Matt Purple

May 21, 2020

Our great and glorious ally Saudi Arabia has fallen on hard times. The coronavirus has arrived in the desert kingdom, prompting its government to take emergency measures and sending its economy into a tailspin. Vision 2030, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s ambitious plan to turn his country into Tomorrowland, has either, depending on who you […]

Paul Antonopoulos

May 21, 2020

The World Bank warns that there is a global poverty increase as tens of millions of people have fallen back into poverty because of the pandemic. Up to 60 million people worldwide may fall into extreme poverty due to the coronavirus, said David Malpass, head of the World Bank. "Our estimate is that up to […]

Romana Rubeo

May 15, 2020

Dr. Ghada Ageel and Dr. Ramzy Baroud have more in common than their scholarly research on Palestinian history and politics. They are both refugees, and the direct descendants of Palestinian refugees who have been expelled from their historic village of Beit Daras at gunpoint during the catastrophic events that led to the Palestinian Nakba of […]

Daniel Larison

May 13, 2020

Originally appeared at The American Conservative. Fresh off of his defense of the foreign policy “Blob,” Hal Brands suggests that the U.S. might get back into the business of covertly overthrowing foreign governments: Just as the US sought to undermine or topple unfriendly regimes during the Cold War, it may look to such methods again […]

Aaron Maté

May 13, 2020

From The Grayzone: Crowdstrike, the firm behind the Russian email hacking allegation at the core of Russiagate, makes a bombshell admission: “We did not have concrete evidence.” In newly released Congressional testimony, Crowdstrike president Shawn Henry said that “we did not have concrete evidence” that alleged Russian hackers actually took the emails from DNC servers. […]

Daniel Larison

May 12, 2020

Originally appeared at The American Conservative. Thomas Meaney debunks the myth of Henry Kissinger: Since leaving office, too, Kissinger has rarely challenged consensus, let alone offered the kind of inconvenient assessments that characterized the later career of George Kennan, who warned President Clinton against NATO expansion after the Soviet Union’s collapse. It is instructive to […]

David Swanson

May 11, 2020

There are two brand new ways to avoid any military draft that should come along. (I know you’re not worried about a draft, but the numbers of failed coup attempts in Venezuela and of failed attempts to start a war on Iran are both approaching the number of years of war in Afghanistan, so frustration […]

Sheldon Richman

May 8, 2020

Trump has vetoed Congress’s effort to keep him from going to war against Iran unilaterally. Nothing remarkable there. We’ve come to expect such things from the fraud who posed as antiwar. What’s interesting is that Trump has reminded of what a narcissist he is. That fact is so much a part of the landscape that […]

Daniel Larison

May 7, 2020

Originally appeared at The American Conservative. The president once again showed his contempt for the Constitution with his veto of another war powers resolution yesterday: President Trump vetoed a Senate resolution on Wednesday that would have required him to seek congressional authorization before taking military action against Iran, rejecting a rare effort by the chamber […]

Daniel Larison

May 6, 2020

Originally appeared at The American Conservative. Ethan Paul dismantles H.R. McMaster’s “analysis” of the Chinese government and shows how McMaster abuses the idea of strategic empathy for his own ends: But the reality is that McMaster, and others committed to great power competition, is actually playing the role of Johnson and McNamara. This shines through […]