Our Rotten Foreign Policy Status Quo

Perry Bacon probably speaks for many Americans that don’t follow U.S. foreign policy closely and are then shocked by how terrible it can be: Like a lot of Americans, I don’t follow foreign affairs as closely as I probably should. I have generally assumed that the...

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A Message From Matthew Hoh: Support Antiwar.com

Matthew Hoh is the Associate Director of the Eisenhower Media Network. Matt is a former Marine Corps captain, a former Afghanistan State Department officer, a disabled Iraq War veteran, and a Senior Fellow Emeritus with the Center for International Policy. Dear...

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A Christmas Carol From Hell

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is playing Ebenezer Scrooge on steroids, forcing his minions to work Christmas week. But unlike Scrooge, who was simply seeking more business profits, Schumer seeking $111 billion in borrowed US treasure to fund our lost war in...

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John Mearsheimer Interview on Gaza and Ukraine

From John's Substack: I did another interview with Freddie Sayers on 12 December 2023. Much of it focuses on my substack article on Gaza: “Death and Destruction” Freddy questions me on whether a realist like me can offer moral judgments on another state’s behavior —...

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The Massacre of Gaza

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Last night, I watched the classic film version of H.G. Wells’s “The War of the Worlds.” Made in 1953, the film depicts a Martian invasion of the Earth, with humans being massacred in droves due to the superior...

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