On January 29, 5-year-old Sinan al Ameri was asleep with his mother, his aunt, and 12 other children in a one-room stone hut typical of poor rural villages in the highlands of Yemen. A little after 1 a.m., the women and children awoke to the sound of a gunfight...
Month: March 2017
Ron Paul Calls WikiLeaks Revelation of CIA Documents ‘Fantastic’
by Adam Dick | Mar 11, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul, the prominent libertarian communicator and three-time US presidential candidate, declared this week in a Fox Business interview that it is “fantastic” that WikiLeaks revealed on Tuesday thousands of US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) documents and files....
Raqqa and Manjib Not Central to Assad
by Michael S. Rozeff | Mar 11, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Syrian military strategy of President Assad is well-known. It is explained here, and here. This strategy has succeeded. The Assad coalition of forces is defeating his opponents. They are continuing steadily to clear remaining opposition forces from Syria.Raqqa has...
Do We Live in a Police State?
by Justin Raimondo | Mar 10, 2017 | Featured Articles
WikiLeaks and Julian Assange would have gone down in history as the greatest enemies of government oppression of all kinds in any case, but their latest release – a comprehensive exposé of the US intelligence community’s cyberwar tools and techniques – is truly the...
‘Bomb the Sh*t Out Of Them!’ – Trump Drones Yemen More in One Week Than Obama in a Year
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 10, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Undeterred by the disastrous commando raid on Yemen in the first days of his Administration, where plenty of civilians were killed but the target got away, President Donald Trump has escalated US military involvement in the tragic Yemen conflict to an unprecedented...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Telescreens, Surveillance Elitism, Arizona Gold, Trump Pat-Down, CIA Truth
by Adam Dick | Mar 10, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues is out today. 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...
Trump Invades Syria
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 9, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
US forces in Manbij, Syria. March 5, 2017.Although the Syrian army, with its ally Russia, has made significant gains against ISIS over the past week or so, the Washington Post is reporting tonight that President Trump has for the first time sent regular US military...
Race For Raqqa: Major US Escalation In Syria
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 9, 2017 | The Liberty Report
US boots are on the ground in Syria. Nearly 1,000 to be exact. Not counting CIA or contractors. President Trump has ordered several hundred US Marines onto Syrian soil (without permission) to participate in the attack on Raqqa, and he has sent several dozen Army...
The Lynching of Lynne Stewart (1939-2017)
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 9, 2017 | Featured Articles
Convicted felon Lynne Stewart passed away on Tuesday. She was a noted criminal defense attorney in New York City who federal officials prosecuted, convicted, and punished for supporting terrorism.It was a bogus charge, one that perfectly reflects the extent to which...
When Whistleblowers Tell The Truth They’re Traitors. When Government Lies It’s Politics
by Carey Wedler | Mar 9, 2017 | Featured Articles
Immediately after Wikileaks released thousands of documents revealing the extent of CIA surveillance and hacking practices, the government was calling for an investigation - not into why the CIA has amassed so much power, but rather, into who exposed their invasive...
Spygate: America’s Political Police vs. Donald J. Trump
by Justin Raimondo | Mar 8, 2017 | Featured Articles
Everyone is suddenly talking about the Deep State – the configuration of spy agencies, career bureaucrats, and overseas spooks whose murky omnipresence has been brought to light by President Trump’s contention that he was “wiretapped” by his predecessor.With his usual...
Truman Was Right About the CIA
by Jeff Deist | Mar 8, 2017 | Featured Articles
Say what you will about President Harry Truman, but at least he didn't leave the White House a suspiciously rich man. He also actuallywent home, to Independence Missouri, and moved into a modest house he didn't own. It was the same house belonging to his wife's family...
Trump’s Global Hot Spots – Is He Losing Control?
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 8, 2017 | The Liberty Report
What is the libertarian response to the Trump era? Is it about building a "movement" or about fighting in the battle of ideas? Have the neocons been put on their back heel by the new Administration or are they still riding high? What's our next move? Mises Institute...
Can Public Opinion Check Presidential Power?
by Adam Dick | Mar 8, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The concentration of power in the United States presidency has had a good run over the last few decades. This concentration of power is evident in presidents pursuing war after war without the constitutionally-required congressional declaration of war or even a...
The Left’s Great Russian Conspiracy Theory
by Brendan O Neill | Mar 7, 2017 | Featured Articles
The chattering classes have officially lost it. On both sides of the Atlantic. Of course they’d been teetering on the cliff edge of sanity for a while, following the bruising of their beloved EU by 17m angry Brits and Hillary’s loss to that orange muppet they thought...
New TSA Rules — More Aggressive Pat-Downs!
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 7, 2017 | The Liberty Report
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has consistently failed miserably when tested on detecting contraband coming into airports. So what's the government solution to a broken system? Double down! TSA has announced that it will begin taking its failures out...
The CIA Leak Casts Doubt on Russian Involvement in the DNC/Podesta Leaks
by Alexander Mercouris | Mar 7, 2017 | Featured Articles
The huge leak of information from the CIA just published by Wikileaks gives a fascinating picture of how the CIA goes about its business, though I doubt there is much there which will come as a surprise to most people.In light of all the swirl of activity around the...
US Airstrikes Continue in Yemen, Killing Former Gitmo Detainee
by Jason Ditz | Mar 7, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Heavy US airstrikes that began Thursday and continued through the weekend have not halted yet, with at least one strike reported on Monday, with the drone strike destroying a car and killing both people within, labeled “suspected terrorists,” though both were burned...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Anti-Marijuana Sessions, War Propaganda, No Guns List, Military Spending, Prostitution
by Adam Dick | Mar 6, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues has been posted. 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...
Trump Tapped? President Accuses Obama Of Spying On His Campaign
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 6, 2017 | The Liberty Report
Over the weekend, President Trump Tweeted the he had just learned that former President Obama had wiretapped the campaign headquarters at Trump Towers. The mainstream media is largely ignoring the actual claims -- certainly there is very little investigative...
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