For the past couple of weeks the CIA weapons smuggling operation to Syrian rebels has been on hold, according to press reports. Does this mean Trump's sensible "we don't know who these people are" statement during the campaign has become policy? We hope that is the...
Month: February 2017
The Sacrifice of Tulsi Gabbard
by David Gornoski | Feb 22, 2017 | Featured Articles
The media continues to be an increasingly petty, insecure clique as it mimetically parrots its own echo chamber talking points against any person who challenges their preferred leftist-corporatist brand of state hegemony. Think of political ideologies like...
Say Goodbye to ‘Getting Along With Russia’ – Trump’s NSC Pick McMaster is a Major Hawk
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 21, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Earlier today, President Trump selected Gen. H.R. McMaster to be his National Security Advisor, replacing the short-lived Gen. Michael Flynn. Those breathing a sigh of relief that the rumored favorite John Bolton didn't get the nod may want to hold that thought -- and...
Veterans Being Misled On JASTA, Says International Law Expert
by Brian McGlinchey | Feb 21, 2017 | Featured Articles
As Saudi lobbyists continue to fly U.S. military veterans to Washington to oppose a recently-passed law that cleared the way for 9/11 families and victims to sue the kingdom for its alleged assistance to the hijackers, an expert on international law says the principal...
McMaster To NSC – More Troops To Middle East?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 21, 2017 | The Liberty Report
President Trump's pick for National Security Advisor, Gen. H.R. McMaster, holds some views on Russia that seem to be at odds with the policy positions of his boss. He believes that Russian "aggression" began when the US began to withdraw from the world militarily,...
Why Do ‘Progressives’ Like War?
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 21, 2017 | Featured Articles
Liberals are supposed to be antiwar, right? I went to college in the 1960s, when students nationwide were rising up in opposition to the Vietnam War. I was a Young Republican back then and supported the war through sheer ignorance and dislike of the sanctimoniousness...
Ambassador Nikki Haley is Completely Clueless
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 21, 2017 | Neocon Watch
Just when we thought the great national embarrassment of a UN Ambassador Samantha Power was over, we are suddenly faced with a new US Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, who almost makes Ms. Power look like a giant in world affairs and diplomacy. Addressing...
The ‘Blind Sheik’ And The CIA – Media Bury US Support For Radical Islamism
by Moon of Alabama | Feb 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
Two days ago the Takfiri Islamist leader Omar Abdul-Rahman , the so called "Blind Sheik", died in a US prison. He had been found guilty of involvement in the 1993 attempt to bring down the World Trade Center in New York and of other crimes.The obituaries of Omar...
McCain in Munich: The War Party Fights Back
by Justin Raimondo | Feb 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
The Munich conference held over the weekend – an annual event that brings the leaders of the Atlantic alliance together to celebrate their hegemonic pretensions – was anything but celebratory this time around. Despite the assurances of Vice President Pence that...
More Troops: Why Trump’s ISIS Strategy Will Fail
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 20, 2017 | The Liberty Report
After nearly 14 years of US military action in Iraq, significant parts of the country remain occupied by an ISIS that did not exist before the 2013 US "liberation." The occupation that followed the 2013 US invasion of Iraq fueled the resentment that led to the rise of...
Trump’s ISIS Plan: Another US Invasion?
by Ron Paul | Feb 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
Just over a week into the Trump Administration, the President issued an Executive Order giving Defense Secretary James Mattis 30 days to come up with a plan to defeat ISIS. According to the Order, the plan should make recommendations on military actions, diplomatic...
Red Hysteria Engulfs Washington
by Eric Margolis | Feb 19, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Dwight Eisenhower’s warning about the dangers of the military-industrial complex made half a century ago ring as loud and clear today. The soft coup being mounted against the Trump government by America’s "deep state" reached a new intensity this week as...
Governor Kucinich?
by Adam Dick | Feb 18, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Might Dennis Kucinich, who represented an Ohio district as a Democrat in the US House of Representatives for eight terms, be elected the next governor of Ohio? Henry J. Gomez reported Friday at Cleveland.com that “the names of more than a dozen Ohio Democrats swirl in...
‘America wants empire and for Europeans to remain subservient’
by RT | Feb 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
The US spends more on its military than the next seven nations combined. Russian military spending is a fraction of US spending. The US spends an enormous amount on the military to maintain its empire, says Daniel McAdams, executive director, Ron Paul Peace...
Bribes, Catapults, and Corruption Trump Trumps Wall
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 17, 2017 | Featured Articles
Donald Trump is obviously a smart man. One cannot build up a billion-dollar financial empire without being smart.Unfortunately, however, Trump is not so smart when it comes to some things, like the drug war. He thinks that simply by cracking down in the drug war and...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Poking Russia, Flynn Fuss, Protest Violence, US Killers, Wall Costs
by Adam Dick | Feb 17, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted on Friday. 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...
The Cancer of War: US Used Depleted Uranium in Syria
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 17, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Despite vowing not to use depleted uranium (DU) weapons in its military action in Syria, the US government has now admitted that it has fired thousands of the deadly rounds into Syrian territory. As Foreign Policy Magazine reports: US Central Command (CENTCOM)...
Flynn’s Gone But They’re Still Gunning For You, Donald
by David Stockman | Feb 17, 2017 | Featured Articles
General Flynn's tenure in the White House was only slightly longer than that of President-elect William Henry Harrison in 1841. Actually, with just 24 days in the White House, General Flynn's tenure fell a tad short of old "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too". General Harrison...
Andrew Napolitano: Donald Trump Has to ‘Fear the Intelligence Community’
by Adam Dick | Feb 16, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President Donald Trump has to “fear the intelligence community,” declared Andrew Napolitano in a new interview with host Neil Cavuto at Fox News, after “American scoundrels” in the “unelected deep state bureaucracy” leaked information about Michael Flynn’s...
You Are Forbidden to Talk with Russians!
by Michael S. Rozeff | Feb 16, 2017 | Featured Articles
A New York Times article says “The agency’s [FBI’s] investigation of Mr. Manafort began last spring as an outgrowth of a criminal investigation into his work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine and for the country’s former president, Viktor F. Yanukovych. It...
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