It took a solid week after her detention in St. Louis, but Marzieh Hashemi, an anchor for Iran’s PressTV and an American citizen, has finally gotten into a courtroom, and learned that she is neither being accused of any crimes nor is she facing any charges. That said,...
Month: January 2019
Amazon Shareholders Seek to Restrict Facial Recognition Technology Sales to Government Agencies
by Adam Dick | Jan 18, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
People tend to think of Amazon as a big store on the internet. It is more than that. For example, in August of 2013, soon after Amazon founder and Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos purchased the Washington Post, I wrote about Amazon’s Amazon Web Services having as...
Is the Violent Dismemberment of Russia Official US Policy?
by Erik D'Amato | Jan 18, 2019 | Featured Articles
If there’s one thing everyone in today’s Washington can agree on, it’s that whenever an official or someone being paid by the government says something truly outrageous or dangerous, there should be consequences, if only a fleeting moment of media fury. With one...
Russian Homeschoolers ‘Upending’ US Democracy by Networking With American Homeschoolers Says Clinton Linked Foundation
by Charles Bausman | Jan 18, 2019 | Featured Articles
Alexey Komov (right) and homeschooling activist Michael Donnelly plotting to destroy AmericaThis is very funny. The Center for American Progress (Wikipedia) is a major liberal foundation, basically, a front organization for the Clinton machine, which is now searching...
Democrat-Controlled House Breaks With Senate: Votes to Prohibit Ending Sanctions on Russian Aluminum Company
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 18, 2019 | Congress Alert
The Democrat-controlled US House has broken with the Senate and voted in favor of House Joint Resolution 30, disapproving President Trump’s proposal to lift sanctions on three Russian-owned companies.The original sanctions targeted Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska,...
Neocons & Dems Stance on Syria ‘Disgusting’
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 18, 2019 | Featured Articles
Will the neocons chalk up another victory after a suicide attack in Syria has left four Americans dead? Sen. Lindsey Graham blames Trump for the deaths for daring to talk about withdrawing troops. RPI's Daniel McAdams says if anyone is guilty it's Graham over Trump,...
US Ground Forces are Leaving the Middle East – Like it or Not
by James W. McConnell | Jan 17, 2019 | Featured Articles
US ground forces appear to be leaving Syria in spite of the efforts of those who are obsessed with the region and who seek to remain no matter the cost. Inexplicably, some who wish us to remain have responsibilities in the Trump Administration. Our wars in the Middle...
The National Security Agency Is A Criminal Organization
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jan 17, 2019 | Featured Articles
Years before Edward Snowden provided documented proof that the National Security Agency was really a national insecurity agency as it was violating law and the US Constitution and spying indiscriminately on American citizens, William Binney, who designed and developed...
What A Coincidence! After Syria Attack, Will We Have To Stay?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 17, 2019 | The Liberty Report
Neocons like Sen. Lindsey Graham are blaming President Trump for yesterday's attack in Manbij, Syria, which killed four US troops. Graham claims that Trump's withdrawal announcement emboldened ISIS to attack the US. But does this make sense? Would ISIS do the one...
Pompeo Turns Reality Upside Down
by Philip Giraldi | Jan 17, 2019 | Featured Articles
The speech made by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the American University in Cairo on January 10th deserves more attention than it has received from the US media. In it, Pompeo reveals his own peculiar vision of what is taking place in the Middle East, to include...
The Syria Outcome Will Haunt Those Who Started This War
by Alastair Crooke | Jan 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Middle East is metamorphosing. New fault-lines are emerging, yet Trump’s foreign policy “hawks” still try to stage “old movies” in a new “theatre.” The “old movie” is for the US to “stand up” Sunni, Arab states, and lead them towards confronting “bad actor” Iran....
Bolton’s Radical Reshaping Plan for Mideast Included ‘Mind Boggling’ Strikes on Iran, Syria, and Iraq
by Whitney Webb | Jan 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
In 2017, less than a year before he became national security advisor, John Bolton promised a gathering of the Mujahedeen Khalq (MEK) that: The declared policy of the United States should be the overthrow of the mullahs’ regime in Tehran. … The behavior and the...
Silver Lining In The Government Shutdown
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 16, 2019 | The Liberty Report
A shocker article in the Daily Caller this week blew the lid on what it's really like among all those "public servants" working in the Federal bureaucracy: about 85 percent of them do nothing at all related to their jobs. With thousands of "workers" furloughed, the...
Democrats Prepare Hearings on ‘Rightwing Extremism’
by Kurt Nimmo | Jan 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
Prior to the 2018 midterm election, I speculated a Democrat-controlled House would result in hearings targeting “hate groups,” that is to say anybody on the “right” who challenges official narratives, otherwise known as “conspiracy theories.”“Rep. Bennie Thompson, an...
Top 10 Reasons Not to Love NATO
by David Swanson | Jan 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
The New York Times loves NATO, but should you? Judging by comments in social media and the real world, millions of people in the United States have gone from having little or no opinion on NATO, or from opposing NATO as the world’s biggest military force responsible...
The Obama/New York Times Plot To Overthrow Trump
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 15, 2019 | The Liberty Report
Another "blockbuster" report on Trump's "ties" to Russia has fizzled into nothingness, as the New York Times' piece over the weekend on an FBI counterintelligence investigation opened against the president was riddled with holes and absurdities. What came through loud...
The New York Times Smears the President
by David Stockman | Jan 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Donald has been on a red hot twitter rampage, and he's completely justified. Actually, we didn't think the Russian Collusion Hoax could get any stupider until we saw the New York Times' Friday evening bushwhack. The trio of authors, apparently self-tortured...
Please, TSA Workers, Don’t Come Back
by J.D. Tuccille | Jan 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
Understandably, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees are no more enthusiastic about working when their paychecks are delayed than is anybody else on the planet. That's why they've been calling-in sick in increased numbers—some to seek temporary work...

Campaign Finance Reform Helps Special Interests
by Ron Paul | Jan 14, 2019 | Featured Articles
One of the new Democratic House majority’s top priorities is so-called campaign finance reform legislation. Contrary to the claims of its supporters, campaign finance reform legislation does not limit the influence of powerful special interests. Instead, it violates...
Bolton Had Pentagon Draw Up “Far-Reaching Military Options To Strike Iran”
by Tyler Durden | Jan 14, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Wall Street Journal published an Iran bombshell Sunday morning, confirming the White House had the Pentagon prepare "military options" to strike the country last year. The sudden request, seen as an unprecedented Iraq-style "shock and awe" attack on Iran, caught...
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