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...
Four Years of the War on Yemen
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.This week marks the fourth year since the beginning of the Saudi coalition’s war on Yemen. In the last four years, the coalition has destroyed much of the country’s infrastructure, devastated its economy,...
Bring Our Troops Home Kentucky Targets Mitch McConnell With Bloodhound Ad
From Bring Our Troops Home Kentucky: When USA Today says that 10 of America's 25 worst counties to live in are in Mitch McConnell's back yard, it seems he should stop funding tens of billions of dollars into things like NATO and endless foreign wars... and Commit to...
‘Shock & Awe’? 16 Years Later, Who Won the Iraq War?
This week marks 16 years since the US attacked an Iraq that had neither attacked nor threatened us. Claims that Iraq had WMDs were lies and the Bush Administration knew they were lies. So 16 years later who is coming out on top after the US attack? Here's a hint: the...
Trump Wants Brazil in NATO – To Help Oust Maduro?
Less than a month after Brazil made it clear that it wants no part in a military invasion of neighboring Venezuela, its president, Jair Bolsonaro, is in Washington this week to be feted by Trump and his neocon advisors. First stop was an unprecedented visit to the CIA...
Trump’s Record Spy Budget – What Do We Really Get For $86 Billion?
The Trump Administration has requested a huge increase in the US spy budget, including a whopping $23 billion for the "black" budget. The reasons given are the increasing threats from Russia and China. Does all this spy spending really protect us...or is it just...


