On this week's 21WIRE LIVE host Patrick Henningsen speaks with director of the Ron Paul Institute, Daniel McAdams, about the current political upheaval in America - the hyperbolic rhetoric, partisan purges, and mass censorship. When and where will it end? Can the...
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West’s Navalny Hypocrisy a Gas
by Finian Cunningham | Jan 29, 2021 | Featured Articles
The day after opposition figure Alexei Navalny was arrested in Moscow last week on his return from a provocative and prolonged decampment in Germany, Western media fell over themselves to condemn his detention. In its online edition, the US government-owned Radio Free...
The Echo Chamber Era
by Matt Taibbi | Jan 28, 2021 | Featured Articles
A day after Joe Biden's inauguration, the headline in Axios read: “Trust in media hits a new low.” Felix Salmon wrote that “for the first time ever, fewer than half of all Americans have trust in traditional media.” The Edelman survey showed overall faith in the press...
Biden admin’s coercive Iran policy threatens serious new regional crisis
by Gareth Porter | Jan 27, 2021 | Featured Articles
A close analysis of recent statements by members of President Joseph Biden’s foreign policy team indicates his administration has already signaled its intention to treat negotiations with Iran as an exercise in diplomatic coercion aimed at forcing major new...
Enemies of the Deep State: The Government’s War on Domestic Terrorism Is a Trap
by John W. Whitehead | Jan 27, 2021 | Featured Articles
“This is an issue that all Democrats, Republicans, independents, Libertarians should be extremely concerned about, especially because we don’t have to guess about where this goes or how this ends. What characteristics are we looking for as we are building this profile...
Why Biden installing Obama-era hawks in senior roles and preparing to fire up the War Machine again is very bad news for Syrians
by Vanessa Beeley | Jan 27, 2021 | Featured Articles
It is no coincidence that a resurgence of attacks by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) on civilians and the Syrian Army have been reported in Iraq and Syria as Joe Biden’s “build back better” government takes power in Washington. Just days before Biden’s inauguration,...
In a Paranoid Nation, ‘Treason’ Is Everywhere
by James Bovard | Jan 26, 2021 | Featured Articles
FBI agents across the nation are tracking down and arresting Trump supporters who walked into the US Capitol during the January 6 protest that turned into a brawl. Scores of protestors have already been charged with unlawful entry—“knowingly entering or remaining in a...
Boycott Sham Impeachment
by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) | Jan 25, 2021 | Featured Articles
Sometimes in Washington, the powers that be will embark on a little bit of political theater. You can always spot it, though, if you look closely enough at what's real and what's not. In the last days of the presidency of Donald Trump, the Democrats and a handful of...
That’s All Folks!
by C.J. Hopkins | Jan 25, 2021 | Featured Articles
As they used to say at the end of all those wacky Looney Tunes cartoons, that’s all folks! The show is over. Literal Russian-Asset Hitler, the Latest Greatest Threat to Western Democracy, the Monster of Mar-a-Lago, Trumpzilla, Trumpenstein, the Ayatollah of Orange...

When Fascism Comes, It Will Be Wearing a Mask
by Ron Paul | Jan 25, 2021 | Featured Articles
Almost immediately after his inauguration, President Joe Biden began creating new government dictates via executive orders. Many of these executive orders concern coronavirus, fulfilling Biden’s promise to make ramping up a coronavirus-inspired attack on liberty a...
‘Aid and Comfort’ To the Enemy: Speaker Pelosi Ramps Up Attacks On Republican Colleagues Amidst Calls For Expulsion
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 23, 2021 | Featured Articles
Speaker Nancy Pelosi ramped up the attacks on members of her own house this week, accusing them of giving “aid and comfort” to those who want to destroy the nation. The comments came after Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., denied a public accusation by Rep. Steve Cohen,...
Biden Administration Announces Plan to Combat ‘Domestic Extremism’
by Dave DeCamp | Jan 23, 2021 | Featured Articles
On Friday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced that President Biden ordered three US intelligence agencies to review the threat of “domestic violent extremism.” Since pro-Trump demonstrators stormed the US Capitol building on January 6th, calls to combat...
Yet Another Study Shows—Yet Again—That Lockdowns Don’t Work
by Ryan McMaken | Jan 22, 2021 | Featured Articles
Although advocates for covid-19 lockdowns continue to insist that they save lives, actual experience keeps suggesting otherwise. On a national level, just eyeballing the data makes this clear. Countries that have implemented harsh lockdowns shouldn’t expect to have...
Trust In The Media Hits An All-Time Low In New Polling
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 22, 2021 | Featured Articles
We have previously discussed how American journalism has been destroyed by years of openly partisan coverage in an age of echo journalism. Not surprisingly, the public has lost faith in what was once the leading nation in terms of journalistic practices and ethics. A...
Professor Calls For The Elimination of the Republican Party and Purging ‘Nazified’ People From Congress, Universities, and ‘Regular Jobs’
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 21, 2021 | Featured Articles
The media has been airing discussion of hosts and leading figures like Katie Couric on “deprogramming ” Trump supporters or treating Trump supporters as a cult, including a CNN interview with an actual “cult expert.” Since that would include over 70 million Trump...
Milking the Capitol Melee for All It’s Worth
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 21, 2021 | Featured Articles
Not surprisingly, leftists are milking the January 6 Capitol melee for all its worth. There is a simple reason for that: they wish to use it to introduce a new wave of domestic tyranny into America, just as Republicans did after the 9/11 attacks. In fact, I wouldn’t...
What Biden/Harris Will Do
by Jeff Deist | Jan 21, 2021 | Featured Articles
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...
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...
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...
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...
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