General Dwight Eisenhower was the first NATO supreme allied commander. After assuming that post in 1951, General Eisenhower wrote about NATO’s goal: “If in 10 years, all American troops stationed in Europe for national defense purposes have not been returned to the...
Congress May Act Soon on Selective Service
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress could soon consider whether to end Selective Service registration or try to expand it to women. It's critically important to opponents of the draft and war to (1) contact your Representative and Senators and (2) educate,...
Saudi Arabia Threatens Democrats: We’ll Support You
Our great and glorious ally Saudi Arabia has fallen on hard times. The coronavirus has arrived in the desert kingdom, prompting its government to take emergency measures and sending its economy into a tailspin. Vision 2030, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s...
Coronavirus Poverty Increase Has Not Reduced the Influence of US Military Establishment
The World Bank warns that there is a global poverty increase as tens of millions of people have fallen back into poverty because of the pandemic. Up to 60 million people worldwide may fall into extreme poverty due to the coronavirus, said David Malpass, head of the...
My Beit Daras, My Nakba: Two Palestinian Intellectuals Reminiscing About Their Destroyed Village
Dr. Ghada Ageel and Dr. Ramzy Baroud have more in common than their scholarly research on Palestinian history and politics. They are both refugees, and the direct descendants of Palestinian refugees who have been expelled from their historic village of Beit Daras at...
The ‘Cost-Effective’ Coup and Other Myths
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Fresh off of his defense of the foreign policy “Blob,” Hal Brands suggests that the U.S. might get back into the business of covertly overthrowing foreign governments:Just as the US sought to undermine or...
Crowdstrike Admits ‘No Evidence Russia Stole Emails From DNC Server
From The Grayzone: Crowdstrike, the firm behind the Russian email hacking allegation at the core of Russiagate, makes a bombshell admission: “We did not have concrete evidence.” In newly released Congressional testimony, Crowdstrike president Shawn Henry said that “we...
No One Should Be Missing Kissinger
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Thomas Meaney debunks the myth of Henry Kissinger:Since leaving office, too, Kissinger has rarely challenged consensus, let alone offered the kind of inconvenient assessments that characterized the later career of...
How To Avoid a Draft for Dummies
There are two brand new ways to avoid any military draft that should come along.(I know you’re not worried about a draft, but the numbers of failed coup attempts in Venezuela and of failed attempts to start a war on Iran are both approaching the number of years of war...
L’etat C’est Moi! (I Am the State!)
Trump has vetoed Congress’s effort to keep him from going to war against Iran unilaterally. Nothing remarkable there. We’ve come to expect such things from the fraud who posed as antiwar.What’s interesting is that Trump has reminded of what a...

