Russell Vandenbroucke

June 28, 2020

The Palestinians have continued to refuse to just simply sit down and enter into negotiation based on President Trump’s Vision for Peace there.  ~ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, May 20, Remarks to the Press Pompeo was responding to a two-part question: Could he comment on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s statement the previous night […]

Ray McGovern

June 26, 2020

Nils Melzer, UN Rapporteur on Torture, belatedly learned that Julian Assange was being tortured.  Meltzer came to realize that he had been misled by the “news” about Assange in the Establishment media, so he did his own investigation. With his findings and impressions in hand, Melzer thought that June 26, the International Day in Support […]

Eric Garris

June 26, 2020

One Year Ago (June 27, 2019), I received the very sad news that my longtime friend Justin Raimondo had died. He had spent the previous two years fighting lung cancer. Justin and I had been political partners for over 40 years, working on many political campaigns and organizations. In 1995, we started Antiwar.com, which grew […]

Daniel Larison

June 26, 2020

From The American Conservative: The Trump administration is considering ending the process of giving Congress informal notification about pending arms sales: While congressional aides were not surprised by the proposed move, which they said the Trump administration has been considering as far back as two years, a decision to end the informal consultation would be […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

June 26, 2020

The great Frederic Bastiat said that “Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war…” This is the path that should be avoided. If America is unattractive to entrepreneurs, and is falling behind competitively because it is saddled with the biggest government on earth, perhaps the focus should be setting the American […]

Carlton Meyer

June 25, 2020

American troops arrived in Korea in 1945 and never left. South Korea eventually prospered and became a major economic and military power, but American Generals plan to occupy Korea forever. They exaggerate the North Korean threat, ignoring that South Korea has twice its population, 53 times its economic power measured by GDP, and a modern […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

June 24, 2020

DC Court of Appeals has ruled that the case against Gen. Michael Flynn must be dropped, after a judge ignored a previous order by US Attorney General William Barr to drop all charges. As more documents and notes by FBI officers involved in the case are released, it becomes ever more evident that this was […]

Ray McGovern

June 22, 2020

“Why does life almost come to a halt on June 22? And why does one feel a lump in the throat?” This how Russian President Vladimir Putin chose to address the fateful day in 1941, when Germany invaded Russia, with an extraordinarily detailed article on June 19: “75th Anniversary of the Great Victory: Shared Responsibility […]

Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

June 21, 2020

From The American Conservative: Maybe the Navy was just buying time or maybe they got more information, but according to reports the service is not going to reinstate Capt. Brett Crozier to his command of the USS Roosevelt. It also looks like, in order to take politics out of the picture, the Navy is blaming […]

Aaron Maté

June 20, 2020

From The Grayzone: “For Syrians, sanctions on reconstruction and on oil and gas are likely to be felt most acutely,” the Washington Post reports. “The Caesar Act will probably limit the government’s ability to procure oil, further hurting the already low quality of life.” The new sanctions follow earlier coercive measures that had already hurt […]