If you do what Washington says, they send you money. If you don't, they send you bombs. Now that Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has claimed he wants to pivot away from the US and toward China, can he expect some of those bombs? Or perhaps just a CIA-sponsored...
Imagine if the Islamic Republic of Iran, complaining that its regional rival Saudi Arabia was meddling in a neighbor’s politics for sectarian reasons, led a coalition to invade that country. As a result, after 18 months, at least 10,000 civilians had been killed or...
Antiwar.com contributing editor Lucy Steigerwald joined Adam Camac to talk about her article, The Religious Fervor of the Pledge of Allegiance and the National Anthem.You can follow her work at her blog, The Stag Blog, on Facebook, and on TwitterDownload MP3, or view...
General (retired) David Petraeus was on PBS the other day to explain the current Iraqi offensive on Mosul. Sure, his military “surges” in Iraq and Afghanistan had no staying power, and he disgraced himself by sharing classified information with his mistress during an...
Donald Trump seems to be a shady dealer, a blusterer, a prevaricator, an abuser of women -- not my choice for president. Yet a case can be made for Trump as the slightly lesser of two evils. Hillary Clinton could be called an abuser of women, children, and men –...
I’ve written often about our Iraqi refugee friend and his oldest son from Baghdad. I will call them Mohammed and Ahmed. They made the torturous flight last year from Baghdad to Kurdistan and then across Turkey. They were on three Greek islands before permission was...
In last night's presidential debate, Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton accused the Russians of manipulating the US electoral system to get Republican candidate Donald Trump elected president. She claimed: We have 17 intelligence agencies, civilian and...
Announcing the creation of The Libertarian Institute! It's me, Will Grigg and Sheldon Richman. Find out all about it here. The website goes live on Wednesday. Go there to sign up for the email list now!
The U.S. spends spends $5 billion of your tax money a year in “aid” to Afghanistan, plus billions more for the cost of the thousands of American troops and Pentagon-sponsored military contractors there.An “Epidemic of Graft”One of the (many)...
Letter to Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter: October 14, 2016 The Honorable Ashton B. Carter Secretary of Defense The Pentagon Washington, DC 20301-1000 Dear Secretary Carter: I am responding to Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Acting) Jedidiah Royal's October...
