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Philip Giraldi is the executive director of the Council for the National Interest and a recognized authority on international security and counterterrorism issues. He is a former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer who served eighteen years overseas in Turkey, Italy, Germany, and Spain. Mr. Giraldi was awarded an MA and PhD from the University of London in European History and holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from the University of Chicago. He speaks Spanish, Italian, German, and Turkish. His columns on terrorism, intelligence, and security issues regularly appear in The American Conservative magazine, Huffington Post, and antiwar.com. He has written op-ed pieces for the Hearst Newspaper chain, has appeared on “Good Morning America,†MSNBC, National Public Radio, and local affiliates of ABC television. He has been a keynote speaker at the Petroleum Industry Security Council annual meeting, has spoken twice at the American Conservative Union’s annual CPAC convention in Washington, and has addressed several World Affairs Council affiliates. He has been interviewed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the British Broadcasting Corporation, Britain’s Independent Television Network, FOX News, Polish National Television, Croatian National Television, al-Jazeera, al-Arabiya, 60 Minutes, and other international and domestic broadcasters.
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Wednesday, April 24, 2019Rumors of War: Washington Is Looking for a Fight The development of the United States as a hostile and somewhat unpredictable force has not gone unnoticed. Russia has accepted that war is coming no matter what it does in dealing with Trump and is upgrading its forces. By some estimates, its army is better equipped and more combat ready than is that of the United States, which spends nearly 10 times as much on "defense."
Tuesday, April 16, 2019Trump Dances to Israel's Tune Trump will no doubt expect Bibi to return the favor when he is running for reelection in 2020 by encouraging American Jews who care about Israel to support the Republicans. Trump is focused on his own electability and is absolutely shameless about his betrayal of actual American interests in the Middle East, possibly because he has no inkling of the actual damage that he is doing.
Friday, April 5, 2019What Monroe Doctrine? The current situation with Venezuela is similar to that with North Korea in that Washington is operating on the presumption that it has a right to intervene and bring about regime change, using military force if necessary, because of its presumed leadership role in global security, not because Caracas or even Pyongyang necessarily is threatening anyone.
Sunday, March 24, 2019What Can We Do? They Are Insane! Pompeo clearly believes that this is all part of some divine plan. Anyone who persists in thinking that nations should pursue policies that are rational and based on genuine interests should be appalled by the Pompeo comments and fearful of what the consequences might be.
Friday, March 15, 2019No, Dual Loyalty Isn't Okay Many in congress and the media won't discuss loyalty to Israel
Saturday, December 29, 2018The Mattis Dilemma Mattis does indeed hold views that were shaped by four decades of experience, but most of it was bad and produced wrong conclusions about America's place in the world. Conveniently forgotten are Mattis comments relating to how to "Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet." His sobriquet in the Corps was "Mad Dog."
Friday, November 23, 2018Assange's Persecution Highlights Dangers to the Freedom of Speech and Free Media Wikileaks has become famous, or perhaps notorious, for its publication of materials that have been leaked to it by government officials and other sources who consider the information to be of value to the public but unlikely to be accepted by the mainstream media, which has become increasingly corporatized and timid.
Monday, October 29, 2018Two Stories from the Propaganda War The Maria Butina story reveals how there is a fundamental flaw in the justice system in the United States. When someone is found guilty by the media there is no way to right the wrong when the story shifts and starts to break down. The New York Times or Washington Post is unlikely to leap to the defense of the accused.
Saturday, July 28, 2018The Madness Gripping Washington The immediate knee-jerk resort to threats of using overwhelming conventional military power or even nuclear weapons to resolve international disagreements is being played far too often by a president whose understanding of the world clearly has a manic-aggressive quality derived from a life spent selling and buying real estate in New York City.
Sunday, July 15, 2018Washington's Gunboat Diplomacy Invading Venezuela would have been a very bad idea, but the untrammeled growth of executive authority in the United States means that if Mr. Trump had pushed a little harder he might have obtained what he wanted. It is a reality that should worry every American.
Thursday, June 28, 2018The United States Withdraws from the World The U.S. withdrawal from U.N. agencies is, if anything, a sign of weakness rather than strength. If Washington were indeed confident in its own brand of international leadership it would welcome the opportunity to sit on panels and help shape the views of other countries with which it has a politically neutral or adversarial relationships.
Tuesday, June 12, 2018Understanding Jewish Power Israel, which claims perpetual victimhood, is reflexively referred to as "the only democracy in the Middle East" and "Washington's closest ally and friend," assertions that are completely false but which have been aggressively and successfully promoted to shape how Americans view the Israeli-Arab conflict. Palestinians resisting the Israeli occupation are invariably described as "terrorists" both in the U.S. and Israel.
Friday, June 1, 2018A Nation That Doesn't Know War: America Celebrates Memorial Day For most Americans war is little more than a video game, seen in snippets on the nightly news. It is a peculiar form of cultural blindness, an exercise that involves foreign people in faraway places and is not to be taken seriously. The rest of the world, which has experienced far too much of war's devastation first hand has quite a different viewpoint, however.
Thursday, May 17, 2018The Ruinously Expensive American Military Some numbers-crunchers in the Pentagon have already raised the alarm that the current pay, benefits and retirement levels for military personnel is unsustainable if the United States continues its worldwide mission against terrorists and allegedly rogue regimes. And it is also unsustainable if the U.S. seeks to return to a constitutional arrangement whereby the nation is actually defended by its military.
Wednesday, April 25, 2018Scarier Than John Bolton? Nikki Haley very much comes across as the neoconservatives' dream ambassador to the United Nations -- full of aggression, a staunch supporter of Israel, and assertive of Washington's preemptive right to set standards for the rest of the world. And there is every reason to believe that she would nurture the same views if she were to become the neocon dream president. Worse than John Bolton? Absolutely.
Wednesday, April 18, 2018Whose Wars? Israel is not at all shy about what it wants to happen, namely a war in Syria targeting both Damascus and Tehran, leading to a much bigger war with the Iranians. Fought by Uncle Sam, to be sure, as Jewish lives are far too precious to waste.
Wednesday, April 11, 2018Liars Lying About Nearly Everything Donald Trump turns out to be a pretty good liar, even if he frequently has no idea what he's talking about, says Philip Giraldi in this commentary. But the prize for lying has to go to the British.
Friday, April 6, 2018What's Wrong with Trump's New National Security Adviser Given what John Bolton did when last in office, he should never again be allowed to have access to classified information since he would clearly abuse that privilege to satisfy his own agenda. Unfortunately, urging President Trump to reverse the Bolton decision because of the grave damage it will inevitably do to the United States is not likely to be received favorably by the White House.
Saturday, March 10, 2018Why Russia's New Strategic Capabilities Come As a Shock to US Intelligence Community Many CIA officers who were made redundant or forced to retire were precisely those individuals who had cut their teeth on running operations directed against the old Soviet Union. They had the language and cultural skills necessary to collect information on Russia. With their departure, those capabilities also largely vanished.
Sunday, February 25, 2018When Will Congress Investigate All Interference in Elections? There are America's friends who in similar fashion interfere in US politics to support their own national agendas. The Saudi lobby in the United States operates largely below the surface, working on individual congressmen and through the funding of think tanks. Israel's manipulation of the US is, however, much more in the open.
