On Friday, 12 February 2016, Peace Coalition of Monterey will present Moving Toward a World Beyond War. Professor Jan Knippers Black will moderate. The event will begin at 6pm PT at the Irvine Auditorium & Atrium at MIIS located at 499 Pierce Street, Monterey. It is...
Iran Frees Americans as Sanctions Are Lifted, Frustrating Warmongers Around the World
Iran has freed four dual-nationality prisoners, including an American/Iranian pastor and an American/Iranian Washington Post reporter who had been accused of working for the U.S. to foment regime change in Iran. The release was part of a prisoner swap, in which seven...
Sen. McCain Furious That Iran Treated US Sailors Well
The two US Navy riverine command boats intercepted in Iranian territorial waters yesterday were sent on their way along with the crew of 10 US sailors after brief detention on Iranian soil. According to news reports, the well-armed warships either suffered mechanical...
Sheldon Richman on The Pernicious State
Government is more than a territorial monopoly on aggressive force. It's also the heir to a centuries-old manufactured mystique, reinforced through its schools and other institutions, regarding its sanctity and sacrosanctity. The mystique is generated by and tends to...
Uri Avnery on The Widening Gap
In any list of Israel's 100 most important women, Ilana Dayan would occupy a prominent position.Dayan (no relation to the late general with the eye patch) is the host of one of the most prestigious television programs. While Israeli TV in general is slowly sinking...
Top General Warns of New ISIS Threat… in Jamaica?
It appears America’s military fear-mongers have just about run out of new ways to try to frighten us into submission. So the best they are able to come up with now is to say the boogie men are heading south, to the blue waters and delightful beaches of the very...
Ron Paul Says Neocons Furious: Diplomacy Worked With Iran
The quick resolution of the potentially difficult situation of US sailors caught inside Iranian territorial waters should have been celebrated in Washington as a triumph of diplomacy. With the Naval personnel in Iranian custody, Secretary of State John Kerry...
No, Iran Didn’t Commit an Act of Aggression
On Tuesday, a group of ten American service members on a training mission in the Persian Gulf were detained by Iran. Upon receiving the news, Secretary of State John Kerry called his counterpart in Iran to help secure the Americans' release. This was all over the news...
White House Meets With Silicon Valley Execs To ‘Disrupt’ ISIS Online
Since our providers and tech makers in Silicon Valley are already deep in bed with the NSA to help spy on us, it should be little surprise that the White House now wants them to climb on board another Bill of Rights busting train and help “disrupt” ISIS...
Tom Woods and Laurie Calhoun podcast: Is Humanitarian Intervention a Good Idea?
Awesome interview on the Tom Woods Show of the Independent Institute's Laurie Calhoun. Is Humanitarian Intervention a Good Idea? Listen to audio only here.


