Barbara Boland

February 27, 2021

From The American Conservative: Thirty-five days after he was sworn into office as President of the United States, Joe Biden ordered airstrikes on Iranian-backed militias in Syria, in response to rocket attacks on U.S. targets in Iraq. Congress has not declared war against Syria or Iran. However, Congress never revoked the 2002 Authorization for Use […]

David Swanson

February 26, 2021

The USA Today, drawing on the work of the Cost of War Project, Quincy Institute, David Vine, William Hartung, and others, has gone beyond the limits of every other big corporate U.S. media outlet, and beyond what any member of the US Congress has done, in a big new series of articles on wars, bases, […]

Johanna Ross

February 26, 2021

Any doubts as to whether Joe Biden will continue Donald Trump’s opposition to Nord Stream 2 should now be laid to rest. With 18 companies quitting the gas pipeline project this week following threats of US sanctions, there has never been so much pressure on Angela Merkel to ditch the scheme, which would see Russian […]

Ramzy Baroud

February 25, 2021

For Palestinians, exile is not simply the physical act of being removed from their homes and their inability to return. It is not a casual topic pertaining to politics and international law, either. Nor is it an ethereal notion, a sentiment, a poetic verse. It is all of this, combined. The death in Amman of […]

Ray McGovern

February 24, 2021

The Washington Post and other media, owned and operated by the MICIMATT (Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank complex), yesterday beat the drums for more sanctions on Russia. (See, for example, this and this.) Cuticles Beware! The owners and operators of major- and minor-league media are biting their nails down to the cuticle. Could Biden’s immediate extension of the New […]

Barbara Boland

February 24, 2021

From The American Conservative: Arizona Republican Congressman Andy Biggs warned President Biden that any delay in keeping the timetable to withdraw in Afghanistan could lead to what he called a “slippery slope.” “I respectfully urge you to continue to remove United States service members from Afghanistan in the coming weeks, with the goal of ensuring […]

David Swanson

February 21, 2021

The governments of Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mongolia, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, UK, and US all still have troops in Afghanistan and need to remove them. These troops range in […]

Scott Horton

February 20, 2021

Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism by Scott Horton, A Video Adaptation Commentary by the author. Directed by Gus Cantavero. Access the full video playlist here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLFe4xWvhR8&list=PLq2qhcVwTVJRQuCWXMVUM8SG2qYDFoPZA&index=12

Scott Horton

February 20, 2021

Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism by Scott Horton, A Video Adaptation Commentary by the author. Directed by Gus Cantavero. Access the full video playlist here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK7U5OmGU_A&list=PLq2qhcVwTVJRQuCWXMVUM8SG2qYDFoPZA&index=11

Daniel Larison

February 18, 2021

From The American Conservative: Laura Rozen reports on the Iranian announcement that their government will cease its voluntary implementation with the IAEA’s Additional Protocol next week as part of the legislation adopted following the murder of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh: In a sign that some Iran experts said reflected the Iranian perception that it is taking the […]