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Secretary Blinken made a claim yesterday that absolutely no one will believe:

“We apply the same standard to everyone,” Blinken said. “And that doesn’t change whether the country in question is an adversary, a competitor, a friend or an ally.”

Everyone can see that Blinken isn’t telling the truth. It’s a bit odd that top U.S. officials try to preserve the fiction that the U.S. holds allies and clients to the same standard that it uses for others. No one takes the story seriously, and it just prompts critics to call out the pointless lying.

Continue reading “Reckless Clients and Double Standards”

On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report:

NATO’s purpose – if it ever had one – is now long since passed. The Cold War has ended and the over-blown scare of global communism has receded. So what is NATO’s purpose in our era? Is it time for a radical restructuring? Also today – the Ukraine aid bill will likely be signed into law today and the military-industrial bonanza will be on. But will more weapons make a difference? Finally – is Trump secretly mad at Speaker Johnson?

Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.

On COI #581, Kyle Anzalone discusses the war in Ukraine.

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Dear Antiwar.com Reader,

Did you watch any of the Congressional session on Saturday? I’ve been watching these things regularly since I was a kid, and I have literally never seen anything like it.

US lawmakers passed a raft of legislation containing some $95 billion in military aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, and also approved a bill that will allow Washington to hand Kiev assets seized from Russia and pave the way for a ban on TikTok.

They considered all four war bills in a single debate, with only three House members allowed to speak in opposition. They allowed voting on only seven amendments for all four bills combined. Usually the voting is “limited” to 15 minutes, but that is not enforced and often goes for 30-40 minutes. But this time, the voting time limit on each bill was for FIVE MINUTES, strictly enforced. For the seven amendments, the time limit for each was for TWO MINUTES!

The Taiwan bill is for $8 billion, but it allows the President to divert those funds to Ukraine. Part of the Ukraine money is technically a loan, but Ukraine’s government is allowed to pay that back with stolen Russian assets.

The entire thing lasted only a little over three hours. After the Ukraine vote, the House broke into chants praising Ukraine and many of them waved Ukraine flags. It was surreal.

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Eric Garris
Director, Antiwar.com

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The non-violence training to join the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s ships to Gaza has been intense. As hundreds of us from 32 countries gathered in Istanbul, we were briefed about what we might encounter on this voyage. “We have to be ready for every possibility,” our trainers insisted.

Continue reading “Will the Freedom Flotilla Sail to Gaza?”

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission.

Today is Earth Day: a good day to commit ourselves to saving the earth from the ravages of nuclear war. Global warming may get us in the long term, but nothing will kill the planet quicker than a nuclear war.

I’ve written a lot about the folly, the greed, the absurdity, of yet another round of “investment” in nuclear weapons.  There’s no need for an updated nuclear triad when the present triad is more than enough to destroy the earth and probably several other planets as well.

Continue reading “Earth Day and Nukes”