After 9/11, the entire country collectively lost its mind in the throes of fear. During that time, all civil and Constitutional rights were shredded and replaced with the pages of The USA PATRIOT Act. Almost 20 years later, the US has again lost its collective mind,...
Month: January 2021
Were the Capitol Rioters Really Libertarians?
by James L. Payne | Jan 30, 2021 | Featured Articles
In the accounts about the Trump supporters who attacked the US Capitol, the media have sometimes alluded to supposed “libertarian” connections. The Wall St. Journal calls Parler, the social-media network which, it says, “served as a hub for people who organized,...
New US President, Same Old Foreign Policy
by Brian Berletic | Jan 30, 2021 | Featured Articles
Whence Power Flows: Corporate-Funded Think Tanks Another election. Another political transition. Another opportunity for the US to change course regarding its otherwise destructive foreign policy? Not quite. Contrary to popular belief, US foreign policy is not the...
Pelosi Declares That The ‘Enemy Is Within The House of Representatives’ In Call For More Security
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 29, 2021 | Featured Articles
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been attacking Republicans members as traitors in a continuation of the reckless rhetoric from the last four years on both sides. Despite a desire for greater unity from voters, Pelosi has sought to capitalize on rather than close those...
‘Post-Trump Fallout’ – With RPI’s Daniel McAdams
by 21st Century Wire | Jan 29, 2021 | Featured Articles
On this week's 21WIRE LIVE host Patrick Henningsen speaks with director of the Ron Paul Institute, Daniel McAdams, about the current political upheaval in America - the hyperbolic rhetoric, partisan purges, and mass censorship. When and where will it end? Can the...
West’s Navalny Hypocrisy a Gas
by Finian Cunningham | Jan 29, 2021 | Featured Articles
The day after opposition figure Alexei Navalny was arrested in Moscow last week on his return from a provocative and prolonged decampment in Germany, Western media fell over themselves to condemn his detention. In its online edition, the US government-owned Radio Free...
Ugly Yankee: Washington Continues To Bully Mexico on the Drug War
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jan 29, 2021 | Featured Articles
A nasty spat has emerged between the US and Mexican governments about alleged official corruption and drug trafficking. The latest incident began on October 16, 2020, when US authorities arrested Mexico’s former defense secretary, Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, at...
The Drug Policy Alliance Claims It Drafted the MORE Act
by Adam Dick | Jan 28, 2021 | Congress Alert
It is outside the routine to hear an interest group publicly claim it drafted legislation that has been passed on the floor of the United States House of Representatives. An interest group may let it be known that it worked with the sponsoring representative on...
The Echo Chamber Era
by Matt Taibbi | Jan 28, 2021 | Featured Articles
A day after Joe Biden's inauguration, the headline in Axios read: “Trust in media hits a new low.” Felix Salmon wrote that “for the first time ever, fewer than half of all Americans have trust in traditional media.” The Edelman survey showed overall faith in the press...
Tulsi Gabbard: Democrats Trying To Turn America Into Police State
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 28, 2021 | The Liberty Report
Former US Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) has been sounding the alarm over new "domestic terrorism" legislation introduced by Adam Schiff (D-CA) and highly charged claims by former CIA director (a partisan Democrat) that "even libertarians" are potential "domestic...
Fauci: ‘Wear Two Masks!’ Is Our Covid Policy Schizophrenic?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 27, 2021 | The Liberty Report
President Biden's top coronavirus advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, has just announced that it's "just common sense" that people should wear two masks. Last March he said no one should be walking around with masks on. Then he said put a mask on. Meanwhile CNBC featured a...
Enemies of the Deep State: The Government’s War on Domestic Terrorism Is a Trap
by John W. Whitehead | Jan 27, 2021 | Featured Articles
“This is an issue that all Democrats, Republicans, independents, Libertarians should be extremely concerned about, especially because we don’t have to guess about where this goes or how this ends. What characteristics are we looking for as we are building this profile...
Biden admin’s coercive Iran policy threatens serious new regional crisis
by Gareth Porter | Jan 27, 2021 | Featured Articles
A close analysis of recent statements by members of President Joseph Biden’s foreign policy team indicates his administration has already signaled its intention to treat negotiations with Iran as an exercise in diplomatic coercion aimed at forcing major new...
Biden Administration Officials Working on Requiring Coronavirus Tests for Domestic Air Travelers
by Adam Dick | Jan 27, 2021 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Joe Biden hit the ground running in his effort to use his presidential powers to ensure traveling in America is tedious, demeaning, and uncomfortable. On Biden’s second day in office, he signed an executive order mandating travelers wear masks on all modes of public...
Why Biden installing Obama-era hawks in senior roles and preparing to fire up the War Machine again is very bad news for Syrians
by Vanessa Beeley | Jan 27, 2021 | Featured Articles
It is no coincidence that a resurgence of attacks by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) on civilians and the Syrian Army have been reported in Iraq and Syria as Joe Biden’s “build back better” government takes power in Washington. Just days before Biden’s inauguration,...
In a Paranoid Nation, ‘Treason’ Is Everywhere
by James Bovard | Jan 26, 2021 | Featured Articles
FBI agents across the nation are tracking down and arresting Trump supporters who walked into the US Capitol during the January 6 protest that turned into a brawl. Scores of protestors have already been charged with unlawful entry—“knowingly entering or remaining in a...
Impeachment 2.0: When Will The Backfire Begin?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 26, 2021 | The Liberty Report
Yesterday the House impeachment 2.0 team marched impeachment papers over to the Senate for trial. With even President Biden doubting a conviction of citizen Trump, is there a point where what increasingly appears to be a show trial backfires politically for the...
Magic? Politics? Science? Did President Biden Cure Covid?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 25, 2021 | The Liberty Report
Just days after President Biden's inauguration, "blue" states began announcing an end to lockdowns and other restrictions. Suddenly it's time to open up. Even NY governor Cuomo said the economy must be re-started. Is it science? A miracle Covid cure? Politics? A huge...
Boycott Sham Impeachment
by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) | Jan 25, 2021 | Featured Articles
Sometimes in Washington, the powers that be will embark on a little bit of political theater. You can always spot it, though, if you look closely enough at what's real and what's not. In the last days of the presidency of Donald Trump, the Democrats and a handful of...
When Fascism Comes, It Will Be Wearing a Mask
by Ron Paul | Jan 25, 2021 | Featured Articles
Almost immediately after his inauguration, President Joe Biden began creating new government dictates via executive orders. Many of these executive orders concern coronavirus, fulfilling Biden’s promise to make ramping up a coronavirus-inspired attack on liberty a...
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