On August 16, my wife, Vickie, and I attended a conference at the Dulles Airport Hilton just outside Washington, D.C. It was titled “A Blueprint For Peace” and was hosted by the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. This institute was started by Rep. Paul at...
The Palestine Chronicle Case: When Truth Becomes the Crime
The Palestine Chronicle is not a militant organization. It is a modest, independent publication, sustained by small donations and animated by a singular mission: to bear witness. It tells the untold stories of Palestine, documenting dispossession, resistance, and the...
No Compromise on Iran and Venezuela
U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly stressed the need for both Russia and Ukraine to make difficult but reasonable compromises if progress is to be made toward peace. He has expressed hope that Russian President Vladimir Putin “will be good” and that Ukrainian...
When the Russia ‘Experts’ Get It Wrong
The Western punditariat's commentary on Russia is spectacularly ill-informed. This should be expected from mainstream journalists whose employment relies on the very ignorance they so readily espouse, but there is no excuse for those who promote themselves as...
How Western Media Helped Turn Israel’s Genocide Into ‘Fake News’
First published by Middle East Eye Israel’s justification for the mass slaughter of Gaza’s people and their starvation - now officially confirmed as a famine engineered by Israel - was built on a parade of easily discredited lies from the start: of beheaded infants,...
‘Russiagate’ and the Anchorage Meeting
Reprinted from the American Committee for US-Russia Accord with permission. Most commentators are reporting accurately that President Trump abandoned his previous demand that a cease-fire in Ukraine precede negotiations. He clearly did despite his earlier comments –...
President Trump Should Return to an ‘America First’ Foreign Policy
After four years of unnecessarily confrontational foreign policy under President Biden, Americans elected Donald Trump in part for his promise to put America first at home and overseas. He promised a war-weary America that he would start no new wars and would get us...
DNC Leaders Are Pretending That US Weapons Don’t Enable the Slaughter in Gaza
This week will go down in history as a time when the governing body of the Democratic Party had a chance to oppose the U.S. government’s arming of Israel. But with the first Democratic National Committee meeting in seven months getting underway on Monday, the DNC’s...
The War on Truth: Why Are Palestinian Journalists Being Systematically Erased?
The killing of seven Palestinian journalists and media workers in Gaza on August 10 has prompted verbal condemnations, yet has inspired little to no substantive action. This has become the predictable and horrifying trajectory of the international community's response...
Russia and China Are Not Threats to the US
This article is a continuation of "A Nobel for the Donald?" To repeat: the geopolitical equivalent of a tree is about ready to fall unheard in the global forest. Once the Trump/Putin peace deal is inked, not one element of the neocons’ scary bedtime stories about...


