Donald Trump calls himself a peacemaker. His actions, however, betray his words. When it comes to the Middle East, he is an obvious war president. This begs the question: Does he have a coherent Middle East strategy beyond providing for Israel’s security interests?...
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Spying on Iran: How MI6 infiltrated the IAEA
by Kit Klarenberg | Jul 4, 2025 | Featured Articles
Leaked confidential files indicate the International Atomic Energy Agency was infiltrated by a veteran British spy who has claimed credit for sanctions on Iran. The documents lend weight to the Islamic Republic’s accusation that the nuclear watchdog secretly colluded...
The Empire Has Accidentally Caused The Rebirth Of Real Counterculture In The West
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jul 4, 2025 | Featured Articles
Everyone’s still talking about Bob Vylan, and rightly so. A crowd full of westerners happily being led through a chant of “Death, death to the IDF” at the 2025 Glastonbury Festival was a historical landmark moment for the 21st century, and the group’s...
What Freedom of Speech?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 4, 2025 | Featured Articles
In a totalitarian or authoritarian dictatorship, government officials do not need the support of the citizenry to exterminate freedom of speech. That’s because there are no elections to worry about. The regime simply starts having its military and paramilitary goons...
Beyond the Bombs: Who Really Won the 12-Day War Between Israel and Iran?
by Kit Klarenberg | Jul 3, 2025 | Featured Articles
On June 13, 2025, Tel Aviv launched what many international observers and Iranian officials have described as an unprovoked military strike on Iran. Israeli jets bombed military and nuclear sites, while Mossad-run sleeper cells carried out sabotage missions against...
Independence Day 2025
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jul 3, 2025 | Featured Articles
We are independent of London, but are we independent of Washington? Is there more freedom when governed by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants a few miles away? Does government today remotely resemble the values articulated on July 4th 1776? When the...
This Is Israel’s War – Not Our War
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Jul 2, 2025 | Featured Articles
President Trump, to his credit, demanded a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. Both countries agreed to it. Then, the president became very angry with Israel because, as he said, “As soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs the likes of...
US Support For Israel Comes At A Staggering, Multifaceted Price
by Brian McGlinchey | Jul 2, 2025 | Featured Articles
When asked about the cost of their government’s support of the State of Israel, some Americans will say it’s $3.8 billion a year — the amount of annual military aid the United States is committed to under its current, 10-year “memorandum of understanding” with Israel....
Inalienable Rights in an Age of Tyranny: The Government Is Playing God
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Jul 2, 2025 | Featured Articles
We are now struggling to emerge from the wreckage of a constitutional republic, transformed into a kleptocracy (government by thieves), collapsing into kakistocracy (government by the worst), and enforced by a police state algogracy (rule by algorithm). This week...
What Means ‘Winning’?
by Alastair Crooke | Jul 1, 2025 | Featured Articles
At one level, Iran plainly “won.” Trump had wanted to be regaled with a reality-TV style, splendid “Victory.” Sunday’s attack on the three nuclear sites indeed was loudly proclaimed by Trump and Hegseth as such – having “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear enrichment...
A Big Beautiful Bill for the Military-Industrial Complex
by Ron Paul | Jun 30, 2025 | Featured Articles
The US Senate worked through the weekend on the “Big Beautiful Bill.” The goal was to pass it quickly to ensure the House will then pass it and send it to President Trump’s desk before the July 4th holiday. However, disagreements among Republican Senators over...
Trump Rolls Over for a New War
by Philip Giraldi | Jun 30, 2025 | Featured Articles
It is generally believed that American voters elected Donald Trump president at least in part due to their embracing his lies that he was a peacemaker who would not involve the United States in the pointless wars that have proliferated since 9/11. Trump’s predecessor...
The War On Iran – Summing Up The First Round
by Moon of Alabama | Jun 28, 2025 | Featured Articles
USrael's long planned attack to regime change Iran did fail. Control by the military and political leadership of Iran was never in doubt. Attempts to kill Ayatollah Khamenei were unsuccessful (and would have not mattered at all). The military...
The United States Cannot Defeat Iran
by William Schryver | Jun 28, 2025 | Featured Articles
How soon people have forgotten that, earlier this year, the US dispatched two carrier strike groups and a half-dozen B-2s (and other USAF assets) to disarm the Yemeni and open the selectively blockaded Red Sea. They failed. Abysmally. For the second time! First of...
Vance Unwittingly Reminds Us of the Jose Padilla Case
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 27, 2025 | Featured Articles
In mocking California Senator Alex Padilla by referring to him as “Jose,” Vice President Vance has unwittingly reminded us of the Jose Padilla case. The Padilla case showed us how government officials use “crises” to destroy the civil liberties of the people. The 9/11...
The Fictional Mental Illness That Only Affects Enemies Of The Western Empire
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jun 27, 2025 | Featured Articles
Within the storytelling of western politics and punditry there exists a fictional type of mental illness which only affects people the US empire doesn’t like. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, its crazy lunatic government will flip out and nuke us all. Watch out for...
Let Trump Save Us from War with Iran
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jun 26, 2025 | Featured Articles
The ongoing pundit discussions whether or not the US attack destroyed the three Iranian nuclear facilities, which might or might not have been involved in developing a weapon, with many challenging the Trump administration’s report that all three facilities were...
The Coming Police State
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jun 26, 2025 | Featured Articles
We have seen this before. A foreign entity attacks American persons or property and the government warns that its sleeper cells have infiltrated the United States and it is somehow necessary to expand the powers of the government and shrink protections for civil...
The War on Iran is not Over
by Larry C. Johnson | Jun 26, 2025 | Featured Articles
I don’t know why Iran agreed to the ceasefire, but it did. Iranian leaders, in my opinion, are frighteningly naive. Some apparently believe that they can achieve a legitimate negotiated deal with Donald Trump. I suggest the Ayatollah and IRGC commanders read Donald...
Middle East in Crisis After US Bombing of Iran
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jun 25, 2025 | Featured Articles
The former President and Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev who is one of the most authoritative voices in the Kremlin, wrote on the Telegram channel on June 23 a critique on the Middle East crisis following the US attack on Iran’s three key...
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