Two recent stories about Russians have demonstrated how the news is selected and manipulated in the United States. The first is about Maria Butina, who apparently sought to overthrow American democracy, such as it is, by obtaining a life membership in the National...
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The White Helmets Ride Again
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 23, 2018 | Featured Articles
I am often asked to explain why countries like Iran appear to be so aggressive, involving themselves in foreign wars and seeking to create alliances that they know will provoke the worst and most paranoid responses from some of their neighbors. My response is...
Killing Jamal Khashoggi Was Easy. Explaining It Is Much Harder
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 18, 2018 | Featured Articles
Getting to the bottom of the Jamal Khashoggi disappearance is a bit like peeling an onion. It is known that Khashoggi entered the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul on October 2nd to get a document that would enable him to marry a Turkish woman. It is also known,...
The Two Brett Kavanaugh Stories
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 11, 2018 | Featured Articles
There were two simultaneous Brett Kavanaugh stories. Together, as part of the confirmation process regarding his nomination as Supreme Court Justice, they revealed how political discourse in the United States has reached a new low, with debate over the man’s possible...
Aux Barricades Mes Enfants!
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
On October 21st there will be a Women’s March on the Pentagon hosted by the Global Women’s Peace Action. My wife and many of our friends will be going and even I will tag along in support in spite of my gender. We participate with some reservations as we have only...
One Click Closer to Annihilation
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 2, 2018 | Featured Articles
The nuclear war doomsday clock maintained on the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists website has advanced to two minutes before midnight, the closest point to possible atomic apocalypse since the end of the Cold War. In 1995 the clock was at fourteen minutes to midnight,...
Washington’s Sanctions Machine
by Philip Giraldi | Sep 27, 2018 | Featured Articles
Perhaps it is Donald Trump’s business background that leads him to believe that if you inflict enough economic pain on someone they will ultimately surrender and agree to do whatever you want. Though that approach might well work in New York real estate, it is not a...
Shutting Down Free Speech in America: Government and Lobbyists Work Together to Destroy the First Amendment
by Philip Giraldi | Sep 24, 2018 | Featured Articles
During the past several years, there has been increased pressure coming from some in the federal government aided and abetted powerful advocacy groups in the private sector to police social and alternative media. It is a multi-pronged attack on the First Amendment...
Bret Stephens’ Neocon Vision
by Philip Giraldi | Sep 20, 2018 | Featured Articles
The neoconservative vision of the world is a place where the United States can do what it wants because it is both better morally speaking and also more capable of enforcing desirable standards of behavior. Such a viewpoint just might perhaps be understandable if...
Bringing Down a President
by Philip Giraldi | Sep 13, 2018 | Featured Articles
If anyone doubted that the top level of the intelligence agencies in Washington have dedicated themselves to ousting President Donald Trump, the past two weeks should have demonstrated precisely how such a plan of action is being executed. First came the leaked...
Target Syria
by Philip Giraldi | Sep 11, 2018 | Featured Articles
It’s official. The Syrian Army assisted by Russian air support is closing in on the last major pocket of terrorists remaining in the country in the province of Idlib near Aleppo. The United States, which has trained and armed some of the trapped gunmen and even as...
American Warmongering and Opportunism on Parade
by Philip Giraldi | Sep 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
The United States collectively speaking lost its mind last week during a multi-day orgy of smug self-satisfaction centered on the obsequies culminating in the state funeral of Senator John McCain. McCain became the Everyman American-style, embodying virtues that all...
Sources Go Quiet in Moscow
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 31, 2018 | Featured Articles
A quite astonishing article recently appeared in the New York Times, astonishing even by the standards of that newspaper, which featured Judith Miller and Michael Gordon in the Pentagon-sponsored lie machine that led up to the catastrophic war against Iraq. The...
Will the Real John Brennan Please Stand Up?
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 22, 2018 | Featured Articles
The battle between many former intelligence chiefs and the White House is becoming a gift that keeps on giving to the mass media, which is characteristically deeply immersed in Trump derangement syndrome in attacking the president for his having stripped former CIA...
America the Punitive
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 17, 2018 | Featured Articles
There has been a dramatic shift in how the United States government carries out its business internationally. Admittedly, Washington has had a tendency to employ force to get what it has wanted ever since 9/11, but it also sometimes recognized that other countries had...
The US-Turkey Crisis: The NATO Alliance Forged in 1949 Is Today Largely Irrelevant
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 13, 2018 | Featured Articles
There has been some reporting in the United States mass media about the deteriorating relationship between Washington and Ankara and what it might mean. Such a falling out between NATO members has not been seen since France left the alliance in 1966 and observers note...
Butina Case: Neo-McCarthyism Engulfs America
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 10, 2018 | Featured Articles
The United States Department of Justice would apparently have you believe that the Kremlin sought to subvert the five-million-member strong National Rifle Association (NRA) by having two Russian citizens take out life memberships in the organization with the intention...
More Lies About the White Helmets
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 7, 2018 | Featured Articles
When is a terrorist group not a terrorist group? Apparently the answer is that it ceases to be terrorist when it terrorizes someone who is an enemy of the United States. The most prominent recent example is the Mujaheddin e Khalq (MEK), a murderous Iranian Marxist...
Revolving Door: How Security Clearances Perpetuate Top-Level Corruption in the United States
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 2, 2018 | Featured Articles
President Donald Trump is threatening to take away the security clearances of a number of former senior intelligence and security officers who have been extremely critical of him. Most Americans were unaware that any ex-officials continued to hold clearances after...
The Madness Gripping Washington
by Philip Giraldi | Jul 26, 2018 | Featured Articles
The United States and Israel have been threatening Iran for something like twenty years, using the pretext that it was developing a nuclear weapon initially, but also more recently declaring that Tehran has become a threat to the entire Middle East. Both contentions...
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