The Senate passed the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) 83-11, sending it to President Biden for signing. Congress viewed Biden’s $813 billion too skimpy so they tacked on $45 billion in goodies to ravenous US defense contractors, an 8% increase...

Say it ain’t so, Joe.Yesterday, the President signaled to Sen. Bernie Sanders to pull his Yemen War Powers Resolution from a vote. The measure, if passed, would require the US to end its 7 year support of Saudi Arabia’s vicious war in Yemen that has killed...

The Senate is near a vote to end US participation in Saudi Arabia’s grotesque war in Yemen. Over half a million dead since the Saudis intervened in early 2015 to return the pro-Saudi, Yemen government to power in the Yemen civil war from a year earlier.Regarding...

Reading the Chicago Tribune’s November 21st editorial ‘Memo to the new Congress: Ukraine needs your help, not your grandstanding’, one might surmise Ukraine is winning the Russo-Ukraine war. As proof the Trib offers “Ukraine just carried out one of the most...

One would think George W. Bush, having gotten hundreds of thousands of Afghans and Iraqis killed in his 2001 and 2003 criminal wars there, would exit the perpetual war arena. But this week he’s back at it, meeting with Ukraine Zelensky at the George W. Bush...

After an errant Ukraine defense missile killed 2 in neighboring Poland, Ukraine's unhinged President Zelensky said this to the world Tuesday. “Hitting NATO territory with missiles. … This is a Russian missile attack on collective security! This is a really significant...

Reports by both Poland and the US indicate the missile strike that killed 2 in Poland was likely an errant Ukraine missile fired to intercept a Russian missile over Ukraine.Both US President Biden and Polish President Andrzej Duda spoke cautiously regarding a...

Daniel DePetris, fellow at national security think tank Defense Priorities, in his November 7 Chicago Tribune op-ed, “Despite Russia’s abhorrent actions, the US has to take a thoughtful path toward resolution,” took nearly a thousand words to admit...

Storer Rowley, former foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, gets a lot wrong on his Trib op-ed “America must stand firm against Russia. This is no time to go wobbly.”He’s right to call Russia’s war brutal and criminal. But calling it...

President Biden’s proxy war against Russia, using US firepower to shed endless Ukraine blood, remains an unrelenting catastrophe for over 8 months.Tens of thousands of Ukrainians are dead or wounded. Millions have fled to safer climes. Ukraine has ceased to...