Saudi Massacre in Yemen Worse Than Estimated. Will Congress Finally Speak Up?
October 30, 2018
According to a new study by the University of Sussex, the 10,000 civilian dead in the Yemen war is hugely understated. The actual number of civilians killed since the Saudi attacks started in 2015 may be as high as 80,000. And on top of that, 50,000 children die each year from preventable illnesses related to […]
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Canada Seems To Prefer State of ‘War’ in Korea
October 30, 2018
It may surprise some that a Canadian general is undercutting inter-Korean rapprochement while Global Affairs Canada seeks to maintain its 70-year old war footing, but that is what the Liberal government is doing. At the start of the month Canadian Lieutenant General Wayne Eyre told a Washington audience that the North Koreans were "experts at […]
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Rep. John Duncan on Becoming an Antiwar Republican
October 25, 2018
Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN), who will retire in January after 30 years in the United States House of Representatives, is the subject of a new biographical feature article at the Knoxville News Sentinel. Included with the article is video of an interview with Duncan in which he describes how he developed “into sort […]
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Virginians Oppose Taxpayer Subsidies for Israeli Business Projects
October 24, 2018
A plurality of Virginians (38.1%) favor ending taxpayer funding for Israeli business ventures in the commonwealth according to a Virginia Coalition for Human Rights (VCHR) poll fielded by Google Surveys. 32.7% of Virginians were neutral about discontinuing subsidies, while 29.2% disagreed. The representative September 22 to October 4 poll of 2,110 Virginians is available online […]
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Saudi Coalition Massacre Kills 21 at a Market in Yemen
October 24, 2018
Originally appeared on The American Conservative. The Saudi coalition bombed a vegetable market near Hodeidah earlier today and killed at least 21 people: Death toll rises to 21 people and 10 others wounded in a masscare committed today by Saudi airstrikes on a local market in al-Masoudi area of Bait al-Faqieh district in #Hodeidah. #Yemen […]
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Business as Usual’: US Desperate To Cover-Up Khoshoggi Murder
October 24, 2018
Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman is key to the Middle East strategy of both the US and Israel. Keeping focus on regime change for Iran is the main goal of all three countries. That is why we are seeing a push to cover-up the likely complicity of MbS in the crime and instead blame […]
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Ron Paul asks: Will US Military Confront Migrants at Border?
October 23, 2018
The media reports that some 14,000 people are marching from Honduras through Guatemala through Mexico to the US. They are supposed to arrive just in time for the US election in early November. Is this a political stunt? A genuine mass migration? What are the factors that may have led to such an event and […]
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William J. Astore on A Perpetual War Machine
October 23, 2018
Scientists tell us a perpetual motion machine is impossible (that pesky 2nd law of thermodynamics about entropy), but America’s leaders are proving a perpetual war machine is quite possible, as events in Afghanistan prove. The USA is now entering the 18th year of its Afghan war, with regress rather than progress being the reality of […]
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Bonanza for Weapons Industry: Trump Withdraws From Reagan/Gorbachev Nuke Treaty
October 22, 2018
President Trump signaled over the weekend that he would withdraw from the 1987 INF nuclear treaty which prohibited missiles and missile launchers with a range from 500KM to 5,000KM. Is leaving the treaty in the US interest, as Trump claims? Who’s cheating? What are the real reasons Trump’s getting out? China? On today’s Ron Paul […]
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Quitting the INF Treaty Is a Serious Mistake
October 22, 2018
Originally appeared on The American Conservative. The Trump administration is preparing to quit the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty thanks to the arms control-hating John Bolton: The Trump administration has told U.S. allies that it wants to withdraw from the landmark Reagan-era Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, or INF, and plans to inform Russian leaders of […]
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