President Barack Obama's "pivot to Asia" was supposed to mean that the US would pull back from its commitments in the Middle East and Europe and focus on improving economic and other ties with East Asia. Instead, the US government has helped foment a coup against an...
Month: September 2014
There is Much to Fear
by Peter van Buren | Sep 30, 2014 | Featured Articles
One of the exceptional things about Post-Constitutional America is how instead of using the traditional tools of an autocracy — secret police, torture, mass round ups — the majority of Americans have given up their rights willfully, voluntarily, almost gleefully. The...
Speaker John Boehner Says House Should Vote on ISIS War but Refuses to Allow Vote
by Adam Dick | Sep 30, 2014 | Congress Alert
While the United States Constitution says authority over declaring and funding war resides in the Congress, US House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner refuses to allow a House vote regarding congressional authorization of the war on ISIS. Boehner says he...
Obama Invented Fake ‘Threat’ to Launch War on Syria
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 29, 2014 | Featured Articles
It has become abundantly clear, thanks especially to excellent reporting and analysis by Glenn Greenwald and Justin Raimondo, that the "Khorasan Group" threat used as the pretext for the US bombing of Syria was totally fabricated by the US government. The purpose was...
Donald Rumsfeld: Barack Obama Lacks ‘Clarity of Vision’
by Adam Dick | Sep 29, 2014 | Neocon Watch
It is rich hearing Donald Rumsfeld, who made some outlandish statements to advance the 2003 Iraq War he helped instigate and manage as secretary of defense, fault US President Barack Obama for not providing “clarity of vision.” Rumsfeld, in a Friday interview with...
Scottish Referendum Gives Reasons to be Hopeful
by Ron Paul | Sep 28, 2014 | Featured Articles
Even though it ultimately failed at the ballot box, the recent campaign for Scottish independence should cheer supporters of the numerous secession movements springing up around the globe. In the weeks leading up to the referendum, it appeared that the people of...
Syria/Iraq/Afghanistan: As Bad As a Crime, a Blunder
by Eric Margolis | Sep 27, 2014 | Featured Articles
Having nearly provoked war over Ukraine with nuclear-armed Russia, the Obama administration has now launched a full-scale crusade in Iraq and Syria against the evil Saracens of ISIS. America’s aerial might, including B-1 heavy bombers, is plastering ISIS miscreants....
Western-Backed Kiev Regime Burying the Truth About Its Atrocities?
by Finian Cunningham | Sep 27, 2014 | Featured Articles
OSCE photographs mass-graves discovered in Ukraine last week. The grim discovery of mass graves in southeastern Ukraine this week implicates the Kiev regime in further war crimes. At least three such burial sites have been uncovered in recent days since the withdrawal...
Ron Paul: Obama Has Started ‘Immoral and Illegal’ War in Iraq and Syria
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 27, 2014 | Featured Articles
Obama's new wars in Iraq and Syria are totally immoral as well as illegal under US and international law, RPI Chairman Ron Paul told RT's Abby Martin yesterday. The idea that US force will solve the problem is also mistaken, he said. "US action will increase the...
The Airwaves Are Still Heaving With Spin Two Days After US Airstrikes Against Syria
by Sharmine Narwani | Sep 26, 2014 | Featured Articles
Undoubtedly the attacks were timed to occur on the eve of the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations, so “Coalition” partners could cluster behind the decision to bomb a sovereign state, uninvited. The irony, of course, is that they are doing so at...
Michele Bachmann Goes Berserk!
by Chris Rossini | Sep 26, 2014 | Neocon Watch
Michele Bachmann throws the blanket over all Muslims saying: Yes, Mr. President, it is about Islam! And I believe if you have an evil of an order of this magnitude, you take it seriously. You declare war on it, you don’t dance around it. Just like the Islamic State...
Is Obama Misleading the World to War? Depends How You Define ‘Misleading’
by Trevor Timm | Sep 26, 2014 | Featured Articles
Want to decipher what the US military is really doing in Iraq and Syria, or figure out whether its regional war against the Islamic State (Isis) is legal? Good luck. The Obama administration’s secret efforts to redefine the ordinary meaning of key legal terms and...
Gateway Policies: ISIS, Obama and US Financial Boots-on-the-Ground
by Nomi Prins | Sep 26, 2014 | Featured Articles
President Obama’s neo-Cold War is not about ideology or respect for borders. It is about money and global power. The current battle over control of gateway nations - strategic locations in which private firms can establish the equivalent of financial...
Hilarious German Satire of Anti-Russian Propaganda
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 26, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
While the German media has been at least as propagandistic as the US/UK media in its resurrection of wild, Cold War-style rhetoric over the Ukraine situation, cracks are beginning to appear. Satire, humor, and ridicule have always been among the best forms of social...
Welcome To Barack Obama’s Syrian Gong Show
by David Stockman | Sep 25, 2014 | Featured Articles
Folks, this war is only three days old and its already a gong show. Its become at least a four-front affair — with Obama’s “broad” coalition amounting to little more than a few stealth Arab nations renting back to Washington the equipment and American trained pilots...
Dennis Kucinich Drops In On Hemp Activists at US Capitol
by Adam Dick | Sep 25, 2014 | Congress Alert
Industrial hemp activists from around the country visited United States Representatives’ and Senators’ offices in Washington, DC this week to make the case for repealing decades-old US government restrictions related to the plant. When the activists were meeting...
The Real Reason We Are Bombing Syria
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Sep 24, 2014 | Featured Articles
The administration's response to the conjunction of this weekend's People's Climate March and the International Day of Peace? 1) Bomb Syria the following day, to wrest control of the oil from ISIS which gained its foothold directly in the region through the US, Saudi...
Whistleblowers Expose NSA-Partner Israel’s Corrupt Use of Surveillance Information
by Adam Dick | Sep 24, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Israel government, with whom the US government has been sharing for years Americans’ and others’ unredacted private information and communications obtained through the US mass spying program, is being accused by tens of whistle-blowers of abusively using this sort...
US War on Syria, Day Two: Civilian Casualties, New Scarier Group Hit, Israel Joins
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 23, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In an attack on Syria that the Obama administration promises will be "ongoing," the first day of US bombs has reportedly left eight civilians dead including three children. Some 33 fighters were reportedly killed, producing a typical but troubling civilian-to-fighter...
Turning Americans into Snitches for the Police State: ‘See Something, Say Something’ and Community Policing
by John W. Whitehead | Sep 23, 2014 | Featured Articles
“There were relatively few secret police, and most were just processing the information coming in. I had found a shocking fact. It wasn’t the secret police who were doing this wide-scale surveillance and hiding on every street corner. It was the ordinary German people...
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