Trump Signs Sanctions Bill – Another Deep State Victory
August 2, 2017
With the new Russia sanctions bill passed and signed into law, President Trump’s room to improve relations with Russia is nearly non-existent. He will not be able to remove the sanctions without permission from Congress, and that is unlikely to come. This is exactly what the deep state desires. Official enemies, to keep the money […]
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Rep. John Duncan, Conservative Peace Proponent, Will Not Seek Reelection to US House
August 2, 2017
Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN) announced on Monday that he will not seek reelection in 2018 to the United States House of Representatives. In addition to being one of the longest-serving Republican members of the House (representing the second district of Tennessee since 1988), Duncan, who argues that being antiwar is a conservative position, […]
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Col. Douglas MacGregor on an America First Foreign Policy
August 1, 2017
Col. Douglas MacGregor on Tucker Carlson tonight. Let’s hope he replaces one of the NSC likely to be fired soon.
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Trump’s US National Security Strategy – New Wine In Old Bottles?
August 1, 2017
In a recent interview, Sebastian Gorka, an aide to President Trump, denounced “stale thinking” on national security policy over the past 30 years. He said that the White House was working on a new National Security Strategy for the United States that would reject the old “extremes” of neoconservative interventionism on one hand and libertarian […]
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William Astore Asks: Who Needs a Military Coup?
August 1, 2017
With the swearing in of John Kelly as White House Chief of Staff, a retired four-star Marine general now controls the White House. Another retired four-star Marine general, James Mattis, controls the Department of Defense (DoD) and much of the National Security State. Meanwhile, a serving three-star Army general, H.R. McMaster, controls the National Security […]
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Ron Paul on Real Bipartisanship: Republicans and Democrats Unite for New Cold War
July 31, 2017
Donald Trump claimed that he wanted a different foreign policy, but then he went and hired neocons for the State Department, Pentagon, White House, and so on. In the meantime, both Republicans and Democrats have found something to agree on: a new Cold War with Russia. Is it just impossible to change our foreign policy? […]
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Libya Report: New Wrinkle in US Plan for Gaddafi-Free Libya
July 28, 2017
Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar, head of the Libyan National Army, has stated that former Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi’s son, Saif Islam, "is free and in a safe place." Haftar further said he welcomed the idea of the younger Gaddafi playing some sort of political role in Libya’s future. In an interview (Arabic) with Al-Hayat newspaper, […]
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William Astore on Collateral Damage: A Terrifying Euphemism
July 28, 2017
The term “collateral damage” is a terrifying euphemism. The U.S. military didn’t invent it, but it sure has embraced it. The dictionary definition is “unintended civilian casualties or damage in a war,” which is about as anodyne a description as one could imagine. In common usage, “collateral” is something we put up to secure a […]
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Peter Van Buren: Drinking Rum Until I Understand the Cuban Embargo
July 27, 2017
It was easier for me to pass through Cuban customs and immigration than it was for me to come home to the U.S. “Be sure to try our rum while you’re here!” said the Cuban official. “You’ll need to pay duty on that rum,” grumped the American official a week later, after the retinal scan, […]
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Israel Anti-Boycott Act – An Attack on Free Speech
July 25, 2017
A widely-supported bill in the House and Senate would make it a felony to support or endorse efforts to boycott the state of Israel over its policies toward the Palestinians. Conviction could result in a maximum $250,000 civil fine plus a $1,000,000 criminal fine and 20 years in prison. Regardless of one’s views of the […]
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