Ron Paul: Trump Bumbling Into Unnecessary War With North Korea
September 4, 2017
President Trump’s Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, told the UN Security Council today that North Korea was “begging” for a war with the US. Apparently to Haley and the rest of the neocons, if you don’t do exactly what Washington demands you are “begging for war.” Will the president be manipulated into a catastrophic […]
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Ken Burns and the Vietnam War: Ten Items To Watch For
September 4, 2017
In two weeks (Sept. 17), a new TV documentary series on the Vietnam War by Ken Burns (famous for past series on the U.S. Civil War, Baseball, and Jazz, among others) and Lynn Novick is coming to PBS. Airing in ten parts over 18 hours, the series promises a comprehensive look at the war from […]
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Seymour Hersh Honored for Integrity
September 1, 2017
Journalist Seymour Hersh is to be honored with this year’s Sam Adams Award for Integrity to be presented to him at the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) award ceremony on the evening of Sept. 22 at American University. Sam Adams Associates, who selected Hersh last month from a truly impressive roster of […]
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Ron Paul asks: Is a Militarized Police the Answer to Inner City Turmoil?
August 30, 2017
On Monday, President Trump announced he was issuing an executive order to reinstate the transfer of military weapons and equipment to local police forces. A partial ban had been put in place late in the Obama Administration. The weapons transfer program has a long history in the drug war but even 25 years later it […]
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With the Pentagon, Trump Has Morphed Into Hillary Clinton
August 30, 2017
Candidate Trump occasionally said unconventional things about the Pentagon and America’s wars. He attacked the Pentagon for wasteful spending; cost overruns on the F-35 jet fighter were a favorite target. He attacked the Iraq and Afghan wars as wasteful, asserting they’d cost trillions of dollars without aiding the U.S. in any measurable way. He argued […]
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Rep. Thomas Massie Talks to John Stossel About the Failed US War in Afghanistan
August 29, 2017
At Reason today: Donald Trump’s “idiotic plan” to double down on the war in Afghanistan delighted establishment journalists. Congressman Thomas Massie (R-Ky) talked with John Stossel about this colossal failure.
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Scott Horton’s Fool’s Errand on Kindle!
August 28, 2017
Scott Horton’s new book Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan is now out in Kindle format. The book has been endorsed by Daniel Ellsberg, Ron Paul, Patrick Cockburn, Eric Margolis, Anand Gopal, Daniel Davis, Matt Hoh, Lawrence Wilkerson, Gareth Porter, Stephen M. Walt and many more. KINDLE EDITION PAPERBACK FoolsErrand.us
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Blowback: Israel Threatens Syria Over Iran
August 25, 2017
US and allied interventionism in Iraq and Syria has not produced the promised results. An Iraq government close to Iran, a Syria saved from a jihadist takeover by Russia and Iran, and so on. Israel was firmly aboard the “regime change” train but suddenly sees the shake-out not looking in its favor. That is the […]
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Ron Paul & Philip Giraldi: Senate Declares War on WikiLeaks
August 24, 2017
The US Senate Intelligence Committee has passed an Authorization bill that specifically targets WikiLeaks and its senior personnel as a “hostile non-state intelligence agency” that receives assistance from foreign state intelligence services. This designation would green-light all manner of US overt and covert action against the news organization and its employees, in blatant violation of […]
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#Nuclearban: How Will China Play Its Hand?
August 24, 2017
I wrote yesterday to begin a conversation about possible ways that the treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons may come to dominate the global discourse in the months ahead. An extremely important question is how China will engage with this new development. People frequently assume that China is a country trying to catch up with and surpass […]
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