Thomas L. Knapp

September 19, 2019

The US Navy confirms that three online videos showing two military air encounters with what it calls “unexplained aerial phenomena,” and the rest of us call “unidentified flying objects” are authentic, Popular Mechanics reports. The videos are interesting, and some might find them disturbing. What’s more disturbing to me is that the Navy thinks they’re […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

September 18, 2019

President Trump has named Robert O’Brien, who served as foreign affairs advisor to Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, as his replacement for fired National Security Advisor John Bolton. O’Brien is cut from the exact same neoconservative cloth as Bolton and represents, at most, change in style and physical appearance. With pressure mounting on Trump to attack […]

Daniel Larison

September 18, 2019

Originally appeared at The American Conservative. Trump announced the selection of his fourth National Security Advisor: President Trump announced Wednesday that Robert O’Brien, the special envoy for hostage affairs at the State Department, will be his next national security advisor. O’Brien previously served in the Bush administration’s State Department. Hugh Hewitt, who wrote the foreword […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

September 17, 2019

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was sure of who was responsible for the attack on Saudi oil facilities shortly after the attack. Neocons followed suit, one by one blaming Iran and calling for the war they’ve been drooling over for years. But not only are Washington’s European partners skeptical of the claims – even Gulf […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

September 16, 2019

After Saturday’s attacks on Saudi oil facilities, President Trump Tweeted that the US is “locked and loaded” and ready to do whatever Saudi Arabia deems appropriate to whoever the Saudis blame for the attack. Will Trump let the Saudis dictate when and where the United States goes to war? Who did it and why? Evidence? […]

Gilbert Doctorow

September 16, 2019

Starting in July and running to the present day, there have been repeated calls from mainstream media, from leading statesmen and from diplomats, in the United States and in Europe, for some kind of rapprochement with Russia to be put in place. This is remarkable given the continually escalating informational, economic, military confrontation between Russia […]

Gilbert Doctorow

September 15, 2019

Russia’s nationwide elections at the level of local government which took place on September 8 attracted extraordinary attention in Western media, given that, at best, they could be viewed as a very preliminary indication of popular sentiment towards the “Putin regime” midway between the presidential election of 2018 and the next Duma (parliamentary) elections of […]

Max Obuszewski

September 13, 2019

Following is a letter published in the Baltimore Sun on September 10, 2019. Reprinted with the permission of the author. It has been a long time since Elizabeth McAlister and six other Catholic activists were arrested on April 4, 2018 while engaging in a disarmament action aimed at educating the populace that we are on […]

Daniel Larison

September 12, 2019

Originally appeared at The American Conservative. Tom Wright makes the case that Trump is about to make a “foreign policy pivot”: Trump wants to write a new chapter, closing the one marked “Militarism and Maximum Pressure” and opening one called “Dealmaking and the Pursuit of the Nobel Peace Prize.” He wants a summit with Iran’s […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

September 12, 2019

The last straw that broke Trump’s back with Bolton appears to be the latter’s vehement opposition to any kind of opening toward Iran. Suddenly a French proposal for a way out of the stand-off is being talked about by Trump and Pompeo. Will Trump find a way to ease tensions and open a new chapter […]