Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

January 15, 2019

Another “blockbuster” report on Trump’s “ties” to Russia has fizzled into nothingness, as the New York Times’ piece over the weekend on an FBI counterintelligence investigation opened against the president was riddled with holes and absurdities. What came through loud and clear, however, was that Obama appointees and loyalists in the FBI and elsewhere in […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

January 14, 2019

While touring the Middle East, including election-free Saudi Arabia, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has called for the Venezuelan opposition and armed forces to overthrow the current government under its president Nicolas Maduro. According to Pompeo, a coup is necessary to “restore democracy” after elections failed to produce the desired US outcome. On today’s Ron […]

Daniel Larison

January 14, 2019

Originally appeared on The American Conservative. The Wall Street Journal reports on Bolton’s eagerness to attack Iran last year: President Trump’s National Security Council asked the Pentagon to provide the White House with military options to strike Iran last year, generating concern at the Pentagon and State Department, current and former U.S. officials said. The […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

January 8, 2019

With the killing of opposition journalist Khashoggi safely out of the headlines and with the House refusing to hold a vote on US involvement in the Yemen war, the Trump Administration is back to its Plan A: Sell more weapons to the Saudis as the Saudis annihilate Yemen. The latest is a $200 million missile […]

Jimmy Dore Comedy

January 8, 2019

Jimmy Dore comments on a report by Phil Giraldi on Israel using commercial airliners as cover for bombing Syria on Christmas Day:

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

January 7, 2019

President Trump’s National Security Advisor John Bolton (along with the Secretary of State and other neocons) are openly defying the president’s stated policy of a rapid withdrawal of US troops from Syria. The president does not seem too bothered by this open insubordination. Will he cave in to the neocons? Does it really matter? On […]

Daniel Larison

January 6, 2019

Originally appeared on The American Conservative. Bolton is not giving up on keeping our illegal war in Syria going one way or another: Some U.S. troops could remain in southern Syria for an undetermined amount of time even as American forces withdraw in coming months from the northern part of the country, a senior administration […]

Jimmy Dore Comedy

January 4, 2019

Jimmy Dore commentary on Elizabeth Warren talking to Rachel Maddow on the need to get out of Syria:

Jimmy Dore Comedy

January 4, 2019

Jimmy Dore narrates Rand Paul’s great smackdown of Jake Tapper on Syria and broader US interventionism:

Daniel Larison

January 4, 2019

Originally appeared on The American Conservative. Mike Pompeo removes any doubt about the purpose of the administration’s Iran policy of regime change in all but name: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that “the sanctions on Iran have an ultimate goal” of “creating an outcome where the Iranian people could have better lives […]