Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

August 18, 2020

Obama’s “Assad must go” Syria policy lives on, even three plus years into the Trump Administration. Yesterday, US troops illegally occupying Syrian territory shot at a Syrian army checkpoint and a US helicopter followed up by destroying the outpost. At least one Syrian soldier was killed in the incident. Earlier this month a politically-connected US […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

August 17, 2020

President Trump has been consistent on Iran and, unfortunately, consistently wrong. His Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been foaming at the mouth for war with Iran for years, along with the various neocons like Eliot Abrams who serve as cogs in the war machine. As the US moves closer to war with Iran, the […]

Carlton Meyer

August 16, 2020

Americans assume that only select nations can legally build and stockpile nuclear weapons. Corporate media and the US Government constantly warn of grave danger if nations like Iran illegally develop nuclear weapons. They cite the 1970 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the NPT. This is an international treaty to prevent […]

Lawyers for Assange

August 16, 2020

Authorities Violating Law in Julian Assange’s Case, Legal Experts Warn UK Government Ahead of Extradition Hearing Next Month On the day of Julian Assange’s final administrative hearing before his substantive extradition hearings scheduled for 7 September, 152 legal experts and 15 lawyers’ associations have today written to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, accusing government authorities […]

Adam Dick

August 14, 2020

It seems that whoever wins the presidency, United States foreign policy will keep chugging away at intervening across the world, including via “regime change” efforts. Over the last couple decades, targets for US-government-supported overthrow have included Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, and Venezuela. Belarus also appears to be in the US government’s crosshairs. If […]

Edward Hasbrouck

August 13, 2020

Thursday a 3-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans issued a decision overturning an earlier ruling by a U.S. District Court in Houston that the current Federal law requiring men but not women to register with the Selective Service System for a possible military draft is unconstitutional: 5th Circuit opinion […]

Paul Antonopoulos

August 13, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump has issued an executive order that could ban TikTok from the US if it is not purchased by an American company. On August 6, Trump’s executive order banned US financial transactions with Chinese company ByteDance, owner of the TikTok app. The ban will take effect 45 days after the executive order […]

Daniel Larison

August 12, 2020

From The American Conservative: The State Department attempted to spin the results of the Inspector General investigation into the bogus emergency that Pompeo declared to expedite arms sales to the Saudis and the UAE last year, but the full report included some damning details about Pompeo’s disregard for civilian life in Yemen: The State Department […]

Scott Horton

August 10, 2020

Taibbi’s new piece is called: “Our Man in Cambridge.” It’s about Stephen Halper’s assistant, Steven P. Schrage, who has now written this new piece, “The Spies Who Hijacked America,” today’s Spotlight at Antiwar.com. And here Steven Schrage’s interview with Maria Bartiromo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O1Nxx0TQWE&feature=emb_logo

Dave DeCamp

August 9, 2020

August 9th, 2018 was the day I had to do something. On that day, the US-Saudi coalition dropped a bomb on a school bus in North Yemen, killing 40 children. And nobody cared. This horrific war crime received more media coverage than most atrocities in Yemen do, and plenty of Yemenis and antiwar activists certainly […]