Gilbert Doctorow

April 3, 2023

Russia’s New Foreign Relations Concept will usher in a fundamental change in the balance of its domestic politics On Friday, 31 March, Vladimir Putin signed into law a new Foreign Policy Concept which will guide Russian diplomacy in the years to come. It replaces the Concept promulgated in 2016 and sets out on 42 pages […]

Daniel Larison

April 3, 2023

Stephen Walt is underwhelmed by the Biden administration’s diplomatic performance to date: I raise this issue because the Biden administration took office vowing to put diplomacy at the center of U.S. foreign policy, yet it has relatively few diplomatic achievements to show for its first two-plus years. On the plus side, US allies are far […]

Marcy Winograd & Wei Yu

April 3, 2023

As the Pentagon steps up its war games in the Asia Pacific, Defense News reports the US Army has a logistical problem with waging a future war against China: too much equipment to haul from "fort to port" – and too many ports in the Pacific, from which a cyberspace advanced adversary like China might […]

William Astore

April 2, 2023

Last Thursday (March 30) was opening day at Fenway Park, where “my” team, the Boston Red Sox, began their 123rd season. I turned on the TV just as a humongous American flag fell across the Green Monster (the wall in left field). Standing before that wall were troops in camouflage uniforms saluting smartly as the […]

Norman Solomon

March 31, 2023

From RootsAction Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg helped to end the Vietnam War when he bravely provided the Pentagon Papers to media outlets in 1971. Ever since then, he has been a tireless and inspiring advocate for peace and prevention of nuclear war. During the last few weeks, widespread heartfelt tributes followed Dan’s public letter disclosing that he has […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

March 31, 2023

From today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) came out swinging against a move by a fellow Republican Senator to ban the popular social media app TikTok by unanimous consent. Citing the First Amendment of the US Constitution, Sen. Paul vowed to resist any attempts to restrict the speech of Americans. Also today…US […]

Conflicts of Interest

March 31, 2023

On COI #400, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman discuss the war in Ukraine and developments in the Middle East. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.

David Swanson

March 30, 2023

National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said this week, when asked about UK shipments of Depleted Uranium weapons to Ukraine: “If Russia is deeply concerned about the welfare of their tanks and tank soldiers, the safest thing for them to do is move them across the border, get them out of Ukraine.” Meanwhile, Pentagon spokesperson […]

Walt Zlotow

March 30, 2023

Republican Senator Rand Paul broke with his party to prevent rabid nationalist Senator Josh Hawley from achieving unanimous consent to block TikTok in America. Hawley’s bill “No TikTok on United States Devices Act," would prohibit the app from being downloaded in the US and ban commercial activity with TikTok’s parent company, the China-based ByteDance. Libertarian […]

David R. Henderson

March 29, 2023

Reprinted from Econlib with permission. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Thursday the United States was looking at ways to strengthen its sanctions against Iran, but acknowledged the sanctions had not resulted in the behavioral or policy changes Washington desires from Tehran. This is from David Lander and Kanishka Singh, “Yellen: Iran’s […]