If only there was ANYONE in our foreign policy governing institutions with such a clear understanding of the Ukraine crisis as Professor Sachs, we might have avoided slaughtering hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and wasting $140 billion of US taxpayer money there. Jeffrey D. Sachs is a University Professor and Director…
Israel’s fortunes in its conflicts in the Middle East are the opposite of what is being reported in our highly propagandized media. Colonel Larry Wilkerson and Scott Ritter give us the realities of the situation. Larry Wilkerson is a renowned defense analyst and a Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Government & Public…
Jeffrey Sachs does 95% of the talking in one of the most fascinating, informative interviews ever! Jeffrey D. Sachs is a University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed The Earth Institute from 2002 until 2016. He is also President of the…
John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. Above all else, he is an international relations theorist. More specifically, he is a realist, which means that he believes that the great…
Freeing the World from the Deadly Shadow of Genocide and Ecocide When I was in the U.S. military, I learned a saying (often wrongly attributed to the Greek philosopher Plato) that only the dead have seen the end of war. Its persistence through history to this very moment should indeed be sobering.…
The question of who is responsible for causing the Ukraine war has been a deeply contentious issue since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022. The answer to this question matters enormously because the war has been a disaster for a variety of reasons, the most important of which is…
Annie Jacobsen (born June 28, 1967) is an American investigative journalist, author, and a 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist. She was a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times Magazine from 2009 until 2012. Jacobsen writes about war, weapons, security, and secrets. Jacobsen is best known as the author of the 2011 non-fiction book, Area 51: An Uncensored…
[ “We know from history that it’s far easier to destroy than to create, far easier to kill than to preserve. Yet when countries make genocide or ecocide (from nuclear winter) possible and defensible (as a sign of uncompromising ‘toughness’ and perhaps the defense of ‘freedom’), you know that their…
The U.S. has intentionally caused the most threatening, destructive and completely unnecessary war in its history. It is destroying a major nation and putting the world at risk for nuclear annihilation. Here is some blunt, invaluable straight-talk from the brilliant, courageous, highly-respected Jeffrey Sachs. Jeffrey D. Sachs is a University…
Last Friday, I addressed the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Below is the video of my statement, along with a transcript. If you are interested in my immediate feelings on speaking to the UN Security Council – a mix of gratitude, anger and despondency – you can listen to my interview from…