In an extraordinary Breitbart profile, progressive US Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) outlines the broad-based and bi-partisan peace coalition he is working to build to end the trillions wasted on wars and interventions overseas. Will the neocons try to strangle this baby in...
Ron Paul on US Sanctions: The Source Of Imperial Executive Power
Sanctions are the foreign policy of choice for the United States. There are sanctions on sanctions and sub-sanctions. Sanctions on countries, companies, individuals, and more. While we have long argued that sanctions never work and only make life miserable for...
The Israel Lobby and American Policy Conference (video archive)
Archived video of The Israel Lobby and American Policy Conference held March 22, 2019. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
Dreaming Big About the US Military
As the U.S. military enjoys enormous budgets ($718 billion this year, rising possibly to $750 billion for 2020), Americans are told not to dream big. There might just be a connection here.Due to budget deficits (aggravated by the Trump tax cut for the rich), Americans...
Pompeo’s Pathetic Pro-Saudi Spin
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.During his testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Mike Pompeo said the following about Yemen and Saudi Arabia (around 4:10:15 here):The challenges that you’ve cited, the death that you just cited in...
Ron Paul on Hunger Games: Four Years of Saudi/US Aggression in Yemen
This week marks four years of Saudi bombing in Yemen. US participation in the destruction of Yemen began under Obama, but sadly President Trump has done nothing to end the slaughter. While hospitals are bombed and two-thirds of the population faces starvation, US...
Ramzy Baroud on His Visit to New Zealand: Can Christchurch Heal Our Collective Wounds?
I visited the city of Christchurch on May 23, 2018, as part of a larger speaking tour in New Zealand that also took me to Auckland, Wellington, Hamilton and Dunedin. New Zealand is an exceptional country, different from other countries that are often lumped under the...
Escalation: Is Russia in Venezuela a New Cuban Missile Crisis?
A Russian military transport arrived in Venezuela this past week bringing tons of aid and also nearly 100 Russian military advisors. Reportedly this included cybersecurity experts. Moscow claimed this was pre-planned and related to a nearly 20 year old cooperation...
Trump’s Syria Envoy: ‘War Will Continue’
In a press conference yesterday, President Trump's point man for Syria, Jim Jeffrey, said that the defeat of ISIS will not result in a US withdrawal from its illegal occupation of Syrian territory. In fact, he said, the US would continue to support the anti-Assad...
Mueller Report Decimates ‘Russiagate’ Hoax – What’s Next?
The two-plus year great hoax has come to an end. Trump is not Putin's puppet, as the vast majority of the mainstream media and Democrats have claimed. There was no "collusion" with Russia. So after so much wasted time and money, where do US/Russia relations stand and...


