Day: January 29, 2019

Napoleon or NATO? 'Reading 'War and Peace,' You Might Think Tolstoy Was Describing Current Affairs

January 29, 2019 Opinion

Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace is widely considered to be the best war novel ever written. Spatially, in its more than 1,800 pages it offers a vast panorama of Russia during the Napoleonic wars…

Nasrallah Challenges World Intelligence Services with a Three-Hour Live Interview

January 29, 2019 Opinion

The leader of Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah challenged world intelligence services, notably the Israelis, who track him by the hour, during a three hour live broadcast interview with al-Mayadeen T…

Justifying the 17-Year Afghan War

January 29, 2019 Opinion

When I first learned about the Thirty Years War in a history class in college, I was both fascinated and amazed. How in the world could a war go on for 30 years? That just seemed incomprehensible to m…

Why More Americans Are Breaking Their Silence on Israel

January 29, 2019 Opinion

Most folk outside the United States – and until this month, most Americans – won’t have heard of Michelle Alexander. She’s a civil rights lawyer and academic and has written a book called The New…

Insights on the Iran Deal, BRICS and Handling a Crisis in Venezuela

January 29, 2019 Opinion

Brazil is once again in the eye of a political hurricane, after President Jair Bolsonaro’s appearance at Davos and explosive revelations directly linking his clan to a criminal organization in Rio de …

Top 5 Dumbest Arguments Defending Trump’s Venezuela Interventionism

January 29, 2019 Opinion

Ever since the Trump administration announced that it was no longer recognizing the legitimacy of the elected government of Venezuela I’ve been arguing with people on social media about this president…

The U.S. Military’s Lost Wars – Overfunded, Overhyped, and Always Over There

January 29, 2019 Opinion

One of the finest military memoirs of any generation is Defeat Into Victory, British Field Marshal Sir William Slim’s perceptive account of World War II’s torturous Burma campaign, which ended in a re…

How the West Weaponizes Refugees it Creates

January 29, 2019 Opinion

The only thing more sinister than intentionally creating refugees, is weaponizing them as leverage to further coerce nations and advance hegemonic ambitions. The United States and its allies have done…