Throughout the Cold War, the US national-security state told the American people that it was necessary for America to go over to the dark side in order to combat the threat of communism and the Soviet Union. By that, they meant adopting policies and practices employed...
Month: August 2016
Turkey/US Invade Syria – Hillary Gets ‘No-Fly’ Zone
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 24, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Just three years after promising the American people that he would not put American boots on the ground in Syria, President Obama has directed the US military to participate in an invasion of northern Syria alongside NATO-ally Turkey. This in addition to establishing...
The Blessing of Cash
by Joseph Salerno | Aug 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
Starting today, the Royal Bank of Scotland will become the first bank in the U.K. to impose a negative interest rate on depositors. The negative rate will apply only to corporate customers, including mutual fund managers and pension funds, holding deposits of certain...
What’s Iran Up To; Fed Plans New $4 Trillion QE
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 23, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Is the US mainstream media spreading disinformation about Russia's use of an airbase in Iran? Yesterday the New York Times reported that Iran had revoked permission for Russia to use the base due to Russia's "ungentlemanly behavior" in discussing use of the base in...
The Neoconservatives, the War on Iraq, and the National Interest of Israel
by Stephen J. Sniegoski | Aug 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
The neoconservatives were the driving force in the George W. Bush administration’s war on Iraq and, in so doing, went a long way toward forming US policy in the Middle East that has continued under Obama. Neoconservatism emerged at the tail end of the 1960s as some...
US Policy Shift In Syria; Pentagon’s Lost Trillions
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 22, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Why is the US warning Syria not to shoot back at Kurdish militia members who are firing on Syrian military positions? Because US Special Forces troops are fighting alongside the Kurds. But it also may be a shift in US policy away from its stated focus on ISIS and...
Breaking: Did Washington Just Declare a ‘No Fly’ Zone in Syria?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 22, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Reading between the lines in today's Pentagon press briefing, a bombshell US policy shift is becoming more apparent: Syrian forces and their Russian partners are being told that conducting military operations in some parts of Syrian airspace opens them up to being...
Follow the Money Trail for Source of ‘Russian Threat’ Paranoia
by Neil Clark | Aug 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
You’d have to have been locked in a wardrobe if you live in the West not to have heard ominous phrases like “The Russian threat”, “Russian aggression in Europe” and “Russia set to invade Poland/Estonia/ Ukraine/Finland.” Certain people are trying to scare us witless...
Children of the American Police State: Just Another Brick in the Wall
by John W. Whitehead | Aug 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
We don’t need no education We don’t need no thought control No dark sarcasm in the classroom Teachers leave them kids alone… All in all it’s just another brick in the wall All in all you’re just another brick in the wall. —Pink Floyd, “Another Brick in the Wall” The...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Disappearing Trials, Trump’s Taxes, Indian Marijuana, Hospital Bombing, Freest States
by Adam Dick | Aug 21, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted on Saturday. You can listen to it, and read a transcript, below. You can also find previous episodes of the show at Stitcher, iTunes, YouTube, and SoundCloud. Listen to the new episode here: Read a transcript of the new...
US Warns Syrian Military…Against Operating Inside Syria!
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 21, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Just when you thought US foreign policy could not get more absurd. Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, who is listed as "commander of US forces in Iraq and Syria," has issued a warning to the Syrian military that if its counter-insurgency operations on Syrian soil leave US...

What Should We Do About Crimea?
by Ron Paul | Aug 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
Is Crimea about to explode? The mainstream media reports that Russia has amassed troops on the border with Ukraine and may be spoiling for a fight. The Russians claim to have stopped a Ukrainian sabotage team that snuck into Crimea to attack key infrastructure. The...
US Defense Contractors Tell Investors Russian Threat Is Great for Business
by Lee Fang | Aug 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
The escalating anti-Russian rhetoric in the US presidential campaign comes in the midst of a major push by military contractors to position Moscow as a potent enemy that must be countered with a drastic increase in military spending by NATO countries. Weapon makers...
‘Aleppo Child Survivor Image Will be Used as Propaganda for More War – Not Less’
by RT | Aug 20, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
When the government wants you to cry over something – a very murderous government – you have to look beyond that and think ‘what are they trying to do, what additional killing are they trying to justify’, Lew Rockwell, chairman of the Mises Institute, told RT.Recent...
Ron Paul: US Intervention Contributes to Risk of Ukraine Fighting Expansion
by Adam Dick | Aug 20, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul, interviewed Friday by Stuart Varney at Fox Business, says “trouble has been brewing” around Ukraine since the United States government in 2014 “participated in the coup” in the European nation, resulting in political upheavals including the ousting of...
Leaked Memo Proves Soros Ruled Ukraine In 2014: Minutes From ‘Breakfast With US Ambassador Pyatt’
by Alex Christoforou | Aug 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
We noted in a previous post how important Ukraine was to George Soros, with documents from DC Leaks that show Soros, and his Open Society NGO, scouring the Greek media and political landscape to push the benefits of his Ukraine coup upon a Russian leaning Greek...
The Aleppo Poster Child
by Paul Craig Roberts | Aug 19, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Washington’s media presstitutes are using the image of the child to bring pressure on Russia to stop the Syrian army from retaking Alleppo. Washington wants its so-called moderate rebels to retain Alleppo so that Washington can split Syria in two, thereby keeping a...
Leaked Memo Shows George Soros Worked to Push Greece to Support Ukraine Coup, Paint Russia as Enemy
by Alex Christoforou | Aug 19, 2016 | Featured Articles
Last week we reported on the DC Leaks hack of what was over 2,500 documents detailing how George Soros and his NGOs influence world leaders, drive foreign policy, and help to create unrest in sovereign nations, that many times leads to chaos and civil war. One country...
Breaking: US Issues Threat as Syria Bombs Rebels Near US Special Forces
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 19, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The US government scrambled jets over northern Syria today as a Syrian government attack on Kurdish rebels came close to US Special Forces fighting on the ground in Syria, media is reporting. The Pentagon also moved some of its Special Forces troops out of the...
NED, the Legal Window of the CIA
by Thierry Meyssan | Aug 18, 2016 | Featured Articles
In 2006, Kremlin denounced the proliferation of foreign associations in Russia, some of which would have participated in a secret plan, orchestrated by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), to destabilise the country. To prevent a “colour revolution”, Vladislav...
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