Senate Votes To End Yemen War… Will Trump Veto?
March 14, 2019
The Senate has passed “war powers” legislation ordering the president to cease and desist his cooperation with Saudi Arabia in the destruction of Yemen. A House vote is expected soon, which would throw the issue to the president who has promised a veto. Will there be political fallout for a president failing to accede to […]
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42 Organizations Urge Support for AUMF Repeal
March 13, 2019
On March 13, a diverse group of 42 organizations from across the political spectrum sent a letter to Chairman Elliot Engel (NY-16) and Ranking Member Michael McCaul (TX-10) of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, urging them to bring up Rep. Barbara Lee’s (CA-13) legislation to repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force for […]
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The Irrelevancy of Cable News on the Yemen Vote
March 13, 2019
Moments ago, the US Senate approved the War Powers Act challenge to US support for the Saudi war on Yemen. CNN is talking about Paul Manafort. MSNBC has “breaking news” about Paul Manafort. FoxNews is explaining why we have to invade Venezuela. Very sad.
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Support HR1004: The Prohibiting Unauthorized Military Action in Venezuela Act
March 13, 2019
Letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi from Just Foreign Policy: March 13th, 2019 Dear Speaker Pelosi: We write to request your support for the bipartisan measure, H.R.1004 – Prohibiting Unauthorized Military Action in Venezuela Act, introduced by Rep. David Cicilline of Rhode Island. We respectfully ask that any floor consideration of legislation addressing the crisis in […]
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War Drums: US Diplomats Ordered Home From Venezuela
March 12, 2019
Secretary of State Pompeo has ordered all US diplomats to return from Venezuela. Their presence in country is “constraining” US foreign policy, he says. Is this the pre-cursor to a US attack? What about the power outages in Venezuela? A US cyber-attack? Are the neocons about to pull the trigger? On today’s Ron Paul Liberty […]
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Manafort To Jail – Not About Justice; Not About Russia
March 11, 2019
Former Trump campaign official Paul Manafort has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for acting as an unregistered agent for Ukraine. But looking at the media coverage of the case one would never know that “taking down” Manafort was not all about Russia collusion. Reporting… or propaganda? On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: […]
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Israel Is Not America’s Ally
March 9, 2019
Originally appeared on The American Conservative. Andrew Sullivan comments on the U.S.-Israel relationship and the role of “pro-Israel” lobbying groups in our politics in a new essay. There are several things that I think Sullivan gets wrong, but perhaps the most significant and pervasive error in the piece is his repeated description of the relationship […]
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IRmep’s Grant F. Smith Explains the Motives Behind the Israel Lobby’s Smears of Rep. Omar
March 7, 2019
In a call to C-SPAN’s Washington Journal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYaHThVim6c
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Did the NSA Kill Its Program To Spy on Us… Or Upgrade It?
March 7, 2019
A surprise revelation from a staffer in House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) office has everyone talking about whether the NSA has really ended its metadata collection of our phone calls and texts, which was authorized by the 2015 USA FREEDOM Act. They say they no longer need the data collection allowed by the Act. […]
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