As Trump leaves office the only president to have not started a new war since WWII—and Joe Biden, who supported so many of America’s wars, including (vice-) presiding over the second and third Iraq Wars, heads into office—the talk is again what should be the most...
Peter van Buren
State Department Shoots Itself in the Foot at Impeachment Hearings
by Peter van Buren | Nov 25, 2019 | Featured Articles
The State Department, where I worked 24 years as a Foreign Service Officer (FSO) and diplomat, reminds me a lot of my current hometown, New York City. Both places spend an inordinate amount of time telling outsiders how great they are while ignoring the obvious...
Impeachment Witness Questions
by Peter van Buren | Nov 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
In addition to the whistleblower himself, when Republicans get their chance to fully question the people whose testimony is now being stage managed by the Democrats, here are the points they must make to illustrate all this. There is no crime. Exactly what is the...
So, Admiral McRaven Just Called for a Military Coup, Kinda
by Peter van Buren | Oct 18, 2019 | Featured Articles
Admiral William McRaven, famous for being the guy who told the guy who told the other guy who told the other guy who told that guy to go kill bin Laden, has essentially called for a military coup against the President of the United States in a New York Times Op-Ed. He...
Finding a Vaccine for the Impeachment Derangement Virus
by Peter van Buren | Oct 14, 2019 | Featured Articles
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons.Once intelligent people are talking about actual civil war in America. This began after Trump retweeted a pastor saying impeachment would cause a “civil war-like fracture in this Nation.” Never mind that it was a retweet, and never mind...
Bullies Like Me
by Peter van Buren | Jun 30, 2019 | Featured Articles
Harvard revoked a Parkland student’s admission, a survivor kid who supported the Second Amendment. Two former Central Park 5 prosecutors lost their jobs 30 years after the case, because of a Netflix movie released last week called “When They See Us.” By the time you...
Amash is Wrong, Pelosi (So Far…) is Right on Articles of Impeachment
by Peter van Buren | May 27, 2019 | Featured Articles
Even as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tries to put impeachment talk on the back burner within her own party, Justin Amash became the first Republican Congressman to call for it. This weekend on Twitter, as the Founders intended, Amash wrote “Mueller’s report identifies...
Iraq Wrecked Me for Nothing
by Peter van Buren | Apr 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
I recently spoke to some college students who, I realized, were in fifth grade when I got on a plane to Iraq. They now study that stuff in history classes like “Opportunities and Errors: 21st-Century America in the Middle East.” About halfway through our conversation,...
Russiagate: “Why did this ever start in the first place?”
by Peter van Buren | Apr 1, 2019 | Featured Articles
Trump and the Russians has created an army of “Mueller Truthers,” demanding additional investigations. But Republicans are also demanding to know more, specifically how the FBI came to look into collusion, and what that tells us about the tension between America’s...
So Why Did Trump Fire Comey?
by Peter van Buren | Mar 28, 2019 | Featured Articles
A media themelet is Trump fired then-FBI director James Comey because Comey would not let Michael Flynn off the hook. Flynn was caught in a perjury trap, lying about a legally-allowed meeting he held with the Russian ambassador. The FBI had the meet under surveillance...
Blackface: Confronting One’s Integrity in the Past
by Peter van Buren | Feb 8, 2019 | Featured Articles
We live in an age when one’s past is dragged up by those with ill intent to confront one’s integrity in the present. If you worked in Asia in the 1980s or earlier, you likely remember a popular toothpaste called, sadly, Darkie. It featured a caricature of a...
Was Jim Mattis the Last ‘Adult’ in Trump’s Room?
by Peter van Buren | Dec 24, 2018 | Featured Articles
The idea Mattis was the “adult in the room,” the moral and intellectual restraint on Trump’s evil wishes, is tired. We’ve been recycling that one for two years and more now, as various “adults” were christened as such and rose and fell in the eyes of the media —...
Mueller’s Investigation is Missing One Thing: A Crime
by Peter van Buren | Dec 10, 2018 | Featured Articles
A baby born when Robert Mueller started his investigation would be talking by now. But would she have anything to say?We last looked at what Mueller had publicly—and what he didn’t have—some 10 months ago, and I remained skeptical that the Trump campaign had in any...
Julian Assange Will Die Alongside Your 1st Amendment Rights
by Peter van Buren | Dec 3, 2018 | Featured Articles
Accidentally disclosed information confirms the US is actively planning to prosecute Julian Assange. What happens to Assange will almost certainly change what can be lawfully published in our democracy. This threat to our freedoms is being largely ignored because...
Notes on the Khashoggi Case
by Peter van Buren | Nov 24, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi story will someday be seen by historians (not in the US) as a near-perfect example of the failure of American policy in the Middle East begatting more failure. Only ignorance of history and the amazing sheepishness of the American people to...
Progress or Failure in North Korea?
by Peter van Buren | Nov 17, 2018 | Featured Articles
In this same week the New York Times asserted North Korea is engaged in a “great deception” over its nuclear forces, South Korean unification minister Cho Myoung Gyon is visiting the United States with plans to meet Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a Member of...
Deception in North Korea? Nope, But a New Flavor of Neocon
by Peter van Buren | Nov 15, 2018 | Featured Articles
What is the state of diplomacy on the Korean peninsula? Are we again heading toward the lip of war, or is progress being made at an expected pace? Are there Asian Neocons fanning the flames for conflict in Pyongyang much as others did with Baghdad? A year ago, in...
Brennan: ‘We have never before seen the approval or removal of security clearances used as a political tool’
by Peter van Buren | Aug 20, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Last week Trump suspended former CIA head John Brennan’s security clearance.His defenders immediately rose to declare this shall not stand. Twelve former intelligence officials signed a statement criticizing Trump’s decision, claiming “We have never before seen the...
What if a #MAGA Guy Ate Twitter’s Face?
by Peter van Buren | Aug 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
More than a few people have cited the exchange below as justification for my forever trip down the Memory Hole, my ban from Twitter. I used to be there as @wemeantwell. My bad zombie joke about #MAGA, or anything else I wrote that was flippant, is not writing I’m...
Peter Van Buren: Twitter Suspends Me Forever
by Peter van Buren | Aug 7, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Some readers are aware I have been permanently suspended from Twitter as @wemeantwell.This followed exchanges with several mainstream journalists over their support for America’s wars and unwillingness to challenge the lies of government. After two days of silence,...
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