President Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia was perhaps one of the most bizarre spectacles of our time. Just months ago he accused the Saudi government of being behind the 9/11 attack on the US, yet over the weekend he stood on Saudi soil and discussed the virtues of...
Antiwar.com’s Angela Keaton on the Release of Chelsea Manning
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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Condemns New US Arms Sale to Saudi Arabia
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) today condemned the Trump Administration’s new $460 billion arms deal with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – $110 billion immediately and $350 billion over the next 10 years – a country with a devastating record of human rights...
Video: Julian Assange Speaks After Sweden Halts Rape Investigation
Sweden’s top prosecutor said today that she has “discontinued” an investigation into allegations that Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, raped a woman in Stockholm in 2010, and withdrawn an international warrant for his arrest.
Mueller Appointed ‘Chief Prosecutor’ – ‘Russiagate’ Crisis Over… Or Just Beginning?
In a surprise move, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as Special Counsel to look into whether the Russian government interfered in the 2016 US presidential election and whether the Trump election team colluded with the...
Base World: The Pentagon’s Profligate and Prodigious Presence
As President Trump heads off on an overseas trip, trailing Washington scandals in his wake, it’s worth reminding ourselves of America’s prodigious global presence and the profligate expense at which it comes. As David Vine notes in his latest article for...
Freed 28 Years Early, Chelsea Manning Can Finally Go Home
Chelsea Manning was the first of her kind, bringing a new type of whistleblowing to the public eye. In 2010, Manning leaked an impressive number of documents detailing the way the U.S. military and government violated the rights of many. Via communication with...
Undercover in Idlib Province
Journalist Jenan Moussa has sent undercover reporters to Idlib Province, home of Uncle Sam and friends’ “moderate” al Qaeda fighters there. Yet U.S. support for these terrorists continues under President Donald Trump. Reprinted with permission from The Libertarian...
10 Reasons Trump Should Not Strengthen US-Saudi Ties
Donald Trump has selected Saudi Arabia as the destination for his first trip abroad, strengthening U.S. ties to a regime that is fueling the very extremism, intolerance and violence that the US government purports to eradicate. Here’s 10 reasons why the United States...
Trump Shares Classified Material With Russia – Duck and Cover!
U.S. media outlets have been consumed by the story today that President Trump improperly or unwisely shared classified material on ISIS with the Russians, material that apparently came from Israel. For its part, the Trump administration denies the charge that...


