The FBI is warning Iran not to meddle in the upcoming US presidential election. That’s rich given that it was the US government’s meddling in an Iranian election that is the root cause of the perpetual, ongoing, never-ending animosity between the two regimes today....
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The Post-Ideological Age
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Aug 14, 2024 | Featured Articles
Conventional wisdom has it that the US and much of the Western world has polarized into right and left. These tribes are hard-core and share mutual loathing. That model of understanding pervades all popular media and consumes the culture, such that everyone feels the...
Why Did Washington Memory-hole Gaza?
by Kelley B. Vlahos | Aug 14, 2024 | Featured Articles
Some are calling it Kamala Harris’s “Sister Souljah moment,” referring to when, in June 1992, then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton publicly rebuked racist comments made by a popular female hip-hop artist as a way of distancing himself from extreme...
Buy a Bible, Become a Terror Suspect
by James Bovard | Aug 13, 2024 | Featured Articles
Americans are familiar with the Miranda warning that anything that arrestees say can be used against them in a court of law. But the Biden administration secretly created a new tripwire: Anything you purchase can be used against you. And if you didn’t want to be...
‘An Intricate Fabric of Bad Actors Working Hand-in-Hand’ – So is War Inevitable?
by Alastair Crooke | Aug 13, 2024 | Featured Articles
Walter Kirn, an American novelist and cultural critic, in his 2009 memoir, Lost in the Meritocracy, described how, after a sojourn at Oxford, he came to be a member of "the class that runs things" – the one that “writes the headlines, and the stories under them.” It...
Tyranny in the UK – Can it Happen Here?
by Ron Paul | Aug 12, 2024 | Featured Articles
As the UK descends into tyranny, where just re-Tweeting something the government doesn’t like can land a person a multi-year jail sentence, Americans are wondering, “can it happen here?” After all, we have the guarantees of the First Amendment. But while we shake our...
Decay, Decrepitude, Deceit in Journalism
by Ray McGovern | Aug 12, 2024 | Featured Articles
Russiagate continues to survive like a science fiction monster resilient to bullets. The latest effort at rehabilitating it is an interview by Adam Rawnsley in the current issue of Rolling Stone magazine of one Michael van Landingham, an...
There Is Something Rotten in Washington
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 12, 2024 | Featured Articles
One thing you can say about the Administration of President Joe Biden is that nearly every week there is something new and exciting to discuss. Galloping dementia recently gifted us with Joe’s 11 minute abdication speech in which he announced that he would not be...
I’m Speaking at the Ron Paul Institute’s Annual Conference
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 10, 2024 | Featured Articles
In three weeks, I will have the honor of again speaking at the Young Scholar’s part of the Ron Paul Institute’s annual conference at Dulles, Virginia. I’ve had the good fortune of speaking there for the past several years. I will be speaking on “A Limited Government...
US Policy: Let Israel Escalate Against Iran, Then Tell Iran Not To Escalate Back
by Caitlin Johnstone | Aug 9, 2024 | Featured Articles
In an article titled “U.S. Warns Iran of ‘Serious Risk’ if It Conducts Major Attack on Israel,” The Wall Street Journal reports that officials within the Biden administration have been warning Iran not to “escalate” against Israel in its planned retaliatory strikes...
American Theocracy: Politics Has Become Our National Religion
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Aug 8, 2024 | Featured Articles
“You shall have no other gods before me.”—The Ten Commandments “Christians, get out and vote, just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore.”—Donald Trump...
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the Problem of Torture
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Aug 8, 2024 | Featured Articles
In the months following the attacks of 9/11, the government laid the blame for orchestrating them on Osama bin Ladin. Then, after it murdered bin Ladin, the government decided that the true mastermind was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. By the time of bin Ladin’s death,...
The GARMs Race: The House Moves Forward With its Investigation of Blacklisting Company
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 7, 2024 | Featured Articles
We have been discussing media rating systems being used to target advertisers and revenue sources for certain cites and companies. NewsGuard and the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) have been criticized as the most sophisticated...
The 1948 Irgun Re-born?
by Alastair Crooke | Aug 6, 2024 | Featured Articles
The signposts are there for all to read: The West – in deliberately overlooking such explicit markers – cannot then complain, or escape, the ensuing consequences. No, the “tin ear” is not some new western derangement – a unique mass collapse of sanity – that we are...
How America Gave Up Press Freedom and Nobody Noticed
by William Dunkerley | Aug 6, 2024 | Featured Articles
Did you notice that we've lost the press freedom that is essential in our democracy? If you're like many people, probably not. Do you believe that a free press is a Constitutional guarantee? Most people likely think it is indeed guaranteed. Actually, it is not. Here's...
America Reaches a Sad Milestone
by Ron Paul | Aug 5, 2024 | Featured Articles
Last week the national debt reached 35 trillion dollars, a mere seven months after the debt reached 34 trillion dollars. To put this in perspective, the national debt first reached one trillion dollars in October of 1981, almost 200 years after the Constitution’s...
Iran to hit Israel hard with smart power
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 3, 2024 | Featured Articles
Amidst the cascading tensions in the Middle East following the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh by Israel and vows of ‘revenge’ in Tehran, the new government under President Massoud Pezeshkian, sworn in on Tuesday, made its first move on...
‘The Movement is Winning.’: Polling Shows Drop in Support for Free Speech
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 2, 2024 | Featured Articles
In my new book, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I write about a global anti-free speech movement that is now sweeping over the United States. While not the first, it is in my view the most dangerous movement in our history due to an...
The Real Problem with Biden’s Age
by Peter van Buren | Aug 1, 2024 | Featured Articles
I was only a little surprised by Biden’s debate performance, and on first glance thought it just mediocre, certainly not cause for a crisis. But that’s because I consume too much alternate media, and had seen the endless string of viral clips of Biden falling down the...
When Presidents Kill
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Aug 1, 2024 | Featured Articles
Sometime before he withdrew from the presidential race, President Joe Biden secretly reaffirmed his own self-willed and self-created authority to kill persons in other countries, so long as the CIA and its military counterparts have “near certainty” that the target of...
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