Listen to Ron Paul Institute Academic Advisor Hillary Mann Leverett on the always-terrific Robert Wenzel Show discuss the intricacies of the Middle East. Ms. Mann Leverett is a rare breed of international affairs expert: she knows the region like nobody else, her...
Two very commendable Members of the House of Representatives over the past week have each made some reference to White House manipulation of intelligence in the classified briefings they are feverishly providing to Members of Congress in an effort to peel off enough...
As US government whistleblower Thomas Drake Tweeted today, the "US has no evidence in public of scientific samples or intel info proving use of sarin gas or by Syrian gov't."Reuters reported today that "Direct link between Assad and gas attack elusive for U.S."In the...
Yesterday we wrote about the Institute for the Study of War's Elizabeth O'Bagy, the Syria "expert" who recently wrote that the CIA assessment that the Syrian opposition was by and large a franchise of al-Qaeda was completely wrong, and in fact they are mostly...
Remember General David Petraeus? The guy who claimed that as soon as his brilliant comprehensive counterinsurgency strategy (COIN) was implemented in Afghanistan the US would emerge victorious? The "maverick savior of Iraq" as he was christened by neocon historian...
Followers of the lies that lead us to war will well remember one of the late Congressman Tom Lantos's more sinister (and for Lantos that is saying much) manipulations of US public opinion in favor of war, when he knowingly allowed the daughter of the Kuwaiti...
Patrick Buchanan is at his firey and controversial best today with a must-read column on the coming US attack on Syria and those foolishly pushing a war that will surely backfire on its sponsors and on the US. Here is an excerpt of classic Buchanan, but don't miss the...
Church and Monastery of St. Takla, Maaloula, Syria Obama's allies in Syria -- those who will directly benefit from the coming US airstrikes -- stepped up their genocide against Syrian Christians today, attacking Maaloula, a Christian village, indiscriminately using...
Russian president Vladimir Putin puts into words what most of the rest of the world is thinking about Obama's mad dash to bomb Syria. Putin, like the rest of us, sees the absurdity in the US regime blatantly breaking international law and overtly violating the...
Secretary of State John Kerry at the House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing on Syria war authorization Today: “With respect to Arab countries offering to bear costs...the answer is profoundly yes. They have. That offer is on the table.” Deputy Defense Secretary Paul...
McClatchy is among the last objective mainstream media sources. The news service actually bothers to question conventional wisdom and do actual reporting. Yesterday it published a devastating deconstruction of the Obama administration's "evidence" animating its push...
Phil Giraldi, a former career CIA operations officer, is interviewed on Scott Horton's excellent radio program today. Giraldi, a unique and valuable source of information and insights on how the US intelligence community works, told Horton that he and his current and...
Today House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) directly channeled then-President Bush's National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice, spouting the same lying propaganda to get us into Syria that Rice spouted to get us into Iraq.Leader Cantor today: "No one wants to be...
Former UK Ambassador Craig Murray wonders why a "crown jewel" in the British government's signals intercept network, the facility on Mount Troodos in Cyprus, did not intercept the alleged "smoking gun" telephone conversation beween the two Syrian government officials...
The first draft of the White House's war authorization legislation was leaked today, signaling the opening round of the danse macabre, in which the bargaining and maneuvering over what Congress and the president both want -- war on Syria -- begins its public journey...
RPI Academic Board Member Hillary Mann Leverett absolutely destroys the conventional wisdom-mongering and regime lapdog "journalists" on Obama's march to war on Syria. Watch the smug bootlickers discount the sole voice of reason -- an expert on the region rather than...
As RPI pointed out last week, reported US plans to bomb Syria's purported chemical weapons facilities in retaliation for the alleged Syrian governmental use of chemical agents would, ironically, result in the release of massive amounts of nerve gas on the civilian...
President Obama, stung by the defection of the British government from his very tiny "coalition of the willing" to attack Syria, has decided to push on ahead without allies. To go it alone. Perhaps it is meant to look decisive, but in reality it looks rather...
Release of the long-awaited US government intelligence dossier on the alleged chemical attack in Syria on Aug. 21, had been moved and postponed until the media black-hole of a Friday afternoon before a big US holiday weekend. Now we see why.Here is the crux of the...
Listen to RPI Director Daniel McAdams discuss how we got to this mess in Syria -- the lies behind the Administration's push to war -- with VoiceAmerica Radio's Jay Taylor, host of Turning Hard Times in Good Times.
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