Paraphrasing the late Murray Rothbard, the "two party" system in America during the twentieth century worked something like this: Democrats engineered the Great Leaps Forward, and Republicans consolidated the gains. Wilson, Roosevelt, and Johnson were the...
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Viral #TrumpsNewArmy Video Is Liberals At Their Craziest And Scariest
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jan 20, 2021 | Featured Articles
A new viral video calling on liberals to form “an army of citizen detectives” to gather information on Trump supporters and report their activities to the authorities has racked up thousands of shares and millions of views in just a few hours. The hashtag...
The Legacy Of A Would-Be Dictator
by Peter van Buren | Jan 19, 2021 | Featured Articles
Twitterless, Donald Trump will soon disappear. It will then be for the fullness of history to judge his term, but it is certain the summation will be it was four years of lies and barely constitutional actions that have forever dented America’s democracy. Lies and...
Anomalies in the Capitol Melee
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 19, 2021 | Featured Articles
Somebody needs to get a memo to the FBI and the US Attorneys in charge of arresting and prosecuting the people involved in the January 6 melee at the Capitol. At this point, all I see is that these people are being charged with offenses like trespass, disorderly...
Free Speech Is Hard. Its Alternative Is Worse.
by Mary L. G. Theroux | Jan 18, 2021 | Featured Articles
It’s hard to hear ideologues spouting ideas you know are fully wrong, even harder when you know that the implementation of such ideas would hurt people, including you. Hardest is listening to a message full of hate, vitriol, and name-calling, especially when it’s...

The Unwelcome Return of the Real Purveyors of Violence
by Ron Paul | Jan 18, 2021 | Featured Articles
With the mainstream media still obsessing about the January 6th “violent coup attempt” at the US Capitol Building, the incoming Biden Administration looks to be chock full of actual purveyors of violent coups. Don’t look to the mainstream media to report on this,...
Why They Hate Trump So Deeply
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 17, 2021 | Featured Articles
In the words of Ronald Reagan, here we go again. The unbelievable hatred that Democrats, liberals, progressives, and the mainstream press have toward President Trump continues to consume them, with the latest manifestation being a second impeachment of President...
How CENTCOM Chief McKenzie manufactured an Iran crisis to increase his power
by Gareth Porter | Jan 16, 2021 | Featured Articles
During the final two months of the Trump administration, a series of provocative US military moves in the Middle East stirred fears that a war against Iran was being hatched. The atmosphere of crisis was not the result of any threat posed by Tehran, but rather the...
‘Revoke Their Degrees’: Harvard Faculty and Students Seek Revocation Of Degrees For Trump Officials and Allies
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 16, 2021 | Featured Articles
There is a building campaign at Harvard to rescind the degrees of Trump officials and allies including White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX). This is not the only such effort to retaliate against...
9/11 Was the Prelude. 1/6 Is the Holy Grail
by Pepe Escobar | Jan 16, 2021 | Featured Articles
I hear the sons of the city and dispossessed Get down, get undressed Get pretty but you and me We got the kingdom, we got the key We got the empire, now as then We don’t doubt, we don’t take direction Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me Sisters of Mercy,...
Congressional Hysteria & Hypocrisy Could Doom Liberty
by James Bovard | Jan 15, 2021 | Featured Articles
The political hysteria unleashed by last week’s clash at the Capitol between police and Trump protestors poses a growing danger to Americans’ constitutional rights. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer ludicrously compared the ruckus to Pearl Harbor – a “day of...
Biden Taps Veteran Interventionist Samantha Power to Head USAID
by Dave DeCamp | Jan 14, 2021 | Featured Articles
On Wednesday, Joe Biden announced that he will nominate Samantha Powerto head the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Power served as ambassador to the UN for President Obama from 2013 to 2017. Before that, she worked on Obama’s National Security Council,...
How Silicon Valley, in a Show of Monopolistic Force, Destroyed Parler
by Glenn Greenwald | Jan 14, 2021 | Featured Articles
Critics of Silicon Valley censorship for years heard the same refrain: tech platforms like Facebook, Google and Twitter are private corporations and can host or ban whoever they want. If you don’t like what they are doing, the solution is not to complain or to...
The Pentagon Speaks
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 14, 2021 | Featured Articles
The Joint Chiefs of Staff have spoken. Issuing a remarkable memorandum to all members of the Armed Forces, the JCS have declared that Joe Biden will be the new president of the United States. The memo may have been not only one to military personnel but also to...
Here Comes the Post- ‘Invasion’ Crackdown
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 13, 2021 | Featured Articles
Just as thunder follows lightning, you can rest assured that Democrats, the Deep State, and the mainstream press are going to use recent events at the Capitol to crack down on civil liberties. Why let a good opportunity to expand governmental power go to waste? Why,...
Can Burns Change the CIA?
by Ray McGovern | Jan 13, 2021 | Featured Articles
In nominating former Deputy Secretary of State William Burns to be CIA director, President-elect Joe Biden has chosen a highly experienced diplomat to lead a hydra-headed agency. But, if past is precedent, the highest hydras who head calcified fiefdoms at CIA can be...
In the Asian Flu of 1957-58, They Rejected Lockdowns
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Jan 13, 2021 | Featured Articles
The Asian flu of 1957-58 was a deadly pandemic with a broader reach for severe outcomes than Covid-19 of 2020. It killed between 1 and 4 million people worldwide, and 116,000 in the US in a time with half the population. It was a leading contributor to a year in which...
Ron Paul Posts Criticism of Censorship on Social Media Shortly Before Facebook Blocks
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 12, 2021 | Featured Articles
We have been discussing the chilling crackdown on free speech that has been building for years in the United States. This effort has accelerated in the aftermath of the Capitol riot including the shutdown sites like Parler. Now former Texas congressman Ron Paul, 85,...
The Biggest Scam in History
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 12, 2021 | Featured Articles
Soon after US officials declared their “war on terrorism” some 20 years ago, I wrote that this new war was likely to last longer than the “war on drugs.” There is a simple reason for that: the supply of “terrorists” would be endless, for two reasons: (1) the US...
Wednesday’s Other Story
by Matt Taibbi | Jan 11, 2021 | Featured Articles
Just before the madness at the Capitol broke out Wednesday, news came from London. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who seemed Monday to be the luckiest man alive when a judge denied an American request to extradite him, was now denied bail on the grounds that he...
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