Beltway Democrats and Republicans will mostly play their assigned role when it comes to supporting or opposing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh as either a great threat or a great jurist. But Washington is home of the "radical center," where policy differences...
Month: July 2018
‘No Nerve Agents’ In Douma: OPCW Report Demolishes White House Sarin Narrative
by Tyler Durden | Jul 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
A preliminary report published Friday by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) found no traces of any nerve agent at the site of a suspected chemical attack in the Syrian city of Douma. The OPCW report states this unambiguously as follows:...
‘Pay Up You NATO Deadbeats…Or Else!’
by Eric Margolis | Jul 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
"We are the schmucks" thundered President Donald Trump, using a favorite New York City Yiddish term for penis. The object of Trump’s wrath at his Make America Great Again’ rally in Great Falls, Montana was the craven, stingy European members of NATO, only 16 of 22...
Why Trump’s Iran Isolation Plan May Backfire
by Ron Paul | Jul 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
In May, President Trump pulled the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal despite Iran living up to its obligations and the deal working as planned. While the US kept in place most sanctions against Tehran, China and Russia - along with many European countries -...
From North Korea To NATO – Diplomacy…Or More Deception?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 9, 2018 | The Liberty Report
Will President Trump tell his Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, to behave himself better with the North Koreans? Will he tell the Germans we're no longer spending money defending them? US foreign policy under President Trump is hard to follow, but two opportunities for...
Five Minutes Five Issues: United States, Charges Dropped, Search Warrant, Schedule One, Jefferson’s Day
by Adam Dick | Jul 8, 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,...
Skripal 2.0: It’s High Time for the British Government to Explain Itself – Here’s 10 Easy Questions to Help Them Out
by Rob Slane | Jul 7, 2018 | Featured Articles
In his statement to the House of Commons on 5th July, the British Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, stated the following: The use of chemical weapons anywhere is barbaric and inhumane. The decision taken by the Russian government to deploy these in Salisbury on March 4 was...
Syria: ‘Rebels Played Russian Roulette, And Lost’
by Tyler Durden | Jul 7, 2018 | Featured Articles
Middle East analysts are appropriately noting, "Rebels played Russian roulette, and lost" after Syrian Army ground forces accompanied by overwhelming Russian airstrikes in Syria's contested southwest region have collapsed anti-government lines with rapid speed. Early...
Diplomacy 101 Case Study: Singapore Summit
by Peter van Buren | Jul 7, 2018 | Featured Articles
While I can say there isn’t a formal class at the American State Department called Diplomacy 101, some training offered to new hires comes pretty close. Those basic tenets of statecraft, largely unchanged from Thucydides to Bismarck to Pompeo, are important to review...
Imperial Hubris Redefined
by Philip Giraldi | Jul 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
There have been two developments in the past month that illustrate clearly what is wrong with the White House’s perception of America’s place in the world. Going far beyond the oft-repeated nonsense that the United States is somehow the “leader of the free world,” the...
NED Pursues Regime Change By Playing The Long Game
by Edward Hunt | Jul 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
During a recent congressional hearing, the heads of three influential non-profit organizations that operate in numerous countries around the world revealed the subtle ways in which the United States meddles in the internal affairs of other countries by playing what...
CIA Plots Iran Coup – Partners With Terrorist Group
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 6, 2018 | The Liberty Report
The Iranian (People's Mojahedin) MeK had been on the US terrorism list for more than 15 years...until Secretary of State Hillary Clinton decided to remove them from the list in 2012. They've killed plenty of Americans, including high-ranking US military officers. Now...
Happy Independence Day!
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 4, 2018 | The Liberty Report
What did the Founders really mean with their Declaration of Independence? Ron Paul offers an important history lesson on the origins of our independence and what may be its future in this special edition of the Liberty Report:
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s Plan to Put Metal Detector Checkpoints in Schools across Texas
by Adam Dick | Jul 4, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a March 31 article, I wrote about invasions of privacy being implemented by school districts in Texas and Florida. Plans included allowing students to carry only clear backpacks and subjecting students to security checkpoints complete with metal detectors. The...
‘Curiouser and Curiouser’: Salisbury, the Skripals & the Epic Failure of the British Fairy Tale
by George Galloway | Jul 4, 2018 | Featured Articles
"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast" – Alice in Wonderland. The problem for the British narrative in the Skripal case is that one would have to believe way more than six things.Let me start with the latest: the...
Sen. Graham Visits Syria, Attacks Trump Plan to Pull Troops Out
by Jason Ditz | Jul 3, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Hawkish Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made a surprise visit to Syria on Monday, stopping off in the city of Manbij, which is held by US and Turkish forces. Graham delivered a speech clearly designed to attack the idea of a US pullout from Syria.There is no official plan...
Compulsory Vaccination: Authoritarians Versus Parents?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 3, 2018 | The Liberty Report
Do you have a right to refuse medical treatment? To tell doctors what you do not want to be put into your body, even if "for your own good"? Or does the government have the authority to force you to accept treatment you find unnecessary or objectionable? A...
America First, Helsinki, and Trump’s Existential Threat to the Empire
by David Stockman | Jul 3, 2018 | Featured Articles
The major – perhaps only – redeeming virtue of the Donald’s ersatz campaign platform was his clear intent to seek a rapprochement with Russia, revamp America’s commitments to NATO and other cold war relics and to discard "Regime Change" as the core tenant of foreign...
Who’s Afraid of the Trump/Putin Summit?
by Ron Paul | Jul 2, 2018 | Featured Articles
President Trump’s National Security Advisor John Bolton was in Moscow last week organizing what promises to be an historic summit meeting between his boss and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Bolton, who has for years demanded that the US inflict “pain” on Russia and...
Resisting The Creeping Police State, With Special Guest John Whitehead
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 2, 2018 | The Liberty Report
The police look like they are in a war zone. The NSA listens in to our phone calls and reads our text messages with the help of "private" telecommunications companies. The Bill of Rights is being gutted. Should we give up and accept the creeping police state? Hardly!...
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