publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel – I did not hold...
After Trump’s Sept. 23 bombast at the United Nations where he claimed the US might "have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea," the propagandists in Pyongyang responded quickly, calling him a "mentally deranged dotard." During Trump’s 2017...
What's going on in East Ghouta? One of the last jihadist-held parts of Syria are being liberated, but you wouldn't know it from US and UN reporting. Why is the UN taking sides, issuing provocative statements blaming the Syrian government while ignoring the other side?...
Turkey has launched an attack on Syrian government-affiliated forces as they approach Kurdish areas of northern Syria. The Turks are occupying increasing parts of Syrian territory. Earlier this month, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson bragged that the US controls 30...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The ‘60 Minutes’ interview with Rex Tillerson makes for depressing reading:Margaret Brennan: What is the carrot that you’re dangling for North Korea to convince them to talk?Rex Tillerson: We’re...
Thirteen Russians and three Russian entities have been indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and accused of interference in the 2016 US elections. They were not agents of the state, at least according to the indictment. They were private citizens. So why do it?...
Throwing down the gauntlet on alleged abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) by the Department of Justice and the FBI, House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) stated that there could be legal consequences for officials who may have...
