September 8, 2017The Honorable Paul Ryan Speaker of the House H-232, U.S. Capitol Washington, D.C. 20515Dear Speaker Ryan,Mr. Speaker, members of Congress have written to Speaker Boehner and yourself over 13 times regarding the need for debate on the authorization of...
From The American Conservative:Watch the video of the webcast originally aired live on Monday, “Who Watches The Watchmen?: The Post 9/11 Security State From Then to Now,” on the 16th anniversary of the attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. Click here to watch...
Today is the last day of the 93rd year of my life. Ridiculous.Am I moderately satisfied with my life until now? Yes. I am.If by a miracle I could be returned to, say, 14, and travel all this long way again, would I like that? No, I would not.Enough is enough.In these...
When I started Antiwar.com in 1995, I had no idea what it was going to become. And here we are today, an indefatigable source for the news you need on US foreign policy. The support of so many giving people is what has kept us alive, and I could never have dreamed of...
US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley says North Korea's tests of increasingly sophisticated nuclear weapons and missiles amounts to "begging for war."So THAT'S what testing increasingly sophisticated nuclear weapons and missiles is! Thank you for the clarification,...
President Trump's Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, told the UN Security Council today that North Korea was "begging" for a war with the US. Apparently to Haley and the rest of the neocons, if you don't do exactly what Washington demands you are "begging for war."...
In two weeks (Sept. 17), a new TV documentary series on the Vietnam War by Ken Burns (famous for past series on the U.S. Civil War, Baseball, and Jazz, among others) and Lynn Novick is coming to PBS. Airing in ten parts over 18 hours, the series promises a...
Journalist Seymour Hersh is to be honored with this year’s Sam Adams Award for Integrity to be presented to him at the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) award ceremony on the evening of Sept. 22 at American University.Sam Adams Associates, who...
On Monday, President Trump announced he was issuing an executive order to reinstate the transfer of military weapons and equipment to local police forces. A partial ban had been put in place late in the Obama Administration. The weapons transfer program has a long...
Candidate Trump occasionally said unconventional things about the Pentagon and America’s wars. He attacked the Pentagon for wasteful spending; cost overruns on the F-35 jet fighter were a favorite target. He attacked the Iraq and Afghan wars as wasteful, asserting...
