Like the case of Rome before it, the Empire is bankrupting America. The true fiscal cost is upwards of $1.0 trillion per year (counting $200 billion for veterans and debt service for wars), but there is no way to pay for it. That's because the 78-million strong Baby...
Month: May 2018
Gaza Violence: Blowback For Jerusalem?
by Daniel McAdams | May 15, 2018 | The Liberty Report
As President Trump's daughter and son-in-law were celebrating the US embassy's move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, dozens of Palestinian protesters were being shot dead in Gaza protesting the move. Supporters of the embassy move say it will bring a new era of peace to...
Voters in Several States Set to Roll Back Marijuana Prohibition This Year
by Adam Dick | May 15, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Polling suggests approval of state ballot measures in upcoming elections this year that would cause the number of states with legal medical marijuana to grow by three and with legal recreational marijuana to grow by one. Absent earlier legislative action in other...
The Ruinously Expensive American Military
by Philip Giraldi | May 15, 2018 | Featured Articles
America’s Republican politicians complain that “entitlements,” by which they mean pensions and medical care, are leading the country to bankruptcy even as they fatten the spending on the Pentagon, which now takes 12 percent of the overall budget. And it should be...
Is Gina Haspel Qualified To Be CIA Director?
by Daniel McAdams | May 14, 2018 | Featured Articles
Will the Senate confirm career CIA officer Gina Haspel to be the Agency's next director? Sens. McCain and Paul, who don't often agree, have both vowed to oppose Haspel due to her past involvement in torture and cover-up of torture. They have a good point. But is there...
Trump’s Plan for Iran: Put Terrorists in Charge
by Ron Paul | May 14, 2018 | Featured Articles
Back in the 2008 presidential race, I explained to then-candidate Rudy Giuliani the concept of “blowback.” Years of US meddling and military occupation of parts of the Middle East motivated a group of terrorists to carry out attacks against the United States on 9/11....
Trump’s Ten Lies: A Response to the Iran Nuclear Agreement Speech
by Ted Snider | May 14, 2018 | Featured Articles
After listening to Trump’s speech explaining his decision to pull out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear agreement with Iran, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said that Trump’s speech contained "over ten lies." Khamenei didn’t go...
Trump’s War Against Iran
by Eric Margolis | May 13, 2018 | Featured Articles
Israel launched waves of air attacks and ground shelling on a score of alleged Iranian military positions in Syria this week. Was this a big step forward in the plan by Israel’s leader Benjamin Netanyahu and his ally Donald Trump to provoke a major war with Iran? It...
When Washington Think Tanks Call for ‘Action’ in the Balkans, Expect Trouble
by James George Jatras | May 11, 2018 | Featured Articles
Any time two prestige think tanks in Washington issue a report calling for US “action” in any region of the world, hold onto your hat – you can be sure that trouble is a-brewing. That’s doubly true if the call relates to the Balkans, the place where in the 1990s the...
Donald Trump’s Neocon Conversion was Predictable
by Kurt Nimmo | May 11, 2018 | Neocon Watch
During the election, I wrote a little ebook titled “Donald Trump’s War on Islam.” In addition to pointing out Trump’s pandering to Islamophobia, I wrote about his association with a number of neocons, including Frank Gaffney and John Bolton, who is now his national...
That Time John Bolton Promised Regime Change In Iran Before 2019
by Caitlin Johnstone | May 11, 2018 | Featured Articles
In July of last year neoconservative death cultist John Bolton, now the National Security Advisor of the United States, gave a speech at the Grand Gathering of Iranians for Free Iran in which he openly called for regime change in Tehran.Bolton, who is so stupid, crazy...
Leaked Doc Reveals White House Planning ‘Regime Change’ In Iran
by Tyler Durden | May 11, 2018 | Featured Articles
It appears Rudy Giuliani wasn't lying.Just a few days after the former NYC mayor and latest member of President Trump's unexpectedly let it slip that "we got a president who is tough, who does not listen to the people who are naysayers, and a president who is...
Praise for Rep. Walter Jones after His Republican Primary Victory
by Adam Dick | May 10, 2018 | Congress Alert
On Tuesday, Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), who is seeking reelection for what he has indicated will be his final term in the United States House of Representatives, won his Republican Party primary. Jones defeated two other candidates — a Washington, DC lobbyist who holds...
Europe ‘Can No Longer Trust US For Protection.’ Good.
by Daniel McAdams | May 10, 2018 | The Liberty Report
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron are upset that US President Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Iran nuclear agreement. We agree that it was a dumb move on his part that will likely bring us closer to yet another war, but when...
Washington Secrecy is Creating a Know-Nothing Democracy
by James Bovard | May 10, 2018 | Featured Articles
Washington may be more secretive nowadays than at any time in recent decades. Federal policymakers have become accustomed to rationing what they release while citizens are assured that official secrecy makes them more secure. But American democracy cannot survive...
A Retirement Community for Drug-sniffing Dogs
by Adam Dick | May 10, 2018 | Featured Articles
Legalizing marijuana in Illinois would likely cause some drug-sniffing dogs in the state to be killed. That is the claim asserted by Chad Larner, the training director of the K-9 Training Academy in Macon County, Illinois in an in-depth Pantagraph article this week by...
Trump’s Pyrrhic Victory: the US Opts for a Path That Can Only Lead to War
by Philip Giraldi | May 10, 2018 | Featured Articles
Nearly everyone loses by President Donald Trump’s decision on Tuesday to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) relating to Iran’s nuclear energy program and to reinstate the “highest level” of sanctions while also threatening secondary sanctions...
The Donald’s Done — The Deep State Wins Its War On America First
by David Stockman | May 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
The Donald's action to ash-can the Iranian nuclear deal marks the War Party's complete and baleful triumph. There is now nothing much left of America First. Trump's reckless, unwarranted and utterly irrational action will pull Washington ever deeper into an incendiary...
Trump Kills Iran Deal – Who Wins? Who Loses?
by Daniel McAdams | May 9, 2018 | The Liberty Report
President Trump's statement upon ending US participation in the Iran nuclear agreement was filled with so many objectively false statements that it almost seems the neocons who crafted it were trying to make a fool out of him. The assertion that Iran is allied with...
Congress To Green-Light Perpetual Global War?
by Daniel McAdams | May 8, 2018 | The Liberty Report
A bipartisan Authorization for the Use of Military Force introduced by Sens. Corker (R-TN) and Kaine (D-VA) is being celebrated as evidence that Congress has finally woken up from its slumber and is asserting its Constitutional obligations on matters of war and peace....
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