James Bosworth looks back at the failed experiment with U.S.-led international backing for Juan Guaidó as “interim” president of Venezuela:Disputed elections are far too common in Latin America, but only rarely has such a divide between the de jure and de facto...
CODEPINK’s Marcy Winograd, Chair of the US-based Peace in Ukraine Coalition, interviewed Yurii Sheliazhenko, Executive Secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement, about the war in Ukraine and military mobilization against the Russian invasion. Yurii lives in Kyiv,...
On Rev. Martin Luther King Day I always reflect on the last year of his life. He kicked it off with his speech "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence" at New York's Riverside Church, April 4, 1967, ahead of a massive antiwar rally eleven days later. A...
Aaron Maté and Kurt Metzger appear on the Jimmy Dore Show: Ex-CIA agent Mark Polymeropoulos loves that Congress provides strict oversight of intelligence agencies – he says it right there in the first paragraph of his Washington Examiner opinion piece on the subject!...
On COI #368, Kyle Anzalone discusses the war in Ukraine. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission.My great nephew recently reported to the local MEPS (military entrance processing station) and took the oath of office. He’s enlisting in the Marine Corps and I wish him all the best.In November 2021, with him...
From today's Ron Paul Liberty Report: Is this peak Zelensky worship? US Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), who famously yelled out to President Obama "you lie" during a speech, has introduced legislation that would spend taxpayer money to create a bust of Ukrainian President...
The US and North Korea came dangerously close to war during Trump’s presidency. This is often discounted or forgotten in assessments of Trump’s foreign policy record because the war didn’t happen and Trump then made a big show of meeting with Kim Jong-un, but the...
On COI #367, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman recap the disastrous foreign policy developments of the year, focusing on escalations with Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, as well as the catastrophic trajectory of the Pentagon’s so-called “Great Power Competition.”...
Judah Grunstein warns against the entrenchment of the hawkish consensus on China:The result is that competition and even potential conflict are now considered the default position for relations with China; those who suggest that cooperation – even on existential...
