Last week, I was pleased to once again participate in a meeting with one of my U.S. Senators, Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), a consistent leader for peace, justice, and human rights in Congress, and especia...

Reprinted from John's Substack: On 18 September 2026, I was on the “Deep Dive” with Lt. Col. (ret.) Danny Davis talking about the futility of the various strategies the Trump administration is employi...

This weekend marked the two-year anniversary of the Israeli killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. He was killed in an Israeli attack during the previous Israeli war on Lebanon, a fact which is...

On Saturday, Israeli officials reported that Hezbollah carried out an explosive drone attack against their troops. Notably, the drone was described by the IDF as having been “launched toward” their tr...

From John Mearsheimer’s new YouTube channel: Iuliia Mendel, who served as President Zelensky’s press secretary from 2019 to 2021, published an article in The Spectator on September 15, 2026, titled “Z...

MP Mohammad Raad, the head of Hezbollah’s political wing, has given a new interview with al-Modon in which he set out “red lines” related to ways in which Hezbollah would agree to enter into talks on ...

Reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack. Just a few thoughts on the three-hour indirect meeting yesterday at the UN between US and Iranian officials, facilitated by the indefatigable Qat...

On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: A new Economist/YouGov poll shows that the majority of Americans agree with Rep. Thomas Massie that Defense (or "War") Secretary Pete Hegseth should be impeached. E...

Israel already started this current invasion of Lebanon with five ready-made occupation bases. Israel had seized the sites during their last invasion in 2024, and were continuing to expand and fortify...

Israeli forces were active overnight, with the number of airstrikes and artillery strikes against southern Lebanon substantially higher than it has been in recent weeks, raising concern that the war i...

On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Following up with the US government's policy of providing Israel with a qualitative and quantitative military advantage in the Middle East, Israel is demanding comp...

Reprinted from John's Substack: On the morning of 20 September 2026 — Chicago time — I was on “Switzerland” talking with Tom Switzer about what appeared to be an imminent US attack against the Houthis...

In December of 2024, immediately following the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Israel invaded southwest Syria, and occupied a substantial swathe of land including the UNDOF demilitarized z...

Israel deliberately attacking healthcare workers has been a recurring theme throughout their ongoing invasion of Lebanon, and this weekend was no different, with multiple incidents of Israeli attacks ...

From John Mearsheimer’s new YouTube channel: I recently spent 8 days in Russia – September 5-12, 2026 – mainly in Moscow and St. Petersburg. I gave a series of talks and interviews and spoke with nume...

President Donald Trump on Thursday said he is weighing whether or not to “annihilate” Iran in a renewed effort to end the illegal 201-day US-Israeli war of choice, musings that came on the heels of a ...

US Rep. and Ron Paul Institute Board Member Thomas Massie brings down the house with his speech at the 10th Ron Paul Institute DC Conference on September 5.

Senate Democrats have taken the unusual step of issuing a letter to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, seeking a full accounting from him and the Pentagon for the bare minimum that the ongoing war in ...

After spending millions of dollars redecorating the White House and transforming D.C. monuments, President Trump approved, on September 15, 2026, an additional 2.8 billion dollar sale of heavy bombs t...

From John Kiriakou's Briefing Room: The United States is preparing its largest sale of bombs to Israel in years, carrying a massive $2.8 billion price tag. And get this... you are paying for it. Plus,...

On September 16, US Representative Mike Johnson (R-LA), acting in his role as Speaker of the House, sent that body’s members home until after the November midterm elections. My knee-jerk reaction is g...

Israeli forces have raided the town of Abdin in southwestern Syria’s Yarmouk River Basin, in Daraa Governorate. The raid saw troops advance into the al-Areadah residential neighborhood to search homes...

Israel’s Channel 14 has reported that the Israeli government is accusing Lebanese Army Commander Gen. Rodolphe Haykal of directly coordinating operations with Hezbollah, raising concerns about coordin...

On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: US Rep. Thomas Massie introduced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth yesterday, charging him with violating his oath to the Constitution ...

Late Monday, Israeli ground troops carried out an attack against the southeastern Lebanese town of Baraachit, killing one civilian in the barrage a machine gun fire. Exactly why the attack was carried...

Some people say that being anti-war is to be against “the troops” – the Americans who in the past were drafted to fight and today volunteer to serve. But that is a superficial criticism that distracts...

On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Two days ago President Trump tried to distract from the diesel shortages caused by his Iran war by blaming it all on Ukrainian strikes on Russian refiners. Trump as...

The massive detonations of tunnels at Ali al-Taher Ridge over the weekend weren’t the end to Israel’s military offensive in the areas, and Defense Minister Israel Katz’s comments are threatening to ma...

A report released Thursday examines the more than 500 Yemeni civilians its authors said were killed or wounded by US airstrikes in the Middle East nation during a recent 17-month period amid the open-...

Dozens of advocacy groups this week urged House Democratic leaders to force a vote on an existing war powers resolution aimed at endingr President Donald Trump’s unauthorized aggression toward Cuba, i...

Below is the letter that David Ben-Gurion wrote to his son, Amos, on October 5, 1937, 10 years before the UN General Assembly (GA) recommended partitioning Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state. (...

Following weeks of offensives against the Ali al-Taher Ridge, Israeli forces carried out massive underground detonations against what they say were tunnels belonging to Hezbollah. The detonations were...

This weekend once again saw Israel conducting a growing number of operations against southwest Syria, pointing to yet further escalation and leading to the capture of multiple locals in Quneitra Gover...

Southern Lebanon had a substantial population before the March Israeli invasion and occupation, but it wasn’t a heavily urbanized area. Rather, the economy is, or at least was, heavily built around ag...

From John Mearsheimer’s new YouTube channel: Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick have just published a terrific new book called Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power. It appears twenty years ...

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. The chief legacy of 9/11 is as obvious as it is tragic: a state of permanent warfare in the United States, both abroad and in the “homeland” ...

Amnesty International recently reported on the 225th extrajudicial killing conducted by the U.S. government in its campaign against boats in the Caribbean. Boasts made by the U.S. Southern Command are...

UN Commissioner Fionnuala Ní Aoláin has issued a new report to the UN Human Rights Council related to Israeli military operations in southwest Syria, warning that the operations are increasingly impac...

On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: After trillions spent on Middle East wars, hundreds of billions on Ukraine, a staggering $100 Billion has already been spent by the American people for extra energy...

Whether you consider it a town or a village, Kfar Roumine was a modest place before the Israeli invasion in March. Some 1,400 people lived there at the time. Forced displacement and persistent attacks...

The future of the UN Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL) is up in the air as the UN Security Council is poised to start debating the possibility to extending its mandate yet again. The mandate was last ...

Two Israeli soldiers were wounded overnight in fighting with a Hezbollah member near Beaufort Castle. The soldiers were taken to the hospital, and the Hezbollah attacker was killed. Israel then attack...

Following a flurry of Israeli strikes overnight Friday into Saturday killing at least five people in southern Lebanon, Israeli forces continued attacks into Sunday, destroying a hospital in Nabatieh a...

The Departure of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll from the Pentagon this week has touched off another wave of speculation over the rivalries in the Trump administration and whether the "Rubio faction” is b...

Reprinted from John's Substack: On 2 September 2026, I was on “Switzerland” with Tom Switzer, who spent most of the show putting forth the argument, which he does not believe, that is now being made b...

The U.S. struck a wedding in Kuhestak, Iran in the latest round of strikes in the president’s criminal war: Around 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, the wedding was struck by a bomb that, according to a weapons expert and a visual analysis by The New York Times, had been released by American forces as they ca