The New York Times unleashed a firestorm by publishing an anonymously written op-ed from someone purporting to be a "senior US Administration official" and who writes of a secret cabal within the US government that conspires to thwart President Trump's agenda....
US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley joined her boss, President Trump, in warning the Syrian government not to re-take the last bit of Syrian territory controlled by rebels. The problem is President Trump's own Special Envoy for the fight against ISIS has confirmed...
As a kid, I was a big admirer of Israel.* I kept a scrapbook on the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Back then, Israel was America’s plucky ally, David against Goliath, helping to keep the Soviet bear at bay, or so it seemed to me.Through a kid’s eyes, Israel in...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Paul Pillar capably sums up why supporting the war on Yemen is not in America’s interest: Neither does the administration’s policy toward the Yemeni war accord with a realist perspective of where U.S....
Felton Davis, who coordinates a weekly vigil in NYC calling for an end to the U.S. war against Yemen, sent us a letter written by Yemen’s Minister of Education which names the students and teachers who were killed when a Saudi warplane fired a 500 lb. bomb, made...
The "National Commission on Military, National and Public Service" has announced that the final event in its year-long series of "informal" open-mike public hearings on whether registration for a military draft should be ended or extended will be...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.USA Today published a very extensive report on conditions inside Iran this week. Here is a description of the response to the reimposition of U.S. sanctions:Still, despite rhetoric from the Trump administration and some...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been forced to spend nearly 3,000 days in solitary confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. His crime? He isn't charged with anything. But the neocons and warmongers in the US government want to put him in a box – or worse...
Tuesday night, as I was watching the PBS News Hour, I snapped to attention as I heard a new euphemism for murdered innocents from bombing: “civilian casualty incidents.”A PBS reporter used it, unthinkingly I believe, repeating bureaucratic jargon about all...
TO: The MediaFROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for SanitySUBJECT: Support for Brennan Far From “Unanimous”As former members of the intelligence community, we feel compelled to add our voice to the public debate surrounding President Trump’s...
