Classic Ron Paul: The Real Reason Clinton Should Have Been Impeached
January 22, 2020
With the Senate impeachment trial dominating headlines this week, it seems appropriate to look back on what Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul said about the 1998 impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton. At a press conference the week of the impeachment vote, Dr. Paul explained that his vote to impeach Clinton was because of Clinton […]
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The Catalan Crisis Threatens To Reopen a Debate That the EUs Power Brokers Thought They Had Long Ago Quashed
January 22, 2020
Though it is largely forgotten today, there was during the late 80s and early 90s a vigorous debate in numerous sectors of European life about whether the EU would be best structured as a Union of Regions or as a Union of States. Adherents of the first posture hoped and believed that the goal the […]
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Author of Leaked OPCW Engineering Report on Douma Speaks at UN Security Council
January 20, 2020
The UN Security Council met in New York on Monday to discuss the investigation by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) into an alleged chemical attack that was said to have taken place in April 2018 in Douma, Syria. The alleged attack was blamed on the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and the […]
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These Chains Will Be Broken: Ramzy Baroud’s New Book Delivers Resistance Message from Palestinian Prisoners to the World
January 20, 2020
On Monday, January 20, Clarity Press, Inc. of Atlanta announced the launch of These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons, by Palestinian author and journalist, Ramzy Baroud, and The Palestine Chronicle Editorial Team. Bookended by a Foreword by Khalida Jarrar Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and an […]
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Ron Paul on The War In Trump’s Ear
January 20, 2020
A new book on Trump by Washington Post writers, “A Very Stable Genius,” has tongues wagging and new accusations of the president’s “instability.” As usual, these politicized claims miss the target completely and also misunderstand the real war for Trump’s ear. The generals are out, the “realists” were never quite in, there is little “America […]
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Martin Luther King’s Vietnam Speech
January 20, 2020
"Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam" April 30, 1967, Riverside Church, New York The sermon which I am preaching this morning in a sense is not the usual kind of sermon, but it is a sermon and an important subject, nevertheless, because the issue that I will be discussing today is one […]
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Former Nuremberg War Crimes Prosecutor on the Immoral Killing of the Iranian General
January 20, 2020
A former Nuremberg war crimes prosecutor says the American public deserves to know the truth. A letter to the New York Times: Benjamin B. Ferencz Delray Beach, Fla.
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Further Thoughts: Vladimir Putin’s Planned Constitutional Changes
January 19, 2020
I had the good fortune to be among the first non-mainstream commentators to publish an in-depth analysis of the planned constitutional amendments Vladimir Putin set out on Wednesday in his annual Address to Russia’s bicameral legislature. “Vladimir Putin Plans His Succession” was a runaway success in readership, attracting many times the normal daily number of […]
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This Morning on Antiwar Radio: Trita Parsi and Doug Bandow
January 19, 2020
That’s 8:30 Pacific, KPFK 90.7 FM in L.A.; kpfk.org.
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Tom Friedman’s Hapless Fear-Mongering
January 17, 2020
Originally appeared at The American Conservative. Tom Friedman’s latest column obviously wasn’t fact-checked before it was published: And then, a few weeks later, Trump ordered the killing of Suleimani, an action that required him to shift more troops into the region and tell Iraqis that we’re not leaving their territory, even though their Parliament voted […]
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