At this year’s Freedom Fest, in Rapid City, South Dakota, Scott Horton, Abby Hall Blanco and Ayaan Hirsi Ali debated whether the wars in the Middle East post 9/11 have been justified to stop the spread of Islamic fundamentalism. In the affirmative was Ayaan Hirsi Ali,...
From Massachusetts Peace Action: The peace movement has been talking about the bipartisan consensus on foreign policy for years. The establishment of both the Democratic and Republican parties has overseen expanding US militarism and ballooning Pentagon budgets for...
From PBS NewsHour: With the final military withdrawal from Afghanistan underway, a few state legislators in the U.S. are reconsidering the use of their National Guard units for undeclared foreign wars, like the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nearly half of the...
From Rising at The Hill TV:
From the Committee for the Republic The Committee gave its Defender of Liberty Award to Daniel Ellsberg on the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision on the Pentagon Papers. The rise of whistleblowers is born of Congress abdicating its constitutional...
Political commentator Peter Beinart speaks to the Middle East Eye about his journey from liberal Zionist to a proponent of a one-state solution:
Former Senator Mike Gravel (D-AK) died yesterday at 91. He was a major hero of the antiwar movement several times over. Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times; they began publishing them on June 13, 1971 The U.S. Justice Department...
From the Cato Institute: The Pentagon Papers launched a decades‐long fight over how to protect the public from threats while respecting the public’s right to know how government works. Patrick Eddington and Julian Sanchez discusses the 50th anniversary of the...
Scott Horton appeared on Tim Pool's Show on Tuesday night:
From Al-Jazeera: Note: YouTube will give you an age-restricted warning.
