Though it is largely forgotten today, there was during the late 80s and early 90s a vigorous debate in numerous sectors of European life about whether the EU would be best structured as a Union of Regions or as a Union of States. Adherents of the first posture hoped...
Author of Leaked OPCW Engineering Report on Douma Speaks at UN Security Council
The UN Security Council met in New York on Monday to discuss the investigation by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) into an alleged chemical attack that was said to have taken place in April 2018 in Douma, Syria. The alleged attack was...
These Chains Will Be Broken: Ramzy Baroud’s New Book Delivers Resistance Message from Palestinian Prisoners to the World
On Monday, January 20, Clarity Press, Inc. of Atlanta announced the launch of These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons, by Palestinian author and journalist, Ramzy Baroud, and The Palestine Chronicle Editorial Team....
Ron Paul on The War In Trump’s Ear
A new book on Trump by Washington Post writers, "A Very Stable Genius," has tongues wagging and new accusations of the president's "instability." As usual, these politicized claims miss the target completely and also misunderstand the real war for Trump's ear. The...
Martin Luther King’s Vietnam Speech
"Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam"April 30, 1967, Riverside Church, New YorkThe sermon which I am preaching this morning in a sense is not the usual kind of sermon, but it is a sermon and an important subject, nevertheless, because the issue that I...
Former Nuremberg War Crimes Prosecutor on the Immoral Killing of the Iranian General
A former Nuremberg war crimes prosecutor says the American public deserves to know the truth. A letter to the New York Times: Benjamin B. Ferencz Delray Beach, Fla.
Further Thoughts: Vladimir Putin’s Planned Constitutional Changes
I had the good fortune to be among the first non-mainstream commentators to publish an in-depth analysis of the planned constitutional amendments Vladimir Putin set out on Wednesday in his annual Address to Russia’s bicameral legislature. “Vladimir Putin Plans His...
Tom Friedman’s Hapless Fear-Mongering
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Tom Friedman’s latest column obviously wasn’t fact-checked before it was published:And then, a few weeks later, Trump ordered the killing of Suleimani, an action that required him to shift more troops into...
Concerned Veterans for America Launch Campaign To Bring Our Troops Home
Concerned Veterans for America is running an $1.5 million dollar ad campaign on TV in key states and digitally nationwide calling for a complete withdrawal of US forces in Afghanistan.Sign the letter of support that will be forwarded to the White House and your...
The Stable Genius Is Good at Names
So, Trump wants to add Middle Eastern nations (so far unspecified) to NATO so that the alliance can be more involved in the region. We need another obligation to go to war there like a hole in the head. That’s very peculiar for a Putin marionette who supposedly...

