"Mike Pence is known as the stupidest person in the Trump Administration, but Nikki Haley was known as the second-stupidest." So Lew Rockwell tells RT on the news that Trump's former Ambassador to the UN has been named to the board of US mega weapons manufacturer...
Month: February 2019
"Better 'No Deal' Than 'Bad Deal'": Walking Out Of Hanoi Summit Earns Trump Bipartisan Praise
by Tyler Durden | Feb 28, 2019 | Featured Articles
Though Kim Jong Un has a long train ride back to Pyongyang to ponder how the collapse of Thursday's talks in Hanoi might impact his relationship with Trump, senior officials in his government are already signaling that the detente between the two geopolitical rivals...
'Sometimes You Have To Walk' – Trump/Kim Summit A Failure? Whose Fault?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 28, 2019 | The Liberty Report
The media is gloating today over the "failed" Trump/Kim summit. Was the summit really a failure? If so, who is at fault? The media and pundits as usual get it wrong. It was both a success and a failure, but not for the reasons they are reporting. Tune in to today's...
Hard for US to ‘Sell Regime Change’ in Venezuela – Daniel McAdams
by RPI Staff | Feb 27, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Canada-founded "Lima Group" of Latin American countries dedicated to the overthrow of the Venezuelan government held an all important meeting in Colombia yesterday, coming on the heels of the weekend's unsuccessful push by US-appointed "interim president" Juan...
Lawrence Wilkerson: US Intervention in Venezuela is About Profits for the Rich, not Democracy and Freedom
by Adam Dick | Feb 27, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
College of William & Mary Professor Lawrence Wilkerson describes the current effort of the Donald Trump administration to overthrow the Venezuela government and oust Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro as a continuation of the United States effort begun in 2002,...
Trump Talks Peace With Taliban – Will Neocons Go Nuts?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 27, 2019 | The Liberty Report
While all eyes are on the Trump/Kim talks in Hanoi, the US Administration is continuing peace talks with Afghanistan's Taliban in Qatar. Will the US withdraw all troops from Afghanistan in exchange for Taliban promises to keep fighting ISIS and al-Qaeda? Tune in to...
The Age of Tyrannical Surveillance: We’re Being Branded, Bought and Sold for Our Data
by John W. Whitehead | Feb 27, 2019 | Featured Articles
“We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about… Your digital identity will live forever... because there’s no delete button.”—Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Uncle Sam wants you. Correction: Big Brother wants you....
US/North Korea Summit: Will Trump Win Nobel Peace Prize?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 26, 2019 | The Liberty Report
Tomorrow President Trump will meet for the second time with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. They meet in Hanoi, Vietnam, where some 50 years ago a bitter and futile war was fought. While Trump's enemies in the US are creating unrealistic expectations in hopes of...
The Second Battle of Cucuta
by William Walter Kay | Feb 26, 2019 | Featured Articles
On Sunday morn, February 28 1813, General Ramon Correa, commander of 800 Spanish Royalist troops, sat upon his favourite Cucuta pew. While Correa communed with the Almighty, Simon Bolivar marched 400 men to hilltops overlooking Cucuta. Futile attempts to dislodge...
Attacking Iran: Fake news about a terrorist connection could serve as a pretext for war
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 26, 2019 | Featured Articles
Observers of developments in the Middle East have long taken it as a given that the United States and Israel are seeking for an excuse to attack Iran. The recently terminated conference in Warsaw had that objective, which was clearly expressed by Israeli Prime...
Venezuela False Flag: Who Burned The Aid Truck?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 25, 2019 | Featured Articles
The weekend stand-off between the US aid trucks on the Colombian side of the border and the Venezuelan government did not go quite as planned by the US. The aid did not get through, the military did not defect, and US-selected "president" Guaido was nowhere to be...
Emergencies Do Not Trump the Constitution
by Ron Paul | Feb 25, 2019 | Featured Articles
After Congress rejected President Trump’s request for 5.7 billion dollars for the border wall, the president declared a national emergency at the southern border. President Trump claims this “emergency” gives him the authority to divert funds appropriated for other...
Bolton’s Long Game Against Iran – Pakistan Becomes Saudi Arabia’s New Client State
by Alastair Crooke | Feb 25, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Wall Street Journal has an article whose very title – Ambitions for an “Arab NATO” Fade, Amid Discord – more or less, says it all. No surprise there at all. Even Antony Zinni, the retired Marine General who was to spearhead the project (but who has now resigned),...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Syria Troops, Licensed Rights, Bossy US, Wisconsin Marijuana, Political Parties
by Adam Dick | Feb 25, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues is available. 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...
Congratulations Women, Judge Rules the US Military Should Draft You Too
by Adam Dick | Feb 25, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Over the last few years, there has been action in the United States Congress regarding whether or not to expand Selective Service registration requirements and any potential military draft to include women as well as men. Much of the support for this move has been...
Pence, Guaidó Fail to Secure Lima Group Approval for US Military Intervention in Venezuela
by Whitney Webb | Feb 25, 2019 | Featured Articles
CARACAS, VENEZUELA – On Sunday, the US-backed and self-declared “interim president” of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, announced that he would meet with the Lima Group on Monday to “formally propose” keeping “all options open” for the “liberation” of Venezuela. The Lima...
Burning Aid: An Interventionist Deception on Colombia-Venezuela Bridge?
by Max Blumenthal | Feb 24, 2019 | Featured Articles
CARACAS, Venezuela — The Trump administration’s coup against Venezuela culminated on February 23 with US-backed opposition attempting to ram several trucks loaded with boxes of USAID“humanitarian aid” across the previously unused Francisco de Paula Santander bridge...
Venezuela: US Regime Change in Progress!
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 24, 2019 | Featured Articles
This article was originally published yesterday exclusively for Ron Paul Institute subscribers. Subscribe for free here.When the neocons wanted to invade Iraq and overthrow its government they spent a good deal of time trying to convince us that they didn't just want...
Rubio Tells Maduro He Will End Up Like Gaddafi
by Kurt Nimmo | Feb 24, 2019 | Featured Articles
Mike Pompeo, the former boss of the world’s most prolific terror organization, the CIA, climbed up on his high State Department horse Saturday and lectured us on the crimes of the “sick tyrant” Nicholas Maduro. We denounce Maduro’s refusal to let humanitarian...
Richard Branson Joins Venezuelan Regime Change Effort
by Kurt Nimmo | Feb 22, 2019 | Featured Articles
As I write this, there is a false flag underway on the border of Venezuela and Brazil.It looks like two people were killed and a dozen wounded after Venezuelan troops opened fire on locals. The confrontation is part of an effort to deliver “aid” to the crisis-wracked...
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