The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Bombing to Lose John J. Mearsheimer On 4 March 2026, I was on the “Deep Dive” with Lt. Col. (ret.) Danny Davis talking about the US-Israeli war against Iran. The central argument that Danny and I drove home is that Netanyahu and Trump have no coherent strategy for winning the war and thus Iran is likely to emerge the winner. President Trump has made a huge blunder going to war against Iran. Even Joe Biden, who advertised his slavish devotion to Israel, was smart enough not to attack Iran in either April or October 2024, when the Israelis tried to lure him into that trap. Source: John's Substack

  Cheering the Militarization of Everything Reflections on the 6th anniversary of when Covid was declared a “national security threat” Debbie Lerman Illustration by:  Anthony Freda On February 4, 2020, word went out from the biodefense military leadership  to pharmaceutical companies that the “novel coronavirus” circulating in China was a “national security threat” – a designation that opened the floodgates for development, manufacture and distribution of “military countermeasures.” On that day there were zero deaths and fewer than a dozen cases reported in the United States, and fewer than 500 deaths worldwide. On the same day,  Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)  and the  PREP Act  – laws intended for rushing countermeasures to the scenes of bioweapons attacks – were activated, giving the  global biodefense public-private partnership  the ability to develop, manufacture, distribute and administer such countermeasures without any legal or reg...