In recent years, Myanmar (formerly Burma) has only rarely been in the news. The quiet treatment owed much to the assumption that the country’s fledgling democracy was in “good hands” once the U.S-backed 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi gained renewed...
Month: September 2017
Juggalo Blues: Their Beef With FBI No Laughing Matter
by James Bovard | Sep 21, 2017 | Featured Articles
Photo: James Bovard Despite being billed as a showdown of competing political protests and rallies, the only political action on the streets of Washington this past weekend were the raging clowns. They did not come to beat Nazis or chase Pro-Trumpers off the Mall, the...
Hysteria in America: Congress Filled With ‘Totalitarians’ Who Oppose ‘Free Market of Ideas’
by RT | Sep 21, 2017 | Featured Articles
There are members of Congress who don’t want anyone on TV saying America’s foreign policy is a disaster and it costs a fortune, Daniel McAdams, executive director, Ron Paul Institute, told RT. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for the fiscal year 2018,...
Defense Secretary Mattis: US Cannot Survive On ‘Puny’ Military Budget
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 21, 2017 | The Liberty Report
Defense Secretary Mattis is worried about the military budget. No, he's not worried that spending a total of more than a trillion dollars a year on the military might bankrupt the country and thus make us more vulnerable to outside forces with ill intent. He's worried...
US Sanctions Against Venezuela Will Hurt Americans
by Ryan McMaken | Sep 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
After fifty years of imposing embargoes and other sanctions, the United States never managed to topple Cuba's communist regime. After forty years of the same in Iran, the US met with similar amounts of success. Ongoing sanctions against North Korea have not toppled to...
The Worst Mistake in US History
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Sep 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
The worst mistake in US history was the conversion after World War II of the US government from a constitutional, limited-government republic to a national-security state. Nothing has done more to warp and distort the conscience, principles, and values of the American...
Spies, Hollywood, And Neocons Team Up To Create New War Propaganda Firm
by Caitlin Johnstone | Sep 20, 2017 | Neocon Watch
“We have been attacked. We are at war.”So begins a video released today by The Committee to Investigate Russia, an organization founded by When Harry Met Sally director Rob Reiner and neoconservative senior editor of The Atlantic David Frum. The video, which stars...
Trump’s UN Speech: A Neocon Dream?
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Trump's speech yesterday at the United Nations got rave reviews from neocons like John Bolton and Elliot Abrams. The US president threatened North Korea, Venezuela, Syria, Yemen, and Iran. At the same time he claimed that the US is the one country to lead by...
Let Catalonia Decide
by Jeff Deist | Sep 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
Should Catalonia be independent?Surely Catalans, and nobody else, must answer that question. Some Catalans consider themselves Spanish and some don’t. Many Spaniards consider Catalonia part of Spain, while some don’t. But it’s clear that a significant number of...
Rep. John Duncan: Shut Off the Afghanistan War Money Spigot
by Adam Dick | Sep 19, 2017 | Congress Alert
Speaking this month on the floor of the United States House of Representatives, Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN) sharply criticized the Afghanistan War, declaring that the war “has always been about money — increased appropriations for the Defense Department and huge...
Korea Solution Needs US to Sign a Peace Treaty
by Finian Cunningham | Sep 19, 2017 | Featured Articles
Germany and France have backed the stance of Russia and China for negotiations to avert the Korea crisis. South Korea and Japan also seem to be amenable to recent calls by Russian President Vladimir Putin for exclusively diplomatic efforts. Any other option in the...
President Trump To Unleash The CIA Drones
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 19, 2017 | Featured Articles
It's not only "the generals" that President Trump defers to when it comes to war overseas. He's also planning to defer to Mike Pompeo and the CIA when it comes to operating killer drones in the "theaters" of military operations. Where President Obama toward the end of...
The US Has New Red Line in Syria — And It’s…Ridiculous!
by Darius Shahtahmasebi | Sep 19, 2017 | Featured Articles
In its latest breach of international law, the U.S. is unilaterally attempting to prevent the Syrian government from reclaiming its own territory. From Reuters: US-backed Syrian militias will not let government forces cross the Euphrates River in their bid to recover...
Scandal: The Pentagon’s $2 Billion Underground Syria Weapons Pipeline
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 18, 2017 | The Liberty Report
Why is the Pentagon spending billions of dollars purchasing Soviet and east European weapons to ship to Syrian rebels? A blockbuster Bulgarian investigative report exposes the lies and illegality of the purchases and shipments; several mainstream investigations...
America’s Slow-Motion Military Coup
by Stephen Kinzer | Sep 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
In a democracy, no one should be comforted to hear that generals have imposed discipline on an elected head of state. That was never supposed to happen in the United States. Now it has.Among the most enduring political images of the 20th century was the military...
Rand Paul’s Senate Vote Rolls Back the Warfare State
by Ron Paul | Sep 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
Last week, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) reminded Congress that in matters of war, they have the authority and the responsibility to speak for the American people. Most Senators were not too happy about the reminder, which came in the form of a forced vote on whether to...
Accused of War Crimes, Saudis Investigate Themselves and Find No Wrongdoing
by Carey Wedler | Sep 16, 2017 | Featured Articles
Amid international calls for an independent inquiry into Saudi war crimes in Yemen, the Kingdom has investigated itself and found it has done nothing wrong.Countries including China, the Netherlands, and Canada have pushed forward with a U.N. Human Rights Council...
Nikki Haley Meltdown: Assad Must Go…and War With North Korea!
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 16, 2017 | Neocon Watch
There must be something about being named US Ambassador to the UN that brings out the inner mass murderer in people. Madeline Albright famously admitted that she thought 500,000 dead Iraqi children due to US sanctions was "worth it." John Bolton never met a...
Janet Reno: Saint or Tyrant?
by James Bovard | Sep 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
When former Attorney General Janet Reno died last November, the media heaped praise on her as if she had been justice incarnate. Reno had long enjoyed sainthood inside the Beltway; the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia even created a Janet Reno...
Afghanistan – US Resolved To Repeat Failures
by Moon of Alabama | Sep 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
The US military and political leadership is so devoid of learning capability that it does not fight multiyear long wars. Instead it fights one disconnected campaign after the other on the very same battlefield. Each of these campaigns will repeat the mistakes that...
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