Maya Evans

August 5, 2018

I have just arrived in Hiroshima with a group of Japanese "Okinawa to Hiroshima peace walkers" who had spent nearly two months walking Japanese roads protesting U.S. militarism. While we were walking, an Afghan peace march that had set off in May was enduring 700km of Afghan roadsides, poorly shod, from Helmand province to Afghanistan’s […]

Daniel Larison

August 3, 2018

Originally appeared on The American Conservative. Jason Rezaian describes what renewed U.S. sanctions will do to the Iranian people: Although sanctions won’t target food and medicine directly, Iran will be cut from the international financial system, so imports for many items will be affected, causing delays in delivery. People needing certain lifesaving drugs will have […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

August 2, 2018

With the Syrian army’s liberation of the southwest complete, there remains just a single province in control of ISIS and al-Qaeda in the country. The “bloodbath” that the “experts” warned about if Assad regained control not only did not come to pass, but tens and hundreds of thousands of Syrians are returning home. Once the […]

Eric Garris

August 2, 2018

Recently, the State Department held a conference on religious freedom. Our friends at The Committee for Responsible Foreign Policy were invited to present a series of talks on the impact of war on religious liberty. Individual videos from this three-hour presentation can be searched here.

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

August 1, 2018

After a firey, all-caps Tweet warning Iran, President Trump did a 180 and said he’d meet with Iranian president Rouhani with no pre-conditions. Then his neocon Secretary of State Pompeo got wind of it and added a list of conditions to the meeting. Unsurprisingly, the Iranians balked at the offer. Is Trump in a box […]

Sen. Richard H. Black

July 31, 2018

As a military officer, I was trained to strictly observe security protocols. So when I first heard of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, I was instinctively critical. But upon reading his released documents, I saw how Julian gave people accurate insights into the inner workings of their own government. Government “of the People” cannot flourish beneath […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

July 31, 2018

Last week, US State Department officials met with Taliban leaders in Qatar. At the request of the Taliban, the US-backed Afghan government was not invited. The officials discussed ceasefires and an end to the war. Meanwhile, the US inspector general charged with monitoring US spending on Afghanistan reconstruction has reported that since 2008, the US […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

July 30, 2018

Over the weekend, several news report have suggested that the US is planning an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. Other reports suggest that the US is going to unleash the Saudis to do the fighting. What’s behind the relentless – going back 60 years – US drive to intervene in Iran’s internal affairs? Oil is […]

Daniel Larison

July 30, 2018

Originally appeared on The American Conservative. Matt Taibbi comments on the widespread ignorance and lack of coverage of the war on Yemen and the world’s worst humanitarian crisis: Yemen features the wrong kinds of victims, lacks a useful partisan angle and, frankly, is nobody’s idea of clickbait in the Trump age. Until it becomes a […]

William Astore

July 29, 2018

I was looking at some old military history notes today and came across this photo of Lieutenant General Hubert Reilly Harmon, known today as the father of the Air Force Academy and its first superintendent: I love the simplicity of this photo. General Harmon is wearing four ribbons on his uniform and his pilot’s wings. […]