After the pro-rebel White Helmets claimed over the weekend that Syria's Assad has "again" gassed his own citizens, President Trump is threatening massive retaliation. Russia has stated that it would strike any source of incoming missiles into Syria. Will President...
From Resisters.infoThe "National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service" has announced that the second of its "open-mike public hearings" throughout the US on whether registration for a military draft should be ended or extended will be in Denver,...
From the Archives: As President Trump faces opposition from his generals to pull U.S. troops from Syria, here’s a look back to a similar fix another new president had gotten himself into, as Ray McGovern reported on March 28, 2009.I was wrong. I had been saying that...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.To get some idea of what John Bolton will tell Trump about Syria, it is useful to revisit an old Bolton op-ed from a few years ago. It may give us some clues about the position he’ll take on Syria today, and it is...
Within the U.S. “defense” establishment there’s an eagerness to refight the Cold War with Russia and China, notes Michael Klare at TomDispatch.com. The “long war” on terror, although still festering, is not enough to justify enormous...
From Consortium News: A memorial service in celebration of the life and work of Consortium News Founder and Editor Robert Parry will be held on April 14, 2018 at 2:30pm in the Galaxy Ballroom of the Sheraton Pentagon City Hotel in Arlington, VA located at 900 S. Orme...
Just a week after President Trump told an Ohio audience that US troops would be removed from Syria "very soon" and brought back home "where they belong," he has again changed his tune. After a neocon uprising in their various think tanks and journals and after a...
US Rep. Mark Sanford (R-SC) will join Ron Paul, Jacob Hornberger, Richard Ebeling, and Daniel McAdams at the upcoming joint Ron Paul Institute/Future of Freedom Foundation conference on US foreign policy and the importance of returning to non-interventionism as the...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Max Boot rails against the possibility that our illegal, unnecessary war in Syria might come to an end:If the United States leaves both Syria and Iraq, it will be an incalculable windfall for Iran, a rogue state that...
Over the past week, President Trump has twice emphatically stated that he intends to remove US troops from Syria and bring them home "where they belong." He also defied his advisors by congratulating Russian President Vladimir Putin on his election victory and...
