From WNYC Radio: Last week, President Trump ordered the firing of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles on Syria in retaliation against the chemical attack allegedly committed by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against his own people. The coverage of the strikes appeared to...
Stephen Cohen on Today’s Tillerson-Putin Meeting
Tucker Carlson interviews Professor Stephen Cohen about the heating up of US-Russian relations and today's meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
Will Grigg Was a Mighty Voice for Justice and Liberty
William Norman Grigg died this afternoon. He was a journalist, broadcaster, editor, musician, father, husband, and a self-described Christian Individualist. He was also my hero.Will’s main beat was stories about individual victims of the state: particularly Americans...
William Norman Grigg, RIP
I have just received the very sad news that our good friend and freedom-fighter Will Grigg, has passed away. He was 54. Will was a long-time activist and writer against war and state power. He had recently co-founded The Libertarian Institute with Jared Labell, Scott...
Ron Paul: US Attack on Syria Is To Prop Up the Military-Industrial Complex
Interviewed Monday by Kennedy at Fox Business, Ron Paul challenged the contention that the United States government was acting in accord with good intentions in attacking Syria last week. Instead, Paul suggests a big motivation was generating profit for the...
Found in Cuba: The American Dream (and Nightmare)
Originally posted at TomDispatch.It has to be one of the oddities of our history: the near-obsessive level of attention that, for almost 60 years, Washington has lavished on a modest-sized, impoverished island-nation of little strategic importance 90 miles off our...
Intel Professionals: Trump Should Rethink Syria Escalation
Two dozen ex-U.S. intelligence officials urge President Trump to rethink his claims blaming the Syrian government for the chemical deaths in Idlib and to pull back from his dangerous escalation of tensions with RussiaMEMORANDUM FOR: The PresidentFROM: Veteran...
Ron Paul Asks: After Trump Bombed Syria, Are We All Neocons Now?
House and Senate Republican leaders McConnell and Ryan are praising President Trump's missile strike on Syria last week in retaliation for an alleged chemical attack on civilians, while when President Obama proposed the same thing in 2013 they strongly opposed the...
Dennis Kucinich Asks, ‘Why Are We Helping ISIS?’
Former presidential candidate and United States House of Representatives Member Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is not buying the Trump administration line on the US missile attack last week in Syria. Interviewed at Fox News, Kucinich both rejects the reason offered for the...
We Are Already at War With China
I was in Waikiki, Hawaii, recently. But not for pleasure. I was there out of obligation, fulfilling my parental duty to visit my son and his husband, who live there. I’ll admit, though, that I was getting some pleasure, looking out from the balcony of the 19th floor...


