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Now that Donald Trump has established himself as the worst president in the history of the United States, George W. Bush can breathe a sigh of relief....
Last month, the Democratic National Committee belatedly released its autopsy of the 2024 election that failed to explain why the party was crushed in...
Thirteen years ago, I made the case against the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism. My argument was...
The Washington Post’s leading national security columnist, David Ignatius, has been an ever-present apologist for the “power of the military and...
History doesn’t repeat itself, but there are relevant analogies in any discussion of historical events, and these can be helpful. The current...
The unusually peaceful end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union did not bring us peace. Instead, the world has faced endless regional...
In two weeks, President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will meet in Beijing, where they will have an unusual opportunity to ease the Cold...
Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Jimmy Carter were graduates of U.S. military academies and, perhaps as a result, understood the limits and...
Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Jimmy Carter were graduates of U.S. military academies and, perhaps as a result, understood the limits and...
Donald Trump’s instability and insanity have finally provoked discussion of two possible Constitutional guardrails that would allow for his removal...
Our reliance on the mainstream media, even the revered New York Times, for an understanding of Donald Trump’s psyche and behavior is a waste of...
A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” – Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 7, 2026 Donald Trump has started a war...
Fifteen months into the worst presidency in American history, the New York Times has finally acknowledged that Donald Trump’s war with Iran has...
“This is in a way the anger presidency. Anger defines Mr. Trump’s decade on the political stage. Mr. Trump is not the first president with a...
When I joined the Central Intelligence Agency’s Directorate of Intelligence in the summer of 1966, the Soviet Division was in great turmoil because...
It’s difficult to imagine a greater U.S. strategic mistake than to align itself in any fashion with Israel. The United States and Israel have...
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will go down in history for their respective failures in regime change. Both Trump and Putin overestimated their...
Sixty-three years ago, Hannah Arendt coined the concept of the “banality of evil,” describing Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann as disturbingly...
The worst examples come from the New York Times. Its leading Israeli apologist, Bret Stephens, predictably believes that “Trump and Netanyahu did...
Earlier this week, I wrote about the dysfunction and danger associated with Donald Trump’s national security policies, processes, and personnel. No...
In the wake of 9/11, there has been a dangerous militarization of our national security and foreign policies. The military has been used to secure...
The post The New York Times Still Gives Israel the Benefit of the Doubt on the USS Liberty appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
In one year, Donald Trump has managed to disarm Congress and put our Constitution on life support. The separation of powers has been breached, and...
Authoritarian leaders typically attempt a radical reshaping of civic life. Every area of life—from culture and the arts to education and...
Trump’s narcissism has been on display for decades. It is a serious personality disorder that is difficult to treat. According to one prominent...
There are no in-house critics in Trump’s second term (2025-2029), which may be more apocalyptic, leading to the derogation of America’s democracy...
The New York Times' one-sided support for Israel began with Israeli independence in 1948. Last week’s front-page piece on Israel and New York...
Theodore Roosevelt was one of our most interesting and progressive presidents. Donald Trump is uninteresting and uninterested to the extreme and is...
Donald Trump views armed dominance as the essential element of U.S. policy in the global arena. The New York Times and the Washington Post support...
Donald Trump views armed dominance as the essential element of U.S. policy in the global arena. The New York Times and the Washington Post support...
On December 14, the New York Times devoted its entire Opinion section of 14 pages to lobbying for greater defense spending. The NYT managed to do...
For the past several years, the Washington Post’s senior diplomatic columnist, David Ignatius, has echoed the optimism of the Trump administration...
Europe should find some incentive to be more assertive and even aggressive in response to Vance’s obnoxious references to Europe’s “erasure”...
The mainstream media have been concerned with the politics, policies, and propaganda of Donald Trump’s terms in office, but have virtually ignored...
There is nothing “pragmatic” about engaging in a conflict where only one side, the United States, is armed, and the factual basis for the conflict...
Over the past several months, the editorial board of the Washington Post has moved steadily to the right, endorsing greater defense budgets, the...
The term “covert action” is a peculiarly American invention; it does not appear in the lexicon of other intelligence services. Nor does the term...
The history of the Palestinians is a history of betrayal. In the wake of World War I, Britain and France redrew the map of the Middle East to suit...
The Washington Post and its leading national security columnist, David Ignatius, have labeled the so-called “peace plan” for Gaza the “real...
In the summer of 2020, during the protests in Minneapolis following the brutal murder of George Floyd, Donald Trump and his senior aides discussed the...
As a result of the editorial interference and even censorship of some of its best writers, the Post’s leading journalists are packing their bags...
“Israel’s strike on Hamas’s political leadership in Qatar’s capital, aimed at forcing an end to the Gaza war, looks like a rare Israeli...
Several days after its absurd endorsement of renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War and calling for a more aggressive posture...
The politicization of intelligence is nothing new, but Donald Trump is finding new ways to pursue it. The United States has gone to war with phony...
“Renaming the Pentagon won’t cause Congress to suddenly change its ways, but at least it is a reminder that the powers the Pentagon exercises are...
Donald Trump’s blatant campaign for a Nobel Peace Prize has a new claim for his resume—his “diplomacy” is contributing to a new world order. ...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told an NBC interviewer last week that the expansion of the North Atlantic Treat Organization was a...
In many quarters, the New York Times’ David Sanger is considered the country’s best diplomatic journalist. After a recent article in the NYTs,...
The mainstream media are describing John Bolton as an experienced diplomat and a serious analyst. He was neither. Many members of the media are...
“Flush with newfound confidence and authority, Mr. Netanyahu seemed finally to have gained the political capital he needed to override opposition...
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