The US Senate Intelligence Committee has passed an Authorization bill that specifically targets WikiLeaks and its senior personnel as a "hostile non-state intelligence agency" that receives assistance from foreign state intelligence services. This designation would...
I wrote yesterday to begin a conversation about possible ways that the treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons may come to dominate the global discourse in the months ahead.An extremely important question is how China will engage with this new development. People...
The Senate Intelligence Authorization Act (SB 1761), introduced Friday by Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) and already approved by the committee, concludes with a one sentence section – Section 623 – that appears to threaten...
The global treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons will be available for countries to sign when the UN General Assembly begins its session September 20. The treaty enters into force 90 days after 50 countries have signed it.The treaty text was drafted during a...
When the folks at Antiwar.com asked me to write a note to help them raise funds I immediately accepted for several reasons.First of all, because I'm a longtime reader, almost since the beginning (1995!). Their news section is indispensable. Jason Ditz's news briefs...
President Trump said his gut tells him to get out of Afghanistan, but after giving it some more thought – with the help of his generals – he's decided to expand US military actions rather than to wind the war down. Were the conclusions leading him to make this...
As a private citizen and presidential candidate, Donald Trump railed against the Afghan war. A waste, he said. Americans should withdraw, he said. But in last night’s speech, Trump went against his own instincts (so he said) and went with the failed policies of his...
but then the War Party got to him...
President Trump will unveil his new strategy for Afghanistan tonight. Will he do the sensible thing and end the failed longest war in history? Or will he continue doing the same thing and expect that somehow he will "win" the war? Does he even know what "winning"...
Adam Liptak wrote in the New York Times several days ago that law schools are preparing to delve into numerous Constitutional questions that have been brought to a head by the Trump presidency, not the least of which is:"Must Congress authorize a nuclear strike...
