The disappearance of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi in mysterious circumstances while on a visit to his country’s consulate in Istanbul last Tuesday still remains unexplained. The plot is thickening by the day. The latest reports suggest that he may not even be...
Month: October 2018
Aux Barricades Mes Enfants!
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
On October 21st there will be a Women’s March on the Pentagon hosted by the Global Women’s Peace Action. My wife and many of our friends will be going and even I will tag along in support in spite of my gender. We participate with some reservations as we have only...
Hey, Loyola Students, Don’t Boycott Prof. Walter Block
by Adam Dick | Oct 9, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Loyola University Economics Professor Walter Block starts off his Tuesday article at lewrockwell.com stating it has come to his attention “that many Loyola students will not enroll in my classes, will boycott my public lectures, will have nothing to do with me,...
‘Operation Endless War’? 17 Years In Afghanistan
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
We have passed the 17 year mark on the Afghan war and the Taliban control more territory than they have at any time since the launch. So for trillions of dollars, thousands of deaths, and 17 years of US government effort, "victory" is no closer than at day one. Does...
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NAFTA 2.0: Free Trade or Central Planning?
by Ron Paul | Oct 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
Last week the United States, Mexico, and Canada agreed to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with a new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Sadly, instead of replacing NAFTA’s managed trade with true free trade, the new USMCA expands...
The Final Truth of Russia-gate
by Justin Raimondo | Oct 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
The conspiracy to overthrow a sitting US President extends far beyond our own “Deep State.” As I’ve been saying in this space for quite some time, it’s been an international team effort from the beginning. Setting aside the British origins of the obscene “dossier”...
Trump’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad National Security Team
by James George Jatras | Oct 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
Gareth Porter paints a dismal picture. Time and again, President Donald Trump indicates he wants to do the right thing: get out Afghanistan, get out of Syria, get out of South Korea. Every time, his national security team – the people he appointed – sends him to “the...
Ron Paul and Lew Rockwell’s Wide-ranging Q&A at the Mises Institute
by Adam Dick | Oct 8, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Attendees at the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s Supporters Summit at the institute’s Auburn, Alabama headquarters were treated on September 28 to a wide-ranging question and answer period with premier libertarian communicators Ron Paul and Lew Rockwell. United States...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Drug War Treaty, Yemen, License Plate Readers, Marijuana Crackdown, Iran Summit
by Adam Dick | Oct 7, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted on Friday. 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...
NATO’s Manipulation Of The Macedonian Vote Exposes Its Modus Operandi
by Andrew Korybko | Oct 7, 2018 | Featured Articles
NATO membership used to be motivated by a shared fear, however exploited, of a so-called “Soviet/communist threat” which made joining the military bloc a seemingly “natural” decision for the countries that did so during the Old Cold War. The US certainly pressured...
The Military-Industrial-Humanitarian Complex: Spreading Western Hegemony Under the Guise of Virtue
by Tomasz Pierscionek | Oct 5, 2018 | Featured Articles
Shakespeare once wrote that the devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. Nowadays, we see the terms ‘humanitarian’ and ‘democracy’ abused to justify death and destruction. Traditionally honorable words such as "humanitarian" and "democracy" have come to acquire a...
US Military in Syria Ready for Long-Endurance Mission
by Arkady Savitsky | Oct 4, 2018 | Featured Articles
Speaking at the UN General Assembly on Sept. 29, Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem demanded that US, French and Turkish forces leave his country immediately or be dealt with “accordingly”. Indeed, with the Islamic State reduced to insignificance, they have no...
UN Rules Against US On Iran Sanctions; Pompeo Vows More Sanctions
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 4, 2018 | The Liberty Report
After the US unilaterally pulled out of the JCPOA Iran nuclear agreement and re-applied sanctions early this summer, Iran, citing a Treaty of Amity with the US, took the case to the International Court of Justice seeking among, other things, a ruling against US...
James Comey and the Unending Bush Torture Scandal
by James Bovard | Oct 4, 2018 | Featured Articles
The vast regime of torture created by the Bush administration after the 9/11 attacks continues to haunt America. The political class and most of the media have never dealt honestly with the profound constitutional corruption that such practices inflicted. Instead,...
Trump To Saudi King: Pay Up For US Military Protection!
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 3, 2018 | The Liberty Report
Frustrated by the Saudi refusal to increase oil production by two million barrels per day, President Trump said at a rally yesterday that absent US military protection the Saudi government would not last two weeks. He said the Saudis should "pay up" if they want to...
That Sign Telling You How Fast You’re Driving May be Spying on You
by Justin Rohrlich | Oct 3, 2018 | Featured Articles
The next time you drive past one of those road signs with a digital readout showing how fast you’re going, don’t simply assume it’s there to remind you not to speed. It may actually be capturing your license plate data.According to recently released US federal...
Don’t count on the FBI to clear up the Kavanaugh-Ford mess. Its record is flawed.
by James Bovard | Oct 3, 2018 | Featured Articles
After last week’s explosive congressional hearing, the Senate and the Trump administration agreed to reopen the FBI background check into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Former FBI chief James Comey wrote Sunday that “the FBI is up for this” because it is...
The Scary Side of the Technological Police State
by John W. Whitehead | Oct 3, 2018 | Featured Articles
It’s a given that Big Brother is always watching us. Unfortunately, thanks to the government’s ongoing efforts to build massive databases using emerging surveillance, DNA and biometrics technologies, Big Brother (and his corporate partners in crime) is getting even...
One Click Closer to Annihilation
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 2, 2018 | Featured Articles
The nuclear war doomsday clock maintained on the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists website has advanced to two minutes before midnight, the closest point to possible atomic apocalypse since the end of the Cold War. In 1995 the clock was at fourteen minutes to midnight,...
The Militarization Of The US/China Trade War
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 2, 2018 | The Liberty Report
Over just the past two weeks we have seen numerous points of conflict between the US and China, including new US sanctions on China, a skirmish in the South China Sea, new tariffs, Trump's claim that China is interfering in the US election, and more. Is the heating up...
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