Turkish president Erdogan has warned the US that an invasion and occupation of Syria's Kurd regions was imminent. Talks are ongoing with US officials to stave off the move, which could see US military personnel in Syria facing off against NATO partner Turkey. Watch...
Month: August 2019
Wars and Domestic Massacres
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Aug 7, 2019 | Featured Articles
This past weekend, 22 people were killed in El Paso, Texas and 9 in Dayton, Ohio. There have been a number of other mass shootings in the past two decades or so; the largest was in Las Vegas in 2017, with 58 killed. This is sad, but it is a drop in the bucket compared...
Give Guantanamo Back to Cuba
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 7, 2019 | Featured Articles
The US Empire, which controls much of the world through hundreds of military bases in foreign countries, through foreign regimes run by domestic US puppets, and through foreign dependency on US foreign aid, got its start in 1898 during the Spanish American War. It was...
Americans Should Be Very Skeptical Of Calls For New ‘Terrorism’ Laws
by Caitlin Johnstone | Aug 6, 2019 | Featured Articles
Two mass shootings have rocked the United States in less than 24 hours, leaving dozens dead and many more wounded. The first in El Paso, Texas was allegedly perpetrated by a white supremacist whose racist motives are outlined in a rambling “manifesto”, the second...
For The Children? Trump’s Venezuela Blockade Multiplies The Misery
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 6, 2019 | The Liberty Report
President Trump announced a full US embargo of Venezuela, with punishment for anyone of any nationality who "supports" the Maduro government. US sanctions are said to have been responsible for 40,000 deaths in the past two years. How many more will die from this...
‘Who Lost Turkey?’
by Graham E. Fuller | Aug 6, 2019 | Featured Articles
Here we go again, another phase of witch-hunting over “Who lost _____(fill in the blanks) country.” It was once who lost China in 1949, then Cuba in 1959, then Iran in 1979, and others. The latest iteration is now “Who lost Turkey?” This question classically pops up...

Congress Spending Surge is National Suicide
by Ron Paul | Aug 5, 2019 | Featured Articles
With a national debt approaching $23 trillion and a trillion dollar deficit for this year alone, Congress last week decided to double down on suicidal spending, passing a two year budget that has the United States careening toward catastrophe. While we cannot say...
Iran’s Zarif drives Trump to insanity
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 5, 2019 | Featured Articles
At a time when the Trump administration has no problem negotiating with the secretary of the Russian national security council Nikolai Patrushev, who is technically under US sanctions since April 2018, the cut and thrust of Washington’s move to sanction Iran’s Foreign...
China Crisis: New US Missiles To Asia
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 5, 2019 | The Liberty Report
One day after the Trump Administration announced it was getting out of the Reagan-era INF treaty, the new Pentagon chief said US would be sending missiles once banned by that treaty to Asia. Targeting China. Will an Asian arms race be stabilizing or destabilizing?...
Tulsi Gabbard’s Military Nonsense
by Adam Dick | Aug 4, 2019 | Featured Articles
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), in a Thursday interview with host Chris Cuomo at CNN, reacted to criticism from fellow Democratic presidential candidate Sen Kamala Harris (D-CA), after the candidates’ dust-up in a debate the day before, by stating, "the only response that...
The Empire Is Coming for Tulsi Gabbard
by Tom Luongo | Aug 3, 2019 | Featured Articles
The second debate among Democratic hopefuls was notable for two things. The lack of common decency of most of them and Tulsi Gabbard’s immense, career-ending attack on Kamala Harris’ (D-Deep State) record as an Attorney General in California. Harris came out of the...
Trump Ponders Deadly Blockade of Venezuela
by Kurt Nimmo | Aug 3, 2019 | Featured Articles
President Trump, wandering further afield of his noninterventionist election campaign promise, may soon impose an illegal military blockade on Venezuela. According to an unnamed Trump administration official, the blockade will continue until Nicolas Maduro abdicates...
No, Tulsi Gabbard is NOT This Election’s Ron Paul
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 2, 2019 | Featured Articles
When Buzzfeed's Rosie Gray contacted Dr. Paul yesterday for a comment for her latest piece, "Tulsi Gabbard Is This Election’s Ron Paul," Dr. Paul and I discussed what the article might look like and how his comment might be used (or mis-used). Knowing Gray as an...
UK ‘Up To Its Neck’ In RussiaGate Affair, Secret Texts Reveal British Role In Trump Coup Effort
by Tyler Durden | Aug 2, 2019 | Featured Articles
While hysteria raged about possible Russian “interference” in the 2016 US election, British intelligence officials were secretly playing a “key role” in helping instigate investigations into Donald Trump, secret texts have shown. 'Turns out it was Britain that was the...
The Spy Game: It Ain’t What It Used to Be
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 1, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Tehran government has announced the arrest of seventeen Iranian citizens caught spying for America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Some of those arrested have already been sentenced to death. It is the third major roll-up of CIA agents in Iran that I have...
Violent ‘Color Revolution’ In Hong Kong Fails Despite Strong NYT Support
by Moon of Alabama | Aug 1, 2019 | Featured Articles
When the US instigates its so called 'color revolutions', the transatlantic main stream media are usually supportive. But the support is rarely as extreme as the extraordinary one the New York Times gives to the rioters in Hong Kong. For the timeline we check with...
Rep. Omar and the Hypocrisy of Congress
by Kurt Nimmo | Aug 1, 2019 | Featured Articles
I’ll begin by saying I am not an Ilhan Omar supporter. She is dangerous due to her support of identity politics and the Gang of Four—also known as the Squad—agenda that, if implemented, will be a death knell to America. However, that absurd and destructive agenda is...
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