Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. The new pope, Leo XIV, is off to an encouraging start as he calls for peace (from CNN): Pontiff calls for ‘authentic, just and lasting peace’ Pope Leo XIV delivered his first Sunday blessing from the balcony...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. As a teenager in the late 1970s, I read about Israel’s “Six-Day War” in 1967. The account I read was sympathetic toward Israel, respecting the audacity of its sneak attack on the Egyptian and Syrian air forces...
Israeli occupation forces enforced a ban on the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees on Thursday by storming three schools in East Jerusalem, terrorizing children and staff as they shuttered the facilities and drawing condemnation from human rights...
Edward Lozansky, who sent this dispatch to Consortium News ahead of the 80th anniversary commemoration of the end of World War II in Moscow on Friday, unexpectedly passed away on April 30. It is reprinted with permission. Europeans have sunk so low that the European...
On COI #796, Kyle Anzalone breaks down the latest news from Gaza and Ukraine. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
May 8, 2025 MEMORANDUM FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: Arms Control: Toward Lasting Peace The following Memorandum is presented as a brief review, based on experience, aiming to encourage well-informed discourse between the...
Originally published at TomDispatch. Washington’s latest war (now on pause) — the one in Yemen against the Houthis — was hardly noticeable here. Or rather it would have been barely noticeable if Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hadn’t shared plans for the first air...
Trump claims that the Houthis have “capitulated” and the U.S. will therefore stop bombing. The Houthis have a different interpretation of the truce: In a later interview with Bloomberg News, Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of the Houthi Political Council, suggested the...
Reprinted with permission from The Realist Review. That Robert Kagan is among the most consistent – and consistently wrong – foreign policy analysts in Washington will not come as news. That he continues to command so much attention twenty-odd years since the Iraq...
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: President Trump announced yesterday that a "deal" was struck with Ansar Allah (Houthis) in Yemen that the US would stop bombing the country if they would stop targeting US commercial shipping. Who wins? Also today: trade ties are...
