Trump’s yearning for a Nobel Peace Prize. A Pentagon crackdown on free press. An unsure peace deal for Gaza & more. Ned Price @nedprice.bsky.social does a deep dive on it all during his interview https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-pentagon-handcuffs-free-press

I wrote in the @nytimes.com about DoD's restrictions on what its press can report. Amid the many headlines from the Pentagon, this kind of overreach can quietly, but steadily, corrode our democratic norms, potentially compounding over time if left in place. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

I argue in @foreignpolicy.com that Putin concocted this week's summit to bring Trump back into his orbit once and for all. I hope to be proven wrong, but history and everything we've seen from this President suggest otherwise. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/13/t...

I wrote about Tulsi Gabbard's dangerous deception for Fox News. I thought it was important to take facts straight to the lion’s den, and I appreciate that they let me have my say. www.foxnews.com/opinion/amer...

New #SpyTalk podcast with hosts @spytalker.bsky.social & @misikoff.bsky.social #MSWMedia 🕵🏼‍♀️ Guest: @nedprice.bsky.social Listen: spytalk.simplecast.com/episodes/on-...

Anyone who champions diplomacy and considers the use of force to be the last resort should be troubled by Israel's decision to launch its operation against Iran last week. I explain why in @foreignpolicy.com: foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/16/i...

Ned Price, former senior State Department official and former CIA official, explains the real agenda behind Trump's tariffs and why they should be red flags.

It's right to focus on the economic headwinds of Trump's tariffs & how they'll make life more expensive--from eggs to cars. But we should also look closely at the flip-side: his exemptions, a source of pay-for-play corruption & another control lever for an aspiring authoritarian.

@nedprice.bsky.social: "When you talk about pending military operations - tactics, techniques and procedures, TTP as they're called - that is by definition classified information. So it is hard to imagine that the substance that they were communicating was not classified at the time."

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@nedprice.bsky.social: "The irony of this is that Jeffrey Goldberg probably did more than all of these supposed custodians of our national security combined to protect our national security by reporting on this. If this gets them to stop this practice, that is to our collective national benefit."

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@nedprice.bsky.social: 'When you think about this collection of people, the VP, CIA Director, Sec of State, there is no higher set of intel targets than the individuals who were in this Signal chat room. So you can imagine if an intel service stumbled upon this, they would consider it a gold mine.'

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The U.S. joined forces with Russia, Belarus, North Korea, and Nicaragua to oppose a UN resolution marking three years of Russian aggression against Ukraine. In virtually every other vote, the U.S. has been on the opposing side of this rogue's gallery. We're now leading it.

Let’s see the details, but a decree that forces Kyiv to choose between ceding political sovereignty to Putin or economic sovereignty to Trump isn’t the basis for a just peace. American companies deserve opps in Ukraine, but this isn’t the way to do it. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

The most damning indictment of the WH's Ukraine strategy comes from none other than Putin himself. There MUST be condemnation and bias -- that's the very nature of a "just" peace in this case. In other words, a peace that distinguishes aggressor from victim and treats each accordingly.

A dynamic we saw during Trump's first term is super-charged in the second: the Administration's "foreign policy" is nothing more than MAGA red meat domestic policy masquerading as strategy on the world stage. It was dangerous then, and it's more so now. www.nbcnews.com/news/world/v...

Dictators and their aspirants the world over know that it’s not enough to control state media; they seek to create an “official” art and culture scene to asphyxiate a potential source of opposition. Trump’s seizure of the Kennedy Center may be about pure vanity. But it has eery echoes.

Trading convicts for innocent Americans is always unpleasant, but it's almost always necessary and right. But Americans have a right to know if the deal also involved Ukraine's sovereignty and security, which Trump's comments and today's Putin call may suggest. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Here’s what’s especially bonkers: OPM is likely to be able to do very little with a long list of first names and last initials, but our adversaries — including those who’ve previously hacked OPM — will have the tools to glean potentially much more. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...

A deferred trade war with close allies isn't a "win." The WH has mortgaged our credibility, cast doubt on America as a trading partner, engendered widespread anti-Americanism in the Americas, and risked meaningful cooperation on drugs/migration in return for cosmetic concessions.

A blanket hold is rarely the answer, but it is here. This isn't a mere policy disagreement; it gets to the heart of the separation of powers and unique role of Congress. What's shocking is that GOP colleagues aren't also howling at this naked power-grab. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Apropos of nothing, I was proud as State Department Spokesperson to receive a letter from Prime Minister Orban objecting to my criticism of his xenophobic and anti-Semitic remarks. The world should be able to look to U.S. officials to call out intolerance and division rather than sow it.

Imagine saying this about an org that has, in the name of the American people, saved countless lives & prevented untold levels of famine & disease. Humanitarian accomplishments aside, USAID gives us a strategic edge over our competitors where we need it most. It's worth every penny--and then some.

There's a fundamental difference between MAGA oligarchs & mainstream: the former wants to dismantle gov to enable unchecked self-dealing, while the latter appreciates gov's role when it comes to safety, security, prosperity for all. To equate the two misses the point. www.axios.com/2025/02/02/t...

-Starvation in Sudan -Disease in Thailand -Lack of heat in Ukraine All consequences of the mere days long cut-off of a relatively minuscule amount of US funding. It's a reminder, illustrated through cruel deprivation, of America's indispensability. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/w...

One of the (many) problems with Trump's tariffs is that no one in the Canadian or Mexican governments seems to know what we're asking them to do -- beyond "end" the flow of drugs and migrants. It's as if they're a punitive end in themselves rather than a coherent policy tool.