“I Will Put an End to Endless Wars:” Is Pete Buttigieg As Antiwar As He Claims?

Pete Buttigieg has promised to “put an end to endless wars,” but there are reasons to suspect a Buttigieg presidency would not be as pacifist as his pronouncement implies.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Pete Buttigieg Feature photo

Former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg has developed a habit of putting out clever, catchy phrases as part of his bid to win the Democratic presidential nomination. On Friday he released an image of himself reading, “The shape of our democracy is the issue that affects every other issue,” something that was immediately panned by his detractors.

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Trump’s Iran Aggression Sparks Protests Across America, World

More than 70 spontaneous or hastily organized demonstrations took place across America in opposition to the Trump administration’s warlike actions against Iraq and Iran.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Anti Iran war Protest Feature photo

The weekend saw more than 70 spontaneous or hastily organized demonstrations across America in opposition to the Trump administration’s warlike actions against Iraq and Iran. On January 3, the United States carried out a drone strike in Baghdad that killed Major General Qasem Soleimani of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Soleimani was

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Mass Psychosis and the Church of Humanitarian Interventionism

Like the proverbial general always fighting the last war, liberals remain trapped in the past, unable to adapt to rapidly unfolding kinetic developments. The problem is that not only is this general fighting the last war, but the general can no longer distinguish between right and left and has lost any semblance of a moral compass.

David Penner
By David Penner
American Flag

Ask any American liberal aged sixty-five and older what they think about Franco, Mussolini, or Hitler and they will vehemently denounce these men as tyrants, murderers, and despots. Ask them what they think about the Vietnam War and they will say it was a tragedy, not only for the Vietnamese, but for the poor American soldiers who were drafted and

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Oppose Nuclear Weapons? You Might Be a Kremlin Tool, Says Prominent Congressman

Mac Thornberry (R-TX), who received more money from the defense industry than any of his peers in 2016, claims antiwar groups may be Russian plants aiming to undermine US military capability.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, listens to testimony from U.S. Pacific Command Commander Adm. Harry Harris, Jr. during his committee's hearing on North Korea, Wednesday, April 26, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

WASHINGTON – In February, the Pentagon released a new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), the first in eight years, calling for the modernization of the country’s aging nuclear arsenal, a key part of President Donald Trump’s plan to strengthen and expand the U.S. military. The 2018 NPR calls for the government to spend an estimated $1.2 trillion dollars

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‘Mother Jones’ Senior Reporter Asks Medium To Silence Antiwar Leftists

In a corporatist system of government, where corporate power is not separated in any meaningful way from government power, corporate censorship is government censorship. 

Caitlin Johnstone
By Caitlin Johnstone
Internet Censorship

Opinion -- When news first broke that Medium, one of my primary blogging platforms, had closed the accounts of Trump-supporting pundits Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec and Laura Loomer, I tweeted the following in response: https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/966425245467869184 Hours later, right on cue, prominent Mother Jones Senior Reporter

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VIDEO: Iraq War Veteran, Outspoken War Critic Tomas Young Dead at 34

Young enlisted in the Army following the September 11 attacks, volunteering to go to Afghanistan. He was the subject of the documentary Body of War.

Andrea Germanos
By Andrea Germanos

Iraq war veteran and outspoken Iraq war critic Tomas Young has died at the age of 34. Democracy Now! reported his death Monday, the eve of Veterans Day. Young enlisted in the Army following the September 11 attacks, volunteering to go to Afghanistan. He was sent to Iraq, and was left paralyzed by a bullet on the fifth day of his deployment.

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