In response to a statement during the Democratic primary debates by presidential candidate Andrew Yang that both Russia and the United States have engaged in election interference, liberal pundit Molly McKew tweeted, “I now retract any vaguely nice thing I ever said...
Month: October 2019
Terrorized, Traumatized and Killed: The Police State’s Deadly Toll on America’s Children
by John W. Whitehead | Oct 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
“‘Am I going to get shot again.’”—2-year-old survivor of a police shooting that left his three siblings, ages 1, 4 and 5, with a bullet in the brain, a fractured skull and gun wounds to the face Children learn what they live. As family counselor Dorothy Law Nolte...
Politics Drops Its Pretenses
by Jeff Deist | Oct 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
Can the increasing politicization of life in America be stopped, or even slowed? To be sure, average Americans do not want this. Most people prefer not to lead overly political lives, beyond perhaps voting once in a while and grumbling about taxes or potholes. Most...
Bipartisan Support For Turkey Sanctions – A ‘Victory’ For Trump?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 16, 2019 | The Liberty Report
Republicans and some Democrats seem to be settling for heavy sanctions on NATO ally Turkey for its incursion into Syria, with hawks like Lindsey Graham softening his tone over Trump's decision to pull US troops from the line of fire. Do they see the shift in public...
Twitter Targets Hong Kong in US-backed Regime Change Operation
by Tony Cartalucci | Oct 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
When Twitter Safety announced that it was taking actions against “information operations” directed at Hong Kong, informed observers could have immediately assumed that Twitter was not actually serious about stopping anything of the sort but rather ensuring the...
BREAKING: US Working With Russia to Handover Patrols Between Turkish and Syrian Armies in Manbij
by Patrick Henningsen | Oct 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
This morning, Russian military officials announced they are now patrolling the region surrounding Syria’s northern town of Manbij, specifically in the areas which separate Turkish troops and the Syrian Arab Army soldiers. According to a Russian Defense Ministry...
Pentagon Hands Manbij To The Russians (Can We Get Them To Take Afghanistan Too?)
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 15, 2019 | The Liberty Report
US troops left northern Syria in a hurry in the past 24 or so hours, but Beltway warnings of a "power vacuum" that will allow ISIS to take over have been proven wrong. With the US out of the picture, the Kurds are not facing genocide, but instead have made a deal with...
Washington is Wrong Once Again – Kurds Join Assad to Defend Syria
by Ron Paul | Oct 14, 2019 | Featured Articles
When President Trump Tweeted last week that “it is time for us to get out of these ridiculous endless wars,” adding that the US would be withdrawing from Syria, Washington went into a panic. Suddenly Republicans, Democrats, the media, the think tanks, and the war...
Finding a Vaccine for the Impeachment Derangement Virus
by Peter van Buren | Oct 14, 2019 | Featured Articles
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons.Once intelligent people are talking about actual civil war in America. This began after Trump retweeted a pastor saying impeachment would cause a “civil war-like fracture in this Nation.” Never mind that it was a retweet, and never mind...
Washington’s Sum of All Fears: Kurdish Militants Cut a Deal with Damascus
by Patrick Henningsen | Oct 14, 2019 | Featured Articles
Last night, Kurdish officials in northeastern Syria issued a statement that an agreement has been reached with the government in Damascus allowing the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) to takeover key strategic positions along the Syria’s northern border with Turkey. Not...
Kurds Make Alliance With Assad – Victory For America (But Not For Neocons)
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 14, 2019 | The Liberty Report
Neocon tears last week over the plight of the Kurds has turned to furious anger with news that yesterday a deal was inked between the Kurds and the Syrian government. Syrian Arab Army forces are rushing into formerly Kurd-held areas to stave off a Turk incursion into...
‘The Economic Costs of US Empire’ – Nathan Goodman
by RPI Staff | Oct 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
George Mason University PhD candidate Nathan Goodman speaks at the 2019 RPI Washington Conference on how the US global military empire makes us poorer and less free. As Goodman points out, our excessive military spending deprives us of actual useful consumer and other...
Turkey Beats the War Drums
by Eric Margolis | Oct 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
More war in wretched Syria. Half the population is now refugees; entire cities lie shattered by bombing; bands of crazed gunmen run rampant; US, French, Israeli and Russian warplanes bomb widely. Now, adding to the chaos, President Donald Trump has finally given...
The Plague of Western Adventurism in Syria
by Steve Brown | Oct 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Russian and Turkish leadership attended a summit in Ankara on September 16th, 2019, where the two leaders agreed to cooperate in Syria. Besides such cooperation, Mr Erdogan and Mr Putin also committed to the future of the Turkstream pipeline. And at the MAKs air...
Empty Desks at the NSC
by Larry C. Johnson | Oct 11, 2019 | Featured Articles
Looks like President Trump finally realizes that he is working in a snake pit. When he took office on January 20, 2017, he left an enormous cadre of Obama/Hillary sycophants in place. He could have (and should have) moved them out and reassigned them to the...
Why Gilligan’s Island May be the Answer to Police Brutality
by John Baeza | Oct 11, 2019 | Featured Articles
I retired from the NYPD and moved to Florida like many NYC policemen and firemen do- there is no state income tax here and it doesn’t snow. I decided I needed a job so I worked for a local Sheriff’s office for three years. Policemen always have their hands full when...
Investigation Of Biden-Enriching Burisma Opened Months Before Zelensky Even Elected: Report
by Tyler Durden | Oct 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
A new report from recent Fox News hire John Solomon tosses gasoline on the dumpster-fire narrative at the heart of an impeachment inquiry launched after a CIA officer filed a whistleblower complaint, alleging President Trump abused his office by "pressuring" the...
Sanctioning Away Free Speech: Americans Meet With Iranians at Their Peril
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
The issue of the United States waging what seems to be a global war by way of sanctions rarely surfaces in the western media. The argument being made by the White House is that sanctions are capable of putting maximum pressure on a rogue regime without the necessity...
Impeachment…Or Show Trial? Pelosi’s Anonymous Accusers.
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 10, 2019 | The Liberty Report
Why are the Democrats' witnesses for the prosecution (the "whistleblowers") allowed to remain anonymous and avoid cross-examination? Pelosi was roped into proceeding with impeachment of President Trump against her political judgement and now she is beginning to pay...
Syria: Another Forever War Beckons
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Oct 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
An explosion of criticism had erupted in Congress and the news media in response to President Trump’s decision to withdraw a small contingent of US troops stationed in northern Syria. Those forces served as a (mostly symbolic) barrier to Turkey’s ambitions to conduct...
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