May 10, 2025 07:00 PM EDT - Zoom

JFK's Principles of Peace vs The Conservative Movement in US Politics

Todd Pierce is an attorney who in the late 1980's identified himself as a National Security Conservative. That began to change after service in the first Gulf War 1990-1991. In his last assignment as a US Army JAG Corps attorney, he served as a Defense Attorney for the Guantanamo Military Commissions where he personally witnessed the workings of "Conservative Political/Legal Theory," as he came to more fully understand it.

As a result, after retiring from the military at the end of 2012, while continuing to work on Guantanamo cases, he continued his education at Georgetown in Mideast Studies, and from 2016 - 2018, he studied at The New School in New York City from which he received an M.A. in Politics, with focused study of political theory in the tradition of Hannah Arendt. He has a special interest in the origins and growth of fascism. He is a former member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity and has published articles in Common Dreams, Consortium News, and Antiwar.com.

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