The East Bay Chapter of Veterans for Peace, Chapter #162 (which includes Oakland and Berkeley) has passed the following resolution in support of the Kim-Trump meeting: Veterans for Peace 162 Supports Direct Talks between USA and North Korea Veterans for Peace East Bay...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Many of the detainees seized during Mohammed bin Salman’s purge last year were subjected to physical abuse, and one later died from his injuries:During months of captivity, many were subject to coercion and...
The Defense Department has sent Senate Majority Leader McConnell a letter informing him that even if Congress passes legislation limiting US military action in Yemen, the Pentagon will ignore it. Will Congress finally wake up on Afghanistan and Yemen and return to its...
Delivered to The Israel Lobby and American Policy 2018 conference March 2, 2018 at the National Press ClubThe Israel Lobby and American Policy conference was solely sponsored by the American Educational Trust, publisher of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs,...
The developments regarding Korea this week are astonishing. We may be witnessing a breathtaking outbreak of peace, when not very long ago a nuclear war seemed possible. Now that the Koreas have gotten the diplomatic ball rolling, can President Donald Trump do his...
Next week, the Senate is expected to vote on ending U.S. military involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen, which has plunged Yemen into the world's largest humanitarian crisis.S.J.Res. 54 would withdraw U.S. armed forces from this war that is now entering its...
Best Buy's Geek Squad has been discovered acting as undercover FBI informants, snooping on their customers' computers and reporting anything that looks amiss to the FBI...for cash payments! And Google is teaming up with the Pentagon to help it better analyze drone...
For the first time in quite a few years, direct US-North Korea dialogue seems within reach thanks to North-South Korea talks involving Kim Jong-un and top officials of the Moon Jae-in administration. Whether or not North Korea's complete and verifiable...
Delivered to The Israel Lobby and American Policy 2018 conference March 2, 2018 at the National Press ClubThe Israel Lobby and American Policy conference was solely sponsored by the American Educational Trust, publisher of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs,...
Most of my regular readers – indeed, all of them – know one thing by now: if you've come here for the usual bullshit, rah-rah for Our Team conventional wisdom, you're bound to be disappointed. There are plenty of other places to go for that: I won't name...
