Congratulations to Craig Murray for getting there first. The colorful former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, turned anti-establishment dissident after he was sacked from the Foreign Office in 2004, has published on his blog some key texts by authoritative scientists...
Month: March 2018
It’s Time for a New American Foreign Policy
by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) | Mar 16, 2018 | Featured Articles
What kind of job can you have where you are consistently wrong, yet get to still go on TV talking endlessly and making more wild predictions that will no doubt lead to the same failed result?If you guessed “TV Weatherman” you’re close…but the job I’m referring to is...
‘Skin In The Game’ – With Special Guest Nassim Nicholas Taleb
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 15, 2018 | The Liberty Report
Why is the mainstream media so horrible? They all parrot each other and they never suffer when they are wrong. They are not judged by their readers, but by their peers. Imagine if restaurants were so judged -- how terrible food would be. Bestselling author, legendary...
McMaster: US Troops Will Stay Until Syria Is Stabilized
by Jason Ditz | Mar 15, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Despite conceding that the US and others had effectively liberated “100%” of ISIS-held territory in Syria, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster dismissed the idea that US forces might withdraw from the country any time soon.“We have more work to do,” McMaster...
Russia Will Respond If US Attacks Syrian Government Forces
by Jason Ditz | Mar 14, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Recently,various US officials have been suggesting substantial attacks on the Syrian military are imminent. This talk of attacking Syria has provoked a warning from the Russian Foreign Ministry, and a second warning from top Russian generals. Russia’s military chief...
Lawrence Wilkerson Is Not So Optimistic about a Meeting of Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un
by Adam Dick | Mar 14, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
“We’ve been here before,” College of William & Mary Professor Lawrence Wilkerson declared in a Monday The Real News interview in which he relates his less-than-optimistic take on an anticipated meeting between North Korea leader Kim Jong-un and United States...
Say No to ‘Hardening’ the Schools with Zero Tolerance Policies and Gun-Toting Cops
by John W. Whitehead | Mar 14, 2018 | Featured Articles
Just what we don’t need: more gun-toting, taser-wielding cops in government-run schools that bear an uncomfortable resemblance to prisons.Microcosms of the police state, America’s public schools already contain almost every aspect of the militarized, intolerant,...
Will Torture Make America Great Again?
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 14, 2018 | The Liberty Report
President Trump's nomination of Mike Pompeo to head up the State Department and Gina Haspel as CIA chief removes the mask from the ugly, warmongering neocon face. Pompeo wants a war with Iran -- NOW! And Haspel personally oversaw some of the most gruesome torture...
Why Not Execute Alcohol and Tobacco Dealers?
by Laurence M. Vance | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured Articles
Although about thirty countries have the death penalty for drug trafficking, only in China, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and Vietnam are drug offenders routinely executed. Yet, the worst place to be caught drug trafficking is in the Philippines,...
Are Millennials Abandoning Liberty? – With Special Guest Jeff Deist
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 13, 2018 | The Liberty Report
Have the Sanders and Trump phenomena made a dent in the appeal of liberty to young people? Mises Institute president Jeff Deist joins today's Liberty Report for a frank discussion on the topic. The Liberty movement, according to Deist, must rely on stronger minds than...
US Commander: ‘US Troops Prepared to Die for Israel’ in War against Syria, Hezbollah
by Whitney Webb | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured Articles
Last Sunday, the largest joint military exercise between the United States and Israel began with little fanfare. The war game, dubbed “Operation Juniper Cobra,” has been a regular occurrence for years, though it has consistently grown in size and scope. Now, however,...
Christopher Steele As Seen By the New Yorker
by Philip Giraldi | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured Articles
The latest salvo in the Russiagate saga is a 15,000 word New Yorker article entitled “Christopher Steele the man behind the Trump dossier: how the ex-spy tried to warn the world about Trump’s ties to Russia” by veteran journalist Jane Mayer. The premise of the piece...
Nikki Haley’s Compulsion Flouts the Law of Nations
by Michael S. Rozeff | Mar 13, 2018 | Neocon Watch
Flip Wilson had a comedy routine “The Devil Made Me Do It”. Nikki Haley is far from funny when she uses the same kind of excuse, telling us that the US is prepared to attack Syria again. Why? Compulsion, or the devil made me do it. In her words: “…there are times when...
Happy Anniversary, James Clapper
by Jonathan Turley | Mar 12, 2018 | Featured Articles
Today is an important anniversary for former intelligence chief James Clapper. No it is not his marriage anniversary or conventional milestone. Clapper can celebrate the running out of the statute of limitations on his alleged perjury before Congress — five years and...
Politics, Justice, and the Surveillance State
by Peter van Buren | Mar 12, 2018 | Featured Articles
The role pervasive surveillance plays in politics today has been grossly underreported. Set aside what you think about the Trump presidency for a moment and focus instead on the new paradigm for how politics and justice work inside the surveillance state.“Incidental...
Military Coup: Pentagon To Ignore Congress On Yemen
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 12, 2018 | The Liberty Report
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) asked for a Defense Department opinion on proposed Senate legislation to limit US military action in Yemen. The Pentagon told McConnell that it would ignore any such legislation, as the president is "commander in chief."...
Tariffs Are Not the Answer
by Ron Paul | Mar 12, 2018 | Featured Articles
President Trump’s planned 25 percent tariff on steel imports and 10 percent tariff on aluminum imports may provide a temporary boost for those industries, but the tariffs will do tremendous long-term damage to the American and global economies. Tariffs raise the price...
What is Driving New Drive for AUMF?
by Harper | Mar 12, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
After years of sitting back and letting Congressional authority to declare war transfer to the Executive Branch, it appears that some leading Members of the House and Senate are finally waking up to the consequences of their failure. On February 27, the House...
Five Minutes Five Issues: MSNBC Warmongering, Bipartisan Peace, Pardon, Pulse Killings, Wrongful Convictions
by Adam Dick | Mar 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,...
State Department’s War on Political Dissent
by RPI Staff | Mar 9, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The US State Department is spending millions of dollars spreading its own disinformation and propping up NGOs to destroy any individual or organization that does not toe the official US government line on the US global military empire. Through its "Global Engagement...
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