Originally appeared at The American Conservative.The Edelman/Takeyh article on Iran had so many bad ideas in it that it will take a second post to respond properly to some of the rest. One of the sillier claims that they make is that regime collapse won’t cause...
Canadian Intelligence Failed To Warn About Coronavirus
With millions forced out of work and many more stuck at home, Canadians need to ask tough questions of organizations receiving billions of dollars to protect them from foreign threats. The country’s intelligence/security sector has done little to respond to the...
Regime Change Is Wrong
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Eric Edeleman and Ray Takeyh dispense with the usual hawkish smokescreens and evasions and call for regime change in Iran:“Regime change” is a toxic phrase in Washington. It conjures up images of the Iraq...
Brave New World: Coronavirus Authoritarians Building Massive Surveillance State
"Never let a crisis go to waste." Big tech is getting into bed with big government to build a massive surveillance superstructure that will monitor all of our movements - in the name of fighting coronavirus, of course. As Edward Snowden recently warned, these...
Restoring the Constitution’s Purpose for the National Guard: LIVESTREAM TONIGHT
From the Committee for Responsible Foreign Policy: Join us on Facebook Live Tonight at 9pm Eastern Time (6pm Pacific Time) BringOurTroopsHome.us reports on the progress of getting state legislatures to prohibit use of their National Guards in illegal wars around the...
The Shakedown of South Korea Has Failed
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.The Trump administration’s attempt to strongarm South Korea into a large increase in spending on the basing of U.S. troops has failed:Trump, they say, already rejected what was probably Seoul’s best offer...
The US Is Wrong to Block Iran’s Loan
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Iran has been seeking a loan from the International Monetary Fund for the first time in almost sixty years to help them fight the pandemic. The U.S. is expected to block the loan:The US plans to block Iran’s requested...
After Crozier Comments, Navy Secretary Modly Must Resign
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly just made things much worse for himself and the Navy by delivering an attack on Capt. Crozier in a speech to the crew of the USS Theodore Roosevelt. It will come as no surprise...
A Tale of Two Stockpiles: Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Anniversary of his Murder in a Pandemic Year
The United States Strategic National Stockpile of essential medical supplies maintained by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, seems unable to respond to the present COVID-19 crisis. There is much discussion in today’s news about who is responsible for...
He’s Got Eight Numbers, Just Like Everybody Else
On April 4, 2020, my friend Steve Kelly will begin a third year of imprisonment in Georgia’s Glynn County jail. He turned 70 while in prison, and while he has served multiple prison sentences for protesting nuclear weapons, spending two years in a county jail is...

