Unfortunately the Amash Amendment to the FISA extension bill was defeated today and the extension itself passed with ease. What does it mean? The NSA and various US intelligence agencies can continue to collect your personal communications without a warrant and store...
Month: January 2018
Is There a Pathological Obsession with Hillary Clinton Amongst Hillary Haters?
by Robert Wenzel | Jan 10, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Recently on the Liberty Report, Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams discussed the horrific Executive Order signed by President Trump that would allow the US government to freeze the US assets of individuals or corporations worldwide who have allegedly (without trial) violated...
Good Advice from Andrew Napolitano: President Trump, Don’t Talk with the FBI
by Adam Dick | Jan 10, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
This week, Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Andrew Napolitano presented a keen recommendation for President Donald Trump in regard to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) potentially talking with Trump as part of the so-called Russiagate investigation.Speaking...
NATO’s Fraudulent War on Behalf of Women
by George Szamuely | Jan 10, 2018 | Featured Articles
In a recent Guardian article titled “Why NATO Must Defend Women’s Rights,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Soltenberg and Hollywood movie star Angelina Jolie assert that “NATO has the responsibility and opportunity to be a leading protector of women’s rights.” NATO,...
Trump To Embassies: Sell American Weapons!
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 10, 2018 | The Liberty Report
President Trump is expected to direct US embassy staff overseas to more aggressively push the sales of US-manufactured military items to their foreign counterparts. His "National Security Decision Directive" due next month will reportedly also ease the rules and...
Dennis Kucinich to Announce Ohio Governor Run
by Adam Dick | Jan 9, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Former Democratic US House of Representatives member from Ohio and two-time presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich is reported to be planning to announce next week his campaign for Ohio governor following his submitting paperwork with the state government on Monday to...
Surrounded by Neocons
by Philip Giraldi | Jan 9, 2018 | Neocon Watch
Award winning journalist James Risen has recently described in some detail his sometimes painful relationship with The New York Times. His lengthy account is well worth reading as it demonstrates how successive editors of the paper frequently cooperated with the...
Justice Denied: The Government Is Not Going to Save Us
by John W. Whitehead | Jan 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
“The warlords of history are still kicking our heads in, and no one, not our fathers, not our Gods, is coming to save us.”— Journalist Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe U.S. Supreme Court has ruled: it will not hear the case of Young v. Borders. Despite the fact that a 26-year-old...
Korea Breakthrough Talks Today: Victory For Sports Diplomacy
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 9, 2018 | The Liberty Report
Despite US Defense Secretary James Mattis' promises that North and South Korean talks today would be about only one subject, the Olympics, the North and South ended up after 12 hours of talks opening the door quite a bit wider between the two countries. In addition to...
Steve Bannon's Done – But It's Way Too Late
by David Stockman | Jan 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
Good riddance to Steve Bannon. The last thing America needed was a conservative/populist/statist alternative to the Welfare State/Warfare State/Bailout State status quo. Yet what Bannonism boiled down to was essentially acquiescence to the latter -- even as it...
Showdown: Jeff Sessions’ Marijuana Memo vs Legalization Momentum and Public Support
by Adam Dick | Jan 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
On Thursday, United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memorandum in the Department of Justice (DOJ) that many people are concerned will lead to a crackdown by the US government on people acting in compliance with state laws under which, in varying ways,...
Who Killed The Iran Protests?
by Tyler Durden | Jan 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
One prime indicator that anti-government protests in Iran have truly died down to the point of now being completely snuffed out as reports today suggest, and as we began reporting at the end of last week, is that current headlines are now merely focused on the barely...
Just Say No to Jeff Sessions
by Ron Paul | Jan 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
Attorney General Jeff Sessions kicked off the New Year by reversing the Obama-era guidance for federal prosecutors to limit their enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states that have legalized marijuana for medical or recreational use. In what is almost certainly...
Trump Isn’t Another Hitler. He’s Another Obama.
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jan 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
Not a lot of people remember this, but George W Bush actually campaigned in 2000 against the interventionist foreign policy that the United States had been increasingly espousing. Far from advocating the full-scale regime change ground invasions that his...
Trump's Failed Coup in Iran
by Eric Margolis | Jan 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
Listen to the state-"guided" US media this past week and you’d believe a series of spontaneous anti-government protests broke out across Iran. The protests, according to President Donald Trump and his Israeli allies, were caused by "anger over Iran’s spending billions...
Iran and Myths of Revolution
by James George Jatras | Jan 5, 2018 | Featured Articles
In just the past few days during which Iran has seen anti-government protests, much has been written and said about Iranians’ desire for freedom, mixed with speculation about whether or not the ayatollahs’ Islamic republic is in danger of collapse.The following is not...
Cliven Bundy-FBI Debacle: Another Example of Why the Feds Need to be Leashed
by James Bovard | Jan 5, 2018 | Featured Articles
The Justice Department was caught in another high-profile travesty last month that continues to reverberate through the western states. On Dec. 20, federal judge Gloria Navarro declared a mistrial in the case against Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and others after...
The People in Charge of the US Military
by Adam Dick | Jan 4, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Fifty-seven years ago this month President Dwight D. Eisenhower presented this warning in his farewell address: “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial...
Trump Buys into Terrorist Safe Haven Myth as Justification for Wars
by Michael S. Rozeff | Jan 4, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Obama declared that the Afghanistan War was over, but Trump has renewed it. For the past 4 years, Trump made all sorts of strong unambiguous statements against being in this war. He favored hitting the exits and getting out of it. He’s now changed his mind, which...
Expect Even Less Freedom of Internet in 2018
by Philip Giraldi | Jan 4, 2018 | Featured Articles
Users of social media have been increasingly reporting that their accounts have been either censored, blocked or suspended during the past year. Initially, some believed that the incidents might be technical in nature, with overloaded servers struggling to keep up...
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