Are we ready to defend our ideals, or have we lost interest in distinguishing virtue from vice and public good from private greed ? Misattributed quotes and next-level gaslighting aside, we find ourselves yet again at a crossroads in time—a moment demanding serious reflection on the foundational principles that shaped …

Knowing Europe’s horrendous colonial history and today’s European Union’s (EU) ever-growing tyranny, there is little surprise in the EU’s facilitating slave trade in Northern Africa, mostly through Europe-NATO’s destruction of today’s chaotic Libya. The latter with the support of the then Obama Government.  Imagine this: A coalition of humanitarian organizations has …

Once you violate both fair treatment of prisoners and the basic principles of law, finding an unchallenged resolution to such cases is essentially inconceivable. On January 10, one day before the 23rd anniversary of its opening, a much-anticipated hearing was set to take place at the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility …

Will the world ever be free of the menace of nuclear annihilation? There was a promising start along these lines during the late twentieth century, when – pressed by a popular upsurge against nuclear weapons – the nations of the world adopted a succession of nuclear arms control and disarmament agreements.  Starting …

The “War on Terror” was built on a series of deceptions to persuade the Western public that its leaders were crushing Islamist extremism. In truth, they were nourishing it. The story: Did you believe it 30 years ago when they told you that the Oslo Accords would bring peace to the …

The ‘Vandenberg Coalition’ wants Trump to prioritize Israel and maintain Iran as enemy number one A leading neoconservative for most of the last half century has released a comprehensive series of recommendations on Middle East policy for the new Trump administration nearly all of which are ideas that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and …

In 2021, to his credit, President Joe Biden warned the American public against the dangers of zero-click spyware manufactured by an Israeli corporation. Zero-click is unwanted software that can expose the entire contents of one’s mobile or desktop device to prying eyes without tricking one into clicking on to a …

Trump’s protectionist policies threaten to radically unbalance the balance of payments and exchange rates throughout the world. They are preventing debtor countries from earning the dollars needed to pay their foreign debts. This makes a financial rupture inevitable. The 1940s saw a series of movies with Bing Crosby and Bob …

Foreign policy is not truly foreign; it remains a domestic issue, not some abstract concept that does not affect the average American’s everyday life. Voters do not realize this, but they need to. At the start of 2024, in an AP-NORC poll, only 4 out of 10 Americans mentioned a foreign policy …

Wrong way world. A consistent theme through my life has been to understand our world, to assemble a comprehensive picture the best I can, respecting the world’s boggling complexity and the limits of any one mind to grasp it all. What has long been clear to me is that our …