War Is A Crime

I was happy to discuss Ukraine for an hour with Santita Jackson:

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When it comes to history, consider Donald Trump, the second time around, the distraction president. As a start, out of the blue he suddenly released a vast swath of documents, tens of thousands of pages, about President John F. Kennedy that, while they taught us little or nothing new about his assassination, did tell us something about how deeply and widely the Central Intelligence read more

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Hey, it’s a veritable bargain for Donald Trump! How could the businessman president (six of whose firms read more

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I was barely a year old when two atom bombs were used to destroy the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Just before my birth, my father, then a U.S. Air Force major, had returned from fighting the Japanese in Burma. I never asked him what he felt when he heard the news of the devastation of those two cities and the war-ending moment that followed. Now, of course, I’ll read more

I hate to say I told you so. It’s obnoxious really. But sometimes it is an important point. In this case the point is this: the people who are always right about wars were right about the war in Ukraine, whereas the “experts” who are always on television and in government were, as usual, wrong.

Which of the following statements about the war with Russia comes closest to your personal views?

• Ukraine should continue fighting until it wins the war
• Ukraine should seek to negotiate an ending to the war as soon as possible

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Gallup asked read more

Did you know that the murders and rapes and free-for-all violent chaos in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina didn’t actually happen, and that the consistent pattern during major disasters is for people to go out of their way to help each other, for the news media to falsely report murder and mayhem, and for authorities who imagine most people are like themselves to send in armed troops to create a second disaster?

Did you know that the Lord of the Flies is a story made up by a disturbed read more

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Sometimes, strange as it might seem, striking historical moments pass almost unnoticed. As far as I’m concerned, that couldn’t be truer recently. Under the administration of President Donald Trump (who snags every headline in sight for just about anything he says or does), an extraordinary moment did indeed pass essentially unnoticed. Yes, there were a few news reports read more

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Honestly, it’s hard even to imagine: a small 25-mile strip of land filled with more than two million Palestinians, which, since Hamas’s grim October 2023 assault on southern read more