Ron Paul on the Philippine Pivot To China: What Does It Mean?
October 24, 2016
If you do what Washington says, they send you money. If you don’t, they send you bombs. Now that Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has claimed he wants to pivot away from the US and toward China, can he expect some of those bombs? Or perhaps just a CIA-sponsored coup? What if this realignment could serve […]
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The Tragedy in Yemen
October 24, 2016
Imagine if the Islamic Republic of Iran, complaining that its regional rival Saudi Arabia was meddling in a neighbor’s politics for sectarian reasons, led a coalition to invade that country. As a result, after 18 months, at least 10,000 civilians had been killed or wounded, more than half the country’s people needed food aid and […]
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Lucy Steigerwald on Civic Religion and the National Anthem
October 24, 2016
Antiwar.com contributing editor Lucy Steigerwald joined Adam Camac to talk about her article, The Religious Fervor of the Pledge of Allegiance and the National Anthem. You can follow her work at her blog, The Stag Blog, on Facebook, and on Twitter Download MP3, or view below:
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Why Is Petraeus an Expert on Mosul?
October 23, 2016
General (retired) David Petraeus was on PBS the other day to explain the current Iraqi offensive on Mosul. Sure, his military “surges” in Iraq and Afghanistan had no staying power, and he disgraced himself by sharing classified information with his mistress during an extramarital affair, but nevertheless let’s call on him as an unbiased “expert” […]
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Which One Is Less Evil?
October 21, 2016
Donald Trump seems to be a shady dealer, a blusterer, a prevaricator, an abuser of women — not my choice for president. Yet a case can be made for Trump as the slightly lesser of two evils. Hillary Clinton could be called an abuser of women, children, and men – through war. As first lady, […]
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‘Today Is One of the Heaviest Days of My Life’
October 21, 2016
I’ve written often about our Iraqi refugee friend and his oldest son from Baghdad. I will call them Mohammed and Ahmed. They made the torturous flight last year from Baghdad to Kurdistan and then across Turkey. They were on three Greek islands before permission was granted them to continue their trip. They passed through several […]
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Ron Paul asks: Are The Russians Rigging Our Elections?
October 20, 2016
In last night’s presidential debate, Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton accused the Russians of manipulating the US electoral system to get Republican candidate Donald Trump elected president. She claimed: We have 17 intelligence agencies, civilian and military, who have all concluded that these espionage attacks, these cyberattacks, come from the highest levels of the Kremlin, […]
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Announcing The Libertarian Institute!
October 18, 2016
Announcing the creation of The Libertarian Institute! It’s me, Will Grigg and Sheldon Richman. Find out all about it here. The website goes live on Wednesday. Go there to sign up for the email list now!
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An ‘Epidemic of Graft’–Anti-Corruption Efforts in Afghanistan Fail Hard
October 18, 2016
The U.S. spends spends $5 billion of your tax money a year in “aid” to Afghanistan, plus billions more for the cost of the thousands of American troops and Pentagon-sponsored military contractors there. An “Epidemic of Graft” One of the (many) reasons why all that money has accomplished close to jack squat in 15 years […]
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Congressman Walter Jones on US Financing of ‘Ghost Soldiers’ in Afghanistan
October 14, 2016
Letter to Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter: October 14, 2016 The Honorable Ashton B. Carter Secretary of Defense The Pentagon Washington, DC 20301-1000 Dear Secretary Carter: I am responding to Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Acting) Jedidiah Royal’s October 3, 2016, response to the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)’s letter […]
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