Robert C. Koehler

September 5, 2019

“. . . and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.” These lost words – Isaiah 2:4 – are nearly 3,000 years old. Did they ever have political traction? To believe them today, and act […]

John V. Walsh

September 5, 2019

Through the summer the world has watched as protests shook Hong Kong. As early as April they began as peaceful demonstrations which peaked in early June, with hundreds of thousands, in protest of an extradition bill. That bill would have allowed Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of China, to return criminals to Taiwan, mainland […]

Daniel Larison

September 5, 2019

Originally appeared at The American Conservative. Former Vice President Biden has foolishly tried to claim that he immediately turned against the Iraq war after it started: "Immediately, that moment it started, I came out against the war at that moment," Biden told NPR about the Iraq war. But in multiple public remarks made after the […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

September 5, 2019

Those hoping for a US withdrawal from Afghanistan after 18 years of pointless war and a new peace deal with the Taliban are going to be disappointed. According to press reports, the US will be keeping more troops in Afghanistan than it is removing. Will 8,000 troops in country achieve what 100,000 could not achieve […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

September 4, 2019

The US Navy’s newest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, is so over-budget and riddled with errors that it’s practically useless. Never is it asked whether we need such a ship for the defense of this country. It is about spending and maintaining steady growth in the defense industry. Our own safety and security are […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

September 3, 2019

The Pentagon has unveiled a new plan to combat record high military suicides, including more government bureaucracy and record-collecting. But is the US government missing the real point on military suicides? Are they so determined to treat the symptoms that they are blind to the cause? On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Reprinted from The […]

Daniel Larison

September 3, 2019

Originally appeared at The American Conservative. The Washington Post reports on the latest effort to cut off U.S. support to the Saudi coalition: A group of Republican and Democratic lawmakers is making a new push to end the Saudi-led bombing campaign in Yemen amid intensifying criticism of the air war following an attack on a […]

Daniel Larison

September 2, 2019

Originally appeared at The American Conservative. The Saudi coalition committed another horrific slaughter of Yemenis over the weekend with an airstrike that destroyed a prison and killed more than 100 of the people being held there: A Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a Yemeni prison has left more than 100 people “presumed killed,” said the Red […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

September 2, 2019

When empires fall, they do not go down gracefully. The collapse is sudden and the consequences are permanent. Like the schoolyard bully who is finally defeated, his former victims and enemies revel in his fall. The US empire is now teetering on such a collapse. The signs are all around us. Aggressive US foreign policy, […]

John Hallam

August 29, 2019

On 29 August 1991, the Semipalatinsk nuclear test range in Kazakhstan was officially closed. In December 2009, the UN General Assembly, as a result of an initiative by the Government of Kazakhstan, declared 29th August to be the International Day Against Nuclear Testing. Since 1945, just under 2000 nuclear tests have been performed, just under […]