Twenty-three years ago on March 19, 2003, I resigned from the U.S. Department of State in opposition to Bush Jr’s administration’s decision to attack and invade Iraq. In 2001, after 9/11, and while attacking Afghanistan, Bush spoke of the Axis of Evil-Iran, Iraq and...
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Just because we don't get invoices in the mail, doesn't mean we don't pay dearly for the empire's senseless wars. Most of us Americans have been hammered our entire lives to pay for them. It was hoped that the long-train of...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Here’s the lede at NBC News this morning: Discussions about possible ground troops have focused on missions aimed at escalating the war in attempt to end it, sources say, but no decisions have been made....
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made many trips to the U.S. last year. And now here we are, in the middle of a gigantic mess in the Middle East (again). The widely anticipated expectation of President Trump putting...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Joe Kent’s principled resignation letter, in which he calls out the influence of Israel and AIPAC on President Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran, illustrates the nature of power and dissent in government...
The Strait of Hormuz is the kind of geopolitical pressure point that can turn a regional fight into a worldwide economic shock, and the official story coming out of Washington doesn’t always match what markets and missiles are signaling. We sit down with Larry Johnson...
The Pentagon is requesting $200 billion in war funding for the ongoing illegal assault on Iran: The Pentagon has formally moved to secure a staggering $200 billion supplemental budget to sustain ongoing military operations against Iran. According to a report by the...
Air defense looks clean on a diagram. In real war, it is messy, conditional, and expensive in ways most people never see until the alarms are late and the interceptors are flying in bunches. We sit down with Daryl Cooper to translate the jargon and show what “layered...
Reprinted from John's Substack: On 17 March 2026, I was on “Judging Freedom” talking with the Judge about Iran and related matters. Today is the 20th anniversary — to the day — of the publication on the internet of “The Israel Lobby” in The London Review of Books....
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war. ~ Montesquieu I get asked a lot to explain who or what drives American foreign policy. In the last few years, this question has very often centered around the US-Israeli relationship. The following is adapted...
