Where Is the Antiwar Movement in the US?
As the media focuses on the Mueller report and Attorney General William Barr, the Trump administration has been especially hawkish in their foreign policy. National Security Advisor John Bolton said the US is sending an aircraft carrier and a bomber taskforce to the...
Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Pentagon Budget?
Trillions of dollars in Pentagon spending have just disappeared into thin air. The Pentagon failed its first ever audit last year. There is so much off-the-books spending that no one has a clue where it's going. US troops show up in Niger and Congress has no idea how...
Trump Suddenly Discovers Regime Change Is Hard
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Trump is grousing that regime change in Venezuela is harder than his ideological advisers promised him:President Trump is questioning his administration’s aggressive strategy in Venezuela following the failure of...
Ron Paul: President, Advisors at Loggerheads
According to a new Washington Post article, President Trump is frustrated with his national security advisor, John Bolton for promising the Venezuela regime change would be a cakewalk. He's concerned about being boxed into a corner, says an anonymous source. We know...
Fascism in Plain Sight in the Nation’s Capital
I just got word that Gerry Condon, President of Veterans For Peace, was bloodied and “taken to ground,” as they like to say, for trying to get food to people inside the occupied Venezuelan embassy this evening.This link should take you directly to a photo of Gerry...
Pretext for War: Pompeo Pushes Iran To Quit Nuclear Deal
Pompeo and Bolton are hoping that one of two false pretexts will push Trump to war on Iran. First the bogus intel report from Israel that Iran was poised to attack and second the disinformation that Iran is pulling out of the JCPOA treaty. Will the neocons hoodwink...
Did Iran Kill 600 Americans in Iraq War II?
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claims that Iran killed 600 Americans during Iraq War II. The syllogism goes, Iran supplied EFP bombs to Sadr’s militia, the Mahdi Army, they then used those bombs on U.S. troops. Ergo “Iran,” meaning the ayatollah and his government,...
Trump Threatens China Trade War… ‘Art of the Deal’?
President Trump is threatening additional billions in tariffs against Chinese imports while sending warships up to China's declared territory in the South China Sea. Is this another big bluff? Will talks continue? What do the markets have to say about it? Tune in to...
Bolton Keeps Trying to Provoke a War
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Paul Pillar puts John Bolton’s latest fear-mongering on Iran in context:National Security Advisor John Bolton, aided by his comrade-in-arms Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, is doing everything possible to instigate...
