The Midterms and the War on Yemen
November 8, 2018
Originally appeared on The American Conservative. After two years reckless and irresponsible Trump administration foreign policy, the new Democratic House majority is in a position to provide greater oversight and scrutiny of the president’s policies: A Democrat-led House will likely launch hearings quickly on U.S. aid to Saudi Arabia in Yemen and other secret wars. […]
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The Pentagon as a Herd of Elephants
November 7, 2018
A few months ago, I was talking to a researcher about the Pentagon, the military-industrial complex, and America’s fourth (and most powerful?) branch of government: the national security state. After talking about the enormous sweep and power of these entities, she said to me, it’s the elephant in the room, isn’t it? More than that, […]
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National Commission on Military Service To Release Interim Report in January
November 6, 2018
No matter what happens in today’s voting, it won’t end the bipartisan support for war or the need for antiwar activism outside the sphere of electoral politics. Case in point: The bipartisan National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service is continuing to work toward recommendations to Congress and the President on whether draft registration […]
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Scott Horton: ‘New Media & The Terror Wars’
November 6, 2018
Antiwar.com Editorial Director Scott Horton delivered this talk on November 3, 2018 in Lake Jackson, Texas. He shared the stage with Lew Rockwell, Ron Paul, Daniel McAdams, et. al.
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‘The Most Important Election Of Our Lifetime!’ – Ron Paul Asks: Does It Really Matter?
November 6, 2018
There was plenty of noise in the run up to today’s mid-term election in the US, but were there any real differences when it comes to substantive issues? Or was it all about manufactured outrages designed to motivate people to support this or that tribe with no real thought? Was there any real debate on […]
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Ron Paul: Iran Sanctions Back On! Is War On the Way?
November 5, 2018
The Trump Administration is determined to bring Iran to its knees. With a new round of “crippling” sanctions targeting any country doing business with Iran, is the US just isolating itself from the rest of the world? Is it hastening the end of “dollar hegemony” that US foreign policy has to this point sought to […]
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McNamara’s Martyrs: Low-IQ Substitutes for College Men With Deferments
November 4, 2018
This is not a well-known story. Congress covered it up at the time. This was bipartisan murder. The military could not meet its quotas. The draft was failing. Volunteers could not fill the ranks. In response, Robert McNamara devised a solution: draft low-IQ men who could not read or write. The military drafted over 300,000 […]
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Drones and Surveillance in Our Brave New World
November 4, 2018
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. ~ Jacques Ellul I have long had mixed feelings about technology. On the one hand, I regard the Industrial Revolution as, perhaps, the most […]
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Yemen Can’t Wait for a Ceasefire
November 2, 2018
Originally appeared on The American Conservative. Michael Horton is similarly skeptical about Mattis and Pompeo’s calls for a ceasefire in Yemen: Yet these exhortations are meaningless without real pressure on Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which are poised to launch yet another offensive on the Yemeni port of Hodeidah. The first offensive on the port, […]
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Ron Paul on Feeding the Deep State: Trump’s Big Intel Boost an Attack on Liberty
October 31, 2018
The 2018 US intelligence community budget saw its biggest increase in ten years and is now higher than it has ever been. President Trump’s backers often claim that he’s in Washington to fight the deep state, but it doesn’t get more “deep state” than the US intelligence community. How to explain this massive increase? Do […]
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