Dave DeCamp

March 13, 2020

The heroic Chelsea Manning was released from jail yesterday after spending almost a year behind bars for refusing to testify against WikiLeaks in front of a grand jury. For every day she refused to testify, the judge ordered Manning to pay $1,000 in fines, which added up to $256,000. Help ease Manning’s suffering and contribute […]

Daniel Larison

March 12, 2020

Originally appeared at The American Conservative. Van Jackson comments on the comparisons being made between the wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan, especially in this article by George Herring. Jackson notes that ending U.S. involvement in these unwinnable wars has a long-term benefit (quote starts at around 29:00): Most allies were glad we got out [of […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

March 11, 2020

President Trump’s Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, is driving the US closer to war with Russia over Turkey’s land grab in northern Syria. While Trump talks about removing US troops from the Middle East, Pompeo has turned his State Department into a second White House and second Pentagon to launch his own foreign policy. Will […]

Institute for Public Accuracy

March 10, 2020

Biden made a series of false assertions on Iraq during an interview with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell on Monday night. Biden claimed: “I didn’t believe he had those nuclear weapons, I didn’t believe he had those weapons of mass destruction” as MSNBC’s O’Donnell nodded approvingly. But in his floor speech for war in October 2002, Biden […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

March 10, 2020

After a “Super Tuesday 2” campaign update from Ron Paul, today’s program looks at yet more US military deaths in Iraq. The 17 year war continues to take US (and Iraqi) lives even after the Iraqi parliament voted this year to remove foreign troops from Iraqi soil. What are they fighting for? Does anyone know? […]

Daniel Larison

March 10, 2020

Originally appeared at The American Conservative. Stephen Wertheim considers Biden’s restorationist foreign policy and finds it seriously wanting: Biden deserves credit for stating flatly that he would end U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. But he does not acknowledge how such support began – under what he now likes to call the “Obama-Biden” […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

March 9, 2020

In yet another example of President Trump continuing the bad policies of President Obama, the Administration announced it would grant $125 million in new anti-artillery radar and military patrol ships to Ukraine. Maybe a military distraction will take minds off of rocky financial waters and a coronavirus that has the world in a panic? On […]

Daniel Larison

March 8, 2020

Originally appeared at The American Conservative. The Wall Street Journal reports on Mohammed bin Salman’s latest purge: Saudi Arabian authorities detained two of the kingdom’s most prominent figures for an alleged coup attempt, further consolidating the power of the king’s son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and clearing away once-formidable rivals to the throne, according […]

Eric Garris

March 6, 2020

Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling

March 5, 2020

Among the most immoral and destructive policies of the U.S. government are sanctions and embargoes. Join Future of Freedom Foundation president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling in this week’s Libertarian Angle as they examine why a free, prosperous, and moral society necessarily entails a termination of these foreign policy weapons. Go […]