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James W. Carden, Douglas Macgregor, Pelle Taylor, Martin Sieff“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much" - Walter Lippmann. Foreign Affairs and US Politics. Standing athwart Neoconservatism and Liberal Interventionism.
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War Watch: The Storm Cone
Martin Sieff received three Pulitzer Prize nominations for international reporting for The Washington Times. He served as Chief Political Correspondent at United Press International (UPI) from 1999 to 2009.
"This Is the midnight - let no s...
Trump Needs New Envoys to Russia
James W. Carden is the author of The Great Betrayal: How the Democrats Became the Party of War and co-host of Warrior Diplomacy Weekly with Col. Douglas Macgregor, premiering on Monday, September 14th at 11 AM.
A version of this piece ran...
US foreign policy elite cling to global dominance
https://harici.com.tr/en/james-carden-warns-us-foreign-policy-elite-cling-to-global-dominance/
In an in-depth interview broadcast on the Harici YouTube channel, James W. Carden, an American journalist and author, conducted an exhaustive as...
A New Cold War For A Dying World Order
James W. Carden, a contributing editor at The Nation, is the author of The Great Betrayal: How The Democrats Became the Party of War.
Washington is more united than is often thought. Despite the ruptures with an imagined past that have be...
My Talk With The Peacemonger About ‘The Great Betrayal’
The distinguished British diplomat and author Ian Proud was kind enough to have me on his popular YouTube channel for a wide-ranging discussion about my very, very soon-to-be-released history of the Democratic Party’s foreign policy, ‘The G...
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Author of The Great Betrayal: How the Democrats Became the Party of War (ORxNation Books, 2026). Contributing editor, The Nation magazine. Co-host, Warrior Diplomacy Podcast with Col. Douglas Macgregor.
Col (ret) Douglas Macgregor is a decorated combat veteran, the author of 5 books and a PhD. He served as senior advisor to the acting Secretary of Defense during the Trump Administration.
Journalist, historian, and documentary filmmaker based in Sweden. Author of works on Olof Palme and Dag Hammarskjöld. Co-hosts the geopolitics podcast Capitals Uncovered.
Martin Sieff has 3 Pulitzer nominations for International Reporting, covered 70 countries and 12 wars. He was a Senior Foreign Correspondent for The Washington Times, Chief News Analyst for United Press International and is the author of nine books.
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