From The American Conservative:On Tuesday, there was a horrific explosion in the port of Beirut that ripped through the city and killed more than seventy people as well as injuring at least 4,000:Lebanon’s health ministry said that at least 78 people had died...
David Gornoski Interviews Eric Garris About the War Machine
Eric Garris, founder of Antiwar.com, joins David Gornoski to discuss the media’s role as the government’s war propaganda front as well as how he started campaigning against wars waged by the power-hungry political establishment. Why has the left abandoned its critical...
Tata DoD Nomination (Rightly) Runs Into a Wall of Opposition
From The American Conservative:Trump’s nominee for Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, former Brig. Gen. Anthony Tata, ran into an obstacle when the Senate Armed Services Committee abruptly canceled his confirmation hearing today. His past anti-Muslim and...
The Incident at Benghazi (video)
Chris Stevens was an ambitious US State Department employee who volunteered to participate in the overthrow of the Libyan government in 2011. He covertly arrived in Libya in early 2011 aboard a Greek cargo ship with CIA personnel and set up operations in Benghazi to...
The Pandemic Hasn’t Stopped the War Party… We Won’t Let It Stop Antiwar.com
Between the Covid-19 pandemic and the civil unrest here at home, even fewer eyes are on U.S. foreign policy than before. Unfortunately the Empire never sleeps. The wars continue, from the new Cold War with China to the shadow war in Somalia, and Antiwar.com is here to...
Surprise! $29.4B in Pentagon Pork Tucked Into GOP Relief Bill
From The American Conservative:Senate Republicans unveiled Monday their $1 trillion coronavirus stimulus package. Tucked inside is a $29.4 billion request for new defense spending, over $8 billion of which is for defense procurement and acquisition.Critics point out...
UK ‘Russia Report’ Fear-Mongers About Meddling Yet Finds No Evidence
From The GrayzoneThe report claims the UK government didn’t find evidence because it didn’t look for it, and backs increased powers for intelligence agencies and media censorship as a result. Afshin Rattansi, a British journalist and host of RT’s...
The Unbearable Violence of Being American
From ScheerPostAmerica’s military industrial complex and multiple presidential administrations have funnelled several generations of soldiers through unwinnable wars from Vietnam to Afghanistan and Iraq seemingly without qualms. What has emerged from these tragedies...
The American Annexation of Okinawa (video)
The Potsdam Declaration of 1945, which set out the Allied Powers’ terms for Japan’s surrender, deprived Japan of all its overseas territories. Taiwan was a Japanese territory that was freed after World War II. The nearby Ryukyu Islands that include the large island of...
In Which Joe Biden Brags About Having Written the Patriot Act
Imagine being a progressive forced to vote for Joe Biden. There aren’t enough clothespins in the world to hold your nose. Biden has lately tried to make inroads with the left, jumping onboard the post-George Floyd campaign for racial justice and releasing an...


