Daniel Larison

March 22, 2026

The president threatened Iran with more attacks on their civilian infrastructure today: U.S. ​President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if Tehran does not fully reopen the Strait ‌of Hormuz within 48 hours, a dramatic escalation that came barely a day after he talked about “winding down” the war. Threatening to […]

John Mearsheimer

March 22, 2026

Reprinted from John’s Substack: On 19 March 2026, I was on “Breaking Points” with Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti talking about the evolving war in Iran, which goes from bad to worse on a daily basis. The more President Trump opines on the war, the more one realizes that he made a colossal blunder allowing […]

Col. Ann Wright (ret.)

March 21, 2026

Twenty-three years ago on March 19, 2003, I resigned from the U.S. Department of State in opposition to Bush Jr’s administration’s decision to attack and invade Iraq. In 2001, after 9/11, and while attacking Afghanistan, Bush spoke of the Axis of Evil-Iran, Iraq and North Korea. In March 2003, the U.S. attacked Iraq. Two other […]

Ron Paul

March 21, 2026

On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Just because we don’t get invoices in the mail, doesn’t mean we don’t pay dearly for the empire’s senseless wars. Most of us Americans have been hammered our entire lives to pay for them. It was hoped that the long-train of disasters was coming to an end with the […]

William Astore

March 21, 2026

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Here’s the lede at NBC News this morning: Discussions about possible ground troops have focused on missions aimed at escalating the war in attempt to end it, sources say, but no decisions have been made. Somebody please explain to me how committing ground troops to Iran and […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

March 20, 2026

On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made many trips to the U.S. last year. And now here we are, in the middle of a gigantic mess in the Middle East (again). The widely anticipated expectation of President Trump putting “America First” and “Making America Great Again” seem like a fleeting […]

William Astore

March 19, 2026

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Joe Kent’s principled resignation letter, in which he calls out the influence of Israel and AIPAC on President Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran, illustrates the nature of power and dissent in government circles. The main response is denunciation. Leading the way was Trump, whose […]

Kyle Anzalone

March 19, 2026

The Strait of Hormuz is the kind of geopolitical pressure point that can turn a regional fight into a worldwide economic shock, and the official story coming out of Washington doesn’t always match what markets and missiles are signaling. We sit down with Larry Johnson to cut through the talking points and ask what’s actually […]

Daniel Larison

March 19, 2026

The Pentagon is requesting $200 billion in war funding for the ongoing illegal assault on Iran: The Pentagon has formally moved to secure a staggering $200 billion supplemental budget to sustain ongoing military operations against Iran. According to a report by the Washington Post, the request has been submitted to the White House for backing before it […]

Kyle Anzalone

March 18, 2026

Air defense looks clean on a diagram. In real war, it is messy, conditional, and expensive in ways most people never see until the alarms are late and the interceptors are flying in bunches. We sit down with Daryl Cooper to translate the jargon and show what “layered missile defense” actually means when Iranian ballistic […]