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...
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...
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...
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...
Speaking this week with host Kennedy at Fox Business, US House Member Thomas Massie (R-KY) insisted that Donald Trump’s performance as president should be judged according to whether Trump adheres to the nonaggression principle that Massie describes as...
Having passed it around to foreign diplomats as a real thing, and tweeted it on Tuesday with the claim it proved Hezbollah's "war crimes," the Israeli military today was forced to admit that a map of "Hezbollah positions" around southern Lebanon was actually totally...
As head of the US Southern Command, Gen. John Kelly was in charge of the US military involvement in the drug war in Central and South America. He blames the liberalization of marijuana in some US states for the ongoing failure of the drug war, even though the drug war...
NATO's desperate search for a purpose after the fall of the Soviet Union has left a swath of destruction through places like Libya, which it "liberated" nearly six years ago. Now NATO wants to take in tiny Montenegro, a corrupt, poor, Balkan statelet with a total of...
The problems many are now predicting under the Trump administration did not start on November 8. The near-unrestrained executive power claimed by the Obama administration will be transferred to the president-elect. Here’s what that means.TortureObama did not...
Gen. James "Mad Dog" Mattis will make his way from the board of directors of major defense contractor General Dynamics back to the Pentagon as Defense Secretary under incoming president Donald Trump. Like his predecessor, current Defense Secretary Ashton Carter,...
