People are by now firmly entrenched in their respective positions regarding the conflict raging in Gaza since October 7, 2023. The Hamas attacks on that day have served as the pretext for a “war” on the Palestinian people for the past seven months. The announcement...
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Did the U.S. Give the Go-Ahead to Strike Russia with Long Range Missiles?
by Ted Snider | May 22, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
There are a number of questions that could be asked about U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken singing “Rockin’ in the Free World” in a bar in Kiev. The first is regarding the appropriateness of singing a song while hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers are being wounded...
British Moralism, ‘Video Nasties,’ and Our Right to Watch Movies
by Kym Robinson | May 21, 2024 | Featured Articles
There was a time when one would have to wait for a theatrically released movie to appear on television before it could be seen again. Only certain movies would be available and then often edited for run time and censorship concerns. Then came the video tape and movie...
The Vietnamization of Ukraine
by Ron Paul | May 21, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As Ukraine’s defeat in the war moves closer, the neocons are desperate to draw the US further into the fight. Over the weekend, former U.S. State Department official Victoria Nuland told ABC News that the U.S. must help facilitate Ukrainian missile attacks deep inside...
Goodbye to Pete McCloskey, an Antiwar Hero
by Connor Freeman | May 20, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History, Politics
From Richard Nixon to the Israel lobby, the late Republican Congressman Paul Norton “Pete” McCloskey Jr. challenged the most powerful elements of the ruling class on the American people’s behalf. On September 29, 1927, McCloskey was born in San Bernardino, California....
Niger Tells Americans To Leave: American Influence in Africa will be Non-existent in Ten Years
by Bill Buppert | May 16, 2024 | Blog
More please. More State Department behavior like this will reduce the American footprint of influence planet-wide. “[Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine] said the Nigerian leaders took particular umbrage at remarks by Molly Phee, the State Department’s top...
Palestinian and Israeli Civilians Have a Mutual Interest in Peace
by Lora Karch Dulgarian | May 15, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Palestinian and Israeli civilians are uniquely brought together in their disdain and disagreement with the strategies executed in this unwanted war. The destruction caused by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the terrorist organization Hamas have each...
George Washington Warned Against A ‘Passionate Attachment’ To Israel
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | May 14, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As war rages in Gaza, the intensifying debate over the U.S.-Israel relationship spotlights a glaring political paradox: Those Americans who view George Washington with deepest reverence—that is, would-be “conservatives”—are often the ones who most zealously violate...
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KC-46A Pegasus Refueler Failure Continues
One of the components of American strategic projection has been the world's most prodigious and sophisticated aerial refueling fleet. There are currently approx 400+ KC-135s capable of refueling two receiver aircraft at the same time in the current USAF fleet. The...
No Longer Born to Kill – Anti-War Blog
Recently Amazon removed the “Born to Kill,” from Jokers helmet for the film Full Metal Jacket. The words sit alongside the peace emblem on his steel helmet and makes for an iconic film poster. So it once did. The words perhaps too violent for modern audiences...
Fiji Follies Mimic First World Navigation Problems
There are now eight (there were nine before this disaster) total patrol vessels in the navy of Fiji; this is simply negligence and lack of proper training much like the US Navy collisions in 2017. It is extraordinarily expensive to reconstitute a vessel that has...
Up in Smoke: The Other Space Race Continues
A comprehensive ban on all nuclear testing occurred in the 1990s. The Soviet Union's last nuclear test took place on 24 October 1990; the United Kingdom's on 26 November 1991 and the United States' on 23 September 1992. Advances in the ICBM arena have continued apace...
Robert Fisk – The Road to Palestine – Anti-War Blog
In Part Two of his Three part series, From Beirut to Bosnia, Robert Fisk gives detail to the tragedy of Palestine. As it was then when the series was made, 1993, the people of Palestine had already suffered tremendously. A lost people, those blamed for the crimes of...
New Book Is A Must Read For Iraq War 2 Enthusiasts
Iraq War 2 is ancient history, like Athens’ defeat at Aegospotami or the NATO-Russia Founding Act. But for some of us, it seems like only yesterday we were being lied into one of the greatest geopolitical disasters of the Western imperial order. There’s a new book...