The Trump Administration is determined to bring Iran to its knees. With a new round of "crippling" sanctions targeting any country doing business with Iran, is the US just isolating itself from the rest of the world? Is it hastening the end of "dollar hegemony" that...
This is not a well-known story. Congress covered it up at the time. This was bipartisan murder.The military could not meet its quotas. The draft was failing. Volunteers could not fill the ranks. In response, Robert McNamara devised a solution: draft low-IQ men who...
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. ~ Jacques Ellul I have long had mixed feelings about...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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,...
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...
