Category: Anti-Imperialism/Foreign Policy

The Syria Withdrawal: Three Cheers

Scott Horton is interviewed by Tom Woods. Predictably, this is the best overview and discussion of Trump’s withdrawal from Syria so far, including a discussion of Rojava and Chomsky’s endorsement of US intervention on behalf of the Kurds. Listen here. ——————————————————————— Scott Horton joins me to discuss the […]

Godspeed William Blum

By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit William Blum, a role model, a hero, and the author of my favorite book, Killing Hope, died this past week at 85 in Arlington, VA, from complications related to kidney failure. Blum pulled zero punches when it came to his acidic criticism […]

HW: Death of a Dick

By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It seems like just last week we finally fucking buried John McCain’s stinking corpse and it’s already time for another 24/7, month long, imperial funeral marathon. Since the very second former president and well known war criminal George […]

Preston vs. Bolton

I bash John Bolton on Iranian television. US National Security Adviser, John Bolton has tough words for China: adjust your behavior in trade, international, military and political arenas or else! Bolton says President Donald Trump has pledged to ramp up his administration’s pressure on China. He says the […]

Death to America?

This is an interesting assessment of what is right and wrong with the United States from an English perspective, written in early 2016 before the election of Trump. By Sean Gabb Talking about the future is often a sure recipe for looking like a fool. However obvious it […]

Counting the Dead in Yemen

By Daniel Larison The American Conservative Kareem Fahim investigates the war on Yemen’s weirdly static official death toll of 10,000 casualties and finds that it is certainly much higher: The overall death toll may have reached alarming levels, according to one independent tally. Data collected by ACLED, a […]