Kathy Kelly

January 2, 2023

Days after a U.S. warplane bombed a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing forty-two people, twenty-four of them patients, the international president of MSF, Dr. Joanne Liu walked through the wreckage and prepared to deliver condolences to family members of those who had been killed. A brief video, taped in […]

Donald A. Smith

January 2, 2023

Former U.S. Ambassador to the USSR Jack Matlock says in Ukraine: Tragedy of a Nation Divided: Interference by the United States and its NATO allies in Ukraine’s civil struggle has exacerbated the crisis within Ukraine, undermined the possibility of bringing the two easternmost provinces back under Kyiv’s control, and raised the specter of possible conflict […]

Gilbert Doctorow

January 1, 2023

News about the impending removal of foreign forces from Syria that you will not get…from Western mainstream Happy New Year 2023 to one and all. With some luck we may all make it through the next 12 months intact. My purpose in violating the sanctity of New Year’s Day is to bring to your attention […]

William Astore

January 1, 2023

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. 2022 has been the year of living dangerously. The Russia-Ukraine War escalated with no immediate end in sight. U.S. government officials, most notably the Democratic Party, have gotten behind Ukraine as if it’s the 51st American state. Aid to Ukraine, mainly in the form of weapons and […]

Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy

December 31, 2022

Reprinted from the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy. US Middle East policy continued its downward spiral in 2022. The president and Congress aided and abetted illegal Israeli objectives over better policies preferred by overwhelming majorities of American voters. In poll after poll, Americans have signaled they would like to cut U.S. foreign aid to […]

Ray McGovern

December 30, 2022

Regarding Ray McGovern’s Biden Reneged – Now Russian Army Will Talk As some will remember, I have been calling attention repeatedly to Biden’s assurance to Putin one year ago today, that “Washington had no intention of deploying offensive strike weapons in Ukraine.” What did it mean when just 13 days later – following a Biden-Putin […]

Veterans For Peace

December 30, 2022

The historic Golden Rule anti-nuclear sailboat is preparing to sail to Cuba at the end of December. The storied wooden boat, which was sailed toward the Marshall Islands in 1958 to interfere with US nuclear testing, is currently in Tampa Bay, Florida. The 34-foot ketch belongs to Veterans For Peace, and carries out an important […]

Conflicts of Interest

December 29, 2022

On COI #363, Kyle Anzalone discusses the Joe Biden administration’s plan to give Kiev more advanced weapons. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.

Daniel Larison

December 29, 2022

Fredrik Logevall reviews Frank Costigliola’s forthcoming biography of George Kennan: Costigliola’s unmatched familiarity with the diaries is on full display, and although he does not shy away from quoting from some of their more unsavory parts, his overall assessment is sympathetic, especially vis-à-vis the “second” Kennan, the one who decried the militarization of containment and […]

William Astore

December 28, 2022

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. America is touched by a peculiar form of collective madness that sees military action as creative rather than destructive, desirable rather than deplorable, and constitutive to democracy rather than corrosive to it. This madness, this hubris, this elevation or heroification of the military and war has to […]