Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. War and rumors of war dominate the headlines. Venezuela. Nigeria. Iran. Somalia. A “new Cold War” involving Russia and China. What are we to believe? The events of the 62 years of my short life (Vietnam,...
Reprinted from John's Substack: On 21 September 2025, I participated in a debate on the role of morality in international relations with Kenneth Roth, the highly regarded former head of Human Rights Watch, and Christina Lamb, a prominent British journalist and author....
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: After several weeks of US military build-up near Venezuela - and dozens of "narco-terorists" killed offshore by US missiles - a new poll shows that even Republican support for a military operation on the country is cratering. While...
A new round of nuclear swagger, a fraying arms control regime, and a grinding war in Ukraine have pushed global risk back into everyday conversation. We bring James Carden of The Realist Review back to map how we got here—starting with the choices made in 1992, when...
Reprinted from John's Substack: On 30 October 2025, I was on the “Deep Dive” with Lt. Col. (ret.) Danny Davis. In addition to talking about the usual issues, we talked early in the show about President Trump’s false claims that the US has more nuclear weapons than...
On COI #850, Kyle Anzalone breaks down the latest news from Latin America and the Middle East. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Here’s a note I sent to a colleague who asked sincerely whether “genocide” was the appropriate word for Israeli actions in Gaza: For what it’s worth, I taught the Holocaust as a professor of history after...
Veterans For Peace is appalled by the U.S. military’s extrajudicial killing of fishermen from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Trinidad and Tobago – whom the Trump administration labeled as drug traffickers without evidence, due process, or accountability to...
The Miami Herald reports that the president has decided to order attacks inside Venezuela: The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the...
Reprinted from John's Substack: On 30 October 2025, I was on Judging Freedom with Judge Napolitano. We talked about many of the usual topics — Gaza, Ukraine, and Venezuela — but spent a good amount of time talking about the legality and morality of some of President...
