The handwriting was on the wall. An Op-Ed in the New York Times entitled “I’m a Ukrainian, and I Refuse to Compete for Your Attention” summed things up nicely: a media junket the author’s friend had been organizing to Ukraine was canceled. The TV...
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Trump and the 14th Amendment
by Peter van Buren | Oct 6, 2023 | Featured Articles
In the developing world the party in power does away with its opponents one of three ways: a bullet to the head, throwing them in jail or kicking them off the ballot. Good to see America, Leader of the Free World, is already at work on two of the three. With it...
Court Moves to End Government Censorship by Proxy in Social Media
by Peter van Buren | Oct 2, 2023 | Featured Articles
If you think your social media is being edited and blocked to press a certain point of view, it is. If you think the government is trying to get you to think a certain way, it is. There’s no more hiding this behind dummy allegations of conspiracy theories. The US...
Disinformation, 1984-2023
by Peter van Buren | Aug 7, 2023 | Featured Articles
Orwell, again. 1984 was prescient on so many concepts that it seems it was written for the Biden era. Underlying it all is the concept of disinformation, the root of propaganda and mind control. So it is in 2023. Just ask FBI Director Chris Wray. Or Facebook. George...
Leave Trump Alone (Because It Does not Matter)
by Peter van Buren | Jun 27, 2023 | Featured Articles
The narrative is set. Everything between now and November 2024, absent an actual alien intervention, is filler material. Trump will ride his narrative to the polls, campaigning even if in hand cuffs and an ankle monitor. He is, he will make clear, the victim of a...
Never Again? DeSantis and Torture
by Peter van Buren | Jun 5, 2023 | Featured Articles
During a press conference at the Museum of Tolerance in West Jerusalem in April, Ron DeSantis was questioned about a former detainee’s claim that as a naval attorney at Guantanamo DeSantis watched as the prisoner was force fed, something the UN regards as torture. “Do...
The Final Durham Report: Democracy’s Horror Show
by Peter van Buren | May 27, 2023 | Featured Articles
Hillary knew. She knew her campaign paid for Russian disinformation (including the alleged pee tape accusations) to be washed through a report by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. She knew the information was false but could potentially allow her...
Embassy Evacuation: Sudan
by Peter van Buren | May 4, 2023 | Featured Articles
The American Embassy in Sudan is closed. Fierce fighting between two warring generals has led to the swift deterioration of conditions in the capital and the US appears to be preparing to evacuate American staff, possibly some private American citizens. What happens...
Why Hasn’t the US Arrested WaPo Journalist for Publishing Classified Documents?
by Peter van Buren | Apr 29, 2023 | Featured Articles
Why hasn’t the US government arrested WaPo journalist Shane Harris for publishing highly classified documents related to the war in Ukraine and US spying on its allies? The ones leaked by Air national Guardsman Jack Teixeira? The documents contain significant...
Iraq was 20 Years Ago Today…
by Peter van Buren | Mar 21, 2023 | Featured Articles
I was part of Iraq 2.0, heading two embedded civilian provincial reconstruction teams (ePRTs) 2009-2010 and wrote a book critical of the program, We Meant Well, for which was I was punished into involuntary retirement by my employer the U.S. State Department. The...
Exposure: Why Mishandling Classified Material Matters
by Peter van Buren | Jan 23, 2023 | Featured Articles
Hillary versus Trump versus Biden. All three kept classified information at their homes. Who wins the battle to have likely done the most damage to national security? In the end when dealing with the damage done by mishandling classified information it comes down to...
Wrapping Up: What John Durham Learned
by Peter van Buren | Dec 5, 2022 | Featured Articles
As he wraps up his investigation with the prosecution of Igor Danchenko, we are left only with questions about what John Durham did not do. Best to start with what we learned. Durham established what FBI Director James Comey likely knew from near day one, that the...
The DNI Two-Step and Trump
by Peter van Buren | Sep 19, 2022 | Featured Articles
If you play poker with a guy named Doc often enough you learn to watch his hands carefully when it’s his turn to hold the deck. Same when the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the Intelligence Community (IC), and the FBI sit down at the table with the American...
Prosecuting Trump
by Peter van Buren | Sep 9, 2022 | Featured Articles
What would you do if you were Merrick Garland? Would you prosecute Trump? Or would you walk away, concerned about accusations you and the FBI were playing politics?Step One appears easy, put off any decision until after the midterms. Trump is not a candidate, key...
Overclassification and Mar-a-Lago
by Peter van Buren | Sep 5, 2022 | Featured Articles
Let’s commit a potential crime by reading this: “Every day the Iraqis turn out military communiques threatening ‘severe punishment’ against Iran.” That line is classified, albeit from 1988. It was put into the public sphere via Wikileaks but never officially...
Much Ado About Nancy Pelosi and China
by Peter van Buren | Aug 13, 2022 | Featured Articles
China policy seems to be made by, and written about by, adults who were often beaten up on the school playground. They retain the language of bullying, and weaknesses, and standing up, and the fantasy that something would sweep in and save them from losing another...
The Specific 'Why' Behind Russiagate
by Peter van Buren | Jun 7, 2022 | Featured Articles
Show of hands? How many still believe Trump and Russia colluded? That Trump is somehow beholden to Russia? That Hillary Clinton had nothing to do with “Russiagate?” Anyone? In the back, Bueller? And we’ll get to the large group chanting “it doesn’t matter” and “but...
Moments of Russiagate Truth
by Peter van Buren | Jun 2, 2022 | Featured Articles
It’s sometime a very sad moment when truth is all that’s left. Suspicions of infidelity become credit card receipts from the no-tell motel. A Facebook post tells of a meal shared when a business trip was scheduled. It is ugly, especially the now certainty that you...
Deterrence, China, and the US
by Peter van Buren | Apr 13, 2022 | Featured Articles
The US should not use its military power to deter China from invading Taiwan. It is unnecessary, and anything more than what is already being done is more likely to help provoke a war than stop one. It might even be better to turn down US enthusiasm a notch or two....
Biden Wants All the Points Due a Wartime President without Actually Going to War
by Peter van Buren | Apr 6, 2022 | Featured Articles
The view that war is politics by other means, the realist idea nations pursue strategic goals with some sort of calculation behind them, is not for us. Americans must reduce everything to good versus evil, democracy versus autocracy, light versus dark. Leaders...
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