Former U.S. nukes commander’s steps to keep Ukraine crisis from mushrooming...
There are rising concerns that the Ukraine crisis could lead to nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia. Marine Gen. James Cartwright, whose last job was Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs […]
View ArticleJason Rezaian: Iran’s nuclear hostage?
Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian’s trial may be an attempt by reactionary forces in Iran to upend the Iran nuclear deal. Recently my wife and I were watching an old episode of […]
View ArticleThe 7 most incisive comments about the Iran nuclear deal
The Iran nuclear deal has generated an abundance of extraordinary insights. Here’s a sampling. We shall start with a headline which, for me, sums up all the excruciating years of accusations,...
View ArticleDo Saudi Citizens prefer the Islamic State to the House of Saud?
A poll indicates that Saudi citizens seem to find the Islamic State’s repressiveness and barbarism less objectionable than the House of Saud’s corruption. In a New York Review of Books review of […]
View ArticleBacklash against “heaven tourism” memoirs does a disservice to the genuinely...
Critics assume readers seek only confirmation of their prejudices. If you never have, you owe it to yourself to visit Aeon magazine. The often illuminating British site publishes essays on science,...
View ArticleWhat if, faced with nuclear war, we surrendered?
The only true way to win a nuclear war is not to fight it. Most people are aware that, in the event nuclear deterrence fails, the ensuing nuclear war, whether controlled or […]
View ArticleHistoric sites fill a variety of the Islamic State’s needs, none of them good
Historic sites serve every purpose to the Islamic State except actual preservation of cultural heritage. The beheading by the Islamic State of “Mr. Palmyra,” Khalid al-Asaad, the retired chief of...
View ArticlePope Francis blesses environment, McKibben gives Pope his blessing
Laudato Si’, the papal encyclical letter written by Pope Francis, is helping to move global warming to the forefront of the world’s consciousness. Recent years have exposed the emptiness of the free […]
View ArticleEmergence of Islamic State an embarrassment for national security community
The Islamic State remains a puzzle to U.S. policymakers and analysts. The national security community in the United States and the West neither predicted the Islamic State’s rise, nor has been able […]
View ArticleBefore you put it to work for you, don’t forget to incorporate your robot!
The upside and downside of incorporating robots. You’ve heard about e-trading, or high-frequency trading — the use of algorithms to react instantly and reflexively to the market. And you may have heard...
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