Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel was supposed to steer the Pentagon away from a decade of war, including bringing US troops home from Afghanistan and paving the way for a reduction in the Pentagon budget. Instead, the Obama administration has opted for remaining in...
Originally posted at TomDispatch.The money should stagger you. Journalist James Risen, author of Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War, a revelatory new book about the scammers, counterterrorism grifters, careerist bureaucrats, torture con artists, and...
Here is a short YouTube describing how using Bitcoin instead of fiat currency can help stop financing the War Machine as well as promoting global trade and good relations. For more information on Bitcoin, check out Roger Ver's talk on Bitcoin and how it can stop the...
Why was I reminded of Vietnam on Saturday when Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited Iraq to “get a firsthand look at the situation in Iraq, receive briefings, and get better sense of how the campaign is progressing” against the Islamic...
The US war against ISIS couldn't be going much worse. ISIS continues to gain in Iraq, despite soaring US ground deployments into the nation, and the Syria air war has backfired so bad its wiped out most of the US allies, and brought al-Qaeda, once an ISIS rival, into...
How the U.S. Department of Justice Makes Murder Respectable, Kills the Innocent and Jails their DefendersPolitical language can be used, George Orwell said in 1946, “to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure...
President Obama has ordered 1500 more troops to Iraq, doubling down on the U.S. presence already there. And while the question of the constitutionality of this move in the absence of a war declaration is an important one, Ron Paul reminds us that the question of the...
It was a great video. It shows the young boy, about 8 years old, weave his way down a dusty street, dodging bullets to reach a terrified girl cowering behind a car. The boy even plays dead at one point to deceive the sharpshooters, who miss hitting both children as...
Maggie Thatcher may have been a staunch Cold Warrior, but she wasn't too thrilled about Ronald Reagan's invasion of the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada, where ultra-leftists had assassinated the pro-Cuban leader, Maurice Bishop. After all, Grenada, in spite of its...
Antiwar.com editorial director Justin Raimondo spoke with Rare’s Kurt Wallace about Rand Paul and the prospects for war and peace in electoral politics. The 11-minute audio interview and transcript are available here.
