Dan McKnight

November 10, 2019

I would like to invite you to take part in a 2-day series of meetings and events in Washington, D.C., on November 12-13, sponsored by Bring Our Troops Home. Bring Our Troops Home is a newly-formed advocacy organization dedicated to ending the cycle of Endless Wars and the policy of automatic military intervention. This group […]

William Astore

November 10, 2019

My dad left me two silver dollars. They’re worth much in sentimental value (I’ll explain in a moment), but they also teach us something about how America has changed. Here’s a photo of them. Lady Liberty is on the front, an eagle is on the back. These were “peace” dollars issued in the aftermath of […]

Camillo Mac Bica

November 7, 2019

You were conscripted against your will or convinced by lies and deceit that the threat to all you held sacred was real, and grave, and imminent. You believed that patriots must rally, sacrifice their life’s plans and dreams, enlist in the military or submit to the draft, to fight, and if necessary to die, in […]

Daniel Larison

November 7, 2019

Originally appeared at The American Conservative. A new AP report calls attention to the illegality of the U.S. military mission in Syria: President Donald Trump has approved an expanded military mission to secure an expanse of oil fields across eastern Syria, raising a number of difficult legal questions about whether US troops can launch strikes […]

Joziah Thayer

November 6, 2019

The award-winning writer and founder of the adversarial news site The Grayzone journalist and best-selling author Max Blumenthal, had his apartment swarmed by D.C police who pounded on his door and demanded that he open it, or it will be broken down. Max admitted to journalist and comedian Jimmy Dore that he was debating in […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

November 6, 2019

Former CIA officer Phil Giraldi joins today’s Liberty Report to discuss the breaking scandal over the Obama Administration’s intelligence leaders and the plot against candidate Trump. Then-CIA Director John Brennan reportedly set up a CIA task force early in 2016 to surveil and even conduct covert actions against candidate and then President Trump. Are we […]

Daniel Larison

November 5, 2019

Originally appeared at The American Conservative. New START is the last major arms control treaty between the U.S. and Russia, and the Trump administration is going to let it die: New Start expires in February 2021, just weeks after the next presidential inauguration in Washington. While it can be extended for five years by mutual […]

Angela Keaton

November 5, 2019

After review of Diana Johnstone’s piece, The Lynching of the Charismatic Geek, we agree that the assertions regarding Christine Assange are unnessarily provocative. While Ms. Johnstone was making a point about the nature of counter culture eccentrics against the mind numbing conformity required to maintain the world’s largest police state, we see how her portrayal […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

November 4, 2019

Former Acting CIA Director John McLaughlin, on a panel with former CIA Director John Brennan, responded to a question about whether the “deep state” was trying to take out President Trump with a quote, “thank God for the deep state.” Everyone laughed. He went on to say that the “intelligence community” is right to take […]

Daniel Larison

November 3, 2019

Originally appeared at The American Conservative. U.S. troops sent into Syria on an illegal and pointless mission to “take the oil” don’t know what they are supposed to be doing: US military commanders overseeing Syria operations are still waiting for precise battlefield orders from the White House and Pentagon on their exact mission to protect […]