Daniel Larison: An End to the Bombing in Yemen?
May 7, 2025
Trump claims that the Houthis have “capitulated” and the U.S. will therefore stop bombing. The Houthis have a different interpretation of the truce: In a later interview with Bloomberg News, Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of the Houthi Political Council, suggested the group is ready to stop attacking US military ships if the Trump administration halts […]
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James Carden on Generalissimo Kagan
May 7, 2025
Reprinted with permission from The Realist Review. That Robert Kagan is among the most consistent – and consistently wrong – foreign policy analysts in Washington will not come as news. That he continues to command so much attention twenty-odd years since the Iraq debacle which he did so much to promote, is more a commentary about […]
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Ron Paul: Trump Ends US War On Yemen – What Was Achieved?
May 7, 2025
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: President Trump announced yesterday that a “deal” was struck with Ansar Allah (Houthis) in Yemen that the US would stop bombing the country if they would stop targeting US commercial shipping. Who wins? Also today: trade ties are growing globally as US protectionism is scaring off customers. Finally… target […]
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Conflicts of Interest: Netanyahu Handed Hamas Thousands of Bombs
May 7, 2025
On COI #795, Kyle Anzalone breaks down the latest news from Gaza. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
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On Pro-Israel Use and Abuse of Holocaust Remembrance
May 6, 2025
Reprinted from Yves Engler’s website. Twenty-five years ago, Norman Finkelstein detailed how Hitler’s destruction of European Jewry was weaponized against Palestinians. In his 2000 book The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, Finkelstein, whose grandparents perished in Nazi death camps, argued the US Jewish establishment exploited the memory of the Nazi Holocaust […]
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Ron Paul: With US Backing, Israel Set To Ethnically Cleanse Gaza
May 6, 2025
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: The Israeli government has announced that it plans to remove what is left of the Palestinian presence in Gaza and with it demolish what buildings remain. US backing for the project is essential to its success. Also today: Congress still determined to throw you into jail if you boycott […]
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RIP: Remembering Edward Lozansky, Towering Prophet of Sanity, Decency, and Peace
May 5, 2025
Our friend Edward Lozansky left this world last week. He was a long-time writer for Antiwar.com. His many articles can be found here and on our blog here. He was president and founder of the American University in Moscow and the U.S.-Russia Forum. He is also a professor at the Moscow State and National Research […]
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Conflicts of Interest: Israel Attacks Civilian Aid Ships
May 5, 2025
On COI #794, Kyle Anzalone discusses Israel attacking a civilian aid ship trying to bring food to the starving people of Gaza. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
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The Department of Empire, and Its Bloated Imperial Budget
May 5, 2025
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Language and repetition of the same is so important. We hear about the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Pentagon budget and we think little of it. The DoD, of course, used to be called the Department of War until 1947, a far more telling and accurate […]
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Why I Wrote an Expert Report Against the UK Classing Hamas as a Terror Group
May 4, 2025
[READERS’ NOTE: Given the intentional chilling effect of Britain’s Terrorism Act, and the expansive interpretation of it by British terror police in relation to reporting and commentary about Gaza, this article was subjected to two reviews by lawyers before it was okayed for publication by Middle East Eye. The lawyers insisted on several edits to […]
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