With calls growing for President Biden to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, an inmate of the notorious detention facility appealed to the president for his release in an article for the Independent. Ahmed Rabbani described the nightmare he has lived since he was...
Foreign Policy
Mali and the Confiscation of Moral Sentiment
For fiscal year 2021, the total United States military budget has come in at a staggaring $934 billion dollars, which includes a base budget of $636 billion dollars plus ancillary Department Of Defense spending and Veterans Affairs related expenses. This easily dwarfs...
TGIF: Imperial America, Which Never Left, Is Back
In a cliche-ridden foreign-policy speech delivered at the State Department on Thursday, President Joe Biden declared that "America is back"--on the global stage, presumably, as policeman of the world, but certainly not a disinterested policeman. The problem is that it...
The Last Thing Burma Needs Is the U.S. Military
On Sunday night—Monday morning in Burma (or Myanmar)—the Tatmadaw, or military, long noted for its venality and brutality, staged a coup. Troops detained Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s informal head of government, along with other leading members of her party....
The Macabre ‘Normalcy’ of Joe Biden
The laughable campaign sales pitch the American people were suffocated with over the past year and before was that Joe Biden, apartheid “Israel’s man in Washington” as well as the de facto author of the Patriot Act, was going save us from President Donald Trump’s...
Will Trump’s Hawkishness on China Become Joe Biden’s ‘New Normal’?
Since 2020, Americans have been implored, even trained, to accept fiat realities at home that would not so long ago have seemed inconceivable. The “new normal” includes arbitrary lockdowns, curfews, censorship, the burgeoning domestic terror war, and a de facto...
Presidents Are at Their Worst In War
Last week, as he began his administration, President Biden vowed to wage a “full-scale wartime effort” against Covid-19, signing several executive orders, including a new interstate travel mask mandate. That Joe Biden desires to be and sees himself as a wartime...
Iran to Uncle Sam: Your Move
On Thursday, Tehran hit back at the U.S. after Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Iran must return to compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal before the Biden administration does. “Reality check for @SecBlinken, the US violated JCPOA, blocked food/medicine to...
Podcasts
