So what better use of taxpayer money and time than for your State Department to make idiotic holiday videos?Acting like an asshat is something of a State tradition year-round, but these annual videos seek to memorialize it. The very broad theory is that these things...
The F-35 Fighter: Not Invisible to Trump’s Radar
Is Donald Trump putting coal in Lockheed Martin’s Christmas stocking?Trump has sent another tweet about the F-35 jet fighter (Lockheed Martin is the primary contractor), this time asking Boeing to price out a comparable F-18 Super Hornet as a possible...
Ron Paul: Purported Russian Hack in US Election is Insignificant Compared to What US Does Overseas
“I think it’s politics more than anything else,” says former House of Representatives Member Ron Raul (R-TX) regarding calls for an investigation of purported hacking by the Russian government influencing the United States presidential election. Interviewed Wednesday...
Sources Tell Me… Fake News, Kuwait and the Trump DC Hotel
It is fully normalized now in American mainstream journalism to build an entire story, often an explosive story, around a single, anonymous source, typically described no further than “a senior U.S. official,” or just “a source.”For a writer,...
Ron Paul on the Global War On Terrorism: Are We Winning?
The US State Department comes out yearly with its list of "state sponsors of terrorism," but to many people overseas it is the US government itself that is a main sponsor of terrorism overseas. The US president claims the right to attack suspected terrorists in any...
Ron Paul on Getting Real News From Aleppo – With Vanessa Beeley
As the liberation of Aleppo has destroyed the mainstream media's narrative, with on-the-ground interviews from east Aleppo residents showing that they were in fact being held captive for four years by an al-Qaeda linked terrorist organization. The mainstream fake news...
Ralph Raico, RIP
I am sad to report that a very dear friend and long-time supporter of Antiwar.com, Ralph Raico, has passed away at the age of 80. I met Ralph 40 years ago when I was active in the Libertarian Party. He was an active proponent of the anti-interventionist stance in his...
US Intel Vets Dispute Russia Hacking Claims
As the hysteria about Russia’s alleged interference in the U.S. election grows, a key mystery is why U.S. intelligence would rely on “circumstantial evidence” when it has the capability for hard evidence, say U.S. intelligence veterans.Veteran Intelligence...
Ron Paul on Election ‘Hack’ – Do We Believe Snowden And Assange … Or McCain And Graham?
On one hand we have the Washington Post reporting that the CIA has determined that the Russians have hacked the US election to put Donald Trump in the White House. The evidence is secret, but the CIA and the Post wouldn't lie, would they? Then we have global...
Peter Van Buren: Freedom’s Just Another Word
Here’s what’s left of democracy in America.We had an election, and the candidate favored by Washington, media, and many business elites did not win. Here’s what happened next.CIA unambiguously but without documentation or evidence presented says, via...


