More than eight months after the worst attack on Washington since the Civil War, as Joe Biden describes it, not a single American has been charged with sedition or treason related to the alleged “insurrection” on January 6, 2021.As Ben Boychuk explained in his...
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Red Light Robberies Across America
by James Bovard | Sep 10, 2021 | Featured Articles
Crime is surging in American cities, but the official data leave out the most frequent source of highway robberies. More than 400 cities have set up red light cameras that are institutionalized racketeering that subverts public safety. Tens of thousands of American...
Science Denied: The Biden Vaccine Mandate
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Sep 10, 2021 | Featured Articles
President Biden has decided to go hard on the virus. No more Mr. Nice Guy. Sadly for him, those tiny little pathogens don’t pay taxes, don’t vote, don’t have Social Security numbers, can’t be drafted, and don’t answer phone calls from poll takers, which is to say that...
20 Years of Government-Sponsored Tyranny: The Rise of the Security-Industrial Complex from 9/11 to COVID-19
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Sep 9, 2021 | Featured Articles
“I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in — and the West in general — into an unbearable hell and a choking life.”—Osama bin Laden (October 2001), as reported by CNN What a strange and harrowing...
The ACLU, Prior to COVID, Denounced Mandates and Coercive Measures to Fight Pandemics
by Glenn Greenwald | Sep 9, 2021 | Featured Articles
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) surprised even many of its harshest critics this week when it strongly defended coercive programs and other mandates from the state in the name of fighting COVID. “Far from compromising them, vaccine mandates actually further...
Can the Media Survive Without Half of the Population? A New Poll Raises Questions About the New Media
by Jonathan Turley | Sep 8, 2021 | Featured Articles
We have often discussed the increasing bias and advocacy in major media in the United States. While cable networks have long catered to political audiences on the left or right, mainstream newspapers and networks now openly frame news to fit a political narrative....
Why Have Embassies?
by Philip Giraldi | Sep 8, 2021 | Featured Articles
President Joe Biden’s departure from Afghanistan was the right thing to do even if it was handled disastrously. And he now has the opportunity to do some other “right things” that are in some ways related to the recently concluded fiasco in Central Asia in that the...
The Terrible Economic Ignorance behind Covid Tradeoffs: My Speech to the Ron Paul Institute
by Jeff Deist | Sep 8, 2021 | Featured Articles
Some of you may know the name Alex Berenson, the former New York Times journalist who comes from a left-liberal background. He has been absolutely fearless and tireless on Twitter over the past eighteen months, documenting the overreach and folly of covid policy—and...
Remember When Conservatives ‘Canceled’ Anyone against the War on Terror? I Do.
by James Bovard | Sep 7, 2021 | Featured Articles
Life in American changed twenty years ago after the 9/11 attacks. Many Americans became enraged at anyone who did not swear allegiance to President George W. Bush’s antiterrorism crusade. Anyone who denied “they hate us for our freedoms” automatically became an enemy...
The Totalitarian Roots of Vaccine Mandates
by Barry Brownstein | Sep 6, 2021 | Featured Articles
Over the course of the pandemic, principles of what a free society means are being redefined by collectivists.Consider this essay, Don’t COVID Vaccine Mandates Actually Promote Freedom? Medical ethicists Kyle Ferguson and Arthur Caplan argue, “Those who oppose...

Authoritarianism Pandemic is the Real Threat
by Ron Paul | Sep 6, 2021 | Featured Articles
Cook County, Illinois, Judge James Shapiro reached a new low in covid tyranny by forbidding Rebecca Firlit from seeing her 11-year-old son until she receives a covid vaccine. Judge Shapiro is not alone in abusing judicial power to force individuals to get vaccinated....
‘Over-the-horizon’ is just the newest buzz phrase for American incompetence – as proven by recent drone strikes in Afghanistan
by Scott Ritter | Sep 2, 2021 | Featured Articles
Following the Kabul airport attack, the US military conducted two “over-the-horizon” air strikes against suspected ISIS-K targets. The results inspire zero confidence in the efficacy of this approach toward counterterrorism.The August 26 suicide bombing outside Hamid...
Did the US Support the Growth of ISIS-K?
by Alexander Rubinstein | Sep 1, 2021 | Featured Articles
The list of governments, former government officials, and organizations in the region that have accused the US of supporting ISIS-K is expansive and includes the Russian government, the Iranian government, Syrian government media, Hezbollah, an Iraqi state-sponsored...
Bring All the Troops Home: Stop Policing the Globe and Put an End to Endless Wars
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Sep 1, 2021 | Featured Articles
It’s time to bring all our troops home. Bring them home from Somalia, Iraq and Syria. Bring them home from Germany, South Korea and Japan. Bring them home from Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Oman. Bring them home from Niger, Chad and Mali. Bring them home from Turkey, the...
Transitioning from Vaccine Passports to Everything Passports
by Adam Dick | Aug 31, 2021 | Featured Articles
Israel has gone further quicker than most governments in pushing people to take experimental coronavirus vaccines and imposing vaccine passports as a requirement for people to go about their daily activities. Last week, Israel Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz announced...
Say No To Vaccine Passports
by Helen Andrews | Aug 30, 2021 | Featured Articles
On August 10, former White House coronavirus task force senior advisor Andy Slavitt tweeted something snarky, as is his habit: “If people who go out and buy fake vaccine cards get COVID, do they expect someone to put them on a real ventilator?” One of his Twitter...
Twitter Permanently Bans Former NYT Journalist Alex Berenson
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 30, 2021 | Featured Articles
We previously discussed how Twitter’s growing censorship program has targeted former New York Times journalist and author Alex Berenson who is an outspoken critic of the government’s science and response to the pandemic. Berenson was previously suspended for merely...

Afghanistan: A Tragically Stupid War Comes to a Tragic End
by Ron Paul | Aug 30, 2021 | Featured Articles
Sunday’s news reports that the Biden Administration mistakenly killed nine members of one Afghan family, including six children, in “retaliation” for last week’s suicide attack which killed 13 US servicemembers, is a sad and sick epitaph on the 20 year Afghanistan...
The US Government vs. the United States
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 28, 2021 | Featured Articles
Advocates of empire and interventionism are saying that even given the debacle in Afghanistan, America should not “retreat” from the world. Even though our nation has lost “credibility” in the world, they say, it is imperative that the United States continue to...
Natural Immunity for the Win
by Alex Berenson | Aug 28, 2021 | Featured Articles
The question I get more than any other: "I had Covid. I had an antibody test to prove it. Am I protected (and do I need to get the vaccine)?" Let me start with the usual disclaimer: THIS IS NOT MEDICAL ADVICE. I AM NOT A PHYSICIAN. But the answer is now increasingly...
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