Aaron Maté

January 15, 2023

Aaron Maté and Kurt Metzger appear on the Jimmy Dore Show: Ex-CIA agent Mark Polymeropoulos loves that Congress provides strict oversight of intelligence agencies – he says it right there in the first paragraph of his Washington Examiner opinion piece on the subject! But this new investigative body House GOP members plan to set up […]

Conflicts of Interest

January 15, 2023

On COI #368, Kyle Anzalone discusses the war in Ukraine. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.

William Astore

January 14, 2023

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. My great nephew recently reported to the local MEPS (military entrance processing station) and took the oath of office. He’s enlisting in the Marine Corps and I wish him all the best. In November 2021, with him in mind, I wrote an article, “Should you join the […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

January 12, 2023

From today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Is this peak Zelensky worship? US Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), who famously yelled out to President Obama “you lie” during a speech, has introduced legislation that would spend taxpayer money to create a bust of Ukrainian President Zelensky and to place it in a prominent position in the US […]

Daniel Larison

January 12, 2023

The US and North Korea came dangerously close to war during Trump’s presidency. This is often discounted or forgotten in assessments of Trump’s foreign policy record because the war didn’t happen and Trump then made a big show of meeting with Kim Jong-un, but the crisis was real and war was much closer than most […]

Conflicts of Interest

January 10, 2023

On COI #367, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman recap the disastrous foreign policy developments of the year, focusing on escalations with Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, as well as the catastrophic trajectory of the Pentagon’s so-called “Great Power Competition.” Kyle breaks down a major sexual harassment scandal involving a top official at Space Force […]

Daniel Larison

January 9, 2023

Judah Grunstein warns against the entrenchment of the hawkish consensus on China: The result is that competition and even potential conflict are now considered the default position for relations with China; those who suggest that cooperation – even on existential challenges like the climate crisis – is still valuable and at times necessary are seen […]

Eric Garris

January 9, 2023

Dear Antiwar.com Reader, Today, Russia holds the largest nuclear arsenal in the world. Yet our U.S. Congress has approved over $112 billion to fund its proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. There is no end in sight to this disastrous conflict. No peace talks are on the horizon, thanks to the covert and not-so-covert operations […]

Ray McGovern

January 8, 2023

Similarly, the Defense Intelligence Agency should have been included, particularly since it has considerable expertise on the G.R.U., the Russian military intelligence agency, which has been blamed for Russian hacking of the DNC emails. But DIA, too, has an independent streak and, in fact, is capable of reaching judgments Clapper would reject as anathema. Just […]

Brett Wilkins

January 8, 2023

US military officials knew that an August 2021 drone strike in Kabul likely killed Afghan civilians including children but lied about it, a report published Friday revealed. New York Times investigative reporter Azmat Khan analyzed a 66-page redacted US Central Command report on the August 29, 2021 drone strike that killed 10 members of the […]