Steven Woskow

January 16, 2020

Concerned Veterans for America is running an $1.5 million dollar ad campaign on TV in key states and digitally nationwide calling for a complete withdrawal of US forces in Afghanistan. Sign the letter of support that will be forwarded to the White House and your congressional representative here. Dear Officials:

Sheldon Richman

January 16, 2020

So, Trump wants to add Middle Eastern nations (so far unspecified) to NATO so that the alliance can be more involved in the region. We need another obligation to go to war there like a hole in the head. That’s very peculiar for a Putin marionette who supposedly dislikes NATO, which by the way has […]

Robert C. Koehler

January 15, 2020

One thing that becomes clear to me when I wander into the world, and the minds, of geopolitical professionals – government people – is how limited and linear their thinking seems to be. When I do so, an internal distress signal starts beeping and won’t stop, especially when the issue under discussion is war and […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

January 15, 2020

The European partners of the JCPOA Iran nuclear deal have handed a big gift to the neocons and warmongers, announcing that they have triggered a mechanism within the agreement that will effectively kill the agreement in weeks. So say goodbye to peace and trade and hello to war with Iran. On today’s Ron Paul Liberty […]

Sheldon Richman

January 15, 2020

"It is, however, insane and intolerable that peace depends on the restraint of the Islamic Republic and an American president given to rage-tweeting war-crime threats," the Cato Institute’s Gene Healy, who studies presidential power, writes in "Trump the Decider." "No one fallible human being should be entrusted with the war powers now vested in the […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

January 14, 2020

After the Iraqi parliament vote to end US troop presence, the US is in no mood to discuss abiding by the wishes of the Iraqi government. When Prime Minister Mahdi called Pompeo to discuss terms for US withdrawal, the Trump Administration threatened to seize billions of Iraqi dollars held in the New York Federal Reserve […]

Peter Crowley

January 13, 2020

A bully who regularly wallops kids has recently given a certain child a sharp punch in the mouth. The smaller kid responded with a deliberately ineffective jab to the shoulder, as a matter of pride. Expecting retaliation, the diminutive child abruptly brought up hands to cover his face. In doing so, he hit himself in […]

Ray McGovern

January 12, 2020

Former CIA operations officer Jeffrey Sterling will receive the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence this Wednesday, joining 17 earlier winners who, like Sterling, demonstrated extraordinary devotion to the truth and the rule of law by having the courage to blow the whistle on government wrongdoing. Tuesday will mark the fifth anniversary of the […]

Daniel Larison

January 12, 2020

Originally appeared at The American Conservative. John Kerry supports Biden for the Democratic nomination, and he has been acting as a campaign surrogate to defend Biden’s vote for the Iraq war authorization in 2002. Kerry also voted for the 2002 AUMF, so he has his own reason for wanting to spin Biden’s record as something […]

Scott Horton

January 12, 2020

On Mike Pompeo’s Gulf of Tonkin Attack, more specifically. 8:30 Pacific, KPFK 90.7 FM in L.A.; kpfk.org.