Reprinted from The Realist Review: Joe Biden’s presidency may ultimately come to be seen as a cautionary tale. Here was a president who showed little interest in entertaining arguments that might have contradicted his most deeply held assumptions.For...
It’s a Most Confusing Time To Be in the US Military
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. It’s a most confusing time to be in the U.S. military. Who knows why we fight? At the top, there’s a lack of principles, a lack of clarity, a lack of care. There’s no accountability for losses and bad...
John Mearsheimer asks What Nuclear Taboo?
Reprinted from John's Substack: We discussed his view that the West does not respect Russian red lines and feels that it can use Ukraine as a proxy to attack the Russian homeland and not have to worry about Russia striking back at the West. He believes that the time...
Trump’s Iran War Slowing Global Economic Growth to Lowest Level Since Pandemic: World Bank
The World Bank on Thursday lowered its global growth forecast for the remainder of 2026 as the illegal US-Israeli war of choice on Iran drives up energy prices, inflation, and the cost of debt. “The global economy is facing another major shock,” the World Bank’s...
The New Documentary An Ordinary Insanity
Only when such sanity becomes ordinary will we have a chance of surviving the nuclear era. This film presents a synthesis of my father’s book The Doomsday Machine. His book depicts the evil murderousness of nuclear war plans, and the particular dangers posed by ICBMS,...
Trump Once Again Claims a Deal Is Imminent. Is the 39th Time the Charm?
Donald Trump has developed a habit throughout this war of claiming that a deal with Iran is “imminent,” only for the conflict to devolve back into chaos just days later. Similarly, he has routinely made maximalist threats against Iran — “A whole civilization will die...
$3 Trillion a Year for US Military Spending
Reprinted from World BEYOND War: Recently the least popular person alive said, “I didn’t guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world?” Already unpopular with kind and decent people, Trump may have — with that comment — tanked his...
The War Against Iran Continues
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Analysis of Satellite Image and Videos Suggest Precision U.S. Strikes on Iranian Water Facility It is unclear if the U.S. intentionally struck the facility or knew what it was. Deliberately targeting civilian...
Ron Paul on Trump: ‘I Will Attack Iran Every Night Until They Make a Deal!’
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: While supposedly Iran is "begging to make a deal," Trump has resumed large-scale bombing on the country because it has not yet made a deal. This is not the only openly contradictory and bizarre statement from President Trump in the...
Response to Sam Harris’s Refusal To Debate Critics of Israel
At the outset of his recent article, Sam Harris explains that he considers “Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, the IRGC” to be “worse than Nazis.” This is noteworthy. Over the last 25 years, these groups have killed a total of maybe several hundred...


