On today's Liberty Report, we covered the US government's assassination program. You'll surely recall when President Obama issued an executive order that said the President has the authority to assassinate even American citizens at his own discretion. Well, a very...
Month: October 2015
Obama Won’t Admit the Real Targets of Russian Airstrikes
by Gareth Porter | Oct 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
The US response to Russia’s new Syrian military campaign in support of the Assad regime has struck a pose of moral superiority by arguing that the Russians have not been targeting the Islamic State but rather the non-ISIS Syrian opposition to the Assad regime. That US...
Is Hillary Clinton Above the Law?
by Justin Raimondo | Oct 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
What did we learn from the Democratic presidential debates? We learned that Hillary Clinton hates Edward Snowden, loves the Patriot Act, and considers “the Iranians” among her biggest enemies. In short, we learned that she may very well be Lindsey Graham in drag. And...
Into Africa: Obama’s Newest War
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 15, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
What to do when an intervention has completely imploded, contributing to 200,000 deaths, destroying a country, and pushing the US closer to a nuclear conflict with Russia than at any time in the past 40 years? Well if you are President Obama you press forward with yet...
Rep. Jim McGovern: ‘Long Past Time’ for Congress to Stop Deferring to Obama on Afghanistan
by Adam Dick | Oct 15, 2015 | Congress Alert
In response to President Barack Obama announcing on Thursday that he will “maintain our current posture of 9,800 troops in Afghanistan through most of next year,” Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) issued a statement the same day calling on Congress to “take responsibility for...
ISIS In ‘Retreat’ As Russia Destroys 32 Targets While Putin Trolls Obama As ‘Weak With No Strategy’
by Tyler Durden | Oct 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
Perhaps the most amusing thing about Russia’s intervention in Syria is the degree to which it made the world wake up and question the West’s “anti-ISIS” strategy. While everyone has been quick to characterize Moscow’s actions as the latest and perhaps greatest example...
Obama’s New War In Africa: Do We Need It?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 15, 2015 | The Liberty Report
The Obama Administration's disastrous invasion of Libya scattered well-armed jihadists throughout Africa and the Middle East, including to Syria and Cameroon. After emptying out Gaddafi's arsenals, these groups proceeded to spread their mayhem. Yesterday, President...
Snowden: NSA, GCHQ Using Your Phone to Spy on Others (and You)
by Peter van Buren | Oct 15, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
You are a tool of the state, according to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. The NSA in the U.S., and its equivalent in the UK, GCHQ, are taking control of your phone not just to spy on you as needed, but also to use your device as a way to spy on others around you....
How Can Anyone Still Be An Interventionist?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Oct 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
Given the ongoing disasters in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Libya, and the rest of the Middle East, how can anyone in his right mind still be an interventionist? Look at Iraq. The US invasion and multi-year occupation of that country was supposed to bring a...
MH-17 Final Report: Who Shot Down The Plane?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 14, 2015 | The Liberty Report
The long-awaited final report of the Dutch Safety Board on the 2014 shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH-17 over Ukraine came out yesterday, but it offered very little in terms of what actually happened. With the most powerful intelligence apparatus on earth, how...
The New McCarthyism
by Justin Raimondo | Oct 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
Cold War II is upon us. Once again, to write the phrase “the Kremlin” is to evoke images of an Oriental despotism both ominous and inscrutable, only slightly less sinister than the Dark Tower. Russia, once thought to have been liberated from its Soviet chains, is now...
The “A” Word That Terrifies Washington
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter has declared that there will be a thorough investigation of the recent US destruction of a hospital in Afghanistan that killed 22, including 12 of the medical staff, with more than thirty still missing in the rubble. The hospital,...
Chris Christie: Let’s Start WWIII!
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 13, 2015 | Neocon Watch
New Jersey governor Chris Christie may be favored by only about a total of 12 people in the US to be the next president, but that does not stop the mainstream media from treating him as a frontrunner. After all, what is the support of the mere lumpen-votarian when you...
Syria Quagmire? Copyright Tyranny. Weird Politics. Around the World With Lew Rockwell
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 13, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Why is the US trying to destroy Syria, the bulwark against jihadists and protector of the Middle East's Christians? Because, says Lew Rockwell in today's Liberty Report, like all empires the US pursues a divide and conquer strategy. More on Lew's take on Syria events...
Ron Paul: ‘Greatest Resistance’ to Federal Reserve Audit is Desire to Keep International Activities Secret
by Adam Dick | Oct 13, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In an interview Monday with host Ameera David on RT, former United States House of Representatives member Ron Paul (R-TX) noted that the biggest resistance to his effort to require an audit of the Federal Reserve is rooted in the desire to shield the Fed’s...
How Did ISIS Get All Those Toyota Trucks?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 13, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Recently the Department of the Treasury, responsible for keeping track of sanctions and violations of sanctions, turned its bureaucratic eye toward the massive convoys of Toyota Hilux pick-up trucks in possession of ISIS. How the heck did they get such a massive fleet...
Breaking: Washington Airdrops Tons of Weapons to Rebels in Syria
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 12, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Hopeful news at the end of last week that the Obama Administration was considering disengaging from its schizophrenic war in Syria has given way to the ugly reality that Washington's neocons in charge will never back away from a fight (as long as they are not doing...
Global Freedom Index: We’re Number 20!
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 12, 2015 | The Liberty Report
The Cato Institute and partners have released a new survey of global economic and civic freedom. The results are not too good for those who adhere to the philosophy of American Exceptionalism: the US is not even in the top 10 when it comes to economic and personal...
Politicians Exploit School Shooting While Ignoring Bombing Victims
by Ron Paul | Oct 12, 2015 | Featured Articles
Following the recent Oregon school shooting, many politicians rushed to the microphones to call for new gun control laws. President Obama even called on gun control supporters to “politicize” the shooting, while some members of Congress worked to establish a special...
A Decisive Shift In The Power Balance Has Occurred
by Paul Craig Roberts | Oct 11, 2015 | Featured Articles
The world is beginning to realize that a sea-change in world affairs occurred on September 28 when President Putin of Russia stated in his UN speech that Russia can no longer tolerate Washington’s vicious, stupid, and failed policies that have unleashed chaos, which...
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