US strategists lost empathy, along with their wars By Anatol Lieven The great realist thinker Hans Morgenthau stated that a fundamental ethical duty of the statesman is the cultivation of empathy: the ability through study to see the world through […]

DEFENCE TURNS THE MH17 SHOW TRIAL INTO A CIRCUS (excerpt) by John Helmer, Moscow Dutch and Russian state officials combined last week to turn the trial of the fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 into a farce. Two Rotterdam police […]

By Carey List The election of a new President in the United States is a momentous occasion at any time, but 2020 seems potentially ripe for earth shaking consequences. Few acts have more earth shaking consequences than war, and so […]

America’s retired spies want to be in charge of picking our presidents. By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. Let’s talk about lying. They admitted to having no evidence, but 50 former U.S. intelligence officials claimed the leak of Hunter Biden emails […]

If he wins another four years in the White House in the election on November 3, U.S. President Donald Trump may make a new push to mend Washington’s severely strained relations with Moscow, doubling down on an effort that was […]

The Russian proposal of October 20 for a simple one-year extension beyond February when the New START treaty expires, has received a curt reply from Washington within hours. By M.K. Bhadrakumar Something is still better than nothing, as the curtain […]

Authoritarian liberals have unleashed a censorious syndrome peculiar to our national character, dating to 17th century Quaker hangings in Boston. By Patrick Lawrence An inhabitant of Twitterland named “Willow Inski” took to the keyboard on Oct. 11, asking why anyone […]

Alex Gibney’s new, four-hour documentary on election meddling does little to seek the facts, and descends into conspiracy. By Mark Episkopos With the U.S. presidential election only several weeks away, the specter of Russian election interference has again become a […]

It’s hard to decide which development is worse: the FBI’s lengthy pattern of arrogant misconduct, or the mainstream media’s willingness to be an accomplice in excusing such misconduct. Either behavior undermines government accountability and the protection of civil liberties. The […]

US Intelligence officials were quick to speak through their stenographers in the media to downplay the contents of a memo released last week by Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe about the origins of Russiagate. The memo made an explosive […]