Up a creek

7 years ago

 Last night's presidential statement from the White House in defense of adding hundreds of miles to the existing wall…

The southern border crisis is a fraud

7 years ago

This is not a crisis. Saying so is a fraud. It is also a transparent effort to distract attention from…

Motherfucker

7 years ago

Half the readership of peacefare.net, more or less, is non-American, and a large part of that does not have English…

The Democratic House and foreign policy

7 years ago

The new US House of Representatives that was elected November 6 met for the first time yesterday. The Democratic majority…

Inane

7 years ago

My Smithsonian employed spouse is headed home on furlough. I know whom to blame: The inanity of furloughing the US…

A good 4-minute start to the new year

7 years ago

Srdja Popovic starts the New Year with a four-minute version of what to do to bring down a dictator: https://twitter.com/i/status/1080300683071549440…

Make Plan A work

7 years ago

I've had several requests from Balkan publications for my end-of-year views on the situation in the region. I've so far…

Risk rises

7 years ago

I dare not go past that to the spring. While the US remains safer and more prosperous than ever before,…

The disgrace

7 years ago

 A presidency that has known few happy days is at a nadir, though it may well go lower. Russia…

The missing piece

7 years ago

Avoiding long-term commitments of this sort is understandable, especially if the maneuver is done with adequate preparation, without undermining friends…