On November 19th, the US Senate unanimously passed the “Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act.” Despite loudly proclaiming to protect “human rights” and “democracy,” a closer look at this legislation reveals the imperial agenda underlying Washington’s actions in...
Month: November 2019
Rethinking National Security: CIA and FBI Are Corrupt, But What About Congress?
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 21, 2019 | Featured Articles
The developing story about how the US intelligence and national security agencies may have conspired to influence and possibly even reverse the results of the 2016 presidential election is compelling, even if one is disinclined to believe that such a plot would be...
Congrats, Dems! You’ve Empowered A Pack Of Paranoid Neocon Morons
by David Stockman | Nov 21, 2019 | Featured Articles
Sometimes you need to call a spade a spade, and yesterday's testimony before Adam's Schiff Show by former NSC official Tim Morrison is just such an occasion. In spades! In his opening statement, this paranoid moron uttered the following lunacy, and it's all you need...
Rep. Thomas Massie is Preparing to be Taken as a Christmas Hostage
by Adam Dick | Nov 21, 2019 | Congress Alert
Speaking Wednesday evening with host Kennedy at Fox Business, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) predicted that the shenanigans this week to pass a continuing resolution providing short-term funding for the United States government and extra big-government goodies including...
Impeachment #2 – A Bipartisan Distraction From The War On American Citizens
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 21, 2019 | The Liberty Report
While the media and American public remain glued to the ongoing impeachment circus, Congress hid an extension of the Patriot Act on page 25 of a "must pass" continuing resolution. The move was bipartisan and widely supported. Watch the Liberty Report:Help support the...
Bipartisanship: Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Thanks Chairman for Slipping Mass Surveillance Provision into Continuing Resolution
by Adam Dick | Nov 20, 2019 | Congress Alert
People say there is too little bipartisanship in Washington, DC. But, when it comes to protecting the United States government’s mass surveillance program, there is plenty of bipartisan action by Democratic and Republican leaders. This was on display Wednesday morning...
Impeach the Government: Rogue Agencies Have Been Abusing Their Powers for Decades
by John W. Whitehead | Nov 20, 2019 | Featured Articles
“When a man unprincipled in private life[,] desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper . . . despotic in his ordinary demeanour — known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty — when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity — to join...
Impeachment Circus – A Distraction From Iran War Plans?
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 20, 2019 | The Liberty Report
The central impeachment mantra seems to be "Russian aggression." Look how many times the witnesses mention this as their central motivation to countermand the directions of their boss, the commander in chief. But meanwhile, war plans for Iran continue with the support...
Is the Middle East Beginning a Self-Correction?
by Alastair Crooke | Nov 20, 2019 | Featured Articles
“Two years, three years, five years’ maximum from now, you will not recognize the same Middle East”, says the former Egyptian FM, Arab League Secretary General and Presidential Candidate, Amr Moussa, in an interview with Al-Monitor. Mousa made some unexpected points,...
House Judiciary Committee Planning to Pass Dead-End Marijuana Legalization Bill
by Adam Dick | Nov 19, 2019 | Congress Alert
New Pew Research Center poll results indicate Americans’ support for marijuana legalization continues to grow, with support reaching two-thirds among those questioned and maintaining majorities among Democrats, Republicans, and independents. This state of popular...
Taking Sides: Pompeo Declares Israeli Settlements Legal
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 19, 2019 | The Liberty Report
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reversed US policy on Israeli settlements on Palestinian land. While long considered illegal in international law, Pompeo has declared them "legal," citing the need to "advance peace." More on this - and a special segment on the Patriot...
The Hugely Important OPCW Scandal Keeps Unfolding. Here’s Why No One’s Talking About It.
by Caitlin Johnstone | Nov 19, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is now hemorrhaging evidence that the US and its allies deceived the world once again about yet another military intervention, which should be a front-page story all over the world. Yet if you looked at American...
Ron Paul, Hero
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Nov 19, 2019 | Featured Articles
This talk was delivered on November 9, 2019, at the Mises Institute symposium in Lake, Jackson, Texas. I had the rare honor of serving as Ron Paul’s congressional chief of staff, and observed him in many proud moments in those days, and in his presidential campaigns....
Sneak Vote on Patriot Act Renewal Today
by Rep. Thomas Massie | Nov 19, 2019 | Congress Alert
Today, while everyone is distracted by the impeachment drama, Congress will vote to extend warrantless data collection provisions of the #PatriotAct, by hiding this language on page 25 of the Continuing Resolution (CR) that temporarily funds the government. To sneak...
Federal Reserve: Enemy of Liberty and Prosperity
by Ron Paul | Nov 18, 2019 | Featured Articles
Lost in the media’s obsession with the impeachment circus last week was Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s testimony on the state of the economy before the Joint Economic Committee. In his testimony, Chairman Powell warned that when the next recession inevitably...
Catastrophe! $6.4 Trillion Wasted On 20 Years Of War!
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 18, 2019 | The Liberty Report
A new report by Brown University's Costs of War Project now estimates that by the end of fiscal year 2020, the US will have "spent" $6.4 trillion on a global "war on terror" in which more than three million people have died. And what do we have to show for it? And...
Washington Threatens Egypt With Sanctions Over Russian Su-35 Fighter Jet Purchase
by Sarah Abed | Nov 18, 2019 | Featured Articles
Washington’s latest attempt to dissuade an ally from making arms deals with Russia came in the form of a letter sent on last Wednesday to Egyptian officials warning them that they could face sanctions if they continued with their $2 billion dollar Su-35 fighter jets...
Plundering Iraq
by Eric Margolis | Nov 17, 2019 | Featured Articles
Victor Hugo said of the devastated Balkans in the 19th century: "The Turks have passed by here. All is in ruins or mourning." Welcome to modern Iraq. The British were always masters of efficient imperialism. In the 19th century, they managed to rule a quarter of the...
Covert Operative In Ukraine Controversy Revealed To Be Associated Press
by William Dunkerley | Nov 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
Amid wildly conflicting stories about the Ukraine scandal one thing’s for sure. Someone’s not telling the truth. That means some of the news reports are based on misinformation. Who is spreading the misinformation? Associated Press has been caught as one guilty party....
The Brennan Dossier: All About a Prime Mover of Russiagate
by Aaron Maté | Nov 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
In the waning days of the Obama administration, the US intelligence community produced a report saying Russian President Vladimir Putin had tried to swing the 2016 election to Donald Trump. The January 2017 report, called an Intelligence Community Assessment, followed...
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