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Month: March 2019
20 Years Ago: Bill Clinton Bombs Serbia, Killing Hundreds of Civilians
by James Bovard | Mar 25, 2019 | Featured Articles
Twenty years ago, President Clinton commenced bombing Serbia for no good reason. Up to 1500 Serb civilians were killed by NATO bombing in one of the biggest BS morality plays of the modern era. Clinton sold the bombing as a humanitarian mission, but the resulting...
Hoax of All Hoaxes: RPI’s Daniel McAdams on the Death of Russiagate
by RPI Staff | Mar 25, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
There was collusion in the 2016 election, RPI's Daniel McAdams tells RT International. It was collusion between Hillary Clinton, US intelligence agencies, John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, and even "former" foreign intelligence agents like Christopher Steele....
The Mueller Report Is In. They Were Wrong. We Were Right.
by Caitlin Johnstone | Mar 23, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Robert Mueller investigation which monopolized political discourse for two years has finally concluded, and his anxiously awaited report has been submitted to Attorney General William Barr. The results are in and the debate is over: those advancing the conspiracy...
With RussiaGate Over Where’s Hillary?
by Tom Luongo | Mar 23, 2019 | Featured Articles
During most of the RussiaGate investigation against Donald Trump, I kept saying that all roads lead to Hillary Clinton. Anyone with three working brain cells knew this, including ‘Miss’ Maddow, whose tears of disappointment are particularly delicious. Robert Mueller’s...
Iraq War Anniversary: Ron Paul’s Opposition Scored the Szasz Award for Civil Liberties
by James Bovard | Mar 23, 2019 | Featured Articles
This week marked the 16th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. Plenty of Bush apologists have been rewriting history on Twitter. But Ron Paul was one member of Congress who had nothing to apologize in the run-up to the war. He was outspoken throughout 2002 and...
Russia Gives US Red Line on Venezuela
by Finian Cunningham | Mar 22, 2019 | Featured Articles
At a high-level meeting in Rome this week, it seems that Russia reiterated a grave warning to the US – Moscow will not tolerate American military intervention to topple the Venezuelan government with whom it is allied. Meanwhile, back in Washington DC, President...
Trump Blocks Bolton, Reverses New North Korea Sanctions
by 21st Century Wire | Mar 22, 2019 | Neocon Watch
In a tweet on Friday, President Trump announced that “additional large-scale sanctions” by the US Treasury that had been added to already existing set of sanctions – were now off the table. It is not clear yet why the President has seemingly undercut his National...
Human Rights as Seen by the White House: Concessions to Israel Are Notable
by Philip Giraldi | Mar 22, 2019 | Featured Articles
The State Department’s just issued annual Human Rights Report for 2018 is a disgrace, a document so heavily politicized by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his crew of hardliners that it might be regarded as a model in how to make something that is black appear to...
‘Shock & Awe’? 16 Years Later, Who Won The Iraq War?
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 21, 2019 | The Liberty Report
This week marks 16 years since the US attacked an Iraq that had neither attacked nor threatened us. Claims that Iraq had WMDs were lies and the Bush Administration knew they were lies. So 16 years later who is coming out on top after the US attack? Here's a hint: the...
Conscription Is Slavery
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 21, 2019 | Featured Articles
Last month a federal judge in Texas declared the all-male military draft to be unconstitutional because it applies only to men and not also to women. The decision flies in the face of a decision by the Supreme Court in 1981 that upheld the constitutionality of the...
On The Anniversary Of The Iraq Invasion, Bush Press Secretary Claims Bush Didn’t Lie
by Caitlin Johnstone | Mar 21, 2019 | Featured Articles
On the sixteenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, as the US government threatens punitive action against International Criminal Court investigators for attempting to look into US war crimes, former George W Bush administration Press Secretary Ari Fleischer has...
UPDATE: Twitter Lets Julian Assange’s Mom Tweet Again
by Adam Dick | Mar 21, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Yesterday, I wrote about Twitter restricting public access to the past Twitter posts of Christine Assange, the mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, as well as preventing her from making new posts at her Twitter account. Today, it appears Twitter has removed...
Goodbye to the Internet: Interference by Governments Is Already Here
by Philip Giraldi | Mar 21, 2019 | Featured Articles
There is a saying attributed to the French banker Nathan Rothschild that "Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes its laws." Conservative opinion in the United States has long suspected that Rothschild was right and there have been frequent calls...
Neocons Want Brazil in NATO to Undermine Venezuela – Daniel McAdams
by RT | Mar 21, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Daniel McAdams of the Ron Paul Institute joins News.Views.Hughes to discuss Trump’s apparent 180 degree turn on NATO. While once he was outspoken in his criticism, President Trump now wants to expand the alliance by bringing Brazil into the fold. He argues that Trump...
Twitter Prevents Julian Assange’s Mom from Posting, Restricts Viewing of Her Past Posts
by Adam Dick | Mar 20, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Christine Assange, the mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, has used her Twitter page to criticize the United States government effort to prosecute and imprison her son for making available leaked information exposing abusive government actions, as well as her...
Was UK Paying White Helmets to Produce Syria ‘Chemical Weapon’ PR as Cover for Jaish Al Islam?
by Vanessa Beeley | Mar 20, 2019 | Featured Articles
Life returns to normal in Douma after SAA liberation. Photo © Vanessa Beeley.As controversy rages over the alleged April 2018 Douma “chemical weapon attacks” that signaled the end of Jaish Al Islam’s occupation, life in the Syrian city gradually returns to peace and...
Trump Wants Brazil In NATO…To Help Oust Maduro?
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 20, 2019 | The Liberty Report
Less than a month after Brazil made it clear that it wants no part in a military invasion of neighboring Venezuela, its president, Jair Bolsonaro, is in Washington this week to be feted by Trump and his neocon advisors. First stop was an unprecedented visit to the CIA...
Attempt to Prosecute Assad at ICC is Aimed at Undermining Syrian Peace Process
by John Laughland | Mar 19, 2019 | Featured Articles
The announcement that “a group of Syrian refugees and their London lawyers” have found “a neat legal trick” to press for an indictment against Syrian President Bashar Assad by the International Criminal Court demonstrates, yet again, the dangerous corruption of...
Germany Backpedals On NATO Spending Promise As France Goes Full Throttle
by Tyler Durden | Mar 19, 2019 | Featured Articles
Germany is poised to renege on its promise to boost NATO spending, backtracking on a public commitment last year by Chancellor Angela Merkel to increase German military expenditure to 1.5 percent of gross domestic product by 2024 - bringing it closer to the 2 percent...
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