By Paul Craig Roberts

Forever it seems, the Republicans have talked the talk but haven't walked the walk.  They align their talk with our concerns about what our children are taught and not taught, about the safety of our streets, about "affirmative action," about the offshoring of our manufacturing jobs, about living standards, about government's fiscal irresponsibility, about aggressive foreign policy, but they lack the courage to do anything.  Instead, they align their walk with the teachers' unions, with the offshoring corporations, with the military/security complex on gratuitous wars that serve only armaments profits, and with aggressive neoconservative foreign policy that threatens nuclear war.

Gaetz said “enough,” and for the first time in history a Speaker has been removed from office.

Whatever the cost, this is an important gain.  

Gilbert Doctorow sees it as a life-saving gain. Doctorow thinks, as Jeffrey Sachs, Col McGreggor and I do, that US/NATO involvement in Ukraine is leading to nuclear war with Russia.  With the House now in disarray, the real possibility is created that “there will be no stratagem, no dirty trick that Biden and his fellow war criminals in power can turn to continue assistance to Ukraine.”  In other words, more war funding for Ukraine is possibly dead in the tracks, at least for awhile