The Antiwar Origin of Mother’s Day
May 12, 2017
The "Appeal to womanhood throughout the world" (later known as "Mother’s Day Proclamation") by abolitionist Julia Ward Howe was an appeal for women to unite for peace in the world. Written in 1870, Howe’s "Appeal to womanhood" was a pacifist reaction to the carnage of the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War. The appeal […]
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Arming The Kurds: A Dangerous Idea, Says Ron Paul
May 11, 2017
The Turks are not at all happy about President Trump’s plan to provide heavy weapons to the Kurds fighting as US proxies against ISIS in Syria. The Turks bombed some 20 Kurdish fighters in Syria just weeks ago but with US advanced weapons in Kurdish hands, future such missions may be risky. Would the Kurds […]
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The War on the First Amendment Didn’t Start Last Week: Peter Van Buren
May 11, 2017
For those who woke a week ago to discover the First Amendment is under attack, I lost my job at the Obama/Clinton State Department in 2012 for writing We Meant Well, a book the government did not like, and needed the help of lawyer Jesselyn Radack and the ACLU to push back the threat of […]
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Ron Paul: Comey Fired… Now Fire the FBI!
May 10, 2017
While everyone is talking about President Trump firing James Comey, Director of the FBI, what we should be talking about is whether we should even have an FBI. Look at the track record of this organization – putting Americans in jail for opposing war, spying on Americans for being in peace groups, incinerating Americans at […]
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Who Says They’re Not United?
May 10, 2017
GLENN GREENWALD: You know, it’s just such a somber reminder of the fact that while there are huge differences between Republicans and Democrats, …there are also huge areas of continuity, where it makes no difference who ends up winning. And what’s so remarkable is the Afghanistan War is now in its 17th year, under its […]
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John McCain, Human Rights, and Our National Mental Illness
May 9, 2017
There’s that lay definition of mental illness where you come to believe you’re the only sane person left in the room. I think that’s where I am right now. In last week’s address to State Department employees, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson stated out loud what has been America’s foreign policy forever, the idea that […]
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McCain Hammers Tillerson On Human Rights: Why The Panic?
May 9, 2017
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) published an op-ed in the New York Times yesterday taking Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to task for Tillerson’s recent comment that our national security goals overseas may on some occasions preclude the export of our human rights values. In McCain’s view, it is our duty always and everywhere to export […]
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IRmep Asks Appeals Court To Block Trump Transfer of $3.7 Billion in US Aid to Nuclear Israel
May 8, 2017
Washington, DC – On May 8, 2017 IRmep (Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy) Director Grant F. Smith filed an emergency motion (PDF) asking the US Court of Appeals for an injunction on the immanent transfer of US foreign military assistance to Israel. On May 5 President Trump signed into law a temporary spending measure […]
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Trump’s First Trip: Ron Paul asks Will He ‘Stabilize’ the Middle East?
May 8, 2017
President Trump is off to Saudi Arabia and Israel later this month, with stops at the Vatican and at a NATO summit. Since the election, a once-critical Trump has flip-flopped on Saudi Arabia, now he’s expected to provide further US assistance to the ongoing Saudi war on Yemen. But much of the Saudi visit will […]
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Neocon Anne Applebaum: Give Me Money To Fight ‘Russian Disinformation’!
May 8, 2017
Neocon Anne Applebaum has never seen a bed she did not expect to find an evil Russian lurking beneath. More than a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War, she cannot let go of that hysterical feeling that, “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming!” In screeching screed after screeching […]
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