This year's Intelligence Authorization bill contains language drafted by the CIA itself designed to make it a criminal act to reveal the name of undercover agents whether stationed overseas or at home, whether working or retired. The measure is designed - in the CIA's...
Month: July 2019
Did John Bolton Light the Fuse of the UK-Iranian Tanker Crisis?
by Gareth Porter | Jul 23, 2019 | Featured Articles
While Iran’s seizure of a British tanker near the Strait of Hormuz on Friday was a clear response to the British capture of an Iranian tanker in the Strait of Gibraltar on July 4, both the UK and U.S. governments are insisting that Iran’s operation was illegal while...
Ukraine Election – Voters Defeat Second Color Revolution
by Moon of Alabama | Jul 23, 2019 | Featured Articles
Volodymyr ZelenskyThe Ukraine, translated as “the borderlands,” lies between core Russia and the Europe's western states. It is a split country. Half the population speaks Russian as its first language. The industrialized center, east and south are culturally orthodox...
The Strange Death of Conservatism
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 22, 2019 | Featured Articles
You can tell that the establishment is getting nervous when in just the last month we see a grand effort to "re-invent" conservatism launched by the same kinds of ideologues who destroyed conservatism, and we see a new venture promising to promote a new foreign policy...
US Pushing Allies To Send Warships Toward Iran
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 22, 2019 | The Liberty Report
The latest neocon scheme is to push US allies to send warships to join a US-led mission to keep the Strait of Hormuz "free and clear" for shipping. In reality it is a trigger for war. Thus far the US has no takers for this clear escalation. Will Bolton's brigades...
Will Persian Gulf ‘Tanker War’ Become a Shooting War?
by Ron Paul | Jul 22, 2019 | Featured Articles
The UK got a taste of its own medicine this week as Iran seized a British tanker, the Stena Impero, just two weeks after UK Royal Marines seized a tanker near Gibraltar carrying two million barrels of Iranian oil. As could be predicted, the US and UK media are...
Will Donald Trump Kill His Presidency Over Iran
by Larry C. Johnson | Jul 21, 2019 | Featured Articles
Donald Trump appears to be on the verge of doing what the "Never Trumpers" could not - destroy his Presidency and make re-election impossible. It all boils down to whether or not he decides to launch military strikes on Iran. The bottomline is this: if Trump launches...
How Trump’s Arch-Hawk Lured Britain into a Dangerous Trap to Punish Iran
by Simon Tisdall | Jul 21, 2019 | Featured Articles
John Bolton, White House national security adviser and notorious Iraq-era hawk, is a man on a mission. Given broad latitude over policy by Donald Trump, he is widely held to be driving the US confrontation with Iran. And in his passionate bid to tame Tehran, Bolton...
Are Libertarians the New Neocons?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 20, 2019 | Neocon Watch
There is a disturbing trend in some libertarian circles and among some libertarian organizations to be increasingly enamored with foreign interventionism and US government backed regime change overseas. For those focused on foreign affairs, this is particularly...
Who Was Epstein Working For?
by Eric Margolis | Jul 20, 2019 | Featured Articles
I’ve had many strange experiences in my decades of covering intelligence affairs. These run from being invited to KGB HQ in Moscow, Chinese intelligence in Beijing, US intelligence in Virginia, Libyan intelligence in Tripoli, South African intelligence, and even...
How Corporate Media Are Fueling a New Iran Nuclear Crisis
by Gareth Porter | Jul 19, 2019 | Featured Articles
The US news media’s coverage of the Iran nuclear issue has been woefully off-kilter for many years. Now, however, those same outlets are contributing to the serious crisis building between Washington and Tehran. Iran has responded to Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015...
New US Pentagon Chief – Vested Interest in War & Conflict
by strategic culture foundation | Jul 19, 2019 | Featured Articles
Mark Esper is expected to be confirmed in coming days as the new US Secretary of Defense. His appointment is awaiting final Congressional approval after customary hearings this week before senators. The 55-year-old nominee put forward by President Trump was previously...
Will 500 Troops To Saudi Arabia Really Make Us Safer?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 18, 2019 | The Liberty Report
The media is reporting today that the US will send 500 troops to Saudi Arabia to confront the Iran "threat" to the region. Just over a decade ago the US pulled its troops out of Saudi Arabia after acknowledging what Bin Laden had said about his motivation for the 9/11...
New CNN Assange Smear Piece Is Amazingly Dishonest, Even For CNN
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jul 18, 2019 | Featured Articles
CNN has published an unbelievably brazen and dishonest smear piece on Julian Assange, easily the most egregious article of its kind since the notoriously bogus Assange-Manafort report by The Guardian last year. It contains none of the “exclusive” documents which it...
Hating America After 9/11
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 18, 2019 | Featured Articles
Listening to President Trump accuse Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of supporting al-Qaeda reminds me of how conservatives behaved toward libertarians who dared talk about motive immediately after the 9/11 attacks. At the time of those attacks, some of us...
It’s Un-American To Be Anti-Free Speech: Protect the Right to Criticize the Government
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 17, 2019 | Featured Articles
Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? The constitutional theory is that we the people are the sovereigns, the state and federal officials only our agents. We who have the...
Showdown! Trump Takes On Turkey Over Russian Missile Purchase
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 17, 2019 | The Liberty Report
Turkey's decision to purchase a Russian-made missile defense system has led the Trump Administration to cancel its planned sale of 100 F-35 fighters to Turkey. Also under a 2017 law to punish Russia for "meddling" in US elections, Trump will be obligated to apply...
Pompeo’s Big Lie on Iran
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
In a tiff over whether Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his delegation would be permitted to enter the United States as part of a meeting of the United Nations and over whether they would be free to travel freely around New York City, US Secretary of...
Pirate Nation: Why Britain Hijacked Iranian Ship on Behalf of Washington
by Tony Cartalucci | Jul 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
Had Iran openly hijacked a vessel of any nation, for any reason, plying through waters anywhere on Earth, the US and its allies would immediately cite it as a provocation toward war. In fact, even without evidence, suspiciously timed attacks carried out last month on...
Conservatives Against Liberty
by Ron Paul | Jul 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
Recently several prominent social and populist conservatives have attacked libertarianism. These conservatives, some of whom are allies in the fight against our hyper-interventionist foreign policy, blame libertarianism for a variety of social and economic ills. The...
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