GUEST COMMENTARY - Perhaps nothing has changed Turkey’s domestic and international trajectory since the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923 than the failed military coup of July 2016, which gave Erdogan an unprecedented opportunity to satisfy his insatiable lust for power. 

 JAN 6 COMMITTEE - "All bets are off," Jason Van Tatenhove said on Tuesday before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.

GUEST COMMENTARY - A number of nuclear strategy Experts have agreed that the only sensible response to China’s alarming new buildup of nuclear weapons is for the U.S. itself to build more and better weapons.

SURVEILLANCE TOOLS - In a recent commentary, I discussed the visit to China of the UN’s chief human rights official on what proved to be a seriously misguided and rather naïve attempt to improve the conditions of the Uyghur population in Xinjiang province.

NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT - The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons has been ratified by 65 governments, known in diplomatic circles as States Parties.

WORLD WATCH - The Abraham Accords have been in the making for several years; what has ultimately brought them to fruition is the Arab states’ national security interests.

GUEST COMMENTARY - The United States appears to have entered a new cold war with both China and Russia.

GEO-POLITICS - The Russian war in Ukraine is a calamity—

WAR WATCH – I expect the war will go on for a while until the generals and politicians get tired of it.

RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR - The tragic, illegal war of aggression by Russia against Ukraine should end now, with a ceasefire and then a comprehensive peace agreement.

COLD WAR TO COLD WAR - During World War II, US sailors were warned: Loose lips sink ships.

FAIR WAGES - Would you like to see the evidence that shows how top American corporate CEOs are contributing far more to the success of their enterprises than their British counterparts?

MIDDLE EAST POLITICS - The Deputy Spokesperson for the State Department, Jalina Porter, on Friday condemned the Israeli government’s announcement that it would build 4,000 further housing units in the Palestinian West Bank,

COLD WAR REALITY -  A principal lesson of the war in Ukraine is that the Cold War never ended.

WORLD HUNGER - Russia's invasion of Ukraine has produced a terrible humanitarian crisis in eastern Europe.

WAR CRIMES - As Russia’s war in Ukraine continues, human rights groups have gathered evidence of Russian atrocities against civilians — including executions, rapes, and mass murder.

CHINA POLICY - David Goldman’s remarks on America’s challenges against China are, for the most part, spot-on.

GUEST COMMENTARY - For years, as ever-bigger corporate combines grabbed ever-bigger chunks of market power, America's political, media and academic establishment scoffed at critics, drowning them out with jolly rounds of "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah."

GUEST COMMENTARY - I recently participated in a commemoration of Martin Luther King's address "Beyond Vietnam—A Time to Break Silence," originally delivered on April 2, 1967, at New York City's Riverside Church.

UNITED NATIONS - Russia’s brutal war upon the nation of Ukraine should remind us that, for thousands of years, great powers have used their military might to launch military assaults upon smaller, weaker societies.

WAR WATCH - US Americans, as products of television and Hollywood, want good guys and bad guys.