In the 1952 movie Above and Beyond, movie idol Robert Taylor played handsome Col. Paul Tibbetts, straight out of Central Casting, who piloted his B-29 Enola Gay to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima 79 years tomorrow. We all grew up in awe of Tibbetts, Enola Gay...
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: A new poll released yesterday by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs shows that a solid majority of Americans oppose using US troops to defend Israel - the lowest level of support for defending Israel since the poll began in 2010....
A new survey from the Chicago Council finds that most Americans oppose sending U.S. forces to defend Israel if it comes under attack. If Israel is attacked by Iran, 56% oppose U.S. intervention to defend them. If Israel is attacked by any of its immediate neighbors,...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Between Rock and a Hard Place. It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. ~ Charles Dickens Yoshito Matsushige, a photographer for the Chugoku Shimbun newspaper in...
On COI #651, Kyle Anzalone discusses the latest news from Israel and Ukraine. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
On COI #650, Kyle Anzalone breaks down Middle East tensions. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
Great orators in history would not have been recognized as such if their words carried no value. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is neither a great orator, nor did his speech before a joint Congressional session on July 24 have actual worth. It was an...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. I wrote my first article for TomDispatch in 2007, two years after I’d retired from the military. That article was highly critical of the U.S. military and its disastrous war in Iraq. I wrote that we, the...
In the face of moves in Congress to ramp up U.S. readiness to activate a draft, Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) have reintroduced an alternative proposal to step back from the brink of mass military mobilization by repealing the...
Soon after the Gaza war began 10 months ago, a prominent newspaper columnist denounced Congresswoman Cori Bush under a headline declaring that “anti-Israel comments make her unfit for reelection.” The piece appeared in the newspaper with the second-largest readership...
