17 Jan, 2017
A Peace Agenda for the New Administration
“The looming advent of the Trump administration in Washington threatens to worsen an already deeply troubling international situation….” Lawrence Wittner...
12 Jan, 2017
Donald Trump’s Fake News Conference
“The media waited with bated breath for Donald Trump’s first news conference in 167 days. But I’m sure many journalists...
9 Jan, 2017
Unfit to command
“During the presidential campaign a significant number of former senior foreign policy and national security officials from both parties spoke…”...
5 Jan, 2017
Can Donald Trump Be Contained?
“There’s just no getting around it: the president-elect of the United States is a pathological liar. He is also a...
31 Dec, 2016
Coming to our senses regarding nukes
“As part of President-Elect Trumps daily tweets this past week he stated: “The United States must greatly strengthen its nuclear...
29 Dec, 2016
Tweeting While the World Comes to its Senses
“When Donald Trump Tweeted something about nuclear weapons Dec. 23, I thought he must be deliberately trivializing the Bomb to...
28 Dec, 2016
The Diplomacy of Donald J. Trump
“Those of us who appreciate the unconventional have to have second thoughts after watching Donald J. Trump in action. All...
21 Dec, 2016
Pledging Allegiance
“I pledge allegiance to . . . what? The Electoral College, to no one’s serious surprise, voted Donald Trump in...
8 Dec, 2016
An Open Letter to the Harry Potter generation: Now is the time for young Gryffindors to resist Trumpdemort!
“When my son and I were reading the Harry Potter books together, in 2009-10, I had told him that the...
4 Dec, 2016
Nuclear Weapons Modernization: a New Nuclear Arms Race? Who Voted for it? Who Will Benefit from It?
“When General John Hyten recently assumed his post as the new head of U.S. Strategic Command, he and observers listed...
2 Dec, 2016
Focus on the Silver Lining
“The election is over and Trump won. In a country with a sane election system, he would not have, but...
30 Nov, 2016
White evangelicals are fading, powerful, baffling
“Overwhelmingly, 81 percent of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump — a twice-divorced vulgarian who calls women “pigs” and “slobs,”...
27 Nov, 2016
Bending the Arc
“Maybe this much is true. Donald Trump, pseudo-president-elect, loser of the real election, charismatic stump-speech populist whose actual ability…” Robert...
25 Nov, 2016
Read my apocalypse: Dead reckoning
“The Ship of State—especially that of the United States—may have begun as a lithe and limber craft back in the...
22 Nov, 2016
Torture Charges against the US Considered by International Criminal Court
“US armed forces and the CIA may have committed war crimes by torturing detainees in Afghanistan and elsewhere, the International...