Antiwar Media

After taking a brief look into ANTIWAR.COM for a bit, I can see that most of their writings focus on Isreal and Ukraine, two of the most debated topics recently when it comes to American intervention. Isreal and Palestine are especially hot topics, and I myself know plenty of people who vehemently defend one side or the other. Going a little further, there's even news from other countries and continents such as Africa, Asia, India, and even Greenland.

The American Conservative is another website that offers similar anti-war and isolationist views. They seem to encourage a much more reasonable take on conservativism, claiming that "what passed for conservatism in the United States wasn’t conserving much of anything". 

As we learned in class, when America first got involved in World War II, the Espionage Act made anti-war voices outright illegal, and those who helped spread the belief were imprisoned. But today, while the writers for a site like ANTIWAR.COM aren't being thrown in a jail cell for their views, their voices aren't getting properly heard either.

There are usually monetary reasons as to why the US gets involved in foreign warfare. This article claims that one of the reasons for the US getting involved in World War II is because of investments to European countries that would likely never be paid back if they lost the war. Thus, that means financial incentive to make sure that anti-war sentiment spreads as little as possible. I'm not going to get too far into the anti-government conspiracy theory rabbit hole, but it's definitely worth thinking about why sites like these are so hard to come by. 

It's important that people should see and support platforms such as these. The last thing any US (or anywhere, really) citizen should want is being sent off to go die in a foreign war to make a few people richer, yet that seems to be exactly what is happening.