Reprinted from John's Substack: On 11 March 2026, I was interviewed on “The Chris Hedges Report.” Of course, Chris and I talked about the Iran war and what went wrong. In the process, we emphasized what history can tell us about where this war is headed.
The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday dismissed the indictments of five soldiers accused of raping a Palestinian prisoner at the notorious Sde Teiman prison in July 2024 – an attack that sparked worldwide outrage. The IDF spokesperson’s office said the decision to...
Two million people flood central Tehran and an American reporter says he felt safe—so what else about Iran, the protests, and the path to war have we been getting wrong? We open with a vivid, on-the-ground account of Iran’s national day, where politics look more like...
Reprinted with permission from David Henderson’s Substack. I’ve been reading many people on many sites claiming that we have been at war with Iran for 47 years. I found that odd because I thought I distinctly remembered good relations between the Iran and U.S....
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Yesterday President Trump continued his "victory lap" on the Iran war, bragging that we've already won the war and that he is ready to end it. Meanwhile a new Intelligence Community report was leaked assessing that the Iranian...
For nearly two millennia, the Christian intellectual tradition has maintained that war, while sometimes permissible, is never presumptively just. The burden of proof always falls on the party making war, not on the party resisting it. Augustine of Hippo laid the...
Reprinted from John's Substack: On 10 March 2026, I appeared on Glenn Diesen’s podcast to talk with him about where the Iran war is headed. We had an excellent discussion in which we emphasized that the US and the Israelis have no strategy for winning this war and no...
A Republican senator apologized this week for what US military investigators have reportedly determined was an American missile strike on a girls’ school in southern Iran that killed around 175 people – mostly children – amid continued sidestepping by President Donald...
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: As often happens, the NDAA bill contains some of the worst language of all legislation. This year is no different, with language slipped into the bill that automatically and involuntarily registers young men for the military draft....
As Iranian officials displayed US-marked fragments of a missile believed to have been used in Saturday’s massacre of around 175 mostly school children in Minab, President Donald Trump on Monday doubled down on his unfounded claim that Iran carried out the strike. The...
