War planners love simple stories. Threaten, strike, and watch a “decisive” blow topple a hated regime. Today we peel back the layers on the rush toward Iran—what a decisive strike actually means, what the timelines look like from the Pentagon and Tel Aviv, and why air...
God has a special providence for fools, drunkards and the United States of America. ~Otto von Bismarck (attributed) It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench,...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Back in 2007, Senator John McCain suggested that if the U.S. lost its war in Iraq, it wouldn’t be the military’s fault. It would rather be the fault of opponents of that war, who formed an irresolute and...
On January 27, 2026, the editors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of their famous “Doomsday Clock” to 85 seconds to midnight – the closest setting, since the appearance of the clock in 1946, to nuclear annihilation. This grim appraisal has...
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: After yesterday's off-again, on-again back and forth, it appears that representatives of the US and Iranian government will be meeting in Oman tomorrow. What are the main points of discussion? Can a war be averted? Will the neocons...
Antiwar.com news editor Dave Decamp appeared on The Real Story with Riley Lewis on One America Network. U.S. Intervention Begets More Intervention. News Editor at https://t.co/skyLKqHFf0 and Host of Antiwar News @DeCampDave explains to @RileyLewis760 that U.S....
Reprinted from John's Substack: As many of my followers surely know, I have a significant problem with people posting fake AI videos of me on the internet, some of which are so good that people who know me well do not realize they are watching a fake. In some cases,...
Reprinted with permission from The Screeching Kettle at Substack. This week, Iran had the audacity to fly a drone near the USS Abraham Lincoln, an American aircraft carrier innocently parked 500 miles (or 434 nautical miles) off their coastline as part of a Trump...
Reprinted from John's Substack: On 30 January 2026, Glenn Diesen and I discussed how the Ukraine war is likely to end, paying special attention to the pressure on Putin to escalate to end the war in the near future. In that regard, we talked about the possibility of...
Ilan Goldenberg and Nate Swanson make their case for regime change in Iran done the “right” way. This part stood out to me for its sheer incoherence: Washington should also support the Iranian opposition carefully and patiently. Rather than a compliant government...
