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How Berkeley and NYU’s Anti-Free Speech Actions are as Unconstitutional as Hell
by Peter van Buren | May 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
Ann Coulter will not speak at Berkeley this week because the threat of mob violence lead campus authorities to claim they could not protect her. The same threats led New York University (NYU) to cancel Milo Yiannopoulos’ appearance in February. These are shameful...
Do American Airports Suck? Yes, Yes They Do
by Peter van Buren | Apr 28, 2017 | Featured Articles
Traveling by air in America is one of the best ways to see the country, although it is not always the nicest view. I recently took a fresh look, with the goal of advising my foreign friends what to expect when they drop by the United States.Our Air PalacesYou’ll enjoy...
Tell Us Why We’re At War, President Trump
by Peter van Buren | Apr 24, 2017 | Featured Articles
People speak of Afghanistan as “our generation’s” Vietnam, a quagmire, a war that goes on simply because it has been going on.The Afghan war is dragging into being our generation’s, and soon the next generation’s Vietnam as well, over a decade and a half old. There...
Does it Matter Who Pulls the Trigger in the Drone Wars?
by Peter van Buren | Apr 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
We’re allowing a mindset of “anything Trump does is wrong” coupled with lightening-speed historical revisionism for the Obama era to sustain the same mistakes in the war on terror that have fueled Islamic terrorism for the past 15 years. However, there may be a window...
Cornerstone of Afghan Reconstruction Effort — Roads — is Near-Total Failure
by Peter van Buren | Mar 25, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
One of the planned cornerstones of the 15+ year Afghan Reconstruction Effort was to be an extensive, nationwide network of roads.The United States’ concept was roads would allow the Afghan economy to flourish as trade could reach throughout the country, security would...
Is Tillerson Skipping NATO for Russia a Crisis? (No.)
by Peter van Buren | Mar 23, 2017 | Featured Articles
Is Tillerson committing treason skipping a NATO meeting for Russia? A diplomatic crisis? The end of the alliance? A favor to Putin? No. It’s just a scheduling decision.Senior government leaders are often called on to be in more than one place at a time. They make...
State Department: Is America’s Oldest Cabinet Agency Trumped?
by Peter van Buren | Mar 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
What if it’s not incompetence? What if it is by design? What if President Donald Trump has decided American doesn’t really need a Department of State and if he can’t get away with closing it down, he can disable and defund it?The only problem is Trump will quickly...
Dissent and the State Department: What Comes Next?
by Peter van Buren | Mar 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
Some 1000 employees at the Department of State are said to have signed a formal memo sent through the “Dissent Channel” in late January, opposing President Donald Trump’s Executive Order initially blocking all Syrian refugee admissions indefinitely, delaying other...
Can’t Judge Fake News in the Dark
by Peter van Buren | Feb 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
This isn’t about Trump. It’s about judging the media, whoever and whatever they report on. It is about reading critically when so much out there is just simply inaccurate. Not maybe inaccurate, pure dead solid perfect stupid. So don’t call me a nazi.Step One is to...
What Will Rex Tillerson Inherit at the State Department?
by Peter van Buren | Feb 2, 2017 | Featured Articles
As Secretary of State, what will Rex Tillerson inherit at the State Department?The media has been aflame recently trying to stretch the facts — personnel changes and some unhappy employees in the midst of a major governmental transition — to fit the narrative of a...
Those ‘Resignations’: What Really Happened at the State Department
by Peter van Buren | Jan 27, 2017 | Featured Articles
Yesterday at the State Department five officials resigned or retired. Another one today.The media has gone near-insane, claiming State is crumbling in protest under the Trump administration. This is not true. What happened at State is very routine.Leaving the...
We’re Still Here, 1/20/17, Consumed Most of All by Our Fears
by Peter van Buren | Jan 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
One of my favorite quotes includes the lines “I awoke this morning to find that it was not judgment day – only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.” I think that sums up a part of my thinking, but certainly not all.A nuclear reckoning, war with China, or anything...
Symbolic Failure Point: Female Afghan Pilot Wants Asylum In The US
by Peter van Buren | Dec 30, 2016 | Featured Articles
History loves little markers, tidy packages of symbolism that wrap up a big, complex thing.You know, the helicopter on the roof of the American Embassy in Saigon standing in for years of failed war, the Berlin Wall being knocked down to visually note the end the Cold...
You Opened the Box…
by Peter van Buren | Dec 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
Once you let the genie out of the bottle, you can’t stuff him back in.Attempts to overturn the results of our election, or to delegitimize a president before he even takes office, are attempts to overturn the system of transfer of power that has served America since...
Credibility Tips for Journalists
by Peter van Buren | Dec 14, 2016 | Featured Articles
The working journalists of America messed the bed with their election coverage this year.For the most part, the media as a whole fetishized the Clinton candidacy (first woman ever! most experienced candidate ever! dynasty!) and treated Trump as an oaf when they...
Freedom’s Just Another Word
by Peter van Buren | Dec 10, 2016 | Featured Articles
Here’s what’s left of democracy in America.We had an election, and the candidate favored by Washington, media, and many business elites did not win. Here’s what happened next. — CIA unambiguously but without documentation or evidence presented says, via anonymous...
Requiem for the Obama Administration, Trump Edition
by Peter van Buren | Dec 7, 2016 | Featured Articles
The problems many are now predicting under the Trump administration did not start on November 8. The near-unrestrained executive power claimed by the Obama administration will be transferred to the president-elect. Here’s what that means. Torture Obama did not...
The War on the First Amendment Didn’t Start Last Week
by Peter van Buren | Nov 22, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
For those who woke a week ago to discover the First Amendment is under attack, I lost my job at the Obama/Clinton State Department in 2012 for writing We Meant Well, a book the government did not like, and needed the help of lawyer Jesselyn Radack and the ACLU to push...
Help Wanted, Apply Now!
by Peter van Buren | Nov 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
You may have seen the stories last week — President-elect Donald Trump was shocked to learn he needs to hire over 4,000 political appointees by January 20, or that people in Washington may refuse to work in a Trump administration, or that Trump, as a newcomer to...
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