"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical." ~ Thomas Jefferson, January 30, 1787 When Thomas Jefferson wrote to his friend, neighbor and...
Iraq Daily Roundup: Eight Killed
It’s Time To Talk to North Korea Again
North Korea may be preparing to conduct a new nuclear test in the near future, and if that happens there will be an outpouring of predictable hawkish demands that the United States take some punitive action in response. The Biden administration should ignore what the...
Latin America Rises: Whither the Monroe Doctrine?
Latin America is Washington’s neighborhood. With vast oceans east and west and pacific neighbors north and south, the US has been almost uniquely protected from foreign military threats. That has left America free to roam the globe, visiting death and destruction upon...
Troops on the Ground Prove Canada Is at War With Russia
Canada is at war with Russia. But the government doesn’t want to talk about it. On Saturday the New York Times reported that Canadian special forces are part of a NATO network providing weapons and training to Ukrainian forces. The elite troops are also in the country...
Washington’s Sanctions War Kneecaps the West, Not Russia
Washington’s cowardly proxy war against Russia reached a new level of absurdity over the weekend. To wit, the G-7 knuckleheads declared an embargo on imports of Russia-sourced gold and forced Russia into technical default on its foreign debts by forbidding US...
NATO and a War Foretold
As NATO holds its Summit in Madrid on June 28-30, the war in Ukraine is taking center stage. During a pre-Summit June 22 talk with Politico, NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg bragged about how well-prepared NATO was for this fight because, he said: "This...
Antiwar.com Is Knocking: If You Don’t Answer, the War Party Will Come Next
Who speaks for peace in America? Not many people in Washington. Which makes the role of Antiwar.com so important. I am approaching the end of my 42nd year in Washington. The political and international environments have never been worse. It’s the woke Left versus the...
The Importance of Colombia’s Election
Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has assumed the mantle of leader of Latin America’s struggle against US hegemony and the US’s colonial treatment of the region. He has called for "the replacement of the Organization of American States (OAS)...


