The death of 71-year-old Senator Lindsey Graham has brought the debate over U.S. foreign policy over the last 25 years or more to the fore: Graham was an unapologetic Cold War warrior who promoted every American military intervention in that time. His support for the...
Rubio’s Anti-ICC Campaign Is an Anti-‘Sovereignty’ Project
The International Criminal Court, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio complains in a July 13 Wall Street Journal op-ed, styles itself “a standing world tribunal with near-unlimited reach, empowered to override the courts and constitutions of the U.S. and other sovereign...
Ron Paul on Hiding the Cost of the Iran War From the American People
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: While Trump Administration officials continue to provide low-ball figures for how much the Iran war has cost the United States, a thorough look at this "most unpopular war in US history" reveals an astronomical price tag that will...
‘Not How It Works’: Critics Slam Trump Bid To Restart Legal Clock on Illegal Iran War
Critics from both sides of the political aisle on Monday denounced President Donald Trump’s effort to construct a facade of legality for the illegal US-Israeli war of choice on Iran by notifying Congress of renewed military strikes on the Mideast nation. Trump claimed...
Ron Paul on Trump saying ‘We Are Going To Control the Hormuz Strait!’
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: President Trump declared this morning that the United States will capture and control the Strait of Hormuz and begin charging a 20 percent fee on ships traversing the waterway. How is he going to do that? The Fox News interviewer...
Lindsey Graham and Our Vile Pro-War Culture
Sen. Lindsey Graham, the arch-warmonger from South Carolina, has died. He leaves behind a legacy of death, destruction, and massive human suffering. Graham cheered on every foreign war and every sanctions regime for at least the last thirty years, and he was among the...
John Mearsheimer says The US Cannot Defeat Iran
Reprinted from John's Substack: On 10 July 2026, I was on the “Deep Dive” with Lt. Col. (ret.) Danny Davis, where we talked mainly about Iran, although we did discuss Ukraine in the last part of the show. On Iran, we talked about the tit-for-tat bombing campaign...
Trump Says the Ceasefire Is Over. The Law Says – Twice – the Iran War Is Over.
“The United States and Iran exchanged fire for a second consecutive night on Thursday [July 9],” the New York Times reports, “extending a pattern of hostilities that has all but collapsed their fragile truce and left the Middle East suspended between war and peace.”...
Ron Paul on Trump to Ukraine: Hit Russia Deep
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: At this week's NATO summit, President Trump expressed his view that more Ukrainian missile strikes deep into Russia would accelerate the peace process between the two countries. But what if he's wrong? Also today, Trump re-starts...
William Astore on Nuclear Mass Death
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Mark Twain was right when he said history may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Consider America’s approach to nuclear weapons. Under Ronald Reagan in the early 1980s, America’s strategic nuclear triad...


