State of War Video on America’s Forever Wars
February 27, 2019
An excellent 13-minute video on America’s wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Syria, etc. Featuring Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), and Cato Institute Fellow Emma Ashford. Produced by Free The People.
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Trump Talks Peace With Taliban – Will Neocons Go Nuts?
February 27, 2019
While all eyes are on the Trump/Kim talks in Hanoi, the US Administration is continuing peace talks with Afghanistan’s Taliban in Qatar. Will the US withdraw all troops from Afghanistan in exchange for Taliban promises to keep fighting ISIS and al-Qaeda? On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace […]
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Ron Paul on a Venezuela False Flag: Who Burned the Aid Truck?
February 25, 2019
The weekend stand-off between the US aid trucks on the Colombian side of the border and the Venezuelan government did not go quite as planned by the US. The aid did not get through, the military did not defect, and US-selected “president” Guaido was nowhere to be seen. But the aid trucks did catch fire […]
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The Two Koreas Have Set a Model for American Diplomacy
February 25, 2019
A Road Map for peace between the two Koreas now exists. An agreement signed by both countries on September 19, 2018, provides a model that President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may follow at Hanoi. The agreement, in turn, is similar to the Road Map that normalized relations between the United […]
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Shinzo Abe in Cloud Cuckoo Land: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the Chances for a Japanese-Russian Peace Treaty
February 24, 2019
Sundays in Russia, like Sundays in most of the Western world, are usually not news generating days. However, today Moscow broke that rule and provided Russia-watchers with a couple of very weighty international affairs developments that I will analyze in this article on Japan and in another article later today on what the termination of […]
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Lucy Steigerwald Testifies Before the National Commission Hearing on Mandatory Service Policy
February 21, 2019
Antiwar.com contributing editor Lucy Steigerwald testified today before the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service (NCMNPS). Her testimony is here: Thanks to Tom Knapp for creating the clip.
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Iraq Lies Redux: Trump Admin Claims Iran/al-Qaeda Alliance
February 20, 2019
In an astonishing Washington Times article this week, unnamed Trump Administration officials (who may or may not be called “John Bolton”) are claiming that Iran, which has been battling al-Qaeda in Syria for nearly four years, is actually secretly allied with al-Qaeda and therefore Iran can be attacked with no further Congressional authorization. Are we […]
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The US Military Is Everywhere
February 20, 2019
Most Americans would say we have a military for national defense and security. But our military is not a defensive force. Defense is not its ethos, nor is it how our military is structured. Our military is a power-projection force. It is an offensive force. It is designed to take the fight to the enemy. […]
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A Reality Check on Our Absurd Venezuela Policy
February 20, 2019
Originally appeared on The American Conservative. The Trump administration is running into the stubborn reality that the “government” they recognize in Venezuela doesn’t actually control anything: It is a risky gamble for Mr. Maduro’s adversaries, who say they are unclear as to how they will break the blockade at the border on Saturday. While Mr. […]
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Ron Paul and Tom Luongo on Whistling Past NATO’s Graveyard
February 19, 2019
The recent Warsaw and Munich summits have proven disastrous to Trump’s foreign policy as pursued by his neocon top advisors. They were supposed to line up for war on Iran and further isolation of Russia and China, yet none of the war bugles sounded. Have the Europeans had enough of “US global dominance”? Geopolitical analyst […]
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