Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Right before Memorial Day Weekend, Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, announced her resignation. Her husband has a rare form of bone cancer, she said, which was the driver of her decision....
Is the Navy Over, and What Should We Do About It
On March 2nd of this year, an article 6,000 Souls, was posted in Antiwar.com blog speculating on what would happen if our Iranian enemy were able to fatally strike one of our aircraft carriers and send it to the bottom. This has not happened, and for a good reason. It...
Ron Paul on Israel’s Gaza-ization of Lebanon
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Every time Trump talks peace with Iran, Israel intensifies its bombing of Lebanon. Parts of the country resemble Gaza, with all buildings flattened and civilians murdered. Trump "forbade" Israel from attacking Lebanon last month....
Rape, Assault, and Abuse Are Signature Israeli Government Values
It has been only 72 hours since our colleagues on the Gaza flotilla arrived in Istanbul, Turkiye to tell of the rape, assaults and abuse they endured from the Israeli military on their sailboats, security personnel on the prison ship, civilian police at the Ashdod...
Installing Peace in Washington State
On May 23rd, in Poulsbo, WA, hundreds of people joined several dozen pacifist Buddhist monks from the Japanese based Nipponzan Myohoji religious order to install a Peace Pagoda immediately adjacent to the Kitsap Bangor U.S. naval base. An estimated 1,700 Trident...
John Mearsheimer asks Can Trump End the Iran War?
Reprinted from John's Substack: On 24 May 2026, I was on “Switzerland” talking with Tom Switzer about the high profile negotiations between President Trump and Iran that were taking place that day. Exactly where those negotiations will lead is difficult to tell....
The Gaza Flotilla as Today’s Righteous Gentiles
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Several hundred people (428 people from 40 nations, to be precise) concerned about the plight of Palestinians in Gaza organized a flotilla to bring humanitarian aid to the region. Israel illegally intercepted...
All Gaza Freedom Flotilla Participants Released!
Under widespread condemnation for its vicious treatment of Flotilla activists, the Israeli government released and deported all 430 participants it had abducted from sailboats earlier in the week. They arrived in Istanbul at around 10:30 am EDT today, Thursday, May...
Ron Paul says Desperate for a Win, Trump Indicts Cuba’s Raul Castro
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: As the Trump Administration sinks further into the mire of its ill-advised war on Iran, the "victory" of its quick snatch of Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro is leading it to seek another easy "win." The indictment of 94 year old former...
The Indictment of Raúl Castro: A New Low in US Cuba Policy
So apparently the Trump administration has decided that what Cuba really needs right now — after decades of economic strangulation, CIA assassination attempts, sabotage campaigns, invasions, sanctions, blackouts, shortages, and more than half a century of failed...


