Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. I love getting The New York Times daily summary of the news. It makes for great hilarity. Here’s today’s example: Top News Lebanon Emerges as Weak Link in U.S.-Iran Deal to End War The conflict between Israel...
Reprinted from John's Substack: On 19 June 2026, I was on “Judging Freedom” talking with the Judge about the central issue of the day — the Memorandum of Understanding that Iran and the United States worked out to put an end to the war between them. There is no...
Flanked by French President Emmanuel Macron, Donald Trump triumphantly signed the official U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Wednesday night in Versailles. This move reflects a dramatic shift in tone from the president, who decided to take steps toward...
Why I’m Writing I’m writing to recommend a remarkable discussion between John Mearsheimer (an endowed professor of political science at the University of Chicago) and the influential, religiously conservative, hawkish Russian nuclear strategist, Sergey Karaganov. The...
As if there were no Congressional business awaiting our elected officials’ attention, Florida Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) set his sights on the very document to which he raised his right hand and swore to defend: the US Constitution. Speaking at the Florida Holocaust...
The United States has a long history of launching foreign wars, but the logic that drives these interventions – and the harm they inevitably produce – deserves closer scrutiny. When insecurity can be artificially manufactured and war proceeds without democratic...
Things aren’t going so well these days for Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu. While his partner President Trump is working actively to end the war with Iran by inking a memorandum of understanding to halt the fighting, American public opinion of Israel continues to...
Democratic US Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts took aim Monday at President Donald Trump’s illegal war of choice on Iran and request for a record $1.5 trillion in total military-related spending authorization by introducing legislation that would cap the Pentagon...
Defenders of Palestine, human rights, and the rule of law denounced the Israeli Supreme Court’s rejection Tuesday of an appeal from Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the Gaza hospital director imprisoned by Israel for 535 days without charge or trial and allegedly tortured by...
Reprinted from Andy Worthington’s website. In a dispiriting ruling yesterday, the Court of Appeal in London overturned a ruling in February, by the High Court, that the government’s proscription of the direct action group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization,...
