This Thursday, the House of Representatives will vote on a Republican bill that supposedly repeals Obamacare. However, the bill retains Obamacare’s most destructive features.That is not to say this legislation is entirely without merit. For example, the bill expands...
Month: March 2017
Why Are Americans Searched at the Border?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
Whenever American citizens travel to another country, they are subjected to intrusive searches at the hands of US officials upon returning to the United States.Why? What’s the justification?Since Americans living today have all been born and raised under this type of...
No One Needs Another Korean War
by Eric Margolis | Mar 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
Panmunjom, the "peace village" on the incredibly tense demilitarized zone (aka DMZ) between North and South Korea, is one of the weirdest places I’ve ever visited. Tough North Korean soldiers lurk about, watched by equally tough South Korean troops in one-way...
Syria: The Micro World War
by Jack Perry | Mar 18, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Wow, who knew that the Israeli air force was running ops in Syria? In the news Friday, Israel is bragging that they intercepted and downed a Syrian SAM that was sent up after one of its planes. Israel says they’re in Syria to hit Hezbollah’s version of the Ho Chi Minh...
Jeff Sessions is Less of a Threat to Marijuana Legalization than You May Think
by Adam Dick | Mar 17, 2017 | Featured Articles
United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions has worried many advocates for legal medical and recreational marijuana because of his comments, before and since becoming attorney general, critical of both marijuana and its legalization for any purpose. However, in...
How To End the Korean War
by Justin Raimondo | Mar 17, 2017 | Featured Articles
What in the name of all that’s holy is going on in North Korea?This question is always hard to answer because they don’t call it the Hermit Kingdom for nothing. Very little comes out of the notoriously reclusive – and repressive – Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea,...
Fed Hikes Rate – Stagflation Ahead?
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 16, 2017 | The Liberty Report
What does Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen's decision to raise the interest rates .25 percent mean for the US economy? The budget? What about debt versus GDP growth? We take a look at the continuing disaster of creating money out of thin air in today's Liberty...
The Kagans Are Back; Wars to Follow
by Robert Parry | Mar 16, 2017 | Featured Articles
The Kagan family, America’s neoconservative aristocracy, has reemerged having recovered from the letdown over not gaining its expected influence from the election of Hillary Clinton and from its loss of official power at the start of the Trump presidency.Back...
Trump/Saudi Collusion: Laying Plans For More War In The Middle East
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 15, 2017 | The Liberty Report
President Trump's visit with the Saudi Crown Prince seemed to have gone very well yesterday. Despite being solidly behind Hillary in the campaign -- at least in their donations to the Clinton Foundation -- Saudi Arabia's millions spent on lobbying in Washington seem...
State Department: Is America’s Oldest Cabinet Agency Trumped?
by Peter van Buren | Mar 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
What if it’s not incompetence? What if it is by design? What if President Donald Trump has decided American doesn’t really need a Department of State and if he can’t get away with closing it down, he can disable and defund it?The only problem is Trump will quickly...
Sen. McCain Explodes: ‘Rand Paul is Working for Putin!’
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 15, 2017 | Congress Alert
"Putin derangement syndrome" may have finally jumped the shark. Just minutes ago on the US Senate Floor, Sen. Rand Paul did the sensible thing and blocked NATO accession for tiny, corrupt Montenegro. The inconsequential Balkan country brings absolutely nothing to the...
The Four Horsemen Of The Trumpocalypse
by Charles Goyette | Mar 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
It’s a horse race.Will Donald Trump’s first new war be with Russia, Iran, China, or North Korea?Here are some things to consider as you try to handicap this deadly contest:Russia:It is a certainty that a war of principals or proxies with Russia remains a chief...
Lawrence Wilkerson Warns US Generating Enemies Beyond its Capacity to Deal With
by Adam Dick | Mar 14, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Lawrence Wilkerson, a former Army colonel and chief of staff for Colin Powell at the United States Department of State, expressed this week strong criticism of the US government adding more and more nations to its enemies list. Speaking with host Paul Jay at the Real...
What Is the CIA Hack All About?
by Philip Giraldi | Mar 14, 2017 | Featured Articles
The WikiLeaks exposure of thousands of documents relating to the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) hacking program, which was expanded dramatically under President Barack Obama between 2013 and 2016, has created something of a panic in the users of cell phones,...
US Practices ‘Taking Out’ Kim Jong-Un — What Will Be The Consequences?
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 14, 2017 | The Liberty Report
The Trump Administration seems determined to provoke North Korea. Washington is sending over SEAL Team 6, Delta Forces, B-52s and B-1s, F-35s and more for a series of military exercises that will include preparing for "regime change" and for taking out Kim Jong-Un....
Criticizing Neoconservatives and the Deep State is Anti-Semitic?
by Adam Dick | Mar 13, 2017 | Neocon Watch
Kevin D. Williamson’s Sunday National Review editorial “Word Games” may lead readers to believe that people who criticize neoconservatives or the deep state are presenting anti-Semitic arguments or are anti-Semitic. The editorial does not conclude that all people who...
New Rules Of Engagement: More Authority To The Generals
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 13, 2017 | The Liberty Report
President Trump has reportedly expanded the authority of military officers to approve drone strikes across the many countries where the US military is engaged. This is an escalation in the pace of US military actions overseas where the recent troop increases are an...
More Mideast Madness as Trump Prepares to March
by Eric Margolis | Mar 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
We are now moving rapidly into stage II of Levantine Madness as the US boosts its intervention in the war-torn Mideast. Five thousand US troops are back in Iraq to bolster the shattered nation’s puppet regime that is propped up by American bayonets. New Iraqi military...
Why Trump’s Syria ‘Surge’ Will Fail
by Ron Paul | Mar 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
Last week President Trump significantly escalated the US military presence in Syria, sending some 400 Marines to the ISIS-controlled Raqqa, and several dozen Army Rangers to the contested area around Manbij. According to press reports he will also station some 2,500...
Assad Calls US Forces In Syria ‘Invaders,’ Loses Faith In Trump
by Tyler Durden | Mar 12, 2017 | Featured Articles
With the Trump administration rapidly shifting its foreign policy stance in recent weeks as the Goldman-led group inside the White House steamrolls all opposition, in the process dashing hopes of a detente between DC and Moscow which now appear set to continue the...
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