Hypocrisy may be the only consistent guiding principle of US foreign policy. Here's a prime example of the "do as we say, not as we do" that is the core of how Washington does business overseas: In the same week that the the US Justice Department demanded that the...
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Saudi Escalation: Lebanon And Yemen In The Crosshairs
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 9, 2017 | The Liberty Report
The Saudi crown prince is rumored to soon take over as king. He has moved against possible rivals within his own family and seized billions of dollars. Meanwhile he's threatened Lebanon and his government has ordered Saudi citizens to leave Lebanon. This while blaming...
Deconstructing ‘Russia-Gate’
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 8, 2017 | The Liberty Report
Both firms used to push the story that the Russians hacked the DNC and John Podesta's emails were in the pay of the DNC. The FBI was blocked from examining the DNC servers that the Democrats claimed were hacked. The Russia-Gate story hinges on some very sketchy and...
Ducks Lining Up: Saudi, Israeli, US Moves On Iran, Lebanon
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 7, 2017 | The Liberty Report
Why has President Trump's son-in-law/top advisor Jared Kushner been spending so much time with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman? Last month was his third trip this year? The visit occurred right before Bin Salman purged his political rivals, claimed that Lebanon...
Trump In Asia: Diplomacy Or Sabre-Rattling?
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 6, 2017 | The Liberty Report
Will President Trump's lengthy visit to Asia signal the beginning of a more diplomatic approach to Washington's disputes in the region? Will President Trump have a face-to-face with Russian President Putin? Trump has signaled a willingness to sit down with North...
State Department’s New Victoria Nuland…is Just Like the Old Victoria Nuland!
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 3, 2017 | Neocon Watch
Yesterday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson swore into office a new Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. Dr. A. Wess Mitchell became the Trump Administration's top diplomat for Europe, "responsible for diplomatic relations with 50 countries...
Revealed: How The Russians Stole Our Election
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 1, 2017 | Featured Articles
One of the "Russia-linked" ads that threw the election to Trump...Now we can see why they initially tried to keep a lid on the content of the infamous "Russia-linked" social media advertisements. Today, while grilling representatives of Google, Facebook, and Twitter,...
Tragic Horrors…From New York To Yemen
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 1, 2017 | The Liberty Report
Horrible events like yesterday's attack in New York capture our attention. The mainstream media focuses non-stop on every imaginable aspect of such events. Unfortunately there is little attention to tragedies of a far greater magnitude in places like Yemen which are...
Rep. John Duncan: No Conservative Should Support Staying in Afghanistan
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 1, 2017 | Congress Alert
"We're long past the time we should have gotten out of Afghanistan," US Rep. John Duncan (R-TN) told the Oversight & Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security today. The Congressman, who sits on the Ron Paul Institute's Board of Advisors, brought in quotes...
Do We Need A New War Authorization?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 31, 2017 | The Liberty Report
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) challenged the Defense Secretary and Secretary of State yesterday, asserting that no one of intellectual honesty would believe that the 9/11 war authorization had anything to do with ISIS or Niger. He has a good point. But the White House does...
NATO Threatens Turkey…
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 30, 2017 | The Liberty Report
Turkey's decision to purchase a Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile system has raised more than eyebrows at NATO headquarters. Top brass in Brussels has warned Turkey that its system would not be interoperable with NATO's US-made system. Is Turkey turning away from...
Congress Passes ‘Harshest’ Sanctions On North Korea…And The People Suffer
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 26, 2017 | The Liberty Report
On Tuesday, all but two Members of the US House voted in favor of the "harshest" sanctions on North Korea yet. As we know from past practice with sanctions -- in Iraq and elsewhere -- they never achieve their goals, but they do punish civilians and turn them against...
Jeff Flake and The DC Impasse: Who’s At Fault?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 25, 2017 | The Liberty Report
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) told the Senate yesterday that he would not seek another term in the US Senate because he could no longer be part of the "discord and dysfunction" of Washington, DC. "[W]e have given in or given up on the core principles in favor of a more...
Pentagon Expands ‘Terror War’ To Africa: Where Is Congress?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 24, 2017 | The Liberty Report
Senator Lindsey Graham told NBC News over the weekend that he had "no idea" that there were 1,000 US troops in Niger. But it didn't bother him at all. He promised that the US military -- which already has troops in 53 of the 54 countries in Africa -- will soon be far...
Cold War Returned: B-52s Back On ‘Ready Alert’
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 23, 2017 | The Liberty Report
The US fleet of B-52 bombers is more than 60 years old. It's been 26 years -- since the end of the Soviet Union -- that these bombers have been ready to take off and drop nuclear weapons at a moment's notice. Over the weekend, US Air Force chief of staff, Gen. David...
Killing For Peace? More Civilian Deaths Now Than Under Obama
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 19, 2017 | The Liberty Report
Now that ISIS is all but defeated in Syria, with ISIS control of Raqqa having been ended just last week, why is the US military not going home? After all, that is the mission that was given the military by President Obama in 2014: defeat ISIS. But the US is not going...
Blowback In Africa – Mogadishu Again!
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 18, 2017 | The Liberty Report
The horrific truck bomb in Mogadishu last weekend was apparently a retaliation over a US special forces-led attack on a Somali village where at least ten civilians were killed. The truck bomber was a native of the village. Why is the US fighting in Somalia? To keep an...
The Battle Of Kirkuk – All About Oil?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 17, 2017 | The Liberty Report
The United States has spent tens of billions of dollars training the Iraqi army over the past 14 years. It's also spent close to a billion dollars training the Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in northern Iraq. Now, with the independence referendum passing in Iraqi...
Trump And Iran: Have The Neocons Won?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 16, 2017 | The Liberty Report
President Trump's Iran policy speech on Friday was riddled with errors -- the kinds of errors the neocons have been peddling for more than a decade. He did not out and out cancel the US participation in the Iran nuclear deal with claims that Iran has violated the...
‘Russiagate’ And The Decline Of Journalism – With Robert Parry
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 12, 2017 | The Liberty Report
With each passing day, the mainstream media keeps printing and repeating ever more bizarre theories about Russian attempts to control not only our voting, not only our political system, but even our relationships with each other. They are trying to "sow seeds of...
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