Moscow is showing understandable concern over the lowering of the threshold for employing nuclear weapons to include retaliation for cyber-attacks, a change announced on Feb. 2 in the U.S. Nuclear Posture Review (NPR).Explaining the shift in US doctrine on first-use,...
Daniel Larison: Maximalist Demands Won’t Change North Korean Behavior
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Mike Pence confirmed again that the administration’s idea of “talking” to North Korea doesn’t mean anything:Vice President Mike Pence told Axios’ Mike Allen on Wednesday President Trump...
William Bennett says Pence Was in Danger From Kim’s Sister at Olympic Reception
Former Secretary of Education and current neocon shill William Bennett was bloviating on Fox News Monday about the media "fawning" over the North Koreans at the Olympics. He was upset that Americans were not hating the North Korean attendees.He appeared on...
David Petraeus: A Gold Medal Winner in Spin
I’ve been watching the Winter Olympics on TV, and the color commentators for NBC are typically athletes who’ve earned gold medals in the past, like Tara Lipinski in figure skating or Bode Miller in skiing. Why is it, then, when NBC and other networks seek expert...
2019 Military Budget: Pentagon Wins, American Taxpayers Lose
President Trump has delivered his military budget request for 2019 that increases spending by 12 percent over 2017 spending. Designed to fully fund a "depleted" military, even Defense Secretary Mattis was surprised at the figures. Many more warships, many more F-22s...
Korea Olympic Charm Offensive – What’s the Threat?
Neocons -- and even a few "libertarians" -- are furious that North Korea is getting some credit for unleashing a "charm offensive" at the Olympic games. Rather than look to a future without crippling sanctions and the threat of nuclear war, they obsess on the lurid...
William J. Astore on A Curious Aspect of Air Power
Over the past several days, Russia and Israel have lost fighter jets over Syria. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to those countries. When jets attack people on the ground, those people tend to fire back (if they have weapons at hand), and sometimes they even...
Ron Paul asks: Who Is the Aggressor In Syria?
It's been a couple of weeks of serious escalation in Syria. First, the US attacked and killed some 100 Syrian government-allied troops for launching an operation against a US-funded rebel force that seeks the overthrow of the Syrian government. Then some US-trained...
Ike’s Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex Is Alive and Very Well
The new Congressional budget boosts military spending in a big way. Last night’s PBS News report documented how military spending is projected to increase by $160 billion over two years, but that doesn’t include “overseas contingency funding”...
Philip Giraldi on the Grassley Memo Shocker – Did The UK Meddle In Our Elections?
The release of the "Grassley Memo" earlier this week should have made headlines, but it didn't. In addition to confirming key details from the earlier Nunes Memo on FISA abuses, the Grassley memo contained even more details on the incredible manipulation of the 2016...


