The Obama administration, and especially the CIA and the State Department, seem to be in trouble. They shout everything they can against Russia and allege that the cleansing of east-Aleppo of al-Qaeda terrorist is genocidal. Meanwhile no mention is ever made of the...
Month: September 2016
Libertarianism and War: The Rothbard Rule
by Justin Raimondo | Sep 30, 2016 | Featured Articles
The year was 1956: the icy winds of the cold war were blowing across the political landscape. And it was a presidential election year, pitting the internationalist Republican Dwight Eisenhower against Adlai Stevenson, the darling of the Democratic party’s left wing....
Russia-US relations: Increased Tensions
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 30, 2016 | Featured Articles
A confrontation between Russia and the US over Syria seems all but inevitable after the end of a ceasefire early this month, a US attack on Syrian forces, an attack on a humanitarian aid convoy, and a renewed push by the Syrian army to re-take eastern Aleppo from...
Why Everything You Hear About Aleppo Is Wrong
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 29, 2016 | The Liberty Report
The mainstream media portrays the fight for Aleppo as one between Syrian President Assad and the people, painting Assad as someone killing his citizens for the fun of it. In other words, as they did with Iraq and Libya, etc. the mainstream media again happily takes up...
Judge Napolitano: Donald Trump Supports ‘Authoritarian Police State’ Stop-and-Frisk
by Adam Dick | Sep 29, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Constitutional scholar and former New Jersey state judge Andrew Napolitano, in an interview Wednesday with host Brian Thomas at KRC-Radio in Cincinnati, Ohio, decried as an authoritarian police state activity the now-discontinued New York City stop-and-frisk program...
The US is Your Know-it-All Friend Who Should Just Keep His Mouth Shut
by Stephen Kinzer | Sep 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
When makers of American foreign policy dream of an ideal world, they fixate on one word: primacy. It used to be called “full-spectrum dominance.” On the street, it comes out as “Don’t even think about it.” Tough guys in Western movies put it differently: “This town...
Oops They Did it Again: US ‘Misdirected’ Drone Strike on Somalia Kills 22 Civilians, Soldiers
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 29, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In what the US is calling a "misdirected" airstrike, some 22 Somali citizens and soldiers were killed by a US missile fired from a drone intended to take out al-Qaeda affiliated al-Shabab militia members. According to the BBC, the airstrike may have been a ruse by one...
Obama Humiliated: For The First Time, Congress Votes To Override President’s ‘Sept 11’ Bill Veto
by Tyler Durden | Sep 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
The US Congress, first the Senate and then the House, humiliated the president when it voted on Wednesday to override Obama for the first time in his eight-year tenure, as the House voted 348-77 to reject a veto of legislation allowing families of terrorist victims to...
Al-Qaeda: ‘America Is On Our Side’
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 28, 2016 | The Liberty Report
In an interview with a prominent German newspaper, the commander of al-Qaeda's Nusra Front in Aleppo, Syria claims that the US government and its allies are providing it with weapons and training. It may seem preposterous, but the US did the same thing with the...
The Symbiotic Relationship Between Central Banking and Total War
by Paul-Martin Foss | Sep 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
The following is the prepared version of a speech delivered at the Ron Paul Institute Conference in Sterling, VA. I am here today to talk about one of the most important, but also most overlooked, issues of our day: the relationship between central banking and total...
The ‘Great Debate’ – Who Won?
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 27, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Although we obviously take no position on who should be (or should not be) the next US president, the issues that we face in foreign policy, civil liberties, and monetary policy are of great concern to us. Last night's debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton...
George Soros’s False Flag Factories
by Wayne Madsen | Sep 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
Global hedge fund tycoon and political provocateur George Soros is leading a war of symbols, namely flags and banners either resurrected or conjured up by his myriad non-profit groups, to stir religious, racial, and ethnic tensions the world over. From the Serbian...
Israel’s $38 Billion Scam
by Philip Giraldi | Sep 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
As an American it is difficult to imagine a more unseemly bit of political theater playing out than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s appearance before his cabinet to claim that he had gotten every last dollar of military assistance out of the Obama...
Five Minutes Five Issues: WaPo Betrayal, Tulsa Charge, NYPD Cash, Marijuana Defense, Boehner’s Bonanza
by Adam Dick | Sep 26, 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...
Wells Fargo or the Federal Reserve: Who’s the Bigger Fraud?
by Ron Paul | Sep 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Wells Fargo bank account scandal took center stage in the news last week and in all likelihood will continue to make headlines for many weeks to come. What Wells Fargo employees did in opening bank accounts without customers' authorization was obviously wrong, but...
The Hillary Clinton Presidency Has Already Begun As Lame Ducks Promote Her War
by Diana Johnstone | Sep 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
If the British Empire was built on the playing fields of Eton, United States world hegemony gets its training in Hollywood studios and advertising agencies. Selling your product, or yourself, by looking sincere is a cultivated American art. Current top US leaders are...
A Few Uncomfortable Truths You Won’t Hear from the 2016 Presidential Candidates
by John W. Whitehead | Sep 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”—George Orwell In the interest of liberty and truth, here are a few uncomfortable truths about life in the American police state that we will not be hearing from either...
How the Pentagon Sank the US-Russia Deal in Syria – and the Ceasefire
by Gareth Porter | Sep 24, 2016 | Featured Articles
Another US-Russian Syria ceasefire deal has been blown up.Whether it could have survived even with a US-Russian accord is open to doubt, given the incentives for al-Qaeda and its allies to destroy it. But the politics of the US-Russian relationship played a central...
Ron Paul: Clinton and Trump Support More Militarism, Mass Surveillance, and Drug War
by Adam Dick | Sep 23, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Speaking Thursday with host Kennedy at Fox Business, former presidential candidate Ron Paul critiqued Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for their support of the continuation of militarism, mass...
Journey To Aleppo: Exposing The Truth Buried Under NATO Propaganda
by Vanessa Beeley | Sep 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
The extent of the destruction inflicted upon the Kurdish-held Sheikh Maqsoud by the U.S.-backed “moderate rebels” and the scars of the battle for its liberation are highlighted in the state of the neighborhood’s infrastructure. (Photo by Vanessa Beeley)ALEPPO, Syria —...
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