Thousands dead in Syria from earthquake elicited not a shred of empathy in Uncle Sam’s damaged conscience. Ten years of sanctions degrading life, even ending it for innocents in Syria, will continue while Syrians dig out the bodies buried under the rubble.Much...
The Coming Existential Threat: Do We Act in Common or Is It Going To Be Every Man for Himself?
I returned to Brussels on Sunday after a month of travels in exotic and warm lands south of the equator. The re-entry shock upon arrival in Belgium was a lot greater than the 27 degree Centigrade drop in outdoor air temperature. After a month of only very limited...
Biden Steers Clear of Foreign Policy
Even by the standards of past State of the Union addresses, Biden’s speech last night was remarkably light on references to foreign policy. Stephen Wertheim commented on this during the speech:By Biden's own account, the United States today faces a risk of...
Winning the Great Balloon War
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission.OK, so America used an ultra-expensive F-22 stealth interceptor to shoot down what may prove to be a common weather balloon that was “made in China.” But, dammit, we won! It was a perfect one-shot...
Why I Am Antiwar (And What That Means)
As the post-Russian-invasion phase of the war in Ukraine approaches the end of its first year (its previous, lower-intensity, phase blazed into military flame in 2014), I continually find my own position pigeon-holed into convenient categories by those who hold other...
Russell Brand Interviews Dave DeCamp on Ukraine, China, and Antiwar.com
Russell Brand interviewed Antiwar.com News Editor Dave DeCamp on his Rumble podcast this morning (February 6, 2023). Clip from Stay Free with Russell Brand Full show on Rumble Russell streams on Rumble Monday-Friday at Noon EST
APB: The Balloon Is Up
During World War I, British forces sent up hot-air balloons to spy on advancing enemy forces. In recent times, a number of countries, including the US and France, have launched data-gathering balloons. The Chinese military last year reported favorably on many uses for...
Balloon Brouhaha
Many foreign policy experts foresee a looming nuclear war between the US and China. That is why Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s planned trip to China next week was so important. So little direct contact with China, coupled with so many provocations, mostly...
Behind Closed Doors, Pentagon Warns Congress of Ukraine’s Weakness
From today's Ron Paul Liberty Report: Although the narrative pushed by the US government and propped up by the mainstream media is that "Ukraine is winning," in a recent classified briefing to Congress the Pentagon is singing a very different tune. As the Biden...
Worst US Foreign Policy in My Lifetime Happening Today
It took 60 years but the US finally did something more dangerous to world survival than the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.Last year marked 60 years since the US provoked Russia to sneak nuclear weapons into Cuba to protect it from further US invasion or assassination of...


