According to a new NBC News survey, some 76 percent of Americans are afraid of being drawn into a major war. That is a ten percent increase from just February. What's behind this increased fear? The country that Americans feel most threatened by is North Korea, which...
Month: July 2017
Jeff Sessions Declares War On Liberty
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 18, 2017 | The Liberty Report
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivered a fiery speech yesterday to the National District Attorneys Association. Unfortunately his fire was all directed at our civil liberties. He wants to crack down on guns, ramp up the drug war (including more harassment of...
The Dangerous Rush to Prosecute Donald Trump and His Associates
by Adam Dick | Jul 18, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
No, no, no, no, and no, responds George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley to the calls, arising out of the “Russiagate” fixation, to prosecute President Donald Trump and his campaign and presidential administration associates for a list of crimes —...
US Stumbling into War with Iran
by Andrei Akulov | Jul 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
There are signs that a US military operation against Iran is imminent. The administration is pushing Congress for the authority to build new "temporary" facilities in Iraq and Syria. Its policy statement says the armed forces are hamstrung by legal restrictions on the...
Four Major Famines – Unintended Consequences Of US Foreign Policy
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 17, 2017 | The Liberty Report
The UN has identified four countries where the threat of major famine -- with potentially millions dead -- is becoming reality. Though there are many factors contributing to famine, including bad economic policies, weather disturbances, and so one, in fact these four...
Libya Report: Is Saif Gaddafi in the West’s Crosshairs?
by Richard Galustian | Jul 17, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The struggle for power from the ruins of Libya is likely to get even uglier, and what is becoming decidedly more noticeable is the role of other interfering states who are betting on one side or another in the game for the prize that is Libya.The latest international...
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Big Military Spending Boost Threatens Our Economy and Security
by Ron Paul | Jul 17, 2017 | Featured Articles
On Friday the House overwhelmingly approved a massive increase in military spending, passing a $696 billion National Defense Authorization bill for 2018. President Trump’s request already included a huge fifty or so billion dollar spending increase, but the...
Photos Of Aleppo Rising: Swimsuits, Concerts And Rebuilding In First Jihadi-Free Summer
by Tyler Durden | Jul 17, 2017 | Featured Articles
Aleppo orchestra concert, Summer 2017/via Sarah Abdallah When taxi and bus drivers take journalists into Syria via the Beirut-Damascus Highway these days, there's a common greeting that has become a kind of local tradition as the drivers pull into their Damascus area...
With New DC Policy Group, Dems Continue to Rehabilitate and Unify With Bush-Era Neocons
by Glenn Greenwald | Jul 17, 2017 | Neocon Watch
One of the most under-discussed yet consequential changes in the American political landscape is the reunion between the Democratic Party and the country’s most extreme and discredited neocons. While the rise of Donald Trump, whom neocons loathe, has accelerated this...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Marijuana Bureaucracy, WaPo Conflict, Drug Decrim, Ronald Wayne, Thoreau Birthday
by Adam Dick | Jul 16, 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...
Netanyahu Opposes US-Russia South Syria Ceasefire Deal
by Jason Ditz | Jul 16, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made clear today that he and his government oppose the ongoing ceasefire in Southern Syria, a deal negotiated between the United States and Russia, and which has continued to hold throughout the past week.Netanyahu made...
Democrats Gone Mad: The Year of Living Stupidly
by Glen Ford | Jul 16, 2017 | Featured Articles
For more than a year now, the collective US ruling class, with Democratic Party and corporate media operatives in the vanguard, has frozen the national political discourse in a McCarthyite time warp. A random visit to a July 26, 2016, issue of the New York Times...
20th Anniversary, Asian Financial Crisis: Clinton, The IMF And Wall Street Journal Toppled Suharto
by Steve H. Hanke | Jul 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
On August 14, 1997, shortly after the Thai baht collapsed on July 2nd, Indonesia floated the rupiah. This prompted Stanley Fischer, then the Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund and presently Vice Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, to...
House Approves $696 Billion Military Spending Bill
by Jason Ditz | Jul 15, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a 344-81 vote yesterday, the House of Representatives passed their version of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a $696 billion spending bill which far exceeds the amount of money sought by the Pentagon and the Trump Administration.The bill has a...
Obama’s AWOL Antiwar Protest
by James Bovard | Jul 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
Barack Obama campaigned for the presidency in 2008 as a peace candidate. He signaled that he would fundamentally change America’s course after the reckless carnage unleashed by the George W. Bush administration. However, by the end of Obama’s presidency, the United...
Tucker Carlson, Neocon Slayer
by Justin Raimondo | Jul 14, 2017 | Featured Articles
Oh, it was glorious fun, yielding the kind of satisfaction that us anti-interventionists rarely get to enjoy: not one but two prominent neoconservatives who have been wrong about everything for the past decade – yet never held accountable – getting taken down on...
Aleppo and Mosul: A Tale of Two Liberated Cities
by Neil Clark | Jul 14, 2017 | Featured Articles
The Iraqi city of Mosul. The Syrian city of Aleppo. Both 'liberated' in recent months from radical jihadist terror groups. But while one anti-terrorist operation has been lauded in the West, the other was fiercely denounced.The very different ways in which the...
Return of Pentagon Mercenaries Worries US Active Duty Military
by Wayne Madsen | Jul 14, 2017 | Featured Articles
During the time that US Defense Secretary James Mattis and National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster are reviewing the US military policy in Afghanistan, The New York Times ran a story on July 10, 2017 that exposed a threat that will upend US defense strategy and...
Can Tillerson Referee The Qatar/Saudi Crisis?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 13, 2017 | The Liberty Report
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson walked away from the Middle East empty-handed this week, as his efforts to mediate the Qatar/Saudi crisis failed to bear fruit. The dispute is the most serious between the two sides in some time, but how much of it was brought on by...
US Taxpayers Will be ‘Crying in Their Beers’ When Iraqi Reconstruction Bill Arrives
by RT | Jul 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
The neocons and the military-industrial complex are rubbing their hands with glee over profits to be made from Iraqi reconstruction, but that cannot be said of the US taxpayer who must foot the bill, says Ron Paul Institute Executive Director Daniel McAdams.After...
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