“Oh! wherefore come ye forth, in triumph from the North, With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red? And wherefore doth your rout send forth a joyous shout?” ‘The Battle of Naseby’ by Thomas Macaulay After 20 years of B-52 carpet bombing of Afghanistan,...
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Biden’s Other Unwinnable War
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Aug 18, 2021 | Featured Articles
Joe Biden’s speech following the Afghanistan debacle made for compelling television for one main reason: here is a government official – the man who holds the office once called the “leader of the free world” – recognizing the limits of government. No matter how long...
The Pentagon and the Generals Wanted This Disastrous War
by Ryan McMaken | Aug 18, 2021 | Featured Articles
In early July, Ron Paul penned a column titled “It’s Saigon In Afghanistan,” invoking the imagery of the fall of Saigon in 1975, when US military helicopters scrambled to evacuate personnel from the roof of the US embassy. But Paul suggested that maybe the situation...
Blame Bush and Obama for the Afghan Disaster
by Scott Horton | Aug 17, 2021 | Featured Articles
Former President Trump, President Biden and their partisans are rushing to blame each other for the debacle unfolding now in Afghanistan. The “National Unity Government” and its military and police forces have completely evaporated in the face of the Taliban’s rapid...
Emmanuel Macron’s Covid ‘health pass’ tyranny reveals the true extremism of globalist faux-centrism
by Neil Clark | Aug 17, 2021 | Featured Articles
Macron was billed as the “moderate candidate” in the 2017 French presidential election but there’s nothing moderate about this authoritarian who has transformed France into a police state under the guise of countering a virus. A few weeks ago, I was in the picturesque...

Kabul Has Fallen – But Don’t Blame Biden
by Ron Paul | Aug 16, 2021 | Featured Articles
This weekend the US experienced another “Saigon moment,” this time in Afghanistan. After a 20 year war that drained trillions from Americans’ pockets, the capital of Afghanistan fell without a fight. The corrupt Potemkin regime that the US had been propping up for two...
Lockdowns, Masks and The Illusion of Control
by Brian McGlinchey | Aug 14, 2021 | Featured Articles
In the early 11th century, King Canute—while at the peak of his power—set out to demonstrate to his fawning courtiers the limited power of royal edicts. After having his throne placed by the sea’s edge, he sat down and commanded the tide to stop rising. When the water...
Yet Again, the Media’s Covid Narrative Doesn’t Add Up
by Ryan McMaken | Aug 14, 2021 | Featured Articles
If one were to go only on what one reads or sees in the media, one would think it’s the spring of 2020 all over again. The headlines are filled with stories of overcrowded hospitals, overwhelmed medical personnel, and predictions of people dying in parking lots...
Washington’s Clueless Ambassadors: Damaging American Interests Is Their Legacy
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 13, 2021 | Featured Articles
Whenever one gets into discussions about the decline of America’s ability to positively influence developments around the world a number of issues tend to surface. First is the hubristic claim by successive presidents that the United States is somehow “exceptional” as...
Afghanistan Proves The US Military Needs Its Budget Slashed To Ribbons
by Caitlin Johnstone | Aug 12, 2021 | Featured Articles
US officials are telling the press that Kabul will fall to the Taliban within 90 days and perhaps within the month as US troops withdraw from the war-torn nation. "One official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the issue’s sensitivity, said...
Top New York Times, WaPo Experts Affiliated With Pentagon-Funded CNAS Think Tank
by Dan Cohen | Aug 11, 2021 | Featured Articles
Imagine a country where there’s no separation between the government, the military, and the media. A lot of Americans would think of China, Russia or North Korea, but it’s a perfect description of the United States today. And here in Washington, the think tank inside...
T Is for Tyranny: How Freedom Dies from A to Z
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Aug 11, 2021 | Featured Articles
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a convenient, traumatic, devastating distraction. The American people, the permanent underclass in America, have allowed themselves to be so distracted and divided that they have failed to notice the building blocks of tyranny...
Pentagon Pulls Trigger: Will Order All Troops To Get COVID Vaccine By Sept.15
by Tyler Durden | Aug 10, 2021 | Featured Articles
The US military is ready to begin enforcing a coronavirus vaccine mandate across all branches, the Associated Press is reporting Monday based on a Pentagon memo it's obtained. The memo is expected to go out on Monday and is intended to "warn" troops to "prepare" for...
The Totalitarian Ideology of Lockdownism
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Aug 10, 2021 | Featured Articles
Every political ideology has three elements: a vision of hell with an enemy that needs to be crushed, a vision of a more perfect world, and a plan for transitioning from one to the other. The means of transition usually involve the takeover and deployment of society’s...
Why People Don’t Trust the Mainstream Media
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 9, 2021 | Featured Articles
An article in the Washington Post about the January 6 protests at the Capitol goes a long way toward explaining why people do not trust the mainstream media. The article, written by a Post reporter named Mike DeBonis, focuses on allegations that the FBI infiltrated...

Equality in Slavery
by Ron Paul | Aug 9, 2021 | Featured Articles
The Senate Armed Services Committee approved last month a National Defense Authorization Act that includes a requirement that women register with Selective Service on their 18th birthday. If the bill becomes law with this provision included and a military draft is...
Iraq Needs as Independent Government, not ‘Training’
by Eric Margolis | Aug 7, 2021 | Featured Articles
Will US occupation troops really leave Iraq? That’s the question that Washington is so far unable to answer. The White House says the official date of the long goodbye is this month, August 2021. Donald Trump announced a pullout of US troops while still in office but...
Ron DeSantis is Defending Freedom by ‘Getting in the Way’ of COVID Authoritarians
by Jordan Schachtel | Aug 7, 2021 | Featured Articles
In an ideal nation, the most important duty of an elected politician involves ensuring the protection of their constituents’ individual rights. During COVID Mania, the political forces for tyranny in America have attempted to contaminate this sacred ideal — under the...
Pseudo-Omniscience Versus Freedom
by James Bovard | Aug 7, 2021 | Featured Articles
Shut up and submit” is now the favorite Covid cure of some of America’s leading progressives. Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize winner and New York Times columnist, revealed on Tuesday that since freedom is a mirage, people have no good reason not to comply with endless...
Washington’s Terrorist Friends: Prominent Americans Continue to Support a Murderous Cult
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 6, 2021 | Featured Articles
One might ask if Washington’s obsession with terrorism includes supporting radical armed groups as long as they are politically useful in attacking countries that the US regards as enemies? It is widely known that the American CIA worked with Saudi Arabia to create...
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