Retired Lt. Col. Daniel Davis shares his thoughts on escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine and what an increased presence of troops at the border means for the United States.
By Caitlin Johnstone We survived the nuclear horror of the cold war only to see our rulers turn around and start another one for no legitimate reason, this time against two nations simultaneously. And almost no one objected. The first cold war was colored by a healthy fear […]
A debate between Alfred McCoy and Peter Zeihan on China, or between McCoy and Bjorn Lomborg on the climate, would be interesting. On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the decline of the American empire and the new global order with Professor Alfred McCoy, who holds the Harrington Chair […]
An interesting new book coming out soon. By Jonathan M. Katz A groundbreaking journey tracing America’s forgotten path to global power―and how its legacies shape our world today―told through the extraordinary life of a complicated Marine. Smedley Butler was the most celebrated warfighter of his time. Bestselling books […]
“Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the US media” – Chomsky
Get ready for the media backlash, for him being weak on national security.
By Michael T. Klare, The Nation What’s happening between China and Taiwan should put those of us who fear a major outbreak of war on high alert. When the Department of Defense released its annual report on Chinese military strength in early November, one claim generated headlines around […]
Elise Swain, photo editor at The Intercept, discusses the detainment of Abdulqadir Al Madhfari first by the United States, then by the United Arab Emirates.
Historian Andres Pertierra explains the origins of current protests in Cuba
Ryan Grim makes the case against further U.S. intelligence intervention in Latin America.
By Jeremy Scahill, The Intercept AFTER TWO DECADES of unceasing warfare in the Middle East and Central Asia, the Biden administration has unveiled its first comprehensive review of the deployment of U.S. forces globally — and it envisions a virtually unchanged military footprint, with a sharpened commitment to the bipartisan policy […]
By Ryan Cooper The Week Our infamous drone war has largely faded from the headlines. Aside from one strike that went horribly wrong during the U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan, there has been vanishingly little coverage of what’s going on with the signature American tactic of the war […]
Ryan Grim explains Chile’s political history, and what it means for their ongoing presidential election.
The contents of this podcast more or less confirm my suspicion that “national conservatism” is just the latest neocon front movement (if more confirmation was needed). The neocon/supply-sider/Reaganite alliance is using “national conservatism” (and its assorted collection of dupes) as a means of making a comeback. It is […]
By Geoff Lamear, The American Conservative American neutrality in the Middle East would serve U.S. interests and make the region more stable. In response to the proposed sale of U.S. missiles to Saudi Arabia, Senators Rand Paul and Bernie Sanders are leading a bipartisan effort to oppose the sale. […]
Ryan Grim details Jared Kushner’s attempts to re-enter Middle East politics and finance.
By Joel Mathis The Week President Biden won’t be the leader who rethinks the wisdom of America’s global military footprint. The Pentagon announced Monday it had exhaustively reviewed all U.S. military deployments around the world — roughly 170,000 individuals in more than 150 countries — and decided its previous decisions […]
Dr. Trita Parsi makes his predictions for the upcoming JCPOA negotiations in Vienna.
From 2019. Apparently, this Sohrab Ahmari who is one of the intellectual leaders of this “national conservatism” thing is a full-blown Pahlavist as I suspected. By Sohrab Ahmari New York Post The measure of a successful Iranian dynasty has always been simple: For 2½ millennia, Iranians have judged […]
By Andrew Sullivan, Weekly Dish I’ll try not to take David Frum’s new piece on the Russia-Trump connection too personally, especially now that I’ve spent the week off-Twitter, chilling in the English countryside where I grew up, and generally unwinding with my family. And this isn’t a full-on […]
This is an interesting conversation.
By Alice Speri, The Intercept In a civil lawsuit, the court found that the paramilitaries operated in a “symbiotic relationship” with U.S.-funded Colombian forces. Carlos Mario Jiménez Naranjo, a Colombian paramilitary commander best known as “Macaco,” was responsible for the massacre of hundreds of people between the late 1980s […]
This is rather extraordinary. The neocons are attempting to co-opt anti-imperialism by bending it toward American unilateralism, and weaponizing anti-imperialism in a rhetorical battle against China. Any tendency that embraces Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley is nowhere near being “anti-imperialist.” This is the neocon playbook being […]
By Jeremy Scahill, The Interception ANY DEMOCRATS, LIBERALS, traditional conservatives, and even some leftists continue to tell themselves that the election of Joe Biden was the first step toward restoring U.S. standing in the world after the damage caused by Donald Trump. And in a variety of ways — […]
Let’s see if anything comes of this. Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss Senator Rand Paul’s planned motion to stop the Biden administration’s first major missile sale to Saudi Arabia.
That’s not ignorance, it’s not even “just a lie”, it is regimen PR/Propaganda
America cares about human rights as much as Hannibal Lector does.
The Week Staff China already has the world’s largest fighting force. Now Beijing is pouring resources into its nuclear arsenal. China is testing hypersonic missiles and building new nuclear missile silos. What are its goals? Here’s everything you need to know: What has China been doing? Already in […]
Murtaza Hussain, national security reporter at The Intercept, details the troubling reality behind U.S. overseas airstrikes and civilian deaths.
Krystal lays out how the Pentagon covered up a mass atrocity that resulted from a drone strike in Syria where civilians were killed back in 2019
Krystal and Saagar are joined by journalist Ken Klippenstein to understand how the Saudi Arabian regime is punishing the US by limited the global supply of oil and raising gas prices for Americans
By Tom Engelhardt, The Nation It sure has been a disaster. On February 17, 1941, less than 10 months before the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor and the United States found itself in a global war, Henry Luce, in an editorial in Life magazine (which he founded along with […]
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss new reporting that Israel is using smartphone facial recognition technology to scan Palestinians’ faces, as well as the LA Teachers Union’s BDS vote that never happened.
Retired Lt. Col. Daniel Davis discusses the latest updates out of Afghanistan on the first Veterans Day since the U.S. withdrawal.
Ryan Grim breaks down the history behind the current surge in gas prices.
Al-Jazeera Pentagon says enabling kingdom to buy US-made, air-to-air missiles would ‘improve the security of a friendly country’. The United States has approved a $650m sale of air-to-air missiles to Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon announced, in what would be the Biden administration’s first major weapons deal with the […]
Krystal and Saagar discuss the comments made by former president Trump about the influence of Israel over congress in a bizarre radio interview he had recently
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to news that a Pentagon watchdog failed to find misconduct in the August drone strike that killed an Afghan family.
The usual “we have investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong” line. By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An independent Pentagon review has concluded that the U.S. drone strike that killed innocent Kabul civilians and children in the final days of the Afghanistan war […]
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-Harris poll reveals that only 29% of voters approve of how the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan was executed.
By Peter Van Buren, The American Conservative The United States and China will not go to war in our time over Taiwan. China is not engaging in provocative actions leading toward an invasion. So why the fuss? Part One of this essay covered why China has nothing to […]
Al-Jazeera Majid Khan details being waterboarded, sexually and physically assaulted at CIA black sites during sentencing hearing. A detainee held at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre has offered the first public account in a United States court of torture at a CIA clandestine facility during Washington’s decades-long so-called […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley America likes to think of itself like Van Helsing in a world full of monsters; a rogue vigilante republic cursed with the responsibility to protect the weak and the downtrodden from the forces of evil with it’s superpowers. […]
Given by James Kreindler ’77, Partner, Kreindler & Kreindler LLP. Currently, Mr. Kreindler is the co-chair of the Plaintiff’s Committee in the 9/11 Litigation on behalf of the 9/11 families to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for its role in the 9/11 attacks. The lawsuit alleges that members of […]
By Declan Walsh, Eric Schmitt and Julian E. Barnes New York Times MOGADISHU, Somalia — The C.I.A. convoy rolled out of Mogadishu in the dead of night, headed south along a crumbling ocean road that led deep into territory controlled by Al Shabab, one of Africa’s deadliest militant groups. […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to news that Raytheon lost $75M in sales as a result of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
By Adaku Jane Echendu The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction poses serious concerns for global peace and security. There are growing concerns over the manner chemical weapons are being deployed in conflicts like in Syria where it has been used persistently (Koblentz, 2019). It has also been […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss a new op-ed from former CIA officers that calls for an investigation into ‘Havana syndrome’ at the Hague.
An unpopular opinion. Tankies are just the Eastern world’s version of Republicans. I agree with most tankie criticisms of Western imperialism, even if their own perspective is horrid. Western “anti-imperialism” seems to come in three basic forms: -Conservative anti-imperialism (e.g. Pat Buchanan), which argues that empire-building is impractical, […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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