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...
Month: July 2019
Ukraine Remains the Signpost of World Politics
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jul 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
The ice in the frozen lake shifting is one of the coolest sounds you can hear. The air is cold but not freezing, and the woods are silent. The frozen lake looks like it’s been stopped in time, but beneath the placid surface it keeps shifting and moaning. The...
Two-Faced Democrats Move to Prevent Trump’s Iran War
by Kurt Nimmo | Jul 14, 2019 | Featured Articles
House Democrats and a few Republicans have approved an amendment to the fiscal 2020 National Defense Authorization Act that they say will prevent President Trump from violating the Constitution by bombing the daylight out of Iran without approval from Congress. House...
Turkey Calls Trump’s Bluff
by Eric Margolis | Jul 13, 2019 | Featured Articles
Turkey has just called Donald Trump’s bluff by going ahead with the purchase of Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missiles. The outrage in Washington is volcanic. Trump is vowing to rain fire and brimstone sanctions down on the disobedient Turks. The S-400 is Russia’s...
Trump Consiglieres Giuliani and Bolton Paid Big Bucks by MEK Terrorist Group
by Kurt Nimmo | Jul 13, 2019 | Featured Articles
Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, his pockets stuffed with terrorist cash, tweeted on Saturday that MEK is a viable alternative to the rule of the mullahs in Iran. Tom Ridge, Louis Freeh and Bob Torricelli agree that NCRI (National Council of Resistance in Iran) is a...
Americans Should Adopt Unilateral Free Trade
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
Given the ongoing destruction of liberty and prosperity from President Trump’s trade wars, tariffs, sanctions, and embargoes, it’s time to think at a higher level, one that goes beyond mere criticism of Trump’s trade antics. It’s time to think in terms of individual...
House Hearing Provides Rocky Start for Countrywide Marijuana Legalization
by Adam Dick | Jul 12, 2019 | Congress Alert
A United States House of Representatives subcommittee held a hearing on Wednesday at which countrywide marijuana legalization was considered. The hearing of the Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee appears designed to...
Mueller Does Not Have Evidence That The IRA Was Part of Russian Government Meddling
by Larry C. Johnson | Jul 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
In the criminal case against alleged Russian operatives - Internet Research Agency and Concord Management and Consulting LLC - a Federal judge has declared that Robert Mueller has not offered one piece of solid evidence that these defendants were involved in any way...
Iran Keeps Calm While US And Britain Continue Their Provocations
by Moon of Alabama | Jul 11, 2019 | Featured Articles
Great Britain has joined the US pressure and provocation campaign against Iran. It is creating incidents to put Iran into a defensive position and to provoke into a violent reaction. Early today 'two US officials' spread a scare story about Iran which lead to this CNN...
Fake News? CNN Claims Iran Tried To Seize UK Tanker
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 11, 2019 | The Liberty Report
Yesterday CNN was the sole source of an article accusing Iran's Revolutionary Guard of trying to seize a UK tanker in the Persian Gulf. Though CNN claimed there was video of the attempt, none has surfaced. Iran strongly denies any such attempt. Is this another psy-op...
The Death of Privacy: Government Fearmongers to Read Your Mail
by Philip Giraldi | Jul 11, 2019 | Featured Articles
It is discouraging to note just how the United States has been taking on the attributes of a police state since 9/11. Stories of police raids on people’s homes gone wrong are frequently in the news. In one recent incident, a heavily armed SWAT team was sent to a St....
Trump Threatens Military Bill Veto: Demands More Spending!
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 10, 2019 | The Liberty Report
President Trump has threatened to veto the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2020 if Congress adopts the House version of the bill, which increases military spending by $16 billion but does not come close to the $33 billion increase the Administration...
Rattling Cages in the Propaganda War
by Mike Maharrey | Jul 9, 2019 | Featured Articles
It appears I have rattled some cages. I recently appeared on RT to talk about how the United States weaponizes the dollar and wields it like a billy club to advance US foreign policy objectives. I specifically mentioned how the US can use the dollar-denominated SWIFT...
Breakthrough? Taliban Talks With Kabul Government Bear Fruit
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 9, 2019 | The Liberty Report
This week, Taliban and Afghan government officials met for the first time at talks hosted in Qatar and organized by Germany. The modest early agreement may pave the way to the end of the 18 year war. Meanwhile today the US resumes talks with the Taliban also in Qatar....
DSA/Jacobin/Haymarket-Sponsored ‘Socialism’ Conference Features US Gov-Funded Regime-Change Activists
by Ben Norton | Jul 9, 2019 | Featured Articles
The 2019 Socialism Conference, sponsored by American leftist juggernauts the DSA, Jacobin magazine, and ISO’s Haymarket Books, features regime-change activists from multiple US government-funded NGOs. Socialism is now apparently brought to you by the US State...
Bolton Losing Ground on Venezuela, Iran – But Far From Down and Out
by Martin Sieff | Jul 9, 2019 | Featured Articles
The wave of wishful thinking articles, including some by friends of mine whose judgment I usually respect was entirely wrong. President Donald Trump has not fired John Bolton for the failed fiasco of his latest inept attempt to topple the legitimate...
Trump Reminds Us That America is a Military Nation
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 8, 2019 | Featured Articles
President Trump is being criticized for surrounding himself with tanks, armored vehicles, flyovers, and generals and admirals during his Fourth of July celebration at the Lincoln Memorial. Critics say that it was unseemly for the president to be showing off the...
Unintended Consequences: UK Tanker Fears Iran Retaliation In Gulf
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 8, 2019 | The Liberty Report
Days after the UK - at US request - seized a tanker filled with Iranian oil near Gibraltar, a UK tanker in the Persian Gulf has made an abrupt u-turn and abandoned its mission to transport Iraqi oil to Europe. Now sheltering in Saudi waters, the tanker fears a...
Frog-Marching Trump Toward War on Iran
by Ron Paul | Jul 8, 2019 | Featured Articles
Hypocrisy seems to have become a defining characteristic of US foreign policy, especially when it comes to Iran. After breaking the Iran deal last year and, de facto, forcing the Europeans to violate the deal in May, the US Administration is now complaining that Iran...
Obama: Front Man for Washington’s Imperialism
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jul 6, 2019 | Featured Articles
Clarity Press is a good publisher for authors willing to provide real information in place of the officially sanctioned controlled explanations of our time. A current example is Jeremy Kuzmarov’s assessment of Obama, Obama’s Unending Wars. The forty-fourth president...
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