Donald Trump Just Admitted That It Makes Sense for America’s Enemies to Get Nuclear Weapons
Trump noted that the overthrow of Moammar Gaddafi in 2011 sent foreign leaders a lesson: Disarmament can lead to your own personal doom.
Jon Schwarz
Before joining First Look Media, Jon Schwarz worked for Michael Moore’s Dog Eat Dog Films and was a research producer for Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story.” He’s contributed to many publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, and Slate, as well as NPR and "Saturday Night Live." In 2003, he collected on a $1,000 bet that Iraq would have no weapons of mass destruction.
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A Memoir From Hell: Samantha Power Will Do Anything for Human Rights Unless It Hurts Her Career
A new book by Obama’s ambassador to the U.N. won't honestly tell us what she saw on the mountaintop because she wants to get back there.
The Best Movie Ever Made About the Truth Behind the Iraq War Is “Official Secrets”
The new movie starring Keira Knightley as a British whistleblower is equally inspiring, demoralizing, hopeful, and enraging.
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We Desperately Need Marianne Williamson’s Message. It’s Ominous That We’re Only Getting It From Marianne Williamson.
It’s alarming that only someone given to wild flights of irrationality believes that America can hear the truth about itself and respond rationally.
John Paul Stevens Was Right: Citizens United Opened the Door to Foreign Money in U.S. Elections
Citizens United created a huge loophole for foreign influence in American politics, and in the nine years since then, it’s been used over and over again.
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The World’s Leaders Are Terrible. Let’s Declare Our Independence From All of Them.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that even the best Leaders are Self-Absorbed Prima Donnas, and the rest are seriously Craze-o Lunatics.
Political Ploy by Mitch McConnell Blocks Attempt to Stop War With Iran
Though the amendment failed to pass, it represented a major bipartisan challenge to Trump’s escalatory Iran policy.
Mike Pompeo Said Congress Doesn't Need to Approve War With Iran. 2020 Democrats Aren't Having It.
“If the administration wants to go to war against Iran, then the Constitution requires them to come to Congress to ask for an authorization for the use of military force.”
Bernie Sanders Asked Bill Kristol to Apologize for Pushing the Iraq War. Guess What Happened Next.
As the Iraq War began in 2003, Kristol, a key backer, declared that he’d be “happy to be held to a moral standard” if he was wrong. He was lying.
The Rise of "Game of Thrones" Was Part of the Fall of America
HBO knows that neither we nor they any longer have the imagination to care about reality.