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Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Between Rock and a Hard Place.

Was great to see CNN’s Dana Bash trending on Twitter yesterday. Uh, what? Well, it transpired because thousands were bashing her (ahem) after she compared threats to Jews in the U.S. this week to dangers for them in Europe in the 1930s. She later claimed that anti-semitism is “raging across the U.S.” Joe Scarborough this morning called his MSNBC viewers “too stupid to see” that the protests were hurting Biden’s re-election prospects.

The most striking example of violence, however, took place at UCLA this week with about 200 counter-protestors attacking a pro-Palestine encampment (filled, as it happens, with many Jewish students) with fireworks and other objects, injuring about twenty-five as police stood by. Police were then ordered to clear the encampment early this morning, with dozens of arrests.

Continue reading “Student Sit-ins and Wild in the Streets: My Own Story, Back in 1968”

My life has changed pretty dramatically since I started working full-time as the News Editor of Antiwar.com back in 2020. I started out in a studio apartment in Brooklyn and now live in an old farmhouse in rural Virginia (far from Washington DC).

The way I look at the world has also changed quite a bit since my wife Alison and I had our two boys, Dave and Tim (literally the coolest kids ever). The future has never mattered more to me. I have also rediscovered my Catholic faith, which fits well with being a professional opponent of war.

One thing that has remained consistent is the news. It doesn’t stop. For obvious reasons, my job has become much more difficult and time-consuming over these past few years amid the raging proxy war in Ukraine and now the US-backed Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza.

Continue reading “The News Never Stops: A message from Dave DeCamp”

Last updated on May 2nd, 2024 at 09:12 am

The U.S. State Department has accused the Russian military of using chemical weapons in Ukraine, violating the international Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).

The State Department notified Congress on Wednesday that it had determined Russian forces have employed chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops. The congressional notification came in accordance with the U.S. Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 (CBW).

Continue reading “US Alleges Russian Forces Used Prohibited Chemical Weapons on Ukrainian Battlefield”

Jonathan Katz discusses what Biden told him in a recent interview and compares it with the administration’s record:

But his avoidance of specifics spoke to the other side of that coin: the fact that there has been zero evidence of any serious consequences in the seven months of this ungodly war. So far the U.S. response to countless war crimes in Gaza has been to briefly threaten symbolic sanctions against individual Israeli units and officials, then reverse them immediately. And to allow a weakened ceasefire resolution to pass the U.N. Security Council, then pretend like the resolution doesn’t count.

Continue reading “Gaza’s Famine and Biden’s ‘Extreme Pressure’”

On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report:

In a fascinating exchange US Rep. Matt Gaetz probed US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin about the role of the estimated 1,000 US troops involved in building a floating pier to deliver aid to Gaza. Austin insisted that they were not “boots on the ground” although he admitted they would be armed and would respond to incoming fire. Injecting US troops into a warzone requires a Congressional vote, Gaetz warned Austin.

Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.

On COI #586, Kyle Anzalone discusses the war in Gaza and the crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters in the US.

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