We have previously discussed the denials of former Vice President Joe Biden that his son did anything wrong in Ukraine. As I have written, not only did Hunter Biden clearly enter into a corrupt (but arguably lawful) contract but Joe Biden did not do enough to confirm...
Month: January 2020
US to Grant $35 Million to Promote its Fake News Bubble in Syria & Control Local Media
by Eva Bartlett | Jan 25, 2020 | Featured Articles
Although Western media has a shoddy track record of lying on Syria (and Libya, Iraq...), the US State Department will pump $35 million more into future war propaganda on Syria, under the guise of promoting honest reporting. A US State Department grant, “Support for...
Our American Ancestors Didn’t Trust the Federal Government
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 24, 2020 | Featured Articles
The US Constitution brought into existence a federal government whose powers were limited to those enumerated in the Constitution itself. If a power wasn’t enumerated, it simply could not be exercised. That’s because our American ancestors didn’t trust governmental...
Ron Paul: The Impeachment Trial of President Trump is ‘Pure Politicking’
by Adam Dick | Jan 23, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Former United States Hose of Representatives member and presidential candidate Ron Paul is not too impressed with the ongoing impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in the US Senate. The impeachment trial is “pure politicking,“ declares Paul in a new interview at...
Trump Envoy Issues Death Threat to Soleimani Successor, Head of Iran’s Quds Force
by 21st Century Wire | Jan 23, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Just when you thought that Washington could not sink any lower in the international diplomacy game, the Trump White House compounds its previous misdeed by issuing a public death threat against the successor of assassinated Quds Force General Qasem Soleimani....
How The Military-Industrial Complex Gets Away With Murder in Contract After Contract
by Mandy Smithberger | Jan 23, 2020 | Featured Articles
Call it a colossal victory for a Pentagon that hasn't won a war in this century, but not for the rest of us. Congress only recently passed and the president approved one of the largest Pentagon budgets ever. It will surpass spending at the peaks of both the Korean and...
Trade Sanctions Are Both Immoral and Ineffective
by Matheus Fialho Vieira | Jan 23, 2020 | Featured Articles
On January 10, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin announced new economic sanctions imposed on Iran in response to its missile strikes against US forces in Iraq. The sanctions target enterprises operating in the manufacturing,...
US Torture Policy: Part Of 'American Exceptionalism'?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 23, 2020 | The Liberty Report
One of the architects of the CIA's post-9/11 torture program was in court this week to testify in the pre-trial proceedings of several Guantanamo detainees. His justification for designing and practicing some of the most inhuman practices on earth should give pause to...
A New Definition of Warfare
by Philip Giraldi | Jan 22, 2020 | Featured Articles
Supporters of Donald Trump often make the point that he has not started any new wars. One might observe that it has not been for lack of trying, as his cruise missile attacks on Syria based on fabricated evidence and his recent assassination of Iranian general Qassem...
The Many Matryoska Dolls to America’s Way of Imagining Iran
by Alastair Crooke | Jan 22, 2020 | Featured Articles
On the 17 September 1656, Oliver Cromwell, a Protestant Puritan, who had won a civil war, and had the English king beheaded in public, railed against England’s enemies. There was, he told Parliament that day, an axis of evil abroad in the world. And this axis – led by...
Truth Comes Out: New Evidence Syria Gas Attack Report Falsified
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 22, 2020 | The Liberty Report
Former OPCW inspector Ian Henderson testified to the UN Security Council this week that his team's report on the April 2018 alleged gas attack in Douma, Syria, had been falsified at the orders of senior management and perhaps under pressure from the US government. The...
Rich Liberals Protected By Guns…Why Not The Rest Of Us?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 21, 2020 | The Liberty Report
Yesterday's Virginia pro-Second Amendment rally shocked the elites to their core. Propagandized by the mainstream media, they expected out-of-control white supremacists but found a peaceful group of all races and orientations. More importantly, the local government...
Author of Leaked OPCW Engineering Report on Douma Speaks at UN Security Council
by Dave DeCamp | Jan 21, 2020 | Featured Articles
The UN Security Council met in New York on Monday to discuss the investigation by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) into an alleged chemical attack that was said to have taken place in April 2018 in Douma, Syria. The alleged attack was...
Iran Counters EU Threat Of Snapback Sanctions
by Moon of Alabama | Jan 21, 2020 | Featured Articles
US President Donald Trump wants to destroy the nuclear agreement with Iran. He has threatened the EU-3 poodles in Germany, Britain and France with a 25% tariff on their car exports to the US unless they end their role in the JCPOA deal. In their usual gutlessness the...
Confessions of a Recovering Neocon
by Jeff Harris | Jan 20, 2020 | Neocon Watch
I hate to admit it but just a few short years ago I was a Neocon, and I’m not proud of it. Like so many others today I was bewitched by what I thought at the time was patriotism. I genuinely believed that if we could just elect some good, God Fearing Republicans all...
The War In Trump's Ear
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 20, 2020 | The Liberty Report
A new book on Trump by Washington Post writers, "A Very Stable Genius," has tongues wagging and new accusations of the president's "instability." As usual, these politicized claims miss the target completely and also misunderstand the real war for Trump's ear. The...
The Murder Of Qassem Soleimani Will Deter No One
by Moon of Alabama | Jan 20, 2020 | Featured Articles
The Trump administration sees the US assassination of Qassem Soleimani as a form of deterrence not only with regards to Iran but also towards Russia, China and others. That view is wrong. The claim that the murder of Soleimani was necessary because of an "imminent...
Guaido's Last Ride
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 20, 2020 | Featured Articles
This article first appeared in an update sent exclusively to RPI subscribers. Be the first to get updates - subscribe here.Remember Juan Guaido? Just a year ago the Venezuelan politician, unknown even in his own country, was tapped by the US government to lead a coup...
How Expansive is FBI Spying?
by Ron Paul | Jan 20, 2020 | Featured Articles
Cato Institute Research Fellow Patrick Eddington recently filed several Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to find out if the Federal Bureau of Investigation ever conducted surveillance of several organizations dealing with government policy, including my...
Rep. Ilhan Omar’s New Militarism-Cheering Election Opponent
by Adam Dick | Jan 18, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Just like you should not judge a book by its cover, you should not judge a political candidate by his religion, sex, or place of birth. That is a lesson from Dalia al-Aqidi’s Thursday video announcing her campaign as a Republican in opposition to United States House...
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