Frustrated by the Saudi refusal to increase oil production by two million barrels per day, President Trump said at a rally yesterday that absent US military protection the Saudi government would not last two weeks. He said the Saudis should "pay up" if they want to...
Ron Paul on The Militarization of the US/China Trade War
As often happens, the US trade war with China is heating up and spilling over to the military realm. Recent skirmishes in the South China Sea are just part of the increasing militarization of the dispute. How hot will the dispute get? Is there anyone in the Trump...
Netanyahu’s ‘Nowhere Land’ Blunder
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave another one of his typical U.N. speeches last week in which he accused Iran of having a “secret atomic warehouse”:Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel...
Blockading Russia? US Interior Secretary’s Dangerous Threat
President Trump's Interior Secretary warned in a recent speech that Russia's energy sales abroad could be prevented with a US naval blockade. The head of the Russian senate's foreign affairs committee rightly responded that this would be an act of war. Why is the US...
Ron Paul’s Keynote Speech at the Ron Paul Institute Media & War Conference 2018
Ron Paul says it all! Here's the concluding speech from last month's Ron Paul Institute Media & War conference in Washington, DC. Did you make it to the conference? Hope to see you at a future event. Enjoy Dr. Paul's speech: Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for...
Our Immoral and Irrational Yemen Policy
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Nicholas Kristof has written an excellent column attacking U.S. support for the war on Yemen:The United States is not directly bombing civilians in Yemen, but it is providing arms, intelligence and aerial refueling to...
Lawrence Wilkerson: ‘Irreconcilable Elements’ Stand in Way of Korean Deal
A peace deal will not be concluded among the United States, North Korea, and South Korea in the next three to five years predicts Lawrence Wilkerson, a College of William & Mary professor and the former chief of staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell, in a...
Will Congress Finally Pull the Plug on Brutal Yemen War?
Three years of Saudis dropping American bombs on Yemeni civilians is starting to get noticed in Congress. A requirement in the defense authorization bill that the Administration certify that the Saudis were at least not trying to kill civilians was put into place and...
William J. Astore on a Trumped-Up Space Force
Space, the “final frontier,” isn’t what it used to be. In the 1960s and early 1970s I grew up a fan of NASA as well as Star Trek with Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock. NASA was (and is) a civilian space agency, even though its corps of astronauts was...
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Lawmakers Introduce Bipartisan Resolution to Stop US Military Support for Saudi Arabia’s Genocidal War in Yemen
Washington, DC – Invoking the War Powers Resolution, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) joined a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers today in introducing a privileged resolution to stop US military support for Saudi Arabia's genocidal war in Yemen. US support of this war...


