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President Trump's dropping of the "Mother of All Bombs" in Afghanistan is just the latest example of how the US war machine is delivering a scorched earth to those "liberated" by the US military. Already the environmental and health damage from that
The US and NATO operate the largest military infrastructure in Africa with thirty-four bases (some secret) and thirty new US military or NATO construction projects underway in Africa spanning four countries...
Meanwhile, her fellow Democrats appear abysmally unconcerned about the human and financial toll...
Intelligence documents reveal how Tehran took advantage of US blundering
...the original foreign policy of the United States was one of non-intervention in the affairs of other nations. No coups, foreign wars of aggression, foreign aid, state-sponsored assassinations, alliances with foreign regimes, or regime-change opera
anti-war -- There's nothing to give thanks for in Occupied Palestine and US war theaters -- deaths, destruction and appalling human suffering a daily fact of life because of its imperial rage to dominate.
In a rare moment with MSNBC's Chris Matthews, Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard explained why the leading figures in her party are war hawks
The public praise and phone call between Trump and the former CIA-backed warlord was a shock at the time given the US has maintained a policy of only recognizing the GNA in line with UN allies.
Is foreign policy the main issue for voters heading into 2020? For the Democratic base, the top priority is ousting President Donald Trump by any means necessary, even if that is casting a ballot for a far-left candidate
This is the second installment of Ron Unz's long report on the emergent truth about World War II. (http://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-understanding-world-war-ii/) Unz has a facility for summarizing vast works of scholarship into their essentia
"The Lies About World War II" (https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/05/13/the-lies-about-world-war-ii/) is my most popular column of the year. It is a book review of David Irving's Hitler's War and Churchill's War, the first volumn of Irvi
"I was not involved in the September 11 attacks in the United States nor did I have knowledge of the attacks. There exists a government within a government within the United States. The United States should try to trace the perpetrators of these at
Ivan Eland (Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace and Liberty at The Independent Institute) on ISIS, Syria, Turkey, Russia, Trump - Freedom's Phoenix headline and top tech news on Freedom's Phoenix...
Scott Horton (Scott Horton Show; Author) does a podcast with Ernest on Jacob Hornberger - Libertarian POTUS, Elections 2020, Bolivia Coup, etc...
Victor Hugo said of the devastated Balkans in the 19th century: 'The Turks have passed by here. All is in ruins or mourning.'
One of the sacred myths promulgated on Veteran's Day by U.S. officials, especially those in the deep state (i.e., the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA), is that American soldiers have fought and died for freedom.
Come you masters of war / You that build the big guns
The Associated Press has reported that Islamic Jihad militant group spokesman Musab al-Berim announced a cease-fire with Israel. Gaza and Israel have been engaged in two days of heavy fighting and countless rocket attacks.
From Serbia to Syria to Nikki Haley's explosive new book, the war party is still firmly in control in Washington. Wars and threats of wars keep increasing, ensuring a steady of wounded and broken veterans to "thank" for their "service."
I should have known better, or at least more. My grandfather was a supporter of Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan, and passed that down to me...
The President is ending wars on Twitter -- but not in the real world
I received an interesting critique of my recent article "Were the Deaths of Those Three Children Worth It?"
Brazil is caught in a "civil war" of crime and violence, the head of Congress' pro-gun faction says, warning that ordinary Brazilians need to be armed and ready to fight back.
The 20th century was the century of total war.
Here's the strange thing for the self-proclaimed greatest power in history, the very one that, in this century, has been fighting a series of unending wars across significant parts of the planet:
In typical carnival barker fashion, Donald Trump was all over the media bragging on himself for the supposed killing of so-called ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. But as with virtually everything else pertaining to America's phony "war on terror
"Intervention after intervention hasn't had the intended consequence. We've got more chaos."
Legendary founder of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Lew Rockwell, delivers a fascinating and very important talk at the 2019 RPI Summer Washington Conference: Murray Rothbard's views on the centrality of the war and peace issue to the libertarian mo
The sectarian and ethnic civil wars that have ravaged a large part of the Middle East over the past 40 years are coming to an end.