The Unz Review • An Alternative Media Selection$
A Collection of Interesting, Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American Mainstream Media
RSS
Show by ⇅ 
Email This Page to Someone

 Remember My Information



=>
 
BlogviewPhilip Giraldi Archive
/
Foundation for Defense of Democracies
 BlogviewPhilip Giraldi Archive
/
Foundation for Defense of Democracies

◄►Bookmark◄❌►▲ ▼Toggle AllToC▲▼Add to LibraryRemove from Library • B
Show CommentNext New CommentNext New ReplyRead More
ReplyAgree/Disagree/Etc. More... This Commenter This Thread Hide Thread Display All Comments
AgreeDisagreeThanksLOLTroll
These buttons register your public Agreement, Disagreement, Thanks, LOL, or Troll with the selected comment. They are ONLY available to recent, frequent commenters who have saved their Name+Email using the 'Remember My Information' checkbox, and may also ONLY be used three times during any eight hour period.
Ignore Commenter Follow Commenter
kagan-kristol1
Liberal Interventionists and Neoconservatives Dominate US Foreign Policy
And the bad outcomes are predictable
• May 10, 2022
• 1,600 Words • 158 Comments • Reply
Once upon a time United States foreign policy was based on actual national interests, but that was long ago and far away before the country was beguiled into a colonial war with Spain followed by a twentieth century that was chock-a-block full of any type and intensity of warfare that one might imagine, including the... Read More
petraeus
Old Ideas in New Bottles
A new front group preaches restraint while embracing interventionism
• March 10, 2020
• 1,700 Words • 108 Comments • Reply
Numerous so-called “front groups” operate in the United States. A front group is very simply an organization that pretends to have a certain program while at the same time using that identity as cover to promote a hidden agenda that is something quite different, often opposed to what is being said publicly. The Global Climate... Read More
"Foundation for Defense of Democracies" Items Across Entire Archive
Philip Giraldi
About Philip Giraldi

Phil Giraldi is a former CIA Case Officer and Army Intelligence Officer who spent twenty years overseas in Europe and the Middle East working terrorism cases. He holds a BA with honors from the University of Chicago and an MA and PhD in Modern History from the University of London. In addition to TAC, where he has been a contributing editor for nine years, he writes regularly for Antiwar.com. He is currently Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest and resides with his wife of 32 years in Virginia horse country close to his daughters and grandchildren.


Personal Classics
America's Jews Are Driving America's Wars
Shouldn't they recuse themselves when dealing with the Middle East?
• 1,325 Comments • Reply
Americans Should be Ashamed
A Modern Guernica Enabled by Washington
• 106 Comments • Reply
How the Israel Lobby Works
Pressuring Candidates Even Before They Are Nominated
• 48 Comments • Reply
Israel Is No Ally
But is it even a friend?
• 97 Comments • Reply
Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds?
The gagged whistleblower goes on the record.
• 1 Comment • Reply
Counter Intelligence
Today’s CIA serves contractors and bureaucrats—not the nation.
• 1 Comment • Reply