With recent presidential impeachment proceedings as well as the insults flying between Republicans and Democrats in Washington, DC, many people may jump to the conclusion that the politicians of the opposing parties cannot work together on major policy matters and...
Month: February 2020
White House Justifies Killing Soleimani for Past Actions, not Imminent Threats
by Dave DeCamp | Feb 15, 2020 | Featured Articles
The White House released a memo on Friday to Congress justifying the assassination of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. Despite earlier claims from the administration of Soleimani and his Quds Force planning imminent attacks on US personnel in the region, the memo...
The Koch-Soros Quincy Project: A Train Wreck of Neocon and 'Humanitarian' Interventionists
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 15, 2020 | Featured Articles
Those hoping the non-interventionist cause would be given some real muscle if a couple of oligarchs who've made fortunes from global interventionism team up and pump millions into Washington think tanks will be sorely disappointed by the train wreck that is the...
Mike Pompeo: God’s Holy Warrior?
by Jeff Harris | Feb 13, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is on the record as an Evangelical Christian. In various interviews he claims to rely on the Bible as his guide and inspiration. Reportedly Mr. Pompeo was the driving force behind President Trumps recent execution by drone of Iran’s’...
More Lies on Iran: The White House Just Can’t Help Itself as New Facts Emerge
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 13, 2020 | Featured Articles
Admittedly the news cycle in the United States seldom runs longer than twenty-four hours, but that should not serve as an excuse when a major story that contradicts what the Trump Administration has been claiming appears and suddenly dies. The public that actually...
New leaks shatter OPCW’s attacks on Douma whistleblowers
by harley | Feb 13, 2020 | Featured Articles
For the past year, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has been roiled by allegations that it manipulated an investigation to falsely accuse the Syrian government of a chemical weapons attack. An OPCW report released in March 2019 lent...
Whistleblowers, Afghanistan & War Powers: A Conversation With Sen Rand Paul
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 13, 2020 | The Liberty Report
Sen. Rand Paul joins today's Liberty Report with an exclusive report on recent Senate actions on War Powers and Iran. Plus - what's happening on the Hill after the explosive "Afghanistan Papers" revealed the 18 year lie. Bonus: Rand on Snowden. Don't miss this one!...
No Quid Pro Quo? Trump Cancels Palestine Security Funding
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 12, 2020 | The Liberty Report
President Trump's State Department has for the first time cancelled US funding for Palestinian security forces who cooperate with their Israeli counterparts to reduce violence in the West Bank. As Israel appears poised to annex the West Bank, is this a pre-text for...
Thousands Killed in ‘Reconstruction’ Mission Show it’s High Time for US to Get Out of Afghanistan
by Nebojsa Malic | Feb 12, 2020 | Featured Articles
A recent report shows over 2,000 people were killed outside of combat during the US “reconstruction” of Afghanistan. Yet President Donald Trump campaigns on ending that and other endless US wars, without actually doing so. By a conservative estimate from the Special...
Many People in NATO Countries Say ‘No’ to Supporting a NATO Ally in a Military Conflict with Russia
by Adam Dick | Feb 11, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
NATO is marketed as providing each member nation with the benefit that the other member nations are committed to coming to its aid militarily in the event of an attack by another nation, especially Russia. However, Pew Research Center poll results released Sunday...
'Bring Our Troops Home' – With Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 11, 2020 | The Liberty Report
There is a growing grassroots movement among conservatives across the United States to encourage US withdrawal from seemingly endless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. State legislatures are getting in the game, passing legislation restricting state guard units from...
Hollywood Goes Full Blacklist and Fails to Grasp the Irony
by Larry C. Johnson | Feb 11, 2020 | Featured Articles
In the wake of the latest Hollywood buffoonery displayed at the Oscars, I think it is time for the American public to denounce in the strongest possible terms the rampant hypocrisy of sanctimonious cretins who make their living pretending to be someone other than...
US Lies and Deaths in Afghanistan
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 11, 2020 | Featured Articles
Last December the Washington Post published secret Pentagon documents showing the official lies that have undergirded the US war on Afghanistan for the past 18 years. The opening paragraph of the article puts the matter bluntly: “A confidential trove of government...
Trump's 2021 Budget: Big Gift For Military Spendthrifts
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 10, 2020 | The Liberty Report
The annual charade of the Executive branch presenting a budget proposal for the next year began today. President Trump presented a massive $4.8 trillion budget proposal that gives the impression of slashing domestic spending while boosting spending on militarism. Do...
Democrats Ignore Trump’s Real Violations
by Ron Paul | Feb 10, 2020 | Featured Articles
This week the latest Democratic Party attempt to remove President Trump from office – impeachment over Trump allegedly holding up an arms deal to Ukraine – flopped. Just like “Russiagate” and the Mueller investigation, and a number of other attempts to overturn the...
How You Unlock Your Phone May Determine if Police Can Access It Without Your Consent
by Adam Dick | Feb 8, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
You may find it more convenient to unlock your phone by pressing your fingerprint on or staring at the phone screen instead of typing out a password. But, some courts have determined that having your phone set to be unlocked via your biometric information will also...
Did Washington Use a False Pretext for its Recent Escalation in Iraq?
by Helena Cobban | Feb 8, 2020 | Featured Articles
In a key piece of actual extensive, on-the-ground reporting, the New York Times’s Alissa Rubin has raised serious questions about the official US account of who it was that attacked the K-1 base near Kirkuk, in eastern Iraq, on December 27. The United States almost...
Step to Nuclear Doomsday: US Puts Low-Yield Nukes on Submarines in Response to Made-up Russian ‘Escalate to Deescalate’ Strategy
by Scott Ritter | Feb 8, 2020 | Featured Articles
The US has deployed “low-yield” nuclear missiles on submarines, saying it’s to discourage nuclear conflict with Russia. The move is based on a “Russian strategy” made up in Washington and will only bring mass annihilation closer. In a statement released earlier this...
The President Who Was Expelled from His Own Party
by Thomas DiLorenzo | Feb 8, 2020 | Featured Articles
In his book Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty, Ivan Eland ranked John Tyler as the best American president of all time. (The Marxist Left that dominates the American academic history profession usually ranks him near the...
A Progressive Appeal To New Hampshire Libertarians, With Tulsi Gabbard
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 7, 2020 | The Liberty Report
US Rep. and Democratic Party presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard joins today's Liberty Report to discuss the real resonance of her antiwar message among New Hampshire voters. But why is the corporate media and even her own party doing its best to make sure that her...
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