Federal agencies classify trillions of pages of documents each year—enough secrets to fill 20 million filing cabinets. Washington politicians and federal agencies routinely blindfold American citizens on the most important and most reckless decisions the government...
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Can Trump Fix Our Broken Foreign Policy?
by Ron Paul | Jan 20, 2025 | Featured Articles
By the time most of you read this column, we will have a new US President. Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated for his second term today at 11:30 AM, Eastern time, and many Americans are hopeful that the disastrous foreign policy of the past four years under Biden...
When it Comes to Terrorism, Israel Beats Hamas
by Larry C. Johnson | Jan 20, 2025 | Featured Articles
Judge Napolitano asked me a pertinent question today: Why are the persons released by Hamas referred to as hostages and the persons released by Israel as prisoners? I think the answer is simple: Israel and its supporters in the Western media control the...
Biden’s Sordid Legacy: Ravaged Rights and Liberties
by James Bovard | Jan 18, 2025 | Featured Articles
Just before he leaves office, President Biden is commuting the prison sentences of 2,500 people who have been convicted of non-violent drug offenses. Biden stated, “This action is an important step toward righting historic wrongs, correcting sentencing...
Israel Against The World – With US Aid
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Jan 17, 2025 | Featured Articles
I once represented a man charged with first-degree murder. At the preliminary hearing, the courtroom was filled with the family and friends of the victim. When my client was led out of the holding cell, the officer who brought him out leaned over and whispered...
Trump Must Not Flunk His Litmus Test
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jan 17, 2025 | Featured Articles
Trump’s litmus test awaits him on the Oval Office desk. The litmus test is the pardon for every one of the wrongly indicted and wrongly prosecuted January 6 Trump supporters–which means all of them–who attended the rally and were persecuted for doing...
Will Trump End Washington’s Democratic Foreign Policy Façade?
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jan 17, 2025 | Featured Articles
Donald Trump’s political adversaries have long contended that he is a danger to democracy both at home and abroad. The alleged threat that he poses domestically is symbolized by the riot his supporters waged at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Opponents...
A Switch in Time?
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jan 16, 2025 | Featured Articles
When she was a member of the House of Representatives, Tulsi Gabbard was a fierce defender of personal privacy rights protected by the Fourth Amendment. She consistently opposed permitting federal agents to spy on Americans without search warrants, and she...
Accepting the Truth About Ukrainian Casualties is the Only Real Path to Peace
by Michael Vlahos | Jan 16, 2025 | Featured Articles
They say “all wars must end.” Yet how does this actually happen? First, all parties must agree — to go down that path together. Next, they must enter into formal negotiation, which almost always means horse trading, compromise, and accommodation. Finally, and most...
Getting Russia Wrong: A Quarter Century of Putin
by James Carden | Jan 16, 2025 | Featured Articles
It started out rather differently than we now sometimes imagine it. When Vladimir Putin took over the Russian presidency from Boris Yeltsin 25 years ago, on New Year’s Eve 1999, he was seen as a man with whom Washington could do business. President Bill Clinton...
Russia’s Defeat of Ukraine’s Army Limits Trump’s Options for a Negotiated Settlement
by Larry C. Johnson | Jan 15, 2025 | Featured Articles
Russian war correspondent, Marat Khairullin, has posted a terrific summary about the current status of Russian and Ukrainian forces on the battlefield. He writes: Victory is already in sight. Ukraine has lost the war. This is not even an axiom, but a ready,...
Animal Farm Politics: The Deep State Wins Again
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Jan 15, 2025 | Featured Articles
It cost the American taxpayer $24 million to find out what we knew all along: politics is corrupt. After four years of being subjected to special prosecutor Jack Smith’s dogged investigation into alleged election interference by Donald Trump, the Justice...
The State of Western Warcraft
by Lee Slusher | Jan 15, 2025 | Featured Articles
In early 2023, the head of the US European Command and Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, General Christopher Cavoli, remarked, "precision can beat mass."1 This is true; precision can beat mass. But some countries now have the capability to render...
Trump, Iran and the Obama Strategic Blueprint
by Alastair Crooke | Jan 14, 2025 | Featured Articles
Like a smashed antique clock – with its elaborate cogs, ratchet wheels and innards splayed out from the casing – so the mechanics of the Middle East lie similarly exposed and broken. All the region is in play – Syria, Lebanon, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt and Iran. The...
Sanctions – Trump’s Only Old/New Iran Policies
by Moon of Alabama | Jan 14, 2025 | Featured Articles
I had missed this Friday news item on Iran: Trump's Ukraine envoy says world must reinstate 'maximum pressure' on Iran PARIS, Jan 11 (Reuters) - The world must return to a policy of 'maximum pressure' against Iran to turn it into a more democratic country, U.S....
The Moral Depravity of US Sanctions and Embargoes
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 13, 2025 | Featured Articles
In the December 29, 2024, issue of the conservative Wall Street Journal, the paper’s longtime columnist Mary Anastasia O’Grady, who also serves on the Journal’s editorial board, wrote an article harshly criticizing the dictatorships in Cuba and Venezuela....
Cutting Slovakia’s Gas Supplies May Well Backfire on Zelensky
by Ian Proud | Jan 13, 2025 | Featured Articles
On 1 January, Ukraine ceased to allow the transit of Russia gas to Europe. This ended almost uninterrupted supply of Russian piped gas to Europe, through sovereign Ukraine, since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Some in the west have celebrated this...
2025 New Year’s Resolutions, Part Two
by Ron Paul | Jan 13, 2025 | Featured Articles
Even though we are two weeks into 2025, I want to suggest some more New Year’s resolutions. The Federal Reserve should resolve to stop enabling excessive federal spending by purchasing Treasury bonds, thus monetizing the federal debt. The Federal Reserve’s...
Can Trump Save America From Itself?
by Alastair Crooke | Jan 11, 2025 | Featured Articles
Russian FM Lavrov last week dismissed Team Trump’s floated peace proposals for Ukraine as unsatisfactory. Essentially, the Russian view is that the calls for a frozen conflict precisely miss the point: From the Russian perspective, such ideas – frozen conflicts,...
Defining the Deep State
by Larry C. Johnson | Jan 11, 2025 | Featured Articles
The phrase, Deep State, is now a staple of political vocabulary, but people who have not worked in the Washington bureaucracies, especially those tied to national security and intelligence, may not appreciate the meaning. I will try to define it for you. What I...
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