Court: FBI Must Destroy Memos Calling Antiwar.com a Threat
September 12, 2019
In a major victory for Antiwar.com, free speech and journalism, a federal appeals court has ruled that the FBI must expunge surveillance memos that agents had drafted about the website’s co-founders Eric Garris and Justin Raimondo in the early years following the 9/11 attacks. “It’s been a long fight and I’m glad we had an […]
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Will Another John Bolton Replace John Bolton?
September 11, 2019
Bolton may be gone, but Boltonism lives on. Those believing that the end of Bolton would signal a return to the foreign policy of candidate Donald Trump, however, may be disappointed. President Trump has appointed Charles Kupperman to temporary fill in for John Bolton as National Security Advisor. Kupperman is one of Bolton’s closest friends […]
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Good Riddance, John Bolton
September 10, 2019
Originally appeared at The American Conservative. Curt Mills’ reporting told us it was coming yesterday, and today Trump has finally fired Bolton: Mr. Trump announced the decision on Twitter. “I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House. I disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as […]
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The Genocide Called World War I (video)
September 10, 2019
Books and movies about World War I are not popular because they are depressing. Leaders of world’s great nations destroyed a generation of men in pointless bloody battles. Few Americans realize that World War I was America’s worst foreign policy blunder. Bankers had loaned Great Britain and France more money than they could ever repay. […]
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William J. Astore on James Mattis, the General Who Couldn’t
September 10, 2019
James Mattis is making the talk show rounds, promoting his new book, “Call Sign Chaos.” Interestingly, while openly critical of President George W. Bush for being unprepared for the Iraq War, and President Barack Obama for lacking a strategy and being too soft toward enemies like Iran, Mattis is remarkably circumspect about his service as […]
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Daniel McAdams Explains How Twitter Banned Him for Life
September 9, 2019
He appeared today on RT:
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91,600 Killed in Yemen Conflict as Congress Seeks To End US Involvement in the War in Yemen
September 9, 2019
The death toll in Yemen has reached over 91,600 according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). The ACLED records that 4,500 direct civilian targeting events resulted in 11,700 recorded civilian fatalities since the US-Saudi led coalition invaded Yemen in 2015. Around 67% of all reported civilian fatalities since 2015 have been […]
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Ron Paul: Bolton and Pompeo Beat Down Trump’s Afghan Peace Deal
September 9, 2019
Snatching war from the jaws of peace, the long-worked on peace deal negotiated between the US and Taliban leaders has apparently been tossed into the trash can and the US will return to its 18 year losing battle in Afghanistan. The deal’s demise was blamed on an apparent Taliban car bomb, but there may be […]
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Trump’s Afghanistan Debacle
September 9, 2019
Originally appeared at The American Conservative. Trump’s abrupt announcement over the weekend that he was canceling a meeting with Taliban leaders at Camp David has displayed much of what is wrong with the president’s handling of foreign policy: What would have been one of the biggest headline-grabbing moments of his tenure was put together on […]
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Living by Example: 70 Years of Peaceful Resistance
September 6, 2019
Despite an early chivalrous ring, World War I was not “the war to end all wars,” it was a harbinger. Western civilization emerged from the ruins of the “Great War” more belligerent than ever before, now for the sake of prognostications by so-called experts or in pursuit of "humanitarian" ends. The War to End War […]
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