Veterans: Never Should Have Fought the Terror Wars
July 10, 2019
What a shame. You know, it didn’t have to be this way at all. Forget that crank Al Gore winning instead. If Bush had only had anyone but Dick Cheney for VP and Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz over at Defense, then Colin Powell would have been his man on foreign policy and the whole damn thing would […]
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High School Yemen Action Club Rallies Against US Support for Saudi War on Yemen
July 10, 2019
I am overjoyed by this. I started my antiwar activities when I was in high school during the Vietnam War. It is so great to see these teenagers who have a better understanding than the average American adult of what we are doing to innocent Yemenis. Here is Katheryn: Here is Chloe:
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Trump Threatens Military Bill Veto: Demands More Spending!
July 10, 2019
President Trump has threatened to veto the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2020 if Congress adopts the House version of the bill, which increases military spending by $16 billion but does not come close to the $33 billion increase the Administration demands. When it comes to military spending…how much is enough? On today’s Ron Paul […]
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What Sanctions Mean for My Iranian-American Family
July 9, 2019
“What’s wrong?” I asked my mother, as I saw her broken expression. She was on the phone, speaking with my grandparents in Iran. “A terrible thing has happened,” she replied. My grandparent’s home in Tehran had been broken into. The thieves took everything they could carry – my grandmother’s jewelry, my uncle’s prized watch collection, […]
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Breakthrough? Taliban Talks With Kabul Government Bear Fruit
July 9, 2019
This week, Taliban and Afghan government officials met for the first time at talks hosted in Qatar and organized by Germany. The modest early agreement may pave the way to the end of the 18 year war. Meanwhile today the US resumes talks with the Taliban also in Qatar. Will the Trump Administration find a […]
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Unintended Consequences: UK Tanker Fears Iran Retaliation In Gulf
July 8, 2019
Days after the UK – at US request – seized a tanker filled with Iranian oil near Gibraltar, a UK tanker in the Persian Gulf has made an abrupt u-turn and abandoned its mission to transport Iraqi oil to Europe. Now sheltering in Saudi waters, the tanker fears a tit-for-tat Iranian retaliation. Is this a […]
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Did Israel Pull the US Out Compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?
July 8, 2019
IRmep’s Grant F. Smith takes on the Arms Control Association’s Daryl Kimball over Israel nuclear smuggling and U.S. compliance with the NPT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yex7ERzGOK0
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The Propagandistic Power of Hasty Generalizations: How Regime Change Is Often Sold
July 7, 2019
The logical fallacy of hasty generalization – or the mistake of drawing a conclusion from insufficient evidence – is a potent propagandistic tool wielded by the U.S. political and media establishment in their efforts to sell aggression to the American public, and the apparent push for war with Iran is a case in point. They’ll […]
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This Morning on Antiwar Radio: Nasser Arrabyee on the UAE’s Withdrawal From Yemen
July 7, 2019
That’s 8:30 Pacific on 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles, kpfk.org.
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