It is generally believed that American voters elected Donald Trump president at least in part due to their embracing his lies that he was a peacemaker who would not involve the United States in the pointless wars that have proliferated since 9/11. Trump’s predecessor...
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Trump Takes America to War
by Philip Giraldi | Jun 23, 2025 | Featured Articles
There is a somewhat troublesome backstory to President Donald Trump’s glorification of how Saturday’s US forces attack on three Iranian nuclear sites that “completely obliterated” their targets was carried out without any declaration of war against a country that has...
Nuclear War Ala Mode?
by Philip Giraldi | Jun 19, 2025 | Featured Articles
One of the more interesting aspects of the expanding war between Israel and Iran is the way the media and the crowd of “experts” have avoided any discussion of the possible, or perhaps even likely, upcoming decision of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to dig deep...

‘Bad Things’ Happen in Washington
by Philip Giraldi | May 31, 2025 | Featured Articles
There were quite a lot of what Donald Trump might describe as “bad things” taking place in Washington over the past week, to include the worsening of relations with China shortly after what appeared to be an agreement had been reached over tariffs; the...

Making Palestine Go Away
by Philip Giraldi | May 24, 2025 | Featured Articles
It has been another exciting week in a world at war where the word “diplomacy” has no meaning and would probably be defined by America’s head of Homeland Security Kristi Noem as a doctrine in which you shoot someone first before he or she can shoot you. In...

The Magical Mystery Tour That Wasn’t
by Philip Giraldi | May 19, 2025 | Featured Articles
It has been an interesting few days with the United States renaming the Gulf of Mexico and Persian Gulf while also doubling down on spying directed against Greenland in expectations that it will be acquired as a US territory sometime soon. Meanwhile, some of us who...

Fed Up with Benjamin Netanyahu?
by Philip Giraldi | May 9, 2025 | Featured Articles
I have in the past speculated that the day might come when President Donald Trump, he of a massive ego, might just become tired of his being manipulated and controlled by America’s Israel Lobby and by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in particular. I thought,...
Some New Tales from the Darkside
by Philip Giraldi | Mar 28, 2025 | Featured Articles
The news cycle over the past week has been dominated by reports and analysis of the Signal group chat involving top national security officials discussing aspects of the recent air strikes which have been directed against the Houthis in Yemen. There are four basic...
The Death of Free Speech in America?
by Philip Giraldi | Mar 15, 2025 | Featured Articles
There should be little doubt in anyone’s mind that the “wag the dog” relationship between the United States and Israel has done terrible damage to American institutions and constitutional liberties. The US bipartisan unconditional support of the ongoing Israeli...
Is It Foreign Aid or Covert Action?
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 24, 2025 | Featured Articles
There has been considerable controversy surrounding the Trump administration decision to cutback on government agencies that are ostensibly committed to charitable, educational and other nation building activities both overseas and in the United States. This spending,...
Pope Francis Should Go to Gaza!
by Philip Giraldi | Jan 2, 2025 | Featured Articles
The death of former President Jimmy Carter started me thinking about how long it’s been since the United States has been led by a head of state who was also a thoroughly decent human being. To be sure, while in office Carter made many mistakes in terms of...
In America It’s Another Week to be Proud of!
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 27, 2024 | Featured Articles
Something good happened in Washington last week, suggesting that the year might actually end on a high note without Joe Biden starting World War 3 and opening up all the country’s prisons for the on-the-street rehabilitation of the inmates where they will undoubtedly...
Is Seeking to Stop a War a Crime?
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 20, 2024 | Featured Articles
The early November detention of Asif Rahman, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, indicted in a federal national security court in the Eastern District of Virginia on two counts of “willful retention and transmission of national defense information...
A Week from Hell
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 22, 2024 | Featured Articles
Unfortunately, a machine has not yet been developed that can take one back in time and undo terrible mistakes being made due to lack of appreciation of possible downstream consequences of certain actions. If Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary had been...
America the Unspeakable
by Philip Giraldi | Sep 15, 2024 | Featured Articles
Some commentators who bothered to watch the Trump-Harris debate observed that both candidates adroitly maneuvered around saying anything that might be truly important. The issue of war and peace, meaning in this case nuclear war, appeared to be of no concern even...
America’s Search for New Enemies
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 17, 2024 | Featured Articles
Does anyone really think that Iran threatens the United States? It’s only plausible if you can be convinced by a congenital liar and war criminal like Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or by a buffoon like Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. My head was...
There Is Something Rotten in Washington
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 12, 2024 | Featured Articles
One thing you can say about the Administration of President Joe Biden is that nearly every week there is something new and exciting to discuss. Galloping dementia recently gifted us with Joe’s 11 minute abdication speech in which he announced that he would not be...
War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu Addresses the US Congress
by Philip Giraldi | Jul 26, 2024 | Featured Articles
To my surprise, last Thursday morning there was relatively little coverage of the address to the US Congress delivered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last Wednesday afternoon apart from a critical opinion piece that appeared in...
Supporting Israel Is Big Business in the United States
by Philip Giraldi | Jul 14, 2024 | Featured Articles
In a recent article discussing how US Treasury Department tax breaks are exploited by groups that raise money in America in support of the Israeli so-called Defense Forces (IDF), I concluded that it does not require any particular brilliance on the part of...
Land of the Free?
by Philip Giraldi | Jun 7, 2024 | Featured Articles
Many individuals who actually care about the United States Constitution and it guarantee of basic liberties for the American people have been seriously concerned over how recent Administrations, both Republican and Democratic, have taken steps to control and limit the...
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