Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The president’s interview on Face the Nation this morning contained some remarkable revisionism on his part on the Iraq war:MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to move on here but I should say your intel chiefs do say...
At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing earlier this week, Committee Chair James Inhofe (R-OK) warned that dealing with China's activities in the South China Sea is like preparing for World War III. He complains that the US doesn't even know who its allies are...
The ongoing absurdity of America’s Afghan War was captured in two headlines today from my New York Times feed. Here’s the first:NEWS ANALYSISTaliban Talks Raise Question of What U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan Could MeanBy MARK LANDLER, HELENE COOPER and...
Appearing before the Senate, US intelligence community heads undermined each of President Trump's foreign policy positions and warned that foreign "enemies" would likely interfere in the 2020 elections. The Deep State, neocons, and the liberal #resistance all line up...
It’s been nearly 10 years since the death of Air Force bombardier turned historian and activist Howard Zinn, whose antiwar rhetoric continues to influence the conversation of U.S. interventionism to this day. I was first introduced to Zinn through stumbling upon a...
On January 27th, 2019, the Taliban and the US government each publicly stated acceptance, in principle, of a draft framework for ongoing negotiations that could culminate in a peace deal to end a two-decade war in Afghanistan.As we learn more about the negotiations,...
President Trump's National Security Advisor John Bolton made US policy toward Venezuela very clear in an interview on FoxNews yesterday: We're going to overthrow the government and take the country's oil. He gets points for bluntness, at least. But who are the...
Where is Congress on issues that really matter? Venezuela? They don't want a debate because they all agree on interventionism. Syria? The only debate was to shut down any debate when the president proposed getting US troops out. Yemen? Nope. On NATO Congress voted to...
Rep. Walter Jones, one of the most consistently antiwar members of Congress, is gravely ill and has entered hospice care. The Republican lawmaker has been battling ailments in recent months. He was granted a leave of absence from Congress in late 2018 after missing a...
On January 17, the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep) filed a 59-page brief (PDF HTML) in a lawsuit demanding release of a series of secret presidential letters promising not to force Israel to sign the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear...
