Can it happen here?

Michael Tomasky of The New Republic points out the pathetic essence of media coverage of Donald Trump's current mad enthusiasms. Too ma...

It's the week of Passover too ... to which I have to say ... DUH!  The Christian story of Jesus' repudiation of and triumph over emp...

The Post reports: The exodus from Lebanon began last week after back-to-back assassinations targeted a Hezbollah commander near Beirut and...

The headline reads: U.S.-Brokered Talks Seek to Ease Tensions on Israel-Lebanon Border . I have no idea whether this is a meaningful develop...

While the many of us were looking elsewhere, Republicans have normalized the idea of the U.S. bombing Mexico. No, really. Trump claims he...

The sun is shining; the sky is clear; and for many, it's a U.S. holiday. Yet today the world totters on the brink of a major European wa...

This is the 80th anniversary of Executive Order 9066 signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which led to the incarceration of 120,000 p...

Finally somebody has said something I find sensible about the multi-faceted crisis that goes by label "Ukraine." I could have said...

Erudite Partner investigated some of the latest in military artificial intelligence threats.  Here’s a scenario to consider : a military fo...

Every obituary for recently deceased General Colin Powell leads with his recognition that, at the pinnacle of a stellar career, he lent his ...

I suppose I should write about the U.S. departure from Afghanistan . I must have written some 100 posts in some way about that imperial adve...

I'm not willing to pretend that this was lawful. Last week our new President delivered a 500 pound bomb "message." Biden laun...

No, not Kamala Harris as Joe Biden's V.P. I'll get to that I'm sure. Rather, it's seems worth noting that the Trump regime h...

Once upon a time , there was a Kennedy who "advised American families to build bomb shelters to protect them from atomic fallout in th...

If this NY Times headline gives you the shivers, it just proves you were a conscious human in the run up in 2002-3 to the Iraq war. Our ...

This book came to me literally as a found item. While Walking San Francisco , I happened upon the San Francisco Public Library mobile tech c...

The U.S. policy elite, usually of both parties, hates Iran with a recurrent, near-maniacal, fury that is not shared by most of us. I thoug...

On October 7, 2001, the United States invaded Afghanistan -- full of rage and ignorant, misbegotten imperial idealism -- in response to the...

On this date, it feels right and proper to remember Stanislav Petrov -- an obscure Soviet Russian airforce officer whom most of us can thank...

Sometimes my fellow citizens appall me. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists asked 3000 of us whether they would support a nuclear preempt...