Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has published a bizarre op-ed in the Wall Street Journal claiming that Saudi Arabia has been a guarantor of stability in the Middle East and a bulwark against "expansionist" Iran. Perhaps he forgot about Saudi support for jihadists in...
Dishonest (not “mistaken”) intelligence greased the skids for the widespread killing and maiming in the Middle East that began with the Cheney/Bush “Shock and Awe” attack on Iraq. The media reveled in the unconscionable (but lucrative) buzzword...
Why does it seem like each time Presidents Trump and Putin look like they might start communicating there is a "crisis" that threatens war? Are the neocons manipulating things? The latest dust-up between Ukrainian gunships and the Russian military in the Kerch Strait...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The Trump administration bows before the Saudis once more over the war on Yemen:The US has “slammed the brakes on” a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a limited ceasefire and increased...
Somewhere, I don’t remember where, I came across a humorous variant of Newton’s three laws of motion, proposing a fourth law, as follows:“Newton’s Fourth Law: Don’t start no shit, won’t be no shit.”Imagine if the U.S. government/military had followed this...
Adam Schiff doesn’t believe DHS saying ISIS or MS-13 are real threats but he DOES believe a Russian Oligarch who told him Medvedev was followed everywhere he went by a man called “The Pillow Carrier” who’s job was to smother Medvedev in his sleep if he made Putin mad....
In July 2017, by a vote of 122 to 1, with one abstention, nations from around the world attending a United Nations-sponsored conference in New York City voted to approve a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. Although this Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons...
What kind of justice system do we have in the US when publishers of the truth that government does not want you to know are threatened with imprisonment and even the death penalty? Ron Paul and Lew Rockwell discuss the terrible and shameful treatment of publisher,...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Iranians’ access to medicine is being choked off by the Trump administration’s illegitimate reimposition of sanctions:The number of European and Iranian banks conducting such transactions has dwindled,...
In this same week the New York Times asserted North Korea is engaged in a “great deception” over its nuclear forces, South Korean unification minister Cho Myoung Gyon is visiting the United States with plans to meet Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a Member of...
