“No doubt Putin is playing Trump!” Yes, former CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell is indeed at it again. During the presidential campaign he repeatedly attacked Donald Trump as an “unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.” In the same vein, anonymous CIA officials have...
Month: January 2017
Abolish the CIA
by Michael S. Rozeff | Jan 16, 2017 | Featured Articles
Every American who looks at the CIA objectively or in a balanced way and judges it by any number of criteria, such as moral, legal and pragmatic, should reach the conclusion that the CIA should be abolished. JFK wanted to break it into a million pieces. Trump is right...
Not Just Poland: US Marines Deployed to Norway
by Adam Dick | Jan 16, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Poland is not the only European country into which United States military forces are being inserted in the final days of the Obama administration. On Monday, about 300 Marines arrived in Norway. Reuters reports that the Marines, who will be the first foreign troops...
Antiwar And Anti-Violence: The Revolutionary MLK
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 16, 2017 | The Liberty Report
Martin Luther King's 1967 sermons and speeches against the Vietnam war may not be as well-remembered as his famous "I have a Dream" speech, but they demonstrate a commitment to the spirit of the Nobel Peace Prize he won in 1964. Others who have won this award have not...
Protesters Succeed In Preventing Conservative Speakers From Appearing At The University of California At Davis
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
We have been discussing the largely successful efforts by students and faculty to prevent certain conservative speakers like Milo Yiannopoulos from being able to speak on campuses. The latest such example is University of California at Davis where protesters succeeded...
Will Trump Continue the Bush-Obama Legacy?
by Ron Paul | Jan 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
This week, Congress passed a budget calling for increasing federal spending and adding $1.7 trillion to the national debt over the next ten years. Most so-called “fiscal conservatives" voted for this big-spending budget because it allows Congress to repeal some parts...
Five Minutes Five Issues: US Bombs, Airport Guns, Vaccines Commission, Marijuana Bill, Polluted WaPo
by Adam Dick | Jan 14, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues is out. 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 episode,...
Is Trump Already Finished?
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jan 14, 2017 | Featured Articles
It did not take long before we knew there was no hope of change from President Obama. But at least he went into his inauguration with an unprecedented number of Americans on the Mall showing their support for the President of Change. Hope was abundant.But with Trump,...
The Secret Trump Dossier — What Does It Mean?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
The strange UK "former" spy-produced report on information the Russians may have to compromise President-elect Donald Trump has been widely denounced and the website that released it in its entirety, BuzzFeed, criticized for irresponsibility. However, Buzzfeed has...
One Final Expansion of the Surveillance State as Obama Heads for the Door
by Scott Shackford | Jan 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Barack Obama's administration ending its eight-year rule by expanding the sharing of intercepted communications and data between federal agencies may feel a little bit like a final giant middle finger to the many critics of the massive, secretive...
Did John McCain ‘Launder’ Dodgy Trump Intel Dossier?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 12, 2017 | Neocon Watch
We all know what money laundering is. When you need to hide the fact that the money in your possession comes by way of nefarious sources, you transfer it through legitimate sources and it appears clean on the other end. It's standard practice among thieves,...
House Members Offered ‘Russian Hacking’ Briefing — Two Weeks After Obama Expelled Russian Diplomats
by Adam Dick | Jan 12, 2017 | Congress Alert
US House Member Justin Amash (R-MI) announced Wednesday on Twitter that the Obama administration has agreed to the request Amash and fellow House Member Walter Jones (R-NC) made to President Barack Obama on December 19 that a classified briefing be provided for all...
Ron Paul Worries of ‘Setback of Civil Liberty’ with Jeff Sessions as Attorney General
by Adam Dick | Jan 12, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Speaking Wednesday with host Kennedy at Fox Business, former House of Representatives Member Ron Paul (R-TX) opined that President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions “wouldn’t qualify as a good civil libertarian” and would be “a great danger...
The Tillerson Hearing: Will Trump Have A Neocon Foreign Policy?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 12, 2017 | The Liberty Report
Watching the Senate hearing for President-elect Trump's Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, it seemed arch-neocon Bill Kristol might have been hiding somewhere feeding the former Exxon CEO his lines. He's going to stop China from accessing islands it has constructed in...
American Troops ‘Roll Into Poland’ In Largest Deployment Since The Cold War
by Tyler Durden | Jan 12, 2017 | Featured Articles
"American soldiers rolled into Poland on Thursday, fulfilling a dream Poles have had since the fall of communism in 1989 to have US troops on their soil as a deterrent against Russia." That's how the AP begins its report on the first deployment of US soldiers into the...
Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich Ask President Obama to Free Chelsea Manning
by Adam Dick | Jan 12, 2017 | Featured Articles
Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich sent a letter this week to President Barack Obama requesting that Obama “grant the application for clemency submitted by Chelsea Manning and commute her sentence to time served.” The result of Obama taking this action would be the...
Will the CIA Retaliate Against Trump?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 11, 2017 | Featured Articles
In a truly remarkable bit of honesty and candor regarding the U.S. national-security establishment, new Senate minority leader Charles Schumer has accused President-elect Trump of “being really dumb.”Was Schumer referring to Trump’s ideology, philosophy, or knowledge...
Ron Paul: ‘Political Grandstanding’ Behind Accusations of Russian Hacking of US Election
by Adam Dick | Jan 10, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a new interview at RT, Ron Paul challenges the recently released United States intelligence report alleging Russian hacking of emails to affect the 2016 US presidential election and says that people pointing to the report as proving the Russian hacking are engaged...
Washington Invented Hacking and Interfering in Elections
by Philip Giraldi | Jan 10, 2017 | Featured Articles
Is the United States the victim of an unprovoked cyber and media attack by Russia and China or are the chickens coming home to roost after Washington’s own promotion of such activity worldwide? On Thursday Director of National Intelligence James Clapper asserted to...
Confirmation: Tillerson’s Turn In The Hot Seat
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 10, 2017 | The Liberty Report
President-elect Trump's choice for Secretary of State, former Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, has infuriated Senators and the mainstream media by doing business with Russia, doing business with Iran even while sanctions were in place, and having personal investments in China...
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