The US no longer has a judiciary. This former branch of government has transitioned into an enabler of executive branch fascism. Privacy is a civil liberty protected by the US Constitution. The Constitution relies on courts to enforce its prohibitions against...
Month: August 2015
Saudi Coalition Bombs Yemen Water Bottling Plant, Killing Dozens of Civilians
by Sarah Lazare | Aug 31, 2015 | Featured Articles
In the midst of a war-fueled water crisis, the Saudi Arabia-led coalition reportedly bombed a water bottling plant in northern Yemen on Sunday, adding to mounting civilian casualties as the military onslaught enters its sixth month. "The corpses of 36 workers, many of...
ISIS Gold Standard: Will it Work?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 31, 2015 | The Liberty Report
A bizarre new video purportedly released by ISIS features archival clips from several prominent Austrian and free-market economics thinkers, including Ron Paul, discussing the Federal Reserve and the end of the dollar. Is this some sort of anti-gold propaganda, meant...
Why the War on Terror is Failing
by Peter van Buren | Aug 31, 2015 | Featured Articles
A well-done article in the New York Times reminds us that four years after the United States assassinated American citizen and Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki (and his teenage son) in a drone strike, his influence on jihadists is greater than ever. At the same time, the...
The Neocon Foreign Policy Walmart
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 30, 2015 | Neocon Watch
One of the most depressing things about watching -- even from a distance -- the quadrennial race for the White House is seeing what passes for debate on the one area where the president does have some Constitutional authority: foreign policy.Candidates who have spent...
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Blame the Federal Reserve, Not China, for Stock Market Crash
by Ron Paul | Aug 30, 2015 | Featured Articles
Following Monday’s historic stock market downturn, many politicians and so-called economic experts rushed to the microphones to explain why the market crashed and to propose "solutions” to our economic woes. Not surprisingly, most of those commenting not only failed...
Beijing Bingo
by Eric Margolis | Aug 29, 2015 | Featured Articles
My father, a New York financier, used to call dubious stocks or bonds, “Chinese paper.” Last week, we saw a blizzard of Chinese paper, both in China and around the world. As manager of a sizeable investment portfolio (an unwelcome second job from my main work,...
Sexual Assault by the TSA is OK, Except in the Airport Bathroom
by Adam Dick | Aug 28, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Here is some welcome news for travelers. There seems to be a limit to where Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees can sexually assault travelers — at least at the New York City LaGuardia Airport. WABC-TV reports that a TSA agent was arrested Thursday...
Sanders’ Foreign Policy – Not Antiwar
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 28, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Senator Bernie Sanders has a growing following, particularly among progressives. While one may think progressives tend to oppose the US militaristic foreign policy, Sanders' record on war is not as consistent as some would have us believe. In the Middle East his...
Follow the Money? Not with Hillary, Follow Pat…
by Peter van Buren | Aug 28, 2015 | Featured Articles
The old adage, “follow the money,” is still not a bad way to suss out wrongdoing. Originated during the Watergate era, the term says if you follow the trail of money through an organization or a caper, you’ll find the guilty people at the end. With the State...
‘Unprivileged Belligerents’ – The US War On Journalists
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 27, 2015 | The Liberty Report
The Defense Department's new Law of War manual, which provides guidance to military commanders in time of war, advises that journalists they consider "unprivileged belligerents" can be either removed from military facilities or even detained indefinitely without...
Syria: The Propaganda Ring
by Vanessa Beeley | Aug 27, 2015 | Featured Articles
“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” - Malcolm X After four and half years of relentless propaganda being flung...
NY Times: Why Isn’t Obama Backing Al-Qaeda in Syria?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 27, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Just fourteen years after al-Qaeda attacked New York, the New York Times is wondering why the Obama Administration is not cooperating more closely with al-Qaeda. Of course they don't put it quite that way. In an article posted yesterday, the "paper of record" first...
Telling Your Child to Call 911 in an Emergency Can Be Dangerous
by Adam Dick | Aug 27, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Cop Block co-founder Pete Eyre released a new video this week that, in just four minutes, explains clearly why telling children just to dial 911 is not the best means to ensure children’s safety in emergencies. Just as important, Eyre presents in the video several...
Weaponizing Migrants
by Anne Williamson | Aug 26, 2015 | Featured Articles
Europeans ought to be demanding Uncle Sam’s head on a silver platter, and those of their own leaders on pikes. Thanks to 25 years of lunatic US foreign policy initiatives and relentless military aggressions, the steady drip of illegal immigration into Europe from...
UK Police Scanned the Faces of 100,000 People at Music Festival
by Peter van Buren | Aug 26, 2015 | Featured Articles
Hey, Big Brother? It’s me. Can we talk about facial recognition please? The Download Festival See, the police used facial recognition technology to scan the faces of thousands of attendees at the Download music festival in the UK without their knowledge. The excuse...
Who Tipped Off Al-Qaeda in Syria?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 26, 2015 | The Liberty Report
McClatchy News Service reports this week that it was the Turkish government who tipped off al-Qaeda in Syria that a group of US-backed "moderate" fighters were about to enter the country. The "moderates" were immediately captured or killed upon stepping over the...
Markets Crash – Is China to Blame?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 25, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Yesterday's market crash shocked many in the financial world. Today comes the blame game, with several Republican hopefuls calling out China as being behind US economic woes. One candidate suggested that President Obama cancel the upcoming state visit of the Chinese...
Idaho School Bans Confederate Flag On Student’s Car
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 25, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
We have previously discussed the ongoing controversy over the confederate flag as well as past cases of student speech being curtailed. This story combines those themes after Jordan Beattie, a student at Cossa Academy in Wilder, Idaho was banned from flying the...
Western Complicity in Yemen Genocide Met With Media Silence
by Finian Cunningham | Aug 24, 2015 | Featured Articles
In the latest atrocity in Yemen, Saudi warplanes bombed a residential area, killing at least 65 people. Most of the victims are reported to be civilians from the Salah district of Taiz, Yemen’s third largest city. The apparent war crime committed has tragically become...
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