Daniel Larison

April 16, 2020

Originally appeared at The American Conservative. Eric Edeleman and Ray Takeyh dispense with the usual hawkish smokescreens and evasions and call for regime change in Iran: “Regime change” is a toxic phrase in Washington. It conjures up images of the Iraq war, with the United States trapped in a quagmire of its own making. That […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

April 15, 2020

“Never let a crisis go to waste.” Big tech is getting into bed with big government to build a massive surveillance superstructure that will monitor all of our movements – in the name of fighting coronavirus, of course. As Edward Snowden recently warned, these mechanisms of surveillance and oppression are not going to be dismantled […]

Bring Our Troops Home

April 15, 2020

From the Committee for Responsible Foreign Policy: Join us on Facebook Live Tonight at 9pm Eastern Time (6pm Pacific Time) BringOurTroopsHome.us reports on the progress of getting state legislatures to prohibit use of their National Guards in illegal wars around the world. Bring Our Troops Home is dedicated to ending American involvement in endless wars […]

Daniel Larison

April 14, 2020

Originally appeared at The American Conservative. The Trump administration’s attempt to strongarm South Korea into a large increase in spending on the basing of U.S. troops has failed: Trump, they say, already rejected what was probably Seoul’s best offer ahead of its mid-April parliamentary elections – an increase of at least 13% from the previous […]

Daniel Larison

April 8, 2020

Originally appeared at The American Conservative. Iran has been seeking a loan from the International Monetary Fund for the first time in almost sixty years to help them fight the pandemic. The U.S. is expected to block the loan: The US plans to block Iran’s requested $5 billion emergency loan from the International Monetary Fund […]

Daniel Larison

April 7, 2020

Originally appeared at The American Conservative. Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly just made things much worse for himself and the Navy by delivering an attack on Capt. Crozier in a speech to the crew of the USS Theodore Roosevelt. It will come as no surprise that the contents of the speech have become […]

Brian Terrell

April 5, 2020

The United States Strategic National Stockpile of essential medical supplies maintained by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, seems unable to respond to the present COVID-19 crisis. There is much discussion in today’s news about who is responsible for the shortcomings. Did Trump find the shelves empty or full when he took office […]

Kathy Kelly

April 5, 2020

On April 4, 2020, my friend Steve Kelly will begin a third year of imprisonment in Georgia’s Glynn County jail. He turned 70 while in prison, and while he has served multiple prison sentences for protesting nuclear weapons, spending two years in a county jail is unusual even for him. Yet he adamantly urges supporters […]

Thomas L. Knapp

April 3, 2020

Rodney Howard-Browne, pastor of The River church in Tampa, Florida, strongly believes that God wants his church to continue holding live services for hundreds of parishioners even in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hillsborough County sheriff Chad Chronister and state attorney Andrew Warren strongly believe that they’re entitled to threaten Howard-Browne with arrest for […]

Daniel Larison

April 3, 2020

Originally appeared at The American Conservative. The backlash to the Navy’s punishment of Capt. Crozier has been intense, and some influential members of Congress are denouncing the decision to relieve him of command: NEW: @RepSpeier, who chairs the House Armed Services Cmte Military Personnel panel, calls the firing a “heinous act of whistleblower retaliation” that […]