Antiwar.com Celebrates 5th Year Accepting Digital Currency: Your Cryptocurrency Donations Will Be Matched!

December 15, 2017

You read that correctly. Antiwar.com was a very early adopter of stateless and decentralized currency opening their platform to Bitcoin on November 28th, 2012. Five years later, they are continuing enthusiastically to use digital currencies by expanding their donation platform to now include BitcoinCash, DASH, and ZCash. It is really gratifying to see the nonaggression […]

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A Story of Two Blockades: New York City and Yemen

December 15, 2017

On December 11, in response to the growing humanitarian crisis in Yemen, more than 50 concerned people including representatives of various peace, justice and human rights organizations and communities, gathered in New York City’s Ralph Bunche Park, across First Avenue from the United Nations. Our message, which was communicated on signs and banners and by […]

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What Trump Has Done: The Entire US-Middle East Political Framework Just Collapsed

December 14, 2017

Now that US President Donald Trump has fully adopted the Israeli rightwing political discourse on Palestine, the Palestinian Authority is in a very tough spot. “I have determined that it is time to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,” Trump said in Washington on Wednesday. The embattled president has done what many had […]

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Trump To Release New US Strategy: Will Neocons Cheer?

December 14, 2017

On Monday, President Trump is expected to release the new National Security Strategy for the United States. Will it rein in some of the global adventurism of the Bush and Obama presidencies? Will it correct the gaping disconnect between what the White House says about places like North Korea and what the Secretary of State […]

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Freedom Frauds Chronicles U.S. Atrocities At Home and Abroad: James Bovard’s latest book is free on Amazon on December 14 and 15

December 14, 2017

Freedom Frauds: Hard Lessons in American Liberty https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Frauds-Lessons-American-Liberty-ebook/dp/B0765D3GJR James Bovard’s latest book is free on Amazon on December 14 and 15. Freedom Frauds is the only political book on Amazon that combines hitchhiking, torture, Syria, Afghanistan, police shootings, & Civil War atrocities. It begins with the story of my antiwar awakening from a long bus […]

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The USA Is Number One – In Weapons Sales

December 14, 2017

Once again, the USA leads the world in weapons sales, notes SIPRI, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The 100 biggest arms producers accounted for $375 billion in weapons sales in 2016, with US firms having by far the largest share at $217 billion. That’s right: the US accounts for roughly 58% of the global […]

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Momentum for Talks With North Korea?

December 13, 2017

Possibly, just possibly, a new momentum for direct US-North Korea discussions is developing.  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson provided some of it when, in a talk at the Atlantic Council December 12, he for the first time proposed talks without preconditions – a significant departure from previous remarks, echoed by other senior US officials, in […]

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Soldiers of Peace: How To Wield the Weapon of Nonviolence With Maximum Force

December 13, 2017

Soldiers of Peace: How To Wield the Weapon of Nonviolence With Maximum Force A book by Paul K. Chappell Author and prominent peace educator Paul Chappell observed that he had 12 years of math through calculus II, and yet uses only a fraction of his math skills in daily life. He graduated from high school, […]

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Tillerson Ready for North Korea Talks… But Is Trump?

December 13, 2017

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told an audience at the Atlantic Council this week that the US is ready for direct talks with North Korea without preconditions. This seems to be a major shift for the Trump Administration, however the US president’s spokesperson insisted US policy has not changed. What’s going on here? We have […]

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New Interviews by Scott Horton

December 12, 2017

I was interviewed recently by Stefan Molyneux, Jason Stapleton and Dave Smith. You know, about the wars and things. Cross-posted at the Libertarian Institute.

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