Since the Russian offensive inside Ukraine commenced on February 24, the Ukrainian military has cultivated the image of a plucky little army standing up to the Russian Goliath. To bolster the perception of Ukrainian military mettle, Kiev has churned out a steady...
Month: March 2022
What the ‘chattering classes’ of Russia are talking about
by Gilbert Doctorow | Mar 23, 2022 | Featured Articles
My harvest of impressions from the past 48 hours of monitoring Russian political talk shows and news bulletins of Russian state television is filled to the brim with both highly interesting and at times frightening and off-putting developments. The most momentous is...
Lia Thomas and Women’s Sports
by Adam Dick | Mar 23, 2022 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Last week, University of Pennsylvania student Lia Thomas won the swimming women’s division National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division One national championship for 500-yard freestyle. Two years back, Thomas, who had gone by the first name of Will, was...
The Mariupol Theater Bombing
by Pedro I. Gonzalez | Mar 23, 2022 | Featured Articles
On March 16, the Donetsk Regional Drama Theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine, was bombed. The building reportedly housed scores of civilians at the time. Maxar satellite images showed the word “CHILDREN” written in Russian in large letters on the pavement outside. The...
Bonanza! US Missile Makers Scramble To Replenish Weapons Stocks
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 23, 2022 | The Liberty Report
Who's winning in the Russia/Ukraine war? Raytheon and Lockheed-Martin! The US administration is doling out an additional three-plus billion as it scrambles to send more rockets and pour more fuel on the fire. Also today: alcohol killed more 65 and under Americans than...
The US Press Again Becomes a Conduit for Pro-War Propaganda
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Mar 23, 2022 | Featured Articles
American journalists have a long, ignoble history of being willing conduits for pro-war propaganda. Usually, that behavior is in service to a military crusade that Washington has launched or wants to initiate. At times, though, such a betrayal of journalistic...
Two-Front War? Washington Pushes China Into Russia's Arms
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 22, 2022 | The Liberty Report
First it was a US demand that China vote to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, then suspiciously-sourced accusations that China was to provide military equipment to China, to now a sudden new round of sanctions on China. Does Washington really believe China will...
We Must Now Learn the Lesson of 1914, Not the Lesson of 1938.
by Ryan McMaken | Mar 22, 2022 | Featured Articles
With proponents of military intervention and war, it's always 1938, and every attempt to substitute diplomacy for escalation and war is "appeasement." Last week, for example, Ukrainian legislator Lesia Vasylenko accused Western leaders of appeasement during Moscow's...
Supporting the Current Thing: COVID Mania adherents embrace the Ukraine narrative
by Jordan Schachtel | Mar 22, 2022 | Featured Articles
I wanted to turn your attention to a fascinating poll that came out the other day. The Toronto Star hired a polling agency to survey Canadians about their views about the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. What made this poll unique is that it separated the sides to three...

End the Fed and Get More Doritos
by Ron Paul | Mar 21, 2022 | Featured Articles
The US government’s Consumer Price Index indicates prices have increased 7.9 percent in the last year. While this statistic shows the highest rate of increase in forty years, it still understates the amount prices have increased, in part because the statistic is...
A Manufactured World Crisis
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Mar 21, 2022 | Featured Articles
Few people today ask the most important question about the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Many people want America to stay out of the fight, but even they don’t ask the vital question. Why does the world face a crisis today? Why has a border dispute between...
Was bombing of Mariupol theater staged by Ukrainian Azov extremists to trigger NATO intervention?
by Max Blumenthal | Mar 21, 2022 | Featured Articles
Western media have reported that Russia’s military deliberately attacked the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama theater in Mariupol, Ukraine, claiming that it was filled with civilians and marked with signs reading “children” on its grounds. The supposed bombing took...
Shock And Awe: After 19 Years US Military Still Bogged Down In Baghdad
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 21, 2022 | The Liberty Report
The US attack on Iraq, which happened 19 years ago this past weekend, resulted in a destroyed country and perhaps as many as one million killed directly and indirectly by the invasion. They did not "greet us as as liberators" - they cursed us as wreckers. And after 19...
US Vital Interests Dictate an End to This War
by Patrick J. Buchanan | Mar 19, 2022 | Featured Articles
Speaking to Congress, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked for many things from the United States. He wants us to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine. He wants the Soviet-era MiGs that NATO allies (from their Warsaw Pact days) have in their arsenals. He...
Deterrence Works, Propaganda Fails in Ukraine (So Far)
by Peter van Buren | Mar 19, 2022 | Featured Articles
Deterrence works. Russia’s nukes are the only thing keeping the US from full-out war in Ukraine only six months after retreating from Afghanistan. So far, the unprecedented propaganda effort by the Ukraine and its helpers in the American mass media to drag the US and...
The forgotten question: What is the American interest in the Russia-Ukraine war?
by Jordan Schachtel | Mar 17, 2022 | Featured Articles
Lost in the Ukraine war conversation is the reality that almost none of it has anything to do with the interests of the American citizen, and our elected leaders don’t seem to notice or care. On Wednesday morning, Congress and the Biden Administration took in a highly...
Biggest Winners In Ukraine War: Military-Industrial-Complex
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 17, 2022 | Featured Articles
The Trump plan to bring troops home from Europe has undergone a "miraculous" turnaround, with the war in Ukraine being used as an excuse for a massive new influx of US soldiers to Germany and points eastward. Meanwhile, billions more are being spent to send weapons to...
The NYT Now Admits the Biden Laptop – Falsely Called 'Russian Disinformation' – is Authentic
by Glenn Greenwald | Mar 17, 2022 | Featured Articles
One of the most successful disinformation campaigns in modern American electoral history occurred in the weeks prior to the 2020 presidential election. On October 14, 2020 — less than three weeks before Americans were set to vote — the nation's oldest newspaper, The...
Why Die for Biden?
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Mar 17, 2022 | Featured Articles
As you would expect from brain-dead Biden and the people controlling him, American policy has been moving in the wrong direction. Whatever you think about the situation in the Ukraine, one thing is obvious. It’s a crisis. Shouldn’t we try to stay out of danger?...
The Fog of Information War in Ukraine
by Pedro I. Gonzalez | Mar 16, 2022 | Featured Articles
The Western intelligence apparatus has been busy in Ukraine. With financing and collaboration through various non-governmental organizations, it won the information war with the help of Ukrainian media before Russia ever fired a shot in February. Even the country’s...
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