The Trump coterie of neocons is spinning the Iraq embassy attack to fit their agenda, namely that Iran is responsible for the rocket attack when it is obvious the people of Iraq are fed-up with the US occupation, designed to last indefinitely, and are now targeting...
Month: January 2020
A New US Air Force Video Game Lets You Drone Bomb Iraqis and Afghans
by Alan MacLeod | Jan 31, 2020 | Featured Articles
The United States Air Force has a new recruitment tool: a realistic drone operator video game you can play on its website. Called the Airman Challenge, it features 16 missions to complete, interspersed with facts and recruitment information about how to become a drone...
‘Racist’ Joe Biden
by Adam Dick | Jan 30, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Democratic primary presidential candidate Joe Biden, in the 1990s when he was a member of the United States Senate, said racist stuff in two speeches. That is an insinuation of a Monday The Intercept article by Aída Chávez. The basis for this insinuation? Biden in the...
Trump is Doing Middle East Peace Deal Like Real Estate Agent – Daniel McAdams
by RT | Jan 30, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President Trump recently unveiled his new Middle East peace plan, calling it “the deal of the century.” The peace plan would create a small and disjointed Palestinian state in the West Bank while allowing Israel to annex nearly all the Jewish settlements in the...
The Torturers and the ‘Ticking Bomb’: How Torture Became Routine in the Global War on Terror
by Philip Giraldi | Jan 30, 2020 | Featured Articles
With all the media excitement focused on the impeachment of President Donald Trump, it comes as no surprise that some recent additional insights into how the United States became a torture regime have been largely ignored. It has been known for years that the George...
'If I Have To Fight For Recognition, I Will': Paul and Roberts On Collision Course Over Whistleblower Questions
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 30, 2020 | Featured Articles
Yesterday’s question and answer period was a largely choreographed exercise with legal teams spontaneously responding to questions with preset video clips and visual displays. However, there was one major but largely overlooked moment that raises some serious issues...
House Vote Today: Can Congress Prevent War On Iran?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 30, 2020 | The Liberty Report
Today the US House of Representatives will take up two bills designed to head off war on Iran. Are the measures appropriate? Do they do as they are advertised? Should they be supported? Or is it more smoke and mirrors? Heavy legislative analysis in today's Liberty...
'Deal Of The Century' For Israel/Palestine…Or Dud Of The Century?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 29, 2020 | The Liberty Report
President Trump rolled out his "deal of the century" for Israel/Palestine peace and as could be predicted it was dead on arrival as far as the Palestinian side was concerned. Was it designed to fail? Was it designed to boost Bibi? Is endless involvement in...
War! Glorious War!
by Jeff Harris | Jan 29, 2020 | Featured Articles
According to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) study released in 2016 the US Government was spending over $1 Billion annually on Public Relations. Approximately $626 Million of that was used by the Department of Defense to fund its PR campaign glamorizing and...
Impeachment’s Biggest Absurdity: Our Toxic Fixation On Useless And Corrupting Ukraine Aid
by James Bovard | Jan 29, 2020 | Featured Articles
The campaign to convict and remove President Donald Trump in the Senate hinges on delays in disbursing US aid to Ukraine. Ukraine was supposedly on the verge of great progress until Trump pulled the rug out from under the heroic salvation effort by US government...
Lev Parnas is Not the Impeachment Witness You are Looking For…
by harley | Jan 29, 2020 | Featured Articles
Lev Parnas is who we all hope is the last “Did too! Did Not!” player in the three year effort to find someway to drive Trump from office. Parnas is a Ukrainian-born “businessman” who claims to be the missing link between Trump and evidence needed to impeach. Parnas is...
Ominous REAL ID Moves Forward
by Adam Dick | Jan 28, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a new interview with host Scott Horton at the Scott Horton Show, politics writer James Bovard describes some of the latest ominous developments in the rollout of United States government-prescribed identification requirements arising from the 2005 REAL ID Act....
Interventionism Makes Americans Less Safe
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 28, 2020 | Featured Articles
There is something important to note about US interventionism in faraway lands: None of the people that the US government is killing, maiming, or destroying is invading and trying to conquer the United States. Neither are the governments of the nations in which the...
More Bombs Than Ever! Trump Escalates Obama's 'Good War' In Afghanistan.
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 28, 2020 | The Liberty Report
President Trump dropped more bombs on Afghanistan last year than in any of the past ten years. Yet "victory" is further away than ever. Aside from the riches being reaped by the bombmakers, what are we achieving in this 19 year war? Watch today's Liberty Report:
A Million Iraqis Asked Us to Leave. We Should Listen.
by Ron Paul | Jan 27, 2020 | Featured Articles
You wouldn’t know it from US mainstream media reporting, but on Friday an estimated million Iraqis took to the streets to protest the continued US military presence in their country. What little mainstream media coverage the protest received all reported the number of...
US Embassy Hit In Iraq – Does This Mean War?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 27, 2020 | The Liberty Report
As anti-US protests raged across Baghdad, rockets were fired into the green zone with at least one hitting the US embassy complex. The neocons will surely blame Iran (again) and argue for a military escalation. Will this mean the hot war is back on the menu? Watch...
Woke Wonk Elizabeth Warren’s Foreign Policy Team is Stacked with Pro-War Swamp Creatures
by harley | Jan 27, 2020 | Featured Articles
Elizabeth Warren has promised “big, structural change” on a range of issues related to the economy. Warren has a plan for foreign policy, too, but it appears to be scarcely different from that of the last Democrat to occupy the White House. A close examination of...
The Unbearable Hypocrisy of US Sanctions on Iran
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 26, 2020 | Featured Articles
On November 22nd of last year, the US government announced it would impose sanctions on Iran's information minister for his alleged role in limiting domestic Internet access while protests raged in that country over increases in gas prices. At the time, US Treasury...
Associated Press Sees ‘Hundreds’ Where Pictures Show Millions
by Moon of Alabama | Jan 25, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
(bigger)At 10:01 UTC Friday the Associated Press tweeted that "hundreds" gather in central Baghdad to demand that American troops leave the country. Thirty eight minutes earlier CNN had already reported that "hundreds of thousands" are protesting in Baghdad against...
Ron Paul Gives Jimmy Dore a Libertarian Tutorial
by Adam Dick | Jan 25, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Want a brief presentation on some key libertarian ideas regarding matters including United States tariffs on China, the status of the US dollar as the reserve currency of the world, pollution, and laws concerning labor unions? You can find it in the new interview of...
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