Thursday a 3-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans issued a decision overturning an earlier ruling by a U.S. District Court in Houston that the current Federal law requiring men but not women to register with the Selective Service System for a...
Trump’s Targeting of TikTok Escalates Trade War Between the US and China
U.S. President Donald Trump has issued an executive order that could ban TikTok from the US if it is not purchased by an American company. On August 6, Trump’s executive order banned US financial transactions with Chinese company ByteDance, owner of the TikTok app....
The Bogus ‘Emergency’ and the War on Yemen
From The American Conservative:The State Department attempted to spin the results of the Inspector General investigation into the bogus emergency that Pompeo declared to expedite arms sales to the Saudis and the UAE last year, but the full report included some damning...
Matt Taibbi and the New Russiagate Whistleblower
Taibbi's new piece is called: "Our Man in Cambridge." It's about Stephen Halper's assistant, Steven P. Schrage, who has now written this new piece, "The Spies Who Hijacked America," today's Spotlight at Antiwar.com. And here Steven Schrage's interview with Maria...
My Journey to Antiwar.com
August 9th, 2018 was the day I had to do something. On that day, the US-Saudi coalition dropped a bomb on a school bus in North Yemen, killing 40 children.And nobody cared.This horrific war crime received more media coverage than most atrocities in Yemen do, and...
US Marines Seized Panama in 1903 (video)
The Isthmus of Panama was attractive to the growing American empire. A canal across these 37 miles would be hugely profitable, improve American commerce, and speed military movements. One problem was that Panama was a province of Columbia since 1821 that demanded a...
Trump Names Neocon Regime Changer as Iran Envoy
From The American Conservative:The New York Times reports on the resignation of Brian Hook, who will be replaced by none other than Elliott Abrams:Mr. Hook will be succeeded by Elliott Abrams, a conservative foreign policy veteran and Iran hard-liner who is currently...
Veterans Group Forewarns Republican Candidates Endorsed or Financed by ‘Chicken Hawk Cheney’
Washington, D.C. – BringOurTroopsHome.US, a national right-of-center group of Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans, in a letter Wednesday urged Republican Congressional candidates to disavow any endorsement or contributions from Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., because of...
Reversal: Boeing Needs To Stop Building Weapons
Today, the seventy-fifth anniversary of the atomic attack on Hiroshima, should be a day for quiet introspection. I recall a summer morning following the U.S. 2003 "Shock and Awe" invasion of Iraq when the segment of the Chicago River flowing past the...
Hiroshima and After – The Peace Bomb?
Seventy five years ago this week, the world witnessed a cataclysm that was to change the nature of war forever: The atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, and worse – while the Japanese argued among themselves about whether and how to surrender – a second bomb was...


