Richard Cummings

Richard Cummings holds the Ph.D. in Social and Political Sciences from Jesus College Cambridge. He has served with the Office of General Counsel, United States Agency for International Development, Near East South Asia region and has practiced international law with a major Wall Street law firm. His writing has appeared in The American Conservative, The International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence and other major publications.

China Downgrades US Debt

Richard Cummings

China’s rating agency has just downgraded the US credit rating from A+ to A, citing America’s inability to reduce its deficit by four trillion dollars over five years. A $4-trillion reduction is far more than the current debt-ceiling deal ...

We”ve Never Seen a War We Didn”t Like

Richard Cummings

No, we've never seen a war we didn't like, the torture and the raping and the dead. But don't ask us to be in it, 'cause we'll be gone in just a minute, and no one will know exactly where we've ...