Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Nicholas Kristof has written an excellent column attacking U.S. support for the war on Yemen:The United States is not directly bombing civilians in Yemen, but it is providing arms, intelligence and aerial refueling to...
Lawrence Wilkerson: ‘Irreconcilable Elements’ Stand in Way of Korean Deal
A peace deal will not be concluded among the United States, North Korea, and South Korea in the next three to five years predicts Lawrence Wilkerson, a College of William & Mary professor and the former chief of staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell, in a...
Will Congress Finally Pull the Plug on Brutal Yemen War?
Three years of Saudis dropping American bombs on Yemeni civilians is starting to get noticed in Congress. A requirement in the defense authorization bill that the Administration certify that the Saudis were at least not trying to kill civilians was put into place and...
William J. Astore on a Trumped-Up Space Force
Space, the “final frontier,” isn’t what it used to be. In the 1960s and early 1970s I grew up a fan of NASA as well as Star Trek with Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock. NASA was (and is) a civilian space agency, even though its corps of astronauts was...
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Lawmakers Introduce Bipartisan Resolution to Stop US Military Support for Saudi Arabia’s Genocidal War in Yemen
Washington, DC – Invoking the War Powers Resolution, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) joined a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers today in introducing a privileged resolution to stop US military support for Saudi Arabia's genocidal war in Yemen. US support of this war...
Friends Committee on National Legislation Applauds Bipartisan Initiative to End Illegal American War in Yemen
Washington, DC – The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) applauds legislation introduced by a bipartisan quartet of U.S. Representatives to end US military backing for the Saudi-led war in Yemen.“As Quakers, we support legislation to end...
Trump’s UN Speech: The Good, Bad, and the Ugly
How did President Trump do in his UN General Assembly speech? He got some unexpected laughs and did a good deal of bragging, but when it came to foreign policy there were huge disconnects from reality. Everyone must respect each other's sovereignty...but what about US...
Trump Pushes His Destructive Iran Policy at the UN
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Aside from being laughed at by the audience, Trump achieved very little in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly today. The president talked a lot about the importance of sovereignty, and then called on the rest of...
Ron Paul on Military Spending, China Tariffs, and More
Ron Paul returns with another episode of his popular #AskRonPaul program in today's Liberty Report. Who was the worst president? Military spending out of control? What will more tariffs on China do to our economy? Tune in... Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for...
China’s ‘Digital Dictatorship’… and Ours
China's "social credit" system is widely viewed as a kind of "digital dictatorship," where not only does illegal or anti-social behavior result in lower scores and therefore less privileges, but political dissent also earns one lower "social credit" scores. While the...


