What was the real reason for the Lavrov/Tillerson/Trump meeting in Washington today? Likely it was to work out the new facts on the ground in Syria, where the "safe zones" that President Trump called for not long ago have actually been established through cooperation...
Month: May 2017
McCain Hammers Tillerson On Human Rights: Why The Panic?
by Daniel McAdams | May 9, 2017 | The Liberty Report
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) published an op-ed in the New York Times yesterday taking Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to task for Tillerson's recent comment that our national security goals overseas may on some occasions preclude the export of our human rights values. In...
On That Day Began Lies
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 9, 2017 | Featured Articles
Like many other mainstream political commentators, Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum is outraged and indignant over Donald Trump’s public praise and open embrace of foreign dictators who are allied or friendly with the US government. In an op-ed in the Post’s...
Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey
by Jonathan Turley | May 9, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey this evening in a surprise move. Various politicians and the media have openly referred to the act as “Nixonian” and “another Saturday Night Massacre.” I have previously stated how the Saturday Day Massacre has been...
A New Constitutional Convention?
by Adam Dick | May 8, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Texas House of Representatives approved a resolution (SJR 2) on Thursday requesting that the United States Congress call a new constitutional convention — the first since the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that resulted in the drafting of the current US...
President Trump: Cancel Your Saudi Trip, Play More Golf
by Ron Paul | May 8, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Trump is about to embark on his first foreign trip, where he will stop in Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the Vatican, before attending a NATO meeting in Brussels and the G-7 summit in Sicily. The media and pundits have loudly wondered why hasn’t he gone on a...
Trump’s First Trip: Will He ‘Stabilize’ The Middle East?
by Daniel McAdams | May 8, 2017 | The Liberty Report
President Trump is off to Saudi Arabia and Israel later this month, with stops at the Vatican and at a NATO summit. Since the election, a once-critical Trump has flip-flopped on Saudi Arabia, now he's expected to provide further US assistance to the ongoing Saudi war...
Neocon Anne Applebaum: Give Me Money to Fight ‘Russian Disinformation’!
by Daniel McAdams | May 8, 2017 | Neocon Watch
Neocon Anne Applebaum has never seen a bed she did not expect to find an evil Russian lurking beneath. More than a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War, she cannot let go of that hysterical feeling that, “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are...
ProPublica Attacks First Amendment, Cloudflare Edition
by Peter van Buren | May 8, 2017 | Featured Articles
You’re almost certainly interacting with Cloudflare right now. Feel OK?Cloudflare is a web services company that, among other things, protects sites against various malicious attacks and hacks. They don’t “host” data in most cases, but work as a kind of middleman...
How Berkeley and NYU’s Anti-Free Speech Actions are as Unconstitutional as Hell
by Peter van Buren | May 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
Ann Coulter will not speak at Berkeley this week because the threat of mob violence lead campus authorities to claim they could not protect her. The same threats led New York University (NYU) to cancel Milo Yiannopoulos’ appearance in February. These are shameful...
The ‘De-Escalation Zones’ are a Clever Trick. Thank God.
by Col. W. Patrick Lang | May 6, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In my opinion, Putin and Lavrov are even more clever than I had thought. The Astana process proposal for "de-escalation zones" in Syria has something for everyone:1. The SAG will receive yet more advice and assistance from Russia. As evidence of this R+6 forces are...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Iraq Agreement, Mass Surveillance, Paul Snooping, Afghan Presence, Distrust Government
by Adam Dick | May 6, 2017 | 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...
Russia, Iran, Turkey Ban US Planes Above Syrian ‘Safe Zones’
by Tyler Durden | May 5, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Russia said it’s ready to send peacekeepers to Syria after Turkey and Iran agreed on Thursday to Russia's proposal for "de-escalation zones" in Syria. The move, welcomed by the United Nations, has been met with skepticism from the United States as the so-called...
Pre-emptive War Is A Pandora’s Box
by Daniel McAdams | May 5, 2017 | The Liberty Report
"We have to fight them over there, so we won't have to fight them here." Was it George W. Bush? Nope. The statement goes all the way back to President Truman, who warned that if we didn't fight the Korean war we'd have to fight commies in Wichita. The whole idea of...
Madison Was Right About War
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 4, 2017 | Featured Articles
Given that so many Americans continue to express gratitude to the troops for their forever service in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and elsewhere, it would be worthwhile to revisit the immortal words of James Madison, the father of the U.S. Constitution: Of...
Syria Safe Zones Declared: Will The Killing Finally End?
by Daniel McAdams | May 4, 2017 | The Liberty Report
This morning an agreement was reached at the Syria talks in Astana, Kazakhstan, to set up four "de-escalation" or "safe" zones inside Syria, where moderate rebels would be tolerated but extremists like al-Qaeda and ISIS and their various offshoots would not be...
What the North Korean ‘Crisis’ Is Really About
by Paul Craig Roberts | May 4, 2017 | Featured Articles
The North Korean “crisis” is a Washington orchestration. North Korea was last at war 1950-53. North Korea has not attacked or invaded anyone in 64 years. North Korea lacks the military strength to attack any country, such as South Korea and Japan, that is protected by...
War or Peace?
by Dennis J. Kucinich | May 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
There is a dangerous condition in Washington, DC where people in positions of influence and great power are, at this very moment, pushing this nation and the world to the brink of a nuclear catastrophe. We did not arrive at crisis overnight but be sure we are at a...
Ask Ron Paul: NAFTA, Obamacare, Taxes, State Rights, And More…
by Daniel McAdams | May 3, 2017 | The Liberty Report
Does sending more US troops into Afghanistan make any sense? Ron Paul doesn't think so and he explains why in this new edition of #AskRonPaul in today's Liberty Report:
Welcome to the White House, President Duterte
by Adam Dick | May 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
Part of noninterventionism in foreign affairs is refraining from using threats, sanctions, foreign aid, or military attacks to make the governments of other countries change their actions in their own countries. The United States government has drifted so far from...
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