The Empire’s 2021 Coup in Guinea (video)
October 13, 2021
From Tales of the Empire: The United States openly seeks to dominate the world. This becomes difficult as China’s economic power grows while the United States stagnates. The Chinese developed trade relationships with many nations in Africa, a region the United States considers part of its empire. The United States created an Africa Command after […]
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French Finance Minister Issues Declaration of Independence – From the US
October 12, 2021
"Clear Differences Remain Between France and the U.S, French Minister Says," is the headline to a remarkable piece appearing in the New York Times today. The Minister, Bruno Le Maire, is brutally frank on the nature of the differences as the quotations below Illustrate. (Emphases in the quotations are jvw’s.) In fact, they amount to […]
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Conflicts of Interest: The US Is Pushing China to the Brink
October 12, 2021
On COI #173, Dave DeCamp – News Editor at Antiwar.com – returns to the show to discuss recent news about China and Iran. Upon taking office, Biden had a golden opportunity to undo a key Trump blunder and return to the Iran nuclear agreement. However, Biden delayed action and is now struggling to make any […]
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The EU, a Lion with Poland and Hungary on Social Issues, Is a Lamb When it Comes Spain’s Violations of More Fundamental Rights
October 11, 2021
You’ve probably heard something about the growing impasse between Hungary and Poland, and the EU over the latter’s insistence that they sign on to woke values in matters relating to the shape of the family and sexual identities. You’ve probably also heard something during the last few weeks about exiled Catalan president Carles Puigdemont’s arrest […]
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Conflicts of Interest: How the Pentagon Influences Corporate Media
October 7, 2021
On COI #171, Matthew Hoh returns to the show to discuss his experience with the mainstream media after becoming a whistleblower in the early Obama presidency. Hoh appeared in and on the most important US print and television outlets. However, because he was speaking out against the war in Afghanistan, the Pentagon quickly worked to […]
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October 7: Another Day of Infamy?
October 6, 2021
Thursday, October 7 marks the 20th anniversary of America’s perpetual wars when we attacked Afghanistan following the September 11 attacks. Our mission there was to bomb the terrorist camps and get out, not invade and take over the entire country. A further mission was to follow the numerous ties of the terrorist network involved to […]
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Antiwar vs Neocon: Conflicts of Interest Scott Horton – Bill Kristol Debate Breakdown
October 5, 2021
Kyle Anzalone, Connor Freeman, Patrick MacFarlane, and Joanne Leon give their takes on the Soho Forum debate featuring Bill Kristol and Scott Horton discuss US foreign policy. The panel breaks down the arguments and questions asked to the debaters. The result of the debate was a resounding victory for Scott Horton and the antiwar movement. […]
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Does AIPAC Command Congress?
October 5, 2021
In September, pro-Palestinian members of Congress banded together to stop the Democratic House leadership’s bid to slip $1 billion in additional military foreign aid to Israel into must-pass legislation. Within days the funding reappeared in a standalone bill that quickly passed 420-9 even as Congress was stalemated on other more pressing legislation to raise the […]
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War Is a Multi-Trillion-Dollar Racket and the Pentagon Knows It: Robert Scheer interviews Andrew Cockburn
October 5, 2021
From ScheerPost Twenty years since the September 11, 2001 attacks, the human and financial cost of the United States’ failed “War on Terror” is plain to see: as one headline put it, “20 years, $6 trillion, 900,000 lives.” The estimates of lives lost and trillions spent vary throughout media sources, but even the most conservative […]
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Conflicts of Interest: The Architects of the Afghan War Failed Upwards
October 1, 2021
On COI #166, Scott Spaulding – host of Why I’m Antiwar – returns to the show for the third installment of the ‘Villains of the Afghan War’ series. Scott breaks down the role of David Kilcullen, the godfather of counterinsurgency under the Bush administration. Kilcullen found himself in a high-ranking position that he exploited to […]
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