Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The Wall Street Journal reports on Bolton’s eagerness to attack Iran last year:President Trump’s National Security Council asked the Pentagon to provide the White House with military options to strike Iran last...
Business as Usual: More Weapons to the Saudis
With the killing of opposition journalist Khashoggi safely out of the headlines and with the House refusing to hold a vote on US involvement in the Yemen war, the Trump Administration is back to its Plan A: Sell more weapons to the Saudis as the Saudis annihilate...
Israel Uses Commercial Airliners As Cover For Bombing
Jimmy Dore comments on a report by Phil Giraldi on Israel using commercial airliners as cover for bombing Syria on Christmas Day:
Bolton: Trump’s Wrong – We’re Not Leaving Syria!
President Trump's National Security Advisor John Bolton (along with the Secretary of State and other neocons) are openly defying the president's stated policy of a rapid withdrawal of US troops from Syria. The president does not seem too bothered by this open...
Bolton Won’t Give Up on Illegal War in Syria
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Bolton is not giving up on keeping our illegal war in Syria going one way or another:Some U.S. troops could remain in southern Syria for an undetermined amount of time even as American forces withdraw in coming months...
Elizabeth Warren Supports Trump’s Syria Withdrawal
Jimmy Dore commentary on Elizabeth Warren talking to Rachel Maddow on the need to get out of Syria:
Rand Paul Smacks Down Jake Tapper On Syria
Jimmy Dore narrates Rand Paul's great smackdown of Jake Tapper on Syria and broader US interventionism:
An Iran Policy of Regime Change in All But Name
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Mike Pompeo removes any doubt about the purpose of the administration’s Iran policy of regime change in all but name:U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that “the sanctions on Iran have an ultimate...
Neocons Rage: International (And Domestic) Support for Trump’s Syria Pullout
The mainstream press coverage of President Trump's announcement that he would be removing US troops from Syria has been unanimously apocalyptic. Journos who until a few days ago couldn't care less about the Kurds (certainly not when US president after US president has...
Rep. John Duncan’s Final Comment on the House Floor: ‘Seek Peace and Pursue It’
Come the swearing in of members of the new United States Congress on January 3, Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN), who is one of the longest-serving Republican members of the House of Representatives and among the House’s strongest peace advocates, will be...


