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...
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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...
Is Bill Browder the Most Dangerous Man in the World?
by Philip Giraldi | Jul 24, 2018 | Featured Articles
At the press conference following their summit meeting in Helsinki, Russian President Vladimir Putin and American President Donald Trump discussed the possibility of resolving potential criminal cases involving citizens of the two countries by permitting interrogators...
The Establishment Strikes Back
by Philip Giraldi | Jul 19, 2018 | Featured Articles
There are a number of elements in the recent release of an indictment of twelve named alleged Russian military intelligence GRU officers by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein looking into possible ties between Moscow and the Trump Administration that I find either...
A Tale of Two Poisonings
by Philip Giraldi | Jul 18, 2018 | Featured Articles
Poisoning enemies has a long history with Augustus Caesar’s wife Livia allegedly a master of the art, as were the Borgias in Renaissance Italy. Lately there has been a resurgence in allegations regarding the use of poisons of various types by several governments. The...
Imperial Hubris Redefined
by Philip Giraldi | Jul 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
There have been two developments in the past month that illustrate clearly what is wrong with the White House’s perception of America’s place in the world. Going far beyond the oft-repeated nonsense that the United States is somehow the “leader of the free world,” the...
America’s Clueless Ambassadors
by Philip Giraldi | Jul 1, 2018 | Featured Articles
Ambassadors have existed since the time of the ancient Greeks. They were from the beginning granted a special immunity which enabled them to talk to enemy spokesmen to attempt to resolve issues without resort to arms. In the modern context, Ambassadors are sent to...
Breaking In a President
by Philip Giraldi | Jun 21, 2018 | Featured Articles
I recall how a friend of mine who once served as a senior Pentagon intelligence briefer described what he called “breaking in” a new president. Today, incoming presidents receive some intelligence briefings so that they do not land in office on a cold January day...
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