Clik here to view.
The Egregious Arrogance of Sam Bankman-Fried (& his ilk)
On December 13, the House Financial Services Committee held a long-awaited hearing into the collapse of the FTX crypto empire. FTX’s disgraced former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried could not, as he had hoped...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Is North Korea China’s Israel?
Over the New Year’s break, North Korea’s military test-fired some short-range (350-400 kilometer) ballistic missiles, while the country’s news agency reported that it was testing a new 600 mm multiple...
View ArticleMy new writing project: Globalities.org
Hi. I’m just letting everyone here know about my new writing project, Globalities.org. Do check it out. I set it up to be a bit more “serious” and professional-looking than what goes on here at JWN....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Britain once swapped an expensive empire for a National Health Service… Today–?
When I was growing up in England in the 1950s and 1960s, we were all pretty proud of the NHS. It really did a lot to define “British-ness” at a time when the Empire that had done that for previous...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to play ‘War Lies Bingo’
The history of World War 1 continues to be eerily relevant today. In 1928, the leftwing British war resister Arthur Ponsonby published a book titled Falsehood in War-Time, Containing an Assortment of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rand’s latest Ukraine assessment assessed
On January 25, the Rand Corporation issued a short-ish study of the conflict in Ukraine, titled “Avoiding a Long War: U.S. Policy and the Trajectory of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict.” The Rand...
View ArticleRegaining my voice as a writer
Back in November, I wrote a bit here on JWN about my struggle to get back to doing my own writing after spending some 12 years of working mainly as an impresario for the work of others. I also wrote...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A crazy idea (or two) to deal with the Ukraine grain “crisis”
My distinguished colleague and friend Melvin Goodman has had some terrific pieces up at Counterpunch recently, including great, searing critiques of Pres. Biden’s rehabilitation of Eliott Abrams, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An intriguing but frustrating window into Obama’s West Asia policy
Now comes (yet another!) book by one of the hordes of nation-security technocrats who dominate West Asian policymaking in Democratic administrations here in Washington. In this case, it is Grand...
View ArticleThe NYT’s super-tacky hit-job against Singham, Prashad, CodePink
Last Saturday, The New York Times devoted more than two pages of its first section (in print) to a lengthy hit-piece, with the headline shown above. The article was also published in full online. The...
View Article
