Reprinted from the Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity. In his effort to promote the United States government pursuing a noninterventionist foreign policy, Ron Paul has often commented that sanctions are an act of war. Like other acts of war, Paul argues,...
Reflections on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Originally written in 2015 for the 70th anniversary; updated in 2020 for the 75th anniversary; reposted below along with a podcast for the 79th anniversary. It Should Never Be Done Again: Hiroshima, 75 Years...
Why No Hollywood Movie on Nagasaki Atomic Bombing?
In the 1952 movie Above and Beyond, movie idol Robert Taylor played handsome Col. Paul Tibbetts, straight out of Central Casting, who piloted his B-29 Enola Gay to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima 79 years tomorrow. We all grew up in awe of Tibbetts, Enola Gay...
Shock Poll: Most Americans Oppose US Troops Defending Israel
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: A new poll released yesterday by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs shows that a solid majority of Americans oppose using US troops to defend Israel - the lowest level of support for defending Israel since the poll began in 2010....
Most Americans Don’t Want US Troops To Fight for Israel
A new survey from the Chicago Council finds that most Americans oppose sending U.S. forces to defend Israel if it comes under attack. If Israel is attacked by Iran, 56% oppose U.S. intervention to defend them. If Israel is attacked by any of its immediate neighbors,...
He Took the Only Photos in Hiroshima on August 6
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Between Rock and a Hard Place. It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. ~ Charles Dickens Yoshito Matsushige, a photographer for the Chugoku Shimbun newspaper in...
Conflicts of Interest: The Price America Pays for Netanyahu’s Wars
On COI #651, Kyle Anzalone discusses the latest news from Israel and Ukraine. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
Conflicts of Interest: Preparing for Major War in the Middle East
On COI #650, Kyle Anzalone breaks down Middle East tensions. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
When ‘Prophets’ Become Memes: The Rise and Fall of Benjamin Netanyahu
Great orators in history would not have been recognized as such if their words carried no value. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is neither a great orator, nor did his speech before a joint Congressional session on July 24 have actual worth. It was an...
Wars That Never Should Have Been Fought Cannot Be Won
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. I wrote my first article for TomDispatch in 2007, two years after I’d retired from the military. That article was highly critical of the U.S. military and its disastrous war in Iraq. I wrote that we, the...


