The trouble started in 2014. A US supported coup took out the democratically elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, with his eastern base, and replaced him with a West leaning president who was handpicked by the US. Victoria Nuland, who is now Acting Deputy Secretary of State and who was then Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, can be heard on an intercepted phone call selecting Arseniy Yatsenyuk as America’s choice to replace Yanukovych. He did. The new government changed Ukraine. For the first time, the government had been changed by western Ukraine and its monist vision of the country…

It has been nearly 70 years since Israel first asked the U.S. to sign a bilateral defense treaty. Ever since then, the idea of a formal security agreement, which requires congressional approval, has resurfaced from time to time, usually around major political or diplomatic events. It has been struck down repeatedly by one side or the other (and, at times, by both), due to an understanding that it does not serve their actual needs. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is currently floating the idea once again, this time in the context of a possible Israeli-American-Saudi mega-deal to normalize relations between the two Middle Eastern states,…

In the considered period, and the attempts that failed in a decent place on paper, I insisted on honesty in catching up with the accelerating news coming from Africa, is nothing, but an attempt to make the same art that the colonial superpowers play on the ruins of peoples who only want a piece of bread and some dignity and freedom, and to be honest more, patron of the craft alone, who does not? Her secrets are hidden from him. Africans are standing today, and all of them are full of hope... and they have no choice but to be…

The anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki present an opportunity to demolish a cornerstone myth of American history — that those twin acts of mass civilian slaughter were necessary to bring about Japan’s surrender, and spare a half-million US soldiers who’d have otherwise died in a military conquest of the empire’s home islands. Those who attack this mythology are often reflexively dismissed as unpatriotic, ill-informed or both. However, the most compelling witnesses against the conventional wisdom were patriots with a unique grasp on the state of affairs in August 1945 — America’s senior military leaders of World…

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