Nebraska’s legislature recently made headlines when it ended the state’s death penalty. Many found it odd that a conservatives-dominated legislature would support ending capital punishment, since conservative politicians have traditionally supported the death penalty....
Month: June 2015
The Prosecution of Dennis Hastert and the Government’s War on Cash
by Adam Dick | Jun 13, 2015 | Featured Articles
Back on March 31, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced what many media reports heralded as a big rollback in the use of structuring allegations to justify seizing assets from individuals. Yet, here we are less than three months later with the DOJ prosecuting...
Soros – An American Oligarch‘s Dirty Tale of Corruption
by F. William Engdahl | Jun 13, 2015 | Featured Articles
Rarely does the world get a true look inside the corrupt world of Western oligarchs and the brazen manipulations they use to enhance their fortunes at the expense of the public good. The following comes from correspondence of the Hungarian-born billionaire, now...
Europeans Reject NATO’s War
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 12, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Despite the ongoing war propaganda and political leaders who seem desperate to do the bidding of Washington, a majority of the population in every European NATO member country would oppose going to war with Russia -- even if Russia attacked another NATO member...
Saudi Arabia’s Yemen Offensive, Iran’s ‘Proxy’ Strategy, and the Middle East’s New ‘Cold War’
by Going to Tehran | Jun 11, 2015 | Featured Articles
Riyadh’s war in Yemen marks a dramatic escalation in its efforts to roll back Iran’s rising influence in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia portrays its Yemen campaign simply as a battle of “good” Arabs and Sunnis supporting Yemen’s legitimate government against “evil”...
Iraq in Chaos: An Excuse to Escalate?
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 11, 2015 | The Liberty Report
President Obama has admitted this week that he has no strategy for Iraq and Syria. But in the absence of a strategy the old familiar tactics are still at play: escalate, escalate, escalate. More US "trainers" to Iraq to perform a miracle: create an Iraqi army that can...
US Joint Chief Dempsey to Israel: We Will Defend You
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 11, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Photo: AMOS BEN-GERSHOM/GPOThe United States is more than $18 trillion dollars in debt, but like a teenager with a credit card it continues to take on financial obligations seemingly without a care in the world. Maintaining a world empire requires the US to hemorrhage...
US Planning to Send 450 More Military Personnel to Iraq
by Peter van Buren | Jun 11, 2015 | Featured Articles
When at first you don’t succeed, fail, fail again. And with that, we woke up Wednesday to see the Obama administration ready to announce a change of course in Iraq, one that is very much a back to the future kind of event. Following about a year of not defeating,...
Judge Napolitano: Prosecute ‘Hothead’ McKinney Pool Party Cop
by Adam Dick | Jun 10, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The resignation on Tuesday of McKinney, Texas policeman Eric Casebolt after the widespread viewing of a video showing Casebolt drawing his gun and brutalizing a teenager outside a pool party may not be enough to bring justice, suggests Judge Andrew Napolitano....
Maidan 3.0: Another Revolution in Ukraine?
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 10, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Will Ukrainians take to the streets in sufficient numbers to overthrow their US-backed leaders? Over the weekend a large protest in Kiev was violently broken up by masked men while the police looked on. No word from the US condemning the violence. Elsewhere, the US...
Yoo Kidding Me?
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Jun 10, 2015 | Neocon Watch
John Yoo, the torture-justifying lawyer of the Bush II regime, criticizes Obama’s bloody, murderous, warmongering foreign policy as replicating a Ron Paul presidency! John, let me give you a quick rundown of what a Ron Paul foreign policy would actually look like,...
Saudi Arabia’s Human Rights Campaign
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 9, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
When thinking about the protection of human rights, Saudi Arabia doesn't immediately come to mind. After all, this year the Saudis are on course to break their own record of 87 decapitations in 2014. It is only June and the Saudi leaders have already chopped off their...
Cold War II to McCarthyism II
by Robert Parry | Jun 9, 2015 | Featured Articles
Perhaps it’s no surprise that the US government’s plunge into Cold War II would bring back the one-sided propaganda themes that dominated Cold War I, but it’s still unsettling to see how quickly the major US news media has returned to the old ways, especially the New...
Are Waco Bikers Getting Justice?
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 9, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Three weeks after a deadly shootout at a biker rally in Waco, TX, there are more questions than answers. Why are more than 100 of those arrested still being held without any real charges filed? Why do witnesses familiar with firearms insist that most of the shooting...
CIA Director: Blowback is Real
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 8, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
CIA Director John Brennan is not known as a big defender of the Constitution. He is regarded as a chief proponent of the CIA's torture program and as "Obama's drone warrior." He also lied to the American people with claims that not "a single collateral death" occurred...
Afghan Drone Strike: Expect More Blowback
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 8, 2015 | The Liberty Report
On Friday, US drones killed 34 at an Afghan funeral. US officials claimed they were all terrorists but the locals on the ground disagreed. Will family members of those killed seek revenge on the US? Over the weekend, CIA director John Brennan admitted that this kind...
Soros Pushes US Bailouts and Weapons for Ukraine
by Ron Paul | Jun 8, 2015 | Featured Articles
If you look at the track record of the interventionists you might think they would pause before taking on more projects. Each of their past projects has ended in disaster yet still they press on. Last week the website Zero Hedge posted a report about hacked emails...
The Washington Intellectual Gravy Train
by James Bovard | Jun 8, 2015 | Featured Articles
Intellectuals have long been glorified as champions of truth and defenders of society’s highest values. But in Washington, they serve as Leviathan‘s Praetorian Guard. Intellectuals are thriving in DC thanks in large part to the ruinous policy advice they proffer. The...
Is Max Boot Really a Liar and a Coward?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 8, 2015 | Neocon Watch
Glenn Greenwald and Max Boot, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, engaged in an interesting exchange about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in which Greenwald suggested that Boot is both a liar and a neocon coward. The exchange arose out of Boot’s...
Military Madness: US Officials Consider Nuclear Strikes against Russia
by Niles Williamson | Jun 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter was at the headquarters of the US European Command in Stuttgart, Germany this week with two dozen US military commanders and European diplomats to discuss how to escalate their economic and military campaign against Russia. They will...
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