Following is a letter published in the Baltimore Sun on September 10, 2019. Reprinted with the permission of the author.It has been a long time since Elizabeth McAlister and six other Catholic activists were arrested on April 4, 2018 while engaging in a disarmament...
A Foreign Policy Pivot? I Wouldn’t Bet On It
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Tom Wright makes the case that Trump is about to make a “foreign policy pivot”:Trump wants to write a new chapter, closing the one marked “Militarism and Maximum Pressure” and opening one called “Dealmaking...
With Bolton Out, Will Trump Open Door To Iran?
The last straw that broke Trump's back with Bolton appears to be the latter's vehement opposition to any kind of opening toward Iran. Suddenly a French proposal for a way out of the stand-off is being talked about by Trump and Pompeo. Will Trump find a way to ease...
Court: FBI Must Destroy Memos Calling Antiwar.com a Threat
In a major victory for Antiwar.com, free speech and journalism, a federal appeals court has ruled that the FBI must expunge surveillance memos that agents had drafted about the website’s co-founders Eric Garris and Justin Raimondo in the early years following the 9/11...
Will Another John Bolton Replace John Bolton?
Bolton may be gone, but Boltonism lives on. Those believing that the end of Bolton would signal a return to the foreign policy of candidate Donald Trump, however, may be disappointed. President Trump has appointed Charles Kupperman to temporary fill in for John Bolton...
Good Riddance, John Bolton
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Curt Mills’ reporting told us it was coming yesterday, and today Trump has finally fired Bolton:Mr. Trump announced the decision on Twitter. “I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer...
The Genocide Called World War I (video)
Books and movies about World War I are not popular because they are depressing. Leaders of world's great nations destroyed a generation of men in pointless bloody battles. Few Americans realize that World War I was America's worst foreign policy blunder. Bankers had...
William J. Astore on James Mattis, the General Who Couldn’t
James Mattis is making the talk show rounds, promoting his new book, “Call Sign Chaos.” Interestingly, while openly critical of President George W. Bush for being unprepared for the Iraq War, and President Barack Obama for lacking a strategy and being too...
Daniel McAdams Explains How Twitter Banned Him for Life
He appeared today on RT:
91,600 Killed in Yemen Conflict as Congress Seeks To End US Involvement in the War in Yemen
The death toll in Yemen has reached over 91,600 according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). The ACLED records that 4,500 direct civilian targeting events resulted in 11,700 recorded civilian fatalities since the US-Saudi led coalition...


