Rand Paul’s Munich

If you read the letter circulated by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), and signed by forty-seven GOP Senators, addressed to "the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran," what's striking is its condescending tone: "It has come to our attention while...

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‘F—k the EU,’ Revisited

When Victoria Nuland, the neoconservative éminence grise of the Obama administration, uttered her now infamous "F—k the EU!" in a phone call with US ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, it was a supremely embarrassing moment for Washington. Aside...

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ISIS in Ukraine

While we’re fighting the Islamic State, a.k.a. ISIS, in Iraq and Syria, and American officials tout the alleged danger of an attack on the US homeland, in Ukraine Washington and the Caliphate are fighting on the same side. A remarkable series of articles by Marcin...

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Bibi Wants War

Here is the one big takeaway from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to a joint session of Congress: "I can guarantee you this, the days when the Jewish people remained passive in the face of genocidal enemies, those days are over. "We are no...

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Who Killed Boris Nemtsov?

Practically no one in the West doubts the murder of once-rising reform politician Boris Nemtsov was the work of Vladimir Putin, and/or his allies in government. If Putin didn't give the direct order, the pundits say, the Russian leader created the "atmosphere of...

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An Appeal to My Readers

Amid all the propaganda masquerading as "news" about our endless "war on terrorism," what's interesting is that the most recent interventionist blitz over ISIS, or the self-proclaimed "Islamic State," has had a surprisingly minimal...

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War Party Is Ready for 2016

Walter B. Jones is seventy-two years old, but the feisty Republican congressman representing North Carolina's third congressional district has no plans to retire. Asked by Roll Call if he's going to be running again, he answered "Absolutely!" and said...

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Bibi Netanyahu, Ingrate

With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tanking in the polls, and the election fast approaching, he and his right-wing Likud party are taking desperate measures to shore up their flagging support. Their campaign is imperiled by Bibi's underhanded tactics in...

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‘Holy Schnikes,’ It’s Jeb Bush!

You could hear the air in the inflated balloon of Jeb Bush's presidential campaign leak out rather noisily as he made his debut foreign policy speech at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. As Dana Milbank ruthlessly pointed out in the Washington Post, the speech...

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Happy Kosovo Independence Day?

Kosovars are celebrating the seventh anniversary of Kosovo's independence – by leaving in record numbers. By some estimates as many as 100,000 have fled the country in the past few months. Germany is dispatching policemen to the Hungary-Serbia border to stem the...

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