The Syrian Army was on its way across the Euphrates river to liberate the oil- and gas-fields east of Deir Ezzor city. The US countered the move. It sent a small forces of Arab tribal mercenaries who were earlier allied with the Islamic State (ISIS). These proxy...
Month: October 2017
BREAKING: FISA Section 702 Reauthorization Bill Circulated
by Patrick Eddington | Oct 4, 2017 | Congress Alert
Earlier this afternoon, the House Judiciary Committee circulated its draft FISA Sec. 702 reauthorization bill. This is a preliminary readout of the major problems I see with this legislation.Mandatory Data Destruction Not MandatoryOne of the biggest vulnerabilities...
Cuba’s ‘Sonic Weapons’ – Real Or Imagined?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 4, 2017 | The Liberty Report
The Trump Administration has just expelled several Cuban diplomats in Washington and suspended visas for Cubans wishing to visit the United States over reports that US embassy personnel in Havana have been attacked by some kind of mystery "sonic weapon" that is...
Trump and ‘His Generals’ on Collision Course Over Iran
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 4, 2017 | Featured Articles
With President Trump again facing the requirement to certify whether Iran is complying with the P5+1 nuclear deal this month, it looks like a major clash may be brewing between the president and the neocons on one side, and the military generals he openly embraces in...
US Violence Abroad Begets Violence at Home
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Oct 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
Although ISIS is claiming that Las Vegas mass murderer Stephen Paddock was one of theirs and was acting on its behalf, so far no independent evidence has surfaced to confirm ISIS’s claim. If such evidence does emerge, it will be one more of a long series of deadly...
Whose Bright Idea Was RussiaGate?
by Paul Craig Roberts | Oct 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
The answer to the question in the title of this article is that Russiagate was created by CIA director John Brennan.The CIA started what is called Russiagate in order to prevent Trump from being able to normalize relations with Russia. The CIA and the...
What Did Washington Achieve in its Six Year War on Syria?
by Ron Paul | Oct 2, 2017 | Featured Articles
Now that the defeat of ISIS in Syria appears imminent, with the Syrian army clearing out some of the last ISIS strongholds in the east, Washington’s interventionists are searching for new excuses to maintain the illegal US military presence in the country. Their...
Trump Vs. Tillerson: War Or Diplomacy?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 2, 2017 | The Liberty Report
After Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told the media that the US does have channels of communication with North Korea, President Trump Tweeted from the golf course that Tillerson was wasting his time with diplomacy. Why would the president undermine his own cabinet...
America: The Dictatress of the World
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Oct 2, 2017 | Featured Articles
On July 21, 1821, John Quincy Adams, who would go on to become the sixth president of the United States, warned that if America were ever to abandon its founding principle of non-interventionism in foreign affairs, she might well become the dictatress of the...
Vietnam Déjà Vu
by Eric Margolis | Oct 1, 2017 | Featured Articles
Much of America, including yours truly, has been watching the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) series, ‘Vietnam.’ Instead of clarifying that confusing conflict, the series has ignited fiery controversy and a lot of long-repressed anger by soft-soaping Washington’s...
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