According to press reports, President Trump is open to adding an additional 25 cents of federal tax on top of the existing 18.4 cents per gallon of gasoline. This is purportedly going to be used to pay for part of his big infrastructure program. The big tax hike would...
Month: February 2018
Is John Brennan the Mastermind Behind Russiagate?
by Mike Whitney | Feb 14, 2018 | Featured Articles
The report (“The Dossier”) that claims that Donald Trump colluded with Russia, was paid for by the DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign.The company that claims that Russia hacked DNC computer servers, was paid by the DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign.The FBI’s...
2019 Military Budget: Pentagon Wins, American Taxpayers Lose
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 14, 2018 | The Liberty Report
President Trump has delivered his military budget request for 2019 that increases spending by 12 percent over 2017 spending. Designed to fully fund a "depleted" military, even Defense Secretary Mattis was surprised at the figures. Many more warships, many more F-22s...
Strike Two: US Again Launches ‘Defense’ Attack on Russian and Syrian Forces in Syria
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 14, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
For the second time in a week, US military forces occupying northeast Syria have attacked Syrian government forces, blowing up a Russian-made T-72 battle tank on Saturday. According to a statement made today by Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian, commander of US Air Forces...
Korea Olympic Charm Offensive – What’s The Threat?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 13, 2018 | The Liberty Report
Neocons -- and even a few "libertarians" -- are furious that North Korea is getting some credit for unleashing a "charm offensive" at the Olympic games. Rather than look to a future without crippling sanctions and the threat of nuclear war, they obsess on the lurid...
Russian Fighters Killed In Clash With US-Led Coalition Forces In Syria
by Tyler Durden | Feb 13, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
With the calm of global capital markets shattered in the past two weeks, the ongoing military conflict in the Middle East has taken an understandable back seat to monetary matters. And yet, tensions involving Syria, Iran and Israel continue to escalate, most notably...
If America Wasn’t America, the United States Would Be Bombing It
by Darius Shahtahmasebi | Feb 13, 2018 | Featured Articles
On January 8, 2018, former government advisor Edward Luttwak wrote an opinion piece for Foreign Policy titled “It’s Time to Bomb North Korea.”Luttwak’s thesis is relatively straightforward. There is a government out there that may very soon acquire nuclear-weapons...
David Stockman Challenges Economy-Harming, Unnecessary US Military Spending
by Adam Dick | Feb 13, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Watch out for a recession and more trouble for American stocks ahead, warned investing, economy, and politics writer David Stockman in a Monday interview at Fox Business. Hearing Stockman’s informative analysis about that alone should be reason enough for people...
Lifting of US Propaganda Ban Gives New Meaning to Old Song
by Whitney Webb | Feb 12, 2018 | Featured Articles
Though its ostensible purpose is to fund the US military over a one year period, the National Defense Authorization Act, better known as the NDAA, has had numerous provisions tucked into it over the years that have targeted American civil liberties. The most...
E-Verify Threatens Us All
by Ron Paul | Feb 12, 2018 | Featured Articles
In addition to funding for a border wall and other border security measures, immigration hardliners are sure to push to include mandatory E-Verify in any immigration legislation considered by Congress. E-Verify is a (currently) voluntary program where businesses check...
US Feels Uneasy About Inter-Korean Amity
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Feb 12, 2018 | Featured Articles
The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has upset all doomsday predictions that once the Winter Olympics Games are over, the tensions on the Korean peninsula would reappear. Kim’s invitation to South Korean President Moon Jae-in to Pyongyang can be regarded as a "game...
Who Is The Aggressor In Syria?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 12, 2018 | The Liberty Report
It's been a couple of weeks of serious escalation in Syria. First, the US attacked and killed some 100 Syrian government-allied troops for launching an operation against a US-funded rebel force that seeks the overthrow of the Syrian government. Then some US-trained...
Five Minutes Five Issues: War on Kratom, Biden’s Advice, NRA and Marijuana, Testing for Fentanyl, US Spending
by Adam Dick | Feb 11, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues is out. 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 episode,...
Make Sports, Not War
by Eric Margolis | Feb 10, 2018 | Featured Articles
Considering that a nuclear conflict over North Korea appeared imminent in recent weeks, the winter Olympics at Pyeongchang, South Korea, is a most welcome distraction – and might even deter a major war on the peninsula.The highlight of the games was the arrival of Kim...
Guilt by Musical Association
by James Bovard | Feb 10, 2018 | Featured Articles
Should the feds be permitted to treat anyone who is not a choirboy like a criminal suspect? Unfortunately, local, state, and federal agencies have a long history of targeting, harassing, and entrapping fans of untraditional music. Because so many innocuous activities...
Is the Steele Dossier Full of ‘Russian Dirt’ – or British?
by James George Jatras | Feb 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
With text messages between US Justice Department (DOJ) conspirators Peter Strzok and his adulterous main squeeze Lisa Page now revealing that then-President Barack Obama “wants to know everything we’re doing,” it now appears that the 2016 plot to subvert the rule of...
‘Fig leaf of fighting ISIS is gone’ – Ron Paul Institute
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
In attacking Syrian government-allied forces in eastern Syria earlier week, the US government has lost the ability to claim that its continued presence in Syria is to fight ISIS. With ISIS nearly defeated and the Pentagon announcing that the US military would remain...
US May Have Arranged ‘Self Defense’ Attack On Syrian Government Forces
by Moon of Alabama | Feb 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
Last night the illegal US occupation force in north-east Syria attacked a group of Syrian government aligned troops and their Russian support. The incident happened north-east of Deir Ezzor city on the east side of the Euphrates. The US claims that it killed some 100...
Nunes Memo: Another Step Towards Proving Russiagate Is a Hoax
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
The so-called Nunes memo prepared for the Republican majority on the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, even if overblown, clearly suggests that there might have been an unwarranted and quite possibly illegal Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...
Grassley Memo Shocker – Did The UK Meddle In Our Elections? With Guest Phil Giraldi
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 8, 2018 | The Liberty Report
The release of the "Grassley Memo" earlier this week should have made headlines, but it didn't. In addition to confirming key details from the earlier Nunes Memo on FISA abuses, the Grassley memo contained even more details on the incredible manipulation of the 2016...
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