Depending on whose political echo chamber I happen to be arguing with on a given day, one common criticism I run into a fair bit which many of my readers have surely also encountered is that I put all my energy into criticizing the foreign policy of the United States...
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Did Pompeo Go Off Reservation in Iraq Attack?
by Tom Luongo | Dec 31, 2019 | Featured Articles
I have to wonder who Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is actually loyal to. Because, the U.S. strike of Kata’ib Hizbullah forces near the Al Qaim border crossing with Syria in Iraq is a dangerous escalation there.And it’s completely at odds with Trump’s goals of wanting...
Should Racists Get Health Care?
by Ron Paul | Dec 30, 2019 | Featured Articles
Political correctness recently took a dangerous turn in the United Kingdom when the North Bristol National Health Service Trust announced that hospital patients who use offensive, racist, or sexist language will cease receiving medical care as soon as it is safe to...
‘Opposing Interventionism In Nation X Means You Love Nation X’s Government!’
by Caitlin Johnstone | Dec 28, 2019 | Featured Articles
Every time you speak out against western imperialism in a given nation or question western propaganda narratives about that nation’s government, you will inevitably be accused of loving that nation’s government by anyone who argues with you. When I say “inevitably”, I...
US Plans to Conduct Cyberwar Against Russia in Retaliation for Unproven Election Meddling
by Scott Ritter | Dec 28, 2019 | Featured Articles
Despite having provided no proof of Russian meddling in the 2016 or 2020 US presidential election, the Pentagon is preparing to launch a cyberwar against Russia in retaliation. Could the real reason be political? From May 2017 until March 2019, a team of investigators...
Ron Paul’s Liberty Year in Review
by Ron Paul | Dec 27, 2019 | Featured Articles
How did peace and liberty do in 2019? Are we successfully making the case for a peaceful foreign policy and pushing back against the police state at home? Ron Paul Institute founder Ron Paul sits down with Institute director Daniel McAdams to look back over the year...
Rachel Maddow Called Out By WaPo Columnist For Shamelessly Peddling Fake News
by Tyler Durden | Dec 27, 2019 | Featured Articles
Conspiracy theorist and MSNBC host Rachel Maddow has been called out by Washington Post columnist Erik Wemple for breathlessly peddling the Steele Dossier - becoming a "clearinghouse" for the largely debunked opposition research funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign...
Impeachment Is a Distraction: Heavily Scripted Vote Demonstrates That Democracy Really Is Dead
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 27, 2019 | Featured Articles
Watching the impeachment “vote” was hard work. With only a few exceptions, each Congressman rose for roughly 90 seconds and provided a prearranged, almost completely scripted-along-party-lines explanation of how he or she was casting one’s ballot. After four grueling...
Senior OPCW official ordered deletion of ‘all traces’ of dissenting report on ‘Douma chemical attack’ – WikiLeaks’ new leak
by RT | Dec 27, 2019 | Featured Articles
The leadership of the chemical weapons watchdog took efforts to remove the paper trail of a dissenting report from Douma, Syria which pointed to a possible false flag operation there, leaked documents indicate. In an internal email published by the transparency...
Chemical Weapons Watchdog Is Just an American Lap Dog
by Scott Ritter | Dec 23, 2019 | Featured Articles
A spate of leaks from within the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the international inspectorate created for the purpose of implementing the Chemical Weapons Convention, has raised serious questions about the institution’s integrity,...
Donald Trump: Peace Candidate, Presidential Warmonger
by Walter E. Block | Dec 23, 2019 | Featured Articles
Mr. Trump ran in 2016 almost on a peace platform in terms of foreign policy. He said things such as this: I share the American people’s frustration… I also share their frustration over a foreign policy that has spent too much time, energy, money — and, most...
How Congress and the Federal Reserve Stole Christmas
by Ron Paul | Dec 23, 2019 | Featured Articles
The bickering over impeachment did not stop the president and Congress from coming together last week to avert a government shutdown by passing a 1.4 trillion dollar spending package.The bipartisan agreement has something for everyone — a 22 billion dollars increase...
A Massive Scandal: How Assange, His Doctors, Lawyers and Visitors Were All Spied on for the US
by Stefania Maurizi | Dec 20, 2019 | Featured Articles
It sounds like a James Bond movie, but it really happened. Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks journalists and every single lawyer, reporter, politician, artist and physician who visited the founder of WikiLeaks at the Ecuadorian embassy over the last seven years was...
The Insider: How National Security Mandarins Groomed Pete Buttigieg and Managed his Future
by Max Blumenthal | Dec 20, 2019 | Featured Articles
In his quest for front-runner status in the 2020 presidential campaign, Pete Buttigieg has crafted an image for himself as a maverick running against a broken establishment. On the trail, he has invoked his distinction as the openly gay mayor of a de-industrialized...
By impeaching Trump, Democrats have made him more powerful than they could ever imagine
by Nebojsa Malic | Dec 19, 2019 | Featured Articles
From coast to coast, the Resistance is cheering the impeachment of President Donald Trump in the House. They shouldn’t be. For in seeking to destroy him, they have only made him more powerful, and undercut themselves. Let’s not mince words: Wednesday’s vote was the...
The Afghanistan Fiasco and the Decline and Fall of the American Military
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 19, 2019 | Featured Articles
A devastating investigative report was published in the Washington Post on December 9th. Dubbed the “Afghanistan Papers” in a nod to the Vietnam War’s famous “Pentagon Papers,” the report relied on thousands of documents to similarly expose how the US government at...
Can Recep the Magnificent Sort Out Libya?
by Steve Brown | Dec 18, 2019 | Featured Articles
This title is not intended to trivialize the very serious nature of the deadly conflict in Libya; the situation is an ever-escalating humanitarian disaster, and has been since US State and NATO destroyed the country in 2011. On December 14th an air cargo transport of...
Endless Wars and Endless Lies
by Brian Cloughley | Dec 17, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Washington Post has obtained a “confidential trove of government documents” revealing that “senior US officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding...
What Everyone is Missing About the Afghanistan Papers
by Darius Shahtahmasebi | Dec 17, 2019 | Featured Articles
If you need more proof that lawmakers in the US couldn’t care less about America’s woeful commitment to human rights abroad—or even care about the public who vote them into office—look no further than the recent Afghanistan papers and the reaction to the publications...
Afghanistan War – The Crime of the Century
by Ron Paul | Dec 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
“We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan. We didn’t know what we were doing.” So said Gen. Douglas Lute, who oversaw the US war on Afghanistan under Presidents Bush and Obama. Eighteen years into the longest war in US history, we are finally...
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