Chas Freeman
Recent articles by Chas Freeman
11 December 2024
Finally, the effort to engineer regime change in Syria has been achieved
The first CIA effort at regime change in Syria was in 1947 at the very moment of its inception. And there were multiple efforts to overthrow governments in Syria and well before Bashar Al Assad took power. ... They all failed. There were efforts of course to change the Bashar Al Assad regime, to overthrow it. Hillary Clinton and others famously advocated that the United States CIA spent about 5 billion dollars in training of various groups including this one to overthrow the regime, presumably on behalf of Israeli security interests which have been foremost in the minds of the...
24 April 2024
Iran just destroyed US power in the Middle East
Former US ambassador Chas Freeman argues that Iran's strike changes all the rules of the game in the Middle-East.
9 October 2023
The Gaza breakout is like Vietnams 1968 Tet offensive
The Hamas attack on Israel was part jailbreak (from Gaza, the worlds largest prison since the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto) but more than that it was a revolt of the hopeless by the hopeless for the hopeless.
29 September 2023
The many lessons of the Ukraine war
My talk, like the conflict in Ukraine, is a long and complicated one. It contradicts propaganda that has been very convincing. My talk will offend anyone committed to the official narrative. The way the American media have dealt with the Ukraine war brings to mind a comment by Mark Twain: The researches of many commentators have already thrown much darkness on this subject, and it is probable that, if they continue, we shall soon know nothing at all about it.
13 May 2021
Washington is playing a losing game with China
Americas latest policies toward China will prove self-defeating. USChina relations now exemplify Freemans third law of strategic dynamics: for every hostile act there is a more hostile reaction.
3 October 2020
The Struggle with China is not a Replay of the Cold War: Remarks to the Asia American Forum
Washington has declared war on China. The administration and its allies hope that the war will be cold, but have no strategy for keeping it so. I find it noteworthy that the most belligerently anti-Chinese members of the current U.S. Senate are also its youngest.