Ten years ago, Iraqi and Coalition Forces were boots-deep in Operation Together Forward, a two-phase mission to reduce violence and increase security in a war-torn Iraq. Soon after, the Iraq Study Group concluded that the operation’s results were...
Your Tax Dollars, Creating Jobs (in Afghanistan)
The United States government spent over $42,000 per Afghan to create 500 jobs over there.And that’s the good news. The ever-cheerful Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR; we have been paying to rebuild Afghanistan for the past 15 years with...
Jon Basil Utley: Phyllis Schlafly Opposed the Wars
Phyllis Schlafly was a giant of the conservative movement. And she opposed America’s recent wars. An early fighter, who started up with opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment to the constitution, died at 92 years old. I knew her for 30 years and she had known my...
House Expects Friday Vote on 9/11 Lawsuit Bill Opposed by Saudis
Reports out of the Republican leadership say that the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, or JASTA, is expected to come up for a vote in the House of Representatives this week, likely on Friday. The JASTA allows for 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for damages...
Ron Paul Speaks With Benjamin Ahdoot About Iran: The Inside Story
In a very special Ron Paul Liberty Report, we speak with Benjamin Ahdoot, an Iranian-American of Jewish heritage who just spent three months in Iran. Are the neocons telling us the truth about Iran? Benjamin sets them straight! Don't miss this interview! Reprinted...
Kathy Kelly on A Good Beginning
It seems that some who have the ears of U.S. elite decision-makers are at least shifting away from wishing to provoke wars with Russia and China. In recent articles, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Thomas Graham, two architects of the US cold war with Russia, have...
Ron and Rand Paul on the US Paying for Everyone’s War Machines
Why should American citizens subsidize the R&D and manufacture of military materials only to have them sold overseas to the profit of the arms manufacturers? And why on earth would we send more weapons to Saudi Arabia with its abysmal human rights record and brutal...
US Denies Entry to Ex-UK Ambassador Who Is Critical of US Foreign Policy
The United States over the weekend denied travel to a former British ambassador, Craig Murray, who was also a British diplomat for some 30 years, and is the author of several books. Murray has stood twice for election to the House of Commons. He was...
Governments’ Fury Reflects Success of Telegram App’s Privacy Features
While everyone gives lip-service to protecting customers' privacy these days, many major US tech companies are known to be in bed with the NSA on wholesale surveillance. It's tough to know, then, how seriously to take security promises from such companies. A good rule...
War Pabulum: The Perils of War as a Master Narrative
I was reading the novelist Ursula K. Le Guin and came across the following commentary by her:“A hero whose heroism consists of killing people is uninteresting to me, and I detest the hormonal war orgies of our visual media … War as a moral metaphor is...


