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...
Month: February 2019
What If They Started a War and No One Showed Up?
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 21, 2019 | Featured Articles
The humiliation of United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Warsaw last week was a good thing. The ancient Greeks, exercising their demonstrated ability to synthesize defining characteristics, had a word for it: hubris. Hubris is when one develops an extreme...
Half-A-Cheer For Supremes’ Civil Asset Forfeiture Ruling
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 21, 2019 | The Liberty Report
Yesterday's Supreme Court ruling on civil asset forfeiture - that states are bound by the Eighth Amendment - may be a step in the right direction, but it's only a baby step. Police are still free to steal from individuals not even accused of a crime, let alone...
First Venezuela, Now Nicaragua? Bolton Says Ortega’s Days ‘Numbered’ & People ‘Will Soon be Free’
by RT | Feb 20, 2019 | Featured Articles
US President Donald Trump’s top foreign policy advisor John Bolton appears dead set on resuming his decades-long stand-off with Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega, hinting that Washington-backed regime change may be in the offing. “The Ortega regime has sentenced three...
Iraq Lies Redux: Trump Admin Claims Iran/al-Qaeda Alliance
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 20, 2019 | The Liberty Report
In an astonishing Washington Times article this week, unnamed Trump Administration officials (who may or may not be called "John Bolton") are claiming that Iran, which has been battling al-Qaeda in Syria for nearly four years, is actually secretly allied with al-Qaeda...
The Fake News about Humanitarian Aid and Venezuela
by Alan MacLeod | Feb 20, 2019 | Featured Articles
In recent times the international media, including many who promised to “resist” the dangerous commander-in-chief Donald Trump, have been awash with stories about Nicolas Maduro blocking US “humanitarian aid” reaching Venezuela. Maduro is said to have even blocked a...
Praise for Prof. Walter Block from a Three-Time Student
by Adam Dick | Feb 19, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
It is great to see exuberant praise for Walter Block, a Loyola University economics professor and Ron Paul Institute Advisory Board member, at Loyola University’s The Maroon on Sunday. In an editorial, Loyola student Nathan Fryzek offers several reasons fellow...
American ‘Progressives’ Support Civil Liberties as The Rope Supports The Hanging Man
by Adam Garrie | Feb 19, 2019 | Featured Articles
In the year 2001, what ought to be called the most controversial legislation in the history of the United States was rapidly passed through Congress with few objections. The Patriot Act was an almost entirely unconstitutional expansion of American governmental power,...
NATO’s Atlantic Council Hijacks Munich Conference With Revisionist ‘Principles’ Declaration
by Nebojsa Malic | Feb 19, 2019 | Featured Articles
Taking over the annual Munich security conference, the Atlantic Council has come out with a declaration of principles that seeks to legitimize the rogue behavior of the West after the Cold War as a "rules-based" world order. For almost three decades now, Washington...
Trump Administration Threatens Families Of Venezuelan Military
by Caitlin Johnstone | Feb 19, 2019 | Featured Articles
“Today, President Trump presented Venezuela’s military officers with a choice — work for a democratic future for all Venezuelans or see the financial circle close for their families and loved ones,” tweeted US National Security Advisor John Bolton today following a...
Whistling Past NATO’s Graveyard, With Special Guest Tom Luongo
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 19, 2019 | The Liberty Report
The recent Warsaw and Munich summits have proven disastrous to Trump's foreign policy as pursued by his neocon top advisors. They were supposed to line up for war on Iran and further isolation of Russia and China, yet none of the war bugles sounded. Have the Europeans...
Walter Jones and the Vote to End US War on Yemen
by Ron Paul | Feb 18, 2019 | Featured Articles
In a fitting legacy for my friend Walter Jones, Jr. who passed away last week, the US House made history by voting in favor of H.J.Res. 37, a resolution “Directing the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities in the Republic of Yemen that have not been...
Marco Rubio Declares War On Venezuela
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 18, 2019 | Featured Articles
Sen. Rubio (R-FL) travelled down to the Colombia/Venezuela border over the weekend to threaten a US invasion of Venezuela if a US "aid" convoy is not allowed to cross the bridge. Rubio's sudden concern for the humanitarian situation in Venezuela smacks of hypocrisy,...
Hezbollah in S. America: Mike Pompeo’s Big Lie
by Kurt Nimmo | Feb 18, 2019 | Featured Articles
It’s late 2002, early 2003 again. This time, instead of the evil (former CIA asset) Saddam Hussein posing a dire threat to America, it’s Iran and Hezbollah stationed in Venezuela. Throw in the perennial enemy of a post-colonial Caribbean, Castro’s Cuba, and we have...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Yemen Vote, Legalizing Marijuana, Women Working, Democracy Promotion, Checkpoint Alert
by Adam Dick | Feb 18, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted 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...
Real ‘Obscene Masquerade’: How BBC Depicted Staged Hospital Scenes as Proof of Douma Chemical Attack
by Vanessa Beeley | Feb 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
In an extraordinary turn of events, corporate media appears to have been exposed again as an extension of state foreign policy, by a member of the establishment media cabal, manufacturing consent for regime change in Syria. Riam Dalati is on the BBC production team...
Goodbye My Friend, Walter Jones
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Feb 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
I just retired after serving 30 years in the US House of Representatives and 16 years before that as a lawyer and Judge. I have to say, of all the great men and women with whom I have worked during my career, Walter Jones was one of the best.There is greater turnover...
Hate-Fest in Warsaw
by Eric Margolis | Feb 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
Warsaw, Poland is not a fun place to visit in darkest February, but that is where the US just staged an anti-Iranian jamboree of 60 client states that brought derision and scorn from Europeans and much of the Mideast. The point of this cynical exercise was to lay the...
Walter B. Jones Restoring Power to Congress Act Would Repeal the 2001 AUMF
by Adam Dick | Feb 14, 2019 | Congress Alert
In his work opposing United States wars overseas, Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), before his death Sunday, put much effort into seeking a repeal of the 2001 authorization for use of military force (AUMF) that has been used by successive presidents as a basis for...
In Libya, ‘We Came. We Saw. He Died.’ Will There Be a Repeat in Venezuela?
by Brian Cloughley | Feb 14, 2019 | Featured Articles
Libya is in a state of anarchic turmoil, with various groups fighting each other for control of the country, and as the Wall Street Journal reported last September, “Islamic State is staging a resurgence in chaotic Libya, claiming more than a dozen attacks in the...
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