1 October 2024

The Deep State is running the USA, not the President

It doesn't matter who the president is, the Deep State is running the USA. If you want to interpret American foreign policy its all about power as the central objective - and hegemony.  And they really believe they are doing the right thing. David Sacks and a panel from the All in Podcast speak with John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs about their views of what drives America.

8 August 2024

The awesome power of the Israel lobby

There is abundant evidence that Israel is pursuing policies that are directly at odds with the Biden administration’s goals in the Middle East.

21 May 2024

Why Israel is in deep trouble

After more than six months, it appears to many that Israel is losing its war in Gaza. At the same time, Israel is fighting Hezbollah on its northern border, relations between Jerusalem and Washington are strained, and the International Court of Justice has ruled that a plausible case can be made that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

13 December 2023

Death and destruction in Gaza

I do not believe that anything I say about what is happening in Gaza will affect Israeli or American policy in that conflict. But I want to be on record so that when historians look back on this moral calamity, they will see that some Americans were on the right side of history.