Originally appeared at The American Conservative.The Washington Post reports on the latest effort to cut off U.S. support to the Saudi coalition:A group of Republican and Democratic lawmakers is making a new push to end the Saudi-led bombing campaign in Yemen amid...
The Atrocious War on Yemen Continues
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.The Saudi coalition committed another horrific slaughter of Yemenis over the weekend with an airstrike that destroyed a prison and killed more than 100 of the people being held there:A Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a...
Ron Paul says Beware (and Prepare): The American Empire Is Collapsing
When empires fall, they do not go down gracefully. The collapse is sudden and the consequences are permanent. Like the schoolyard bully who is finally defeated, his former victims and enemies revel in his fall. The US empire is now teetering on such a collapse. The...
August 29: International Day Against Nuclear Tests
On 29 August 1991, the Semipalatinsk nuclear test range in Kazakhstan was officially closed. In December 2009, the UN General Assembly, as a result of an initiative by the Government of Kazakhstan, declared 29th August to be the International Day Against Nuclear...
William J. Astore on Still Not Getting the Vietnam War
I recently read an article on Rocky Bleier’s return to Vietnam, the subject of a documentary on ESPN.Rocky Bleier played on the Pittsburgh Steelers football team in the 1970s, when the Steelers were at their finest. Before that, he was drafted into the Army and...
What Happened to Putting Americans First?
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Trump repeated his outrageous anti-Semitic statement yesterday:President Trump said Wednesday that Jewish Americans who vote for Democratic candidates are “very disloyal to Israel,” expanding on his remarks from the...
Burn Pits Are Killing Our Veterans: Video with Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
Veterans are coming home from the War on Terror and suffering from the horrific effects of burn pits. Instead of receiving support from the VA—America’s veterans have found they need to fight a new battle at home with an unexpected enemy—bureaucracy. Free the People...
Trump’s Foreign Policy: All Coercion, No Diplomacy
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Matt Lee reports on the Trump administration obsessive use of sanctions:Call it the diplomacy of coercion. The Trump administration is aggressively pursuing economic sanctions as a primary foreign policy tool to an...
Trump Administration Wants Permanent Repeal of the 4th Amendment
Departing Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats sent Congress a letter requesting that several features of the misnamed USA FREEDOM Act be made permanent, allowing the US government to spy in Americans in perpetuity. The Trump Administration wants to be able to...
Watch Abby Martin’s New Documentary on Great March of Return
Abby Martin and Mike Prysner of the Empire Files teamed up with Palestinian journalists on the ground in Gaza to produce Gaza Fights For Freedom. The documentary covers the Great March of Return protests at the Gaza border that have been going on since March 2018....


