Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Isn’t it high time we “augment” our nuclear force “posture”? Shouldn’t we fight to achieve peace through nuclear “strength” and “deterrence”? Isn’t it smart to “refurbish, rebuild, and modernize” the nuclear...
Ron Paul asks: Can Rubio Beat the Blob?
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Newly-confirmed Secretary of State Marco Rubio is facing his first real foreign policy challenge: how to get his own Department to obey President Trump's 90-day halt on foreign development assistance. Will he be able to stand up to...
James Carden on Scaremongering on Sunday
Minutes before the start of the Bills-Chiefs AFC championship game on Sunday, viewers were subjected to a risible 30 second ad paid for by a shadowy dark money PAC called National Interest [sic] Action. The ad serves as a kind of scare-mongering open letter to...
Conflicts of Interest: Trump’s Plan to ‘Clean Out’ Palestinians From Gaza
On COI #750, Kyle Anzalone discusses Trump's remarks on Gaza. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
Trump’s Malevolent Yemen Policy
As expected, Trump has started the process for redesignating the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), and he is also going after USAID support for U.N. and humanitarian aid groups working in Yemen: It also directs the US Agency for International...
Maybe Doom Isn’t Scary Enough
I interviewed three anti-nuke activists to understand the Doomsday Clock and how our society thinks about the very real threat of nuclear war. On a rainy Saturday afternoon in the Catskill Mountains where New Yorkers went for the summer to escape the city heat, Alice...
Veterans For Peace Celebrates the Gaza Ceasefire and Pledges To Defend It
Veterans For Peace joins the people of Gaza in rejoicing at the Ceasefire that has brought a halt to Israel’s bombardment of Palestinian children, women and men, and their churches, their mosques, their schools and hospitals. At least 50,000 have been killed in a...
Conflicts of Interest: Will Trump End the Ukraine War?
On COI #749, Kyle Anzalone discusses Trump's first week back in office. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
Trump Shakes up DC in 48 hours!/Ukraine Falling/Russia Rising! New Episode of the Kyle Anzalone Show
On the new Kyle Anzalone show, I break down Trump's statement on John Bolton.
William Astore on The American Cult of Bombing
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Back in August of 2014, I wrote a piece for TomDispatch on the American cult of bombing. The Air Force’s new stealth bomber, the B-21 Raider, was still on the drawing board a decade ago. The Air Force wanted...


