Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

July 9, 2018

Will President Trump tell his Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, to behave himself better with the North Koreans? Will he tell the Germans we’re no longer spending money defending them? US foreign policy under President Trump is hard to follow, but two opportunities for pro-America diplomacy are presenting themselves. Will he bite? Tune in to […]

Rick Sterling

July 7, 2018

Robert (Bob) Parry was born in 1949 and died suddenly from pancreatic cancer in January 2018. An enthusiastic tribute to him and his work was recently held in Berkeley California. A video of the event is online here. Although Robert Parry never became personally famous, many readers will recall news stories he played a key […]

David Gornoski

July 6, 2018

This week, the mainstream media and its social media followers found another target of wrath: former presidential candidate and Texas congressman Ron Paul. One of his staffers posted a link criticizing political correctness with a cartoon image attached that depicted ugly racial stereotypes. It was clearly insensitive and was quickly deleted with a notice of […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

July 6, 2018

The Iranian (People’s Mojahedin) MeK had been on the US terrorism list for more than 15 years…until Secretary of State Hillary Clinton decided to remove them from the list in 2012. They’ve killed plenty of Americans, including high-ranking US military officers. Now the CIA, along with neoconservatives and many US politicians, has embraced the MeK […]

Daniel Larison

July 5, 2018

Originally appeared on The American Conservative. PBS NewsHour aired the second of Jane Ferguson’s three reports on the war on Yemen earlier this week. Her first report can be found here. The second report focuses on U.S. support for the Saudi coalition: Here is the second story in our series from #Yemen that aired last […]

Daniel Larison

July 3, 2018

Originally appeared on The American Conservative. The Saudi coalition slaughtered more Yemeni wedding-goers in another massacre today: First photos of aftermath of #Saudi-led Coalition airstrike on a wedding party today in #Saada north #Yemen. New update of the casualties: 11 people were killed and 11 injured. I had to blur 2 photos of children. pic.twitter.com/Oqw73vTAAD […]

Daniel Larison

June 28, 2018

Originally appeared on The American Conservative. The Trump administration keeps desperately trying to shift the blame for the catastrophe in Yemen away from the Saudi coalition and the U.S.: #Iran’s support for Houthis in Yemen not only enables attacks on Saudi Arabia & UAE, but also risks increasing Yemen's already massive humanitarian crisis. Ayatollah Khamenei […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

June 28, 2018

President Trump has informed Washington’s allies that they must cease purchasing Iranian oil by November. He is also trying to force/intimidate European countries into joining, de facto, a return to prior US sanctions on Iran. The goal seems clear: push regime change in Iran through economic strangulation. The Europeans may well go along, but will […]

Eric Garris

June 28, 2018

Updated below I was happy to see an antiwar Democrat beat the establishment Joe Crowley in New York. I had read the following on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s website 6 weeks ago: Foreign Policy: Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the United States has entangled itself in war and occupation throughout the Middle East and North […]

Daniel Larison

June 27, 2018

Originally appeared on The American Conservative. Philip Gordon and Prem Kumar explain why Kushner’s worthless “peace plan” has no chance of winning Palestinian support: His administration has offered unconstrained support for settlements, with an ambassador who has fought against use of the word “occupation” and refers to “Judea and Samaria,” as favored by Israeli settlers, […]