Former Energy Secretary Ernest J. Moniz and former Senator Sam Nunn have a new article in Foreign Affairs about the nuclear weapons crisis between the United States and Russia. We can't run it as a viewpoint since the authors accept false conventional narratives about...
Five years ago, President Obama infamously said, "We tortured some folks." And no one was held accountable; indeed, as Tom Tomorrow put it in a cartoon from that time, "The only government official who went to jail for it [John Kiriakou] was the whistleblower who...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Bobby Ghosh wants the U.S. to “stay the course” in its destructive Iran policy:For critics of the Trump administration’s Iran policy, all this is reason enough to declare the “maximum pressure” campaign a...
Antiwar.com columnist Maj. Danny Sjursen (ret.) spoke to Peacestock 2019: Military Service: Homeland Security or Empire Building? on Saturday July 20, 2019. Sponsored by Veterans For Peace, Chapter 115, Red Wing, and Chapter 27, Minneapolis-St. Paul.
Turkish president Erdogan has warned the US that an invasion and occupation of Syria's Kurd regions was imminent. Talks are ongoing with US officials to stave off the move, which could see US military personnel in Syria facing off against NATO partner Turkey. On...
President Trump announced a full US embargo of Venezuela. Check out today's Ron Paul Liberty Report: Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.
Right now, the people of Yemen are suffering through the world’s worst humanitarian disaster. The Saudi-led coalition, backed by the United States, continues to bomb Yemen and launch unlawful airstrikes that have hit homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques. This...
One day after the Trump Administration announced it was getting out of the Reagan-era INF treaty, the new Pentagon chief said US would be sending missiles once banned by that treaty to Asia. Targeting China. Will an Asian arms race be stabilizing or destabilizing? On...
Seventy-four years ago this week, the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was one of the most horrific acts of warfare in history.This month, we remember the 200,000 or more civilian men, women, and children who died, and the many thousands more...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.When Trump said he was considering a blockade of Venezuela yesterday, it was possible to dismiss it as a meaningless statement that would have no policy implications. Unfortunately, Trump seems to have meant what he...
