Trump’s Awful, Dishonest Iran Speech
January 8, 2020
Originally appeared at The American Conservative. Trump’s remarks this morning show that his Iran policy remains as blinkered and reckless as ever. Following the Iranian retaliation last night that caused no casualties, the president does not appear to be escalating the conflict further for the moment. Then again, there would have been no conflict at […]
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Will We Always Be This Way?
January 8, 2020
"The people do not want war!" These were the words that did it, that knocked the composure out of me. I was standing at what felt like the heart of Chicago on a January afternoon, corner of Wabash and Wacker, next to the river and beneath the tower known as Trump. The crowd had swelled […]
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Conservative Vets Group: ‘Bring Our Troops Home!’ Ron Paul interviews Dan McKnight
January 8, 2020
A conservative veterans group dedicated to bringing US troops home from pointless overseas conflicts is making waves in the Republican Party. Bring Our Troops Home founder Dan McKnight joins today’s Liberty Report to discuss their recent successes in heavily red states. On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace […]
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Ratcheting Down
January 8, 2020
Wednesday morning Trump announced new sanctions on Iran rather than sending in the B-52s in response to Iran’s missile attack response to America’s killing of their top general Qassem Soleimani. So that’s wrong but sure could be worse. Then he declared that the UN Security Council powers must help him negotiate a brand new better […]
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Iran Plane Crash
January 8, 2020
As Tom Woods pointed out in this great speech 10 years ago, when there’s an earthquake, hurricane, plane crash or other major disaster in Iran, we all feel terrible and grieve for the loss of life and donate to charity over it and the rest. But then we’re supposed to just turn right around and […]
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The United States and Iran Must Deescalate Now
January 7, 2020
President Trump promised that assassinating Soleimani would deter Iran. Instead, as many predicted, it caused Iran to retaliate. Trump’s reckless actions made Americans less safe. What is needed now on both sides is de-escalation and restraint. Neither American nor Iranian interests will be served by full-scale war. There is still time for both sides to […]
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Iraq ‘Pull-Out’ Letter: Mistake… Or More Deception?
January 7, 2020
How could a “draft letter” from the US CENTCOM to the Iraqi leadership announcing the US withdrawal from Iraq have mysteriously leaked to the media yesterday? Is operational security so shattered that what must be a highly classified document can just drop from the sky? Or is there something else behind it? Watch today’s Ron […]
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Eight Common-Sense Reasons for Not Going to War With Iran
January 7, 2020
In the wake of the assassination of Iranian military leader Major General Qasem Soleimani and nine other people by a U.S. drone strike in Iraq, tensions between the United States and Iran are at their height. The immediate threat of war is real. Real-time news and expert commentary across the nationwide spectrum of media outlets […]
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A Personal Experience With Lies and EFPs
January 6, 2020
Former U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Dan Carnahan writes: To claim that Soleimani has killed hundreds of Americans that were killed by EFPs (explosively formed penetrator) is to conflate that every EFP was Shia, every Shia is Iranian, and every Iranian is Soleimani. The official narrative is that every EFP set off in Iraq came from […]
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Idaho Republican Party Passes Antiwar Resolutions
January 6, 2020
BOISE — Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and arguably the most influential foreign policy voice in Congress, Saturday returned home to Idaho, only to find himself under growing public pressure from veterans and even his own party to end America’s ground troops presence in the Middle East. Initiated by […]
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