Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Michael Horton is similarly skeptical about Mattis and Pompeo’s calls for a ceasefire in Yemen:Yet these exhortations are meaningless without real pressure on Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which are poised to launch...
Ron Paul on Feeding the Deep State: Trump’s Big Intel Boost an Attack on Liberty
The 2018 US intelligence community budget saw its biggest increase in ten years and is now higher than it has ever been. President Trump's backers often claim that he's in Washington to fight the deep state, but it doesn't get more "deep state" than the US...
Saudi Massacre in Yemen Worse Than Estimated. Will Congress Finally Speak Up?
According to a new study by the University of Sussex, the 10,000 civilian dead in the Yemen war is hugely understated. The actual number of civilians killed since the Saudi attacks started in 2015 may be as high as 80,000. And on top of that, 50,000 children die each...
Canada Seems To Prefer State of ‘War’ in Korea
It may surprise some that a Canadian general is undercutting inter-Korean rapprochement while Global Affairs Canada seeks to maintain its 70-year old war footing, but that is what the Liberal government is doing.At the start of the month Canadian Lieutenant General...
Rep. John Duncan on Becoming an Antiwar Republican
Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN), who will retire in January after 30 years in the United States House of Representatives, is the subject of a new biographical feature article at the Knoxville News Sentinel. Included with the article is video of an interview with...
Virginians Oppose Taxpayer Subsidies for Israeli Business Projects
A plurality of Virginians (38.1%) favor ending taxpayer funding for Israeli business ventures in the commonwealth according to a Virginia Coalition for Human Rights (VCHR) poll fielded by Google Surveys. 32.7% of Virginians were neutral about discontinuing subsidies,...
Saudi Coalition Massacre Kills 21 at a Market in Yemen
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The Saudi coalition bombed a vegetable market near Hodeidah earlier today and killed at least 21 people:Death toll rises to 21 people and 10 others wounded in a masscare committed today by Saudi airstrikes on a local...
Business as Usual’: US Desperate To Cover-Up Khoshoggi Murder
Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman is key to the Middle East strategy of both the US and Israel. Keeping focus on regime change for Iran is the main goal of all three countries. That is why we are seeing a push to cover-up the likely complicity of MbS in the crime...
Ron Paul asks: Will US Military Confront Migrants at Border?
The media reports that some 14,000 people are marching from Honduras through Guatemala through Mexico to the US. They are supposed to arrive just in time for the US election in early November. Is this a political stunt? A genuine mass migration? What are the factors...
William J. Astore on A Perpetual War Machine
Scientists tell us a perpetual motion machine is impossible (that pesky 2nd law of thermodynamics about entropy), but America’s leaders are proving a perpetual war machine is quite possible, as events in Afghanistan prove. The USA is now entering the 18th year...


