Just when we thought the enemy of the week was going to be North Korea again. Or maybe Russia. Or Syria. It turns out that Washington's enemy of this week is...Iran! The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is pushing through a bill slapping additional sanctions on...
Month: May 2017
Wilbur Ross: Syria Missile Strike Was ‘After-Dinner Entertainment’ at Mar-a-Lago
by Robert Wenzel | May 2, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross spoke this week at the Milken Global Conference in Beverley Hills.He recalled the scene at Mar-a-Lago on April 6, when the summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping was interrupted by the strike on Syria.“Just as dessert was being served,...
The Real WMD in Syria – West’s Weapon of Mass Disorientation
by Finian Cunningham | May 2, 2017 | Featured Articles
A senior Rand analyst, inadvertently, gave the game away in a recent article inculpating Syrian President Bashar al Assad over the alleged toxic massacre of civilians on April 4. The Rand Corporation, a longtime conduit for CIA propaganda, wrote: "The use of chemical...

Save Liberty, Shut Down the Government
by Ron Paul | May 1, 2017 | Featured Articles
Congress ended the week by passing a continuing resolution keeping the government funded for one more week. This stopgap funding bill is designed to give Congress and the White House more time to negotiate a long-term spending bill. Passage of a long-term spending...
Peace: Neither Ink nor Blood
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | May 1, 2017 | Featured Articles
One of the problems of the interventionista – wanting to get involved in other people’s affairs “in order to help”, while genuinely wanting to do good, results in disrupting some of the peace-making mechanisms that are inherent in human’s affairs, a combination of...
As Expected, A ‘Bipartisan’ Budget…More Spending!
by Daniel McAdams | May 1, 2017 | The Liberty Report
No, the government is not going to close down. It's all a ruse. The budget "crisis" was solved by agreeing on a 1,600 page bill that spends more on the military and more on government programs at home. There's something in it for politicians of almost every stripe....
Big Brother Is Still Watching You: Don’t Fall for the NSA’s Latest Ploy
by John W. Whitehead | May 1, 2017 | Featured Articles
“You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984 Supposedly the National Security Administration is going to stop collecting...
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