Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The Trump administration keeps desperately trying to shift the blame for the catastrophe in Yemen away from the Saudi coalition and the U.S.:#Iran’s support for Houthis in Yemen not only enables attacks on Saudi Arabia...
President Trump has informed Washington's allies that they must cease purchasing Iranian oil by November. He is also trying to force/intimidate European countries into joining, de facto, a return to prior US sanctions on Iran. The goal seems clear: push regime change...
Updated below I was happy to see an antiwar Democrat beat the establishment Joe Crowley in New York. I had read the following on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's website 6 weeks ago: Foreign Policy: Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the United States has entangled itself...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Philip Gordon and Prem Kumar explain why Kushner’s worthless “peace plan” has no chance of winning Palestinian support:His administration has offered unconstrained support for settlements, with an...
Our investments are funding war, guns, and militarism at home and around the world. From our personal investments to state pension plans to university trusts, the money that individuals and communities are using for retirement, long-term planning, and even higher...
The US government has warned its jihadist allies in southwest Syria that there would no US military rescue from their impending defeat by Syrian government forces. With one of the last pockets of ISIS and al-Qaeda cleaned out of Syria, though, what's the point of the...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The Trump administration is pressing ahead with its worthless “peace plan” for Israel and Palestine:Asked by the newspaper’s editor, Walid Abu-Zalaf, about an Abbas spokesman’s dismissal of Mr....
President Trump is dropping bombs at a record pace. Even though the US is technically not at war, in the first year of the Trump Administration some 44,000 bombs were dropped overseas. In the entire eight years of the Bush Administration 70,000 bombs were dropped and...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The International Rescue Committee dismissed Saudi coalition “relief” plan for Yemen as a public relations gimmick:The “relief” plan announced by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to...
In the state of Georgia’s Glynn County Detention Center, four activists await trial stemming from their nonviolent action, on April 4, 2018, at the Naval Submarine Base, Kings Bay. In all, seven Catholic plowshares activists acted that day, aiming to make real the...
