Israel began an unprovoked and illegal war with Iran on 13 June 2025. This was while Iran and the United States were negotiating a new nuclear deal and were supposed to meet on Sunday 15 June. In its latest report, just about two weeks ago, the International Atomic...
Debate: No, America Should Not Export Freedom Abroad
The following is adapted from Antiwar.com editorial director Scott Horon’s statements in debate with Chinese exile Wang Dan on June 12 at Freedom Fest in Palm Springs, California "In order to preserve freedom at home, America must make an effort to export it abroad."...
Israel’s Strikes on Iran Spark Growing Dissent in Congress
On Monday, June 16, Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) introduced legislation, a War Powers Resolution, to prevent President Trump from using military force against Iran without Congressional authorization. This will force all Senators to go on record supporting or opposing the...
Great Big Ugly Surveillance State
On March 20, President Trump signed an executive order “Eliminating Information Silos.” The order directed heads of federal agencies to make sure officials designated by the president “have full and prompt access to all unclassified agency records, data, software...
America’s Deception Strengthens Iranian Hardliners
“I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal. I told them, in the strongest of words, to ‘just do it,’ but no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, they just couldn’t get it done…. Certain Iranian hardliner’s spoke bravely, but they didn’t know...
America First – We Hardly Knew Ye
The Donald called Fed Chairman Powell a “numbskull” last week and deservedly so. But to paraphrase an old adage, when the cap fits said numbskulls tend to wear it themselves. Surely, that’s where we are this morning upon Israel’s reprehensible attack on Iran’s...
The Global Garrison State: How US Militarism Is Built Into Its DNA
In Why America Can't Retrench (And How It Might), Peter Harris suggests that America’s worldwide posture is less a strategic choice than a default ingrained in its DNA, where an imperial presidency, a sprawling military-industrial complex, and a political culture...
Democracy in Georgia Is Under Threat by the US Congress and the Helsinki Commission
Tbilisi – It was Lincoln who once said “I would like to see someone proud of the place in which they live.” The 16th president never made it to the South Caucasus, but here reside a people quite justly proud of the place in which they live. Among the most striking...
More ‘Wet Work’ From ‘Democratic’ Ukraine?
Yet another former official in the government of Viktor Yanukovvch, the pro-Russia political leader who served as Ukraine’s elected president from 2010 until his ouster in Western-backed demonstrations in 2014, has been assassinated. On May 21, 2025, multiple gunmen...
Golden Dome Idiocy
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Donald Trump has a dream: a “golden dome” over America to defend the country against nuclear missiles. It’s a repeat of Ronald Reagan’s dream, the Strategic Defense Initiative, nicknamed “Star Wars” after the...