BLOG… Post #525: Losing Hand in the Iran War 12 Sep 202613 Sep 2026 The Good Soldier When asked by reporters at the White House on Thursday whether the intense and sustained air campaign by American forces would be over by the midterm elections,…
BLOG… Post #524: The Arsenal 7 Sep 20267 Sep 2026 Behind the rise in international conflict and the decline of peacemaking efforts discussed above lie weapons and the money that finances them. They provide the fuel for civil wars, wars…
BLOG… Post #505: Cuba’s Fate Should Not be in US Hands 25 Apr 2026 Another Venezuela? Negotiations are ongoing between the US and Cuba as the Trump administration decides whether or not to apply the Venezuela model to Cuba. The US embargo remains in…
BLOG… Post #504: Where We Are and Where We Need to Be on Iran 21 Apr 202621 Apr 2026 As another week of Trump’s war begins, it becomes ever more clear that all his presumptions about how the war would go have proven wrong. Iran’s economy has bent but…
BLOG… Post #503: Why the US-Iran Talks Failed 12 Apr 202620 Apr 2026 The first face-to-face high-level talks between the US and Iran since 1979 have ended without agreement. Hardly surprising; both sides put forward positions not subject to actual bargaining. On the…
BLOG… Post #502: Trump’s Way of War 10 Apr 2026 Stretching Presidential Power Donald Trump has made waging war more centered than ever before on presidential prerogative. The same president who once fulminated against his predecessors’ penchant for going to…
BLOG… Post #501: Pete Hegseth’s Crusade 5 Apr 2026 “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.” – Sinclair Lewis Sinclair Lewis would have recognized Pete Hegseth immediately—a Christian nationalist whose…
BLOG… Post #500: No Exit in Iran 27 Mar 202627 Mar 2026 A Hopeless US Proposal Donald Trump thinks a 15-point plan will end the war with Iran. Seems like a hope and a prayer. Predictably, Iran rejected it out of hand…
BLOG… Post #499: Cuba is Trump’s Next Imperial Project 22 Mar 2026 Another Nonexistent Threat Regime change in Cuba may be the next stop for the Trump war machine. Here’s what he told CNN in an interview March 6: “Cuba is gonna…
BLOG… Post #498: Unexpected Gifts: Beijing and Moscow Gain from Trump’s War 14 Mar 202614 Mar 2026 I have previously commented about the strategic blunders the Trump regime has made in its war on Iran. Add this one: the gains both China and Russia have made at…
BLOG… Post #497: Aggression in Iran 7 Mar 2026 Conduct that Defies Logic, Law, or Sound Purposes As the invasion of Iran grinds on and its boundaries expand, the House and Senate have rejected resolutions that would bring the…
BLOG Post #492: TACO Time or Wartime? Examining Trump’s Latest Threats 1 Feb 2026 Donald Trump is on the warpath again, threatening Greenland, Iran, Canada, and Cuba. Will he be TACO—Trump Always Chickens Out—or will he carry through on the threats—seizing Greenland, seeking to…
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