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Syrian Christians Protest Presence Of Foreign Jihadists After Christmas Display Burned

Syrian Christians Protest Presence Of Foreign Jihadists After Christmas Display Burned

by | Dec 25, 2024 |

Starting Monday night and into Tuesday, large demonstrations broke out in Christian areas of Damascus and other parts of Syria over the continued presence of foreign jihadists in the country. The ruling Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has vowed to protect the sizeable non-Muslim communities of Syria (Christians, Alawites, and Druze) following the overthrow of the secular-leaning President Assad and his Baath government, but deep fears have remained that an Islamic state based on Sharia...

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End Congress’s Christmas Tradition

End Congress’s Christmas Tradition

by | Dec 23, 2024 |

This week saw a new twist in what has become a D.C. Christmas tradition. I am not referring to the lighting of the White House Christmas tree but to passage of a “continuing resolution” (CR) funding the government and thus avoiding a Christmastime government shutdown. It took the production of three separate CRs before one passed in the Senate after midnight Friday night and was then signed by President Joe Biden. A reason an earlier CR failed to obtain congressional approval was that...

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Putin weighs in on the Syrian situation

Putin weighs in on the Syrian situation

by | Dec 23, 2024 |

Russian President Vladimir Putin, during his Results of the Year annual marathon yearender interactive televised discussion with the Russian public and the media in Moscow on December 19, spoke at some length on the recent developments in Syria.  These were Putin’s first public remarks on the topic and, coming 12 days after armed opposition forces seized Damascus and the exile of former president Bashar al-Assad and his family in Moscow, they signified that the Kremlin is...

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Righty Tighty: A Simple Way Donald Trump Can End the Ukraine and Israel Wars

Righty Tighty: A Simple Way Donald Trump Can End the Ukraine and Israel Wars

by | Dec 22, 2024 |

Upon his inauguration as president, Donald Trump will become the leader of a United States executive branch mired in two major wars via its continuing pumping of money, weapons, and intelligence into support of the Ukraine and Israel governments. Trump has declared his opposition to the continuation of these wars. But, how can he end them? The means by which Trump can end the wars is simpler than many Americans think. This means just does not come to mind for many Americans because it is far...

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Eminently Overdue: The Supreme Court Considers New York Case That Could Overturn the Infamous Kelo Decision

Eminently Overdue: The Supreme Court Considers New York Case That Could Overturn the Infamous Kelo Decision

by | Dec 20, 2024 |

As an academic and a legal commentator, I have sometimes disagreed with the United States Supreme Court, but I often stress the good-faith differences in how certain rights or protections are interpreted. One case, however, has long stood out for me as wildly off-base and wrongly decided: Kelo v. New London. The case allowed the government to seize property from one private party and then give it to another private party. There is now a petition before the Supreme Court that would allow...

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Is Seeking to Stop a War a Crime?

Is Seeking to Stop a War a Crime?

by | Dec 20, 2024 |

The early November detention of Asif Rahman, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, indicted in a federal national security court in the Eastern District of Virginia on two counts of “willful retention and transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act,” was largely downplayed in the national media. He was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Tuesday November 5th at the US Embassy in Phnom Penh in Cambodia where he was...

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Trump Should Pattern Presidency After Eisenhower

Trump Should Pattern Presidency After Eisenhower

by | Dec 19, 2024 |

“God help the Nation when it has a President who doesn’t know as much about the military as I do.” – President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking to his trusted White House Staff Secretary, Gen. Andrew Goodpaster. These words are quoted in the book “Ike’s Bluff – President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle To Save The World” by Evan Thomas. In the same paragraph as the words above are these: “When Defense Secretary Neil McElroy warned him that further cuts would harm national security, Eisenhower...

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Showdown in DOGE City

Showdown in DOGE City

by | Dec 19, 2024 |

The leaders of President-elect Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, have been meeting with Republican lawmakers recently. None of those involved shared details from their meetings, which was by design to allow for brainstorming. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) did say “Government is too big. It does too many things, and it does almost nothing well,” adding Musk and Ramaswamy would help usher in change. But how will Elon and Vivek...

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Shoot the Drones!

Shoot the Drones!

by | Dec 19, 2024 |

The skies over New Jersey have been littered with strange flying objects during the past two weeks; and the feds are either hiding the truth from terrified folks on the ground or scratching their collective heads along with the rest of us. Since early December, there have been between 3,000 and 5,000 reports of large drones -- some about the size of a pickup truck. They have three or four arms, at the ends of which are very bright lights. The drone I saw over the northwest tip of the state...

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A New Geo-Political Map is Unfolding – The End of Syria (and of ‘Palestine’ for now)

A New Geo-Political Map is Unfolding – The End of Syria (and of ‘Palestine’ for now)

by | Dec 18, 2024 |

Syria has entered the abyss – the demons of al-Qa’eda, ISIS, and the most intransigent elements of the Muslim Brotherhood are circling the skies. There is chaos, looting, fear, and a terrible passion for revenge scalds the blood. Street executions are rife. Maybe Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) and its leader, Al-Joulani, (following Turkish instruction), thought to control things. But HTS is an umbrella label like Al-Qa’eda, ISIS and An-Nusra, and its factions have already descended into...

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Iran: America’s Next War Of Choice

Iran: America’s Next War Of Choice

by , | Dec 18, 2024 |

Peace is not at hand in the Middle East, and Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu remains determined to expand the war. Syria’s de facto partition into Israeli and Turkish territories is the prelude to wider war with Iran. As the Times of Israel reported last week, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) has “continued to increase its readiness and preparations” for “potential strikes in Iran.” Netanyahu’s top priority is the destruction of Iran before Russia wraps up its victory in Ukraine and Syria becomes...

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Would a Trump-Putin Agreement Bring Peace to Ukraine or Just Set the Stage for More War?

Would a Trump-Putin Agreement Bring Peace to Ukraine or Just Set the Stage for More War?

by | Dec 17, 2024 |

“I have not become the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.” – Winston Churchill, 1942 Many Americans, even a lot who never much cared for Donald Trump, voted for him in part because they believed – or at least hoped – that he would be, relatively speaking, a peace candidate compared to the hideous Biden-Harris record. To his credit, Trump’s first term was the only US presidency since Jimmy Carter’s not to get us embroiled in a new conflict,...

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A Gift America Can’t Return: The Police State Is America’s New Crime Boss 

A Gift America Can’t Return: The Police State Is America’s New Crime Boss 

by | Dec 17, 2024 |

The American police state has become America’s new crime boss. Thirty years after then-President Bill Clinton signed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act into law, its legacy of mass incarceration, police militarization, and over-criminalization continues to haunt us. It has become the gift that America can’t seem to return. We are now suffering the blowback from the triple threats of the Crime Bill: police militarization, a warrior mindset that has police viewing the rest of...

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Ghosted by ChatGPT: How I was First Defamed and then Deleted by AI

Ghosted by ChatGPT: How I was First Defamed and then Deleted by AI

by | Dec 16, 2024 |

Below is my column in The Hill on recent reports that the use of my name in search requests on ChatGPT results in an error and no response. I am apparently not alone in this haunt of ghosted individuals. The controversy raises some novel and chilling questions about the rapid rise of AI systems. Here is the column: It is not every day that you achieve the status of “he-who-must-not-be-named.” But that curious distinction has been bestowed upon me by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, according to the New...

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Ukraine and Syria, A Western Plan Goes Awry

Ukraine and Syria, A Western Plan Goes Awry

by | Dec 16, 2024 |

Triumphant rhetoric in the corridors of Washington, DC celebrating the collapse of the Syrian government as a major victory over Russia is both foolish and short-sighted. I will explain. Let’s start with the situation in Ukraine. There is a growing atmosphere of desperation and panic among Western leaders as they watch Ukraine’s military collapse along the entire front and cast about for a strategy to stave off Ukraine’s defeat. But there is no viable solution. Russian military operations that...

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What Are We Doing in Syria?

What Are We Doing in Syria?

by | Dec 16, 2024 |

My first reaction to news earlier this month that the Syrian government had been overthrown was, how much did we have to do with it; how involved was the CIA; and how much is it going to cost. As with Saddam and Gaddafi before him, we know that Assad was no libertarian hero. But unleashing an army dedicated to establishing an Islamic state in once-secular Syria hardly seems like a good idea to me. As with President George W. Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” moment after Saddam’s overthrow,...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

Foreign Policy Illiterate

by | Oct 16, 2024

It is often said foreign policy is rarely top of mind in American presidential elections. For the most part this is true, but not in this election. We have witnessed the...

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Julian Assange Speaks

by | Oct 3, 2024

It was wonderful news to many people last week when word came that Julian Assange would speak publicly this week. For a long time it seemed that such a day would never come as...

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J.D. Vance, Israel Firster

J.D. Vance, Israel Firster

by | Oct 2, 2024

Donald Trump likes to talk about how he puts America first. Last night, Trump’s presidential race running mate J.D. Vance made it clear that Vance has other priorities. In answer...

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