US President Donald Trump did not invent the phrase “fake news,” but he undoubtedly transformed it into a political weapon, ...
When I joined the Central Intelligence Agency’s Directorate of Intelligence in the summer of 1966, the Soviet Division was in great turmoil because of the failure to predict the fall of Soviet leader ...
Is that you again? Didn’t I kill you? I said…you killed me…and I forgot, like you, to die.” – Mahmoud Darwish, “In Jerusalem” My esteemed colleague, the ...
Is Israel’s trajectory toward isolation and collapse self-inflicted, and has Zionism reached the point of no return? Every war led by Benjamin Netanyahu ...
After not attending since 2019, I arrived early for this year’s Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC) at the ...
If you’ve been around long enough to remember any of the wars in the last 60 years, the latest “excursion” in Iran by a demented old president will bring ...
As international law developed over the centuries, the principle of State sovereignty and the prohibition of interference in the internal affairs of other states gradually evolved -- from the Peace of ...
The portly man at the next table finished his breakfast, leaned in my direction, and asked: ”What’s in the news that’s so interesting?” “Iran,” I said, ...
A bit less than 20 years ago, a nationwide housing bubble collapsed, giving us the Great Recession. Millions of homeowners ...
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth wants $200 billion for the Trump administration's illegal, ill-advised, undeclared war on Iran. Well, maybe. "That ...
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil – Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963) ...
With each dragged out day, President Donald Trump begins resembling a mad emperor who has not only taken leave of his senses ...