Writing in The Hill newspaper, Bernie Quigley points out what could have been, had RPI Chairman Ron Paul been successful in his 2012 run for the presidency. He also points out that the original Tea Party was a very different animal from what it became after being...
Month: May 2013
Illinois School District Forces Students to Self-Incriminate
by harley | May 31, 2013 | The Liberty Report
What could be less controversial than a US public high school social studies teacher informing his students that they have the right to refuse to answer whether they have done something illegal? In fact, this concept—the right against self-incrimination—is part of the...
McCain’s ‘Moving Experience’
by Chris Rossini | May 30, 2013 | Neocon Watch
After meeting with Al Qaeda-aligned rebels in Syria, McCain describes the “moving experience” that he had: “It was a very moving experience to meet these fighters who have been struggling now for over two years.” McCain then followed with a plea for more U.S....
The Self-Defeating Dynamics of American Hegemony in the Middle East
by harley | May 28, 2013 | The Liberty Report
Our experience in the U.S. government — running from roughly the period of the first Gulf War in the early 1990s until March 2003, just before the invasion of Iraq, when we left our positions at the White House on the National Security Council staff — effectively...
McCain Spends Memorial Day with Al-Qaeda Allies
by Daniel McAdams | May 27, 2013 | Neocon Watch
Senator John McCain snuck into Syria this Memorial Day to spend the day with the terrorist-affiliated Free Syrian Army, in violation of both Syrian Law and likely of international law. While meeting with the Syrian insurgents and FSA Commander, Gen. Salem Idris,...
Beating the Benghazi Horse
by Chris Rossini | May 27, 2013 | Neocon Watch
Jennifer Rubin, one of Washington Post’s neoconservative gate-keepers, is still trying to obfuscate the real issue behind what happened in Benghazi in 2011. Over the weekend, Rubin wrote: “The biggest scandal regarding Benghazi may be that the president was not at the...
US Makes Syria an ‘Offer it Can’t Refuse’ – again
by Finian Cunningham | May 27, 2013 | The Liberty Report
In Mafia terms, it’s called “making an offer that can’t be refused”. The “offer” is not one of free choice between options that may benefit the object party. In reality, it is about setting up a scenario of duress, under which the object party is coerced to capitulate...
The Real Meaning of President Obama’s National Security Speeches
by Ron Paul | May 25, 2013 | The Liberty Report
This past Thursday and Friday, President Obama delivered two speeches designed to outline his new thinking on national security and counter-terrorism. While much was made in the media of the president’s statements at the National Defense University and the US Naval...
Orwell Reigns Over Raw Milk Trial
by Daniel McAdams | May 24, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The trial of Vernon Hershberger for the crime of selling healthy, unprocessed milk to informed and willing customers is sadly a damning commentary on the times in which we currently live. This humble yet learned Amish farmer faces the ruin of his farm, his family, and...
Senate Votes Unanimously Toward War Against Iran
by Daniel McAdams | May 23, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Today the US Senate voted unanimously in favor of a Lindsey Graham resolution, S.Res.65, which "[s]trongly support(s) the full implementation of United States and international sanctions on Iran and urg[es] the President to continue to strengthen enforcement of...
When Terrorism Comes Home
by Daniel McAdams | May 23, 2013 | The Liberty Report
Several observers have pointed out the similarities between today's savage attack in London, where a British soldier was reportedly beheaded by two men shouting "Allahu Akbar," and the gruesome recent attack by US/UK-supported Free Syrian Army Commander Abu Sakkar,...
As Scandals Deepen, Obama, His Party, and Republicans Will Militarily Intervene in Syria
by Michael Scheuer | May 21, 2013 | The Liberty Report
As three administration-wrecking scandals – Benghazi, the IRS, and the AP phone records – continue to unfold, it will become increasingly clear that President Obama is: (a) stupid; (b) unable to control his felonious subordinates; or (c) a liar and a trimmer. And as...
The Great Peacemaker U.S. and Its Benevolent Effort to Bring Peace to Syria
by Jeremy R. Hammond | May 21, 2013 | The Liberty Report
TIME magazine reports on a gruesome video of a member of the armed rebel forces fighting to overthrow the Syrian government: In the video a man who is believed to be a rebel commander named Khalid al-Hamad, who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Sakkar, bends over the...
Tony Does Tirana
by Daniel McAdams | May 21, 2013 | The Liberty Report
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair willfully and gleefully disseminated and embellished the lies of President Bush to propagandize the public and pave way for the invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of its secular dictator, Saddam Hussein. In the process Blair...
WaPo’s Fred Hiatt: Obama’s ‘Turn Inward’ Puts Us All At Risk!
by Daniel McAdams | May 20, 2013 | Neocon Watch
In yesterday’s Washington Post, neo-conservative editorial page editor Fred Hiatt has a panic attack over the (imagined by him) possibility that President Obama is in his second term beginning to ponder some of the limitations of US interventionism world-wide. On the...
Bill Kristol’s Empire of Death
by Daniel McAdams | May 17, 2013 | Neocon Watch
Non-interventionists can learn a great deal by observing when the differing factions of the neo-conservative enterprise take to exposing each other. Take the Left-neocon New Republic, a magazine that hemorrhages money at such a rate that it literally had a hard time...
Dealing remote-control drone death, the US has lost its moral compass
by Lawrence Wilkerson | May 17, 2013 | The Liberty Report
The armed drone is being heralded as the next generation of American military technology. It can fly overheard with its unblinking eye, almost invisible to its targets below. Without warning, its missiles will strike, bringing certain death and destruction on the...
Another Lying Rice in the White House
by Daniel McAdams | May 16, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Obama's UN Ambassador Susan Rice, one of the architects of the Left-neocon favorite regime change tool, the "humanitarian intervention," appears slated for a promotion to become the president's National Security Advisor.Rice's pro-intervention colleagues on the Right...
Boston Becomes Toxic
by Philip Giraldi | May 16, 2013 | The Liberty Report
A number of articles about the Boston terrorist attack that I have read recently reminded me that what is either kept out of the media or otherwise hidden is often more important than what actually appears. One was a feature article entitled “Ron Paul Slams Boston...
Washington’s Hegemonic Ambition and U.S. Policy Toward Syria (excerpts)
by harley | May 16, 2013 | The Liberty Report
What really drives American foreign policy...is a post-Cold War determination on the part of the United States to dominate the Middle East, to play a hegemonic role in the Middle East, to micromanage political outcomes in key Middle Eastern states so that those...
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