Daniel Larison

April 2, 2019

Originally appeared on The American Conservative. The Secretary of State issued a terse, woefully inadequate message about the floods in Iran, and used most of the message to pin blame for the disaster on Iran: On behalf of the American people, we offer our condolences to the victims of the recent floods in Iran. These […]

Eric Garris

April 2, 2019

Roots Action held a news conference today on “NATO and U.S. Foreign Policy: Dangers Ahead.” Speakers: Matthew Hoh: Former State Department official, diplomat in Afghanistan and U.S. Marines company commander in Iraq Ann Wright: Retired U.S. Army Colonel and diplomat who served at the NATO subcommand Allied Forces Central Europe Martin Fleck: Physicians for Social […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

April 2, 2019

In an extraordinary Breitbart profile, progressive US Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) outlines the broad-based and bi-partisan peace coalition he is working to build to end the trillions wasted on wars and interventions overseas. Will the neocons try to strangle this baby in its crib? On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Reprinted from The Ron Paul […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

April 1, 2019

Sanctions are the foreign policy of choice for the United States. There are sanctions on sanctions and sub-sanctions. Sanctions on countries, companies, individuals, and more. While we have long argued that sanctions never work and only make life miserable for civilians, they also empower an imperial US presidency totally out of reach of Congress. On […]

Scott Horton

April 1, 2019

Check out this great list of Russiagate Skeptics by Koen Swinkles at Foreign Policy Follies: 138 people, 30 sites/institutions. And don’t forget Norman Soloman! People Aaron Mate @aaronjmate Michael Tracey @mtracey Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald The late Robert Parry @consortiumnews Scott Horton @scotthortonshow Stephen Cohen Richard Sakwa Gareth Porter @garethporter Julian Assange @julianassange Mollie Hemingway @mzhemingway Max Blumenthal @maxblumenthal Rand Paul @randpaul Ron Paul @ronpaul Kyle Kulinski @kylekulinski Robert Barnes @barnes_law […]

Grant Smith

March 29, 2019

Archived video of The Israel Lobby and American Policy Conference held March 22, 2019. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.

William Astore

March 28, 2019

As the U.S. military enjoys enormous budgets ($718 billion this year, rising possibly to $750 billion for 2020), Americans are told not to dream big. There might just be a connection here. Due to budget deficits (aggravated by the Trump tax cut for the rich), Americans are warned against big projects. Single-payer health care? Forget […]

Daniel Larison

March 28, 2019

Originally appeared on The American Conservative. During his testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Mike Pompeo said the following about Yemen and Saudi Arabia (around 4:10:15 here): The challenges that you’ve cited, the death that you just cited in Yemen, is not because of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. You have the wrong end […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

March 28, 2019

This week marks four years of Saudi bombing in Yemen. US participation in the destruction of Yemen began under Obama, but sadly President Trump has done nothing to end the slaughter. While hospitals are bombed and two-thirds of the population faces starvation, US lectures to the rest of the world about upholding human rights are […]

Ramzy Baroud

March 27, 2019

I visited the city of Christchurch on May 23, 2018, as part of a larger speaking tour in New Zealand that also took me to Auckland, Wellington, Hamilton and Dunedin. New Zealand is an exceptional country, different from other countries that are often lumped under the generalized designation of the "western world." Almost immediately after […]