Keeping our Middle East rivals poor, weak, and divided does not serve our interests
Winter is rolling into Syria, but many families have no oil or gas to heat their homes. American sanctions prevent almost all trade, including petroleum shipments. They are part of our campaign to inflict pain on Middle Easterners who live under governments we dislike. A recent Treasury Department notice asserts that the United States is determined […]
My Nobel Peace Prize nomination
Turkey’s ‘anti-Erdogan’ Deserves Nobel Peace Prize. Recognizing Osman Kavala would buoy free thinkers jailed in once-democratic countries sliding toward tyranny.
When scaring the regime runs in the family
FORTY-ONE YEARS AGO this week, the leading opposition journalist in Nicaragua was assassinated. Today, with that Central American nation under a new dictatorship, his son has assumed his role. Their two-generation story is woven into Nicaraguan life, and is almost unique in the history of journalism. It also chillingly exemplifies the dangers that have always faced […]
Predicting the unpredictable for 2019
It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future. That gem of homespun wisdom from the philosopher Yogi Berra weighs on anyone who looks into the crystal ball of geopolitics. Yet the very fact that the world has become so topsy-turvy makes the exercise all but irresistible. Here, then, are one prognosticator’s guesses about what […]
With Syria announcement, Trump confronts his own militarist cabal
AN ENEMY OF American foreign policy is secretly embedded at the highest level of the Trump administration. This lone figure cleverly hides his subversive views. He pretends to endorse the national security team’s snarling, bomb-everyone-yesterday aggressiveness, but his heart is not in it. Could that be President Trump himself? His startling announcement that he will pull American […]
