In a bombshell report last week, the Justice Department Inspector General found that the Federal Bureau of Investigation made “fundamental errors” and persistently deceived a secret court to authorize surveilling a 2016 Trump presidential campaign official. Inspector...
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Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires
by Eric Margolis | Dec 14, 2019 | Featured Articles
“In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.”. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn This week, the venerable Washington Post newspaper revealed a bombshell, 2,000 page, secret Pentagon report detailing the astounding failure of US war...
Those Torture Drawings in the NYT
by John Kiriakou | Dec 14, 2019 | Featured Articles
The New York Times last week published shocking drawings by Guantanamo prisoner Abu Zubaydah showing in graphic detail the types of tortures he endured at the hands of CIA officers and contractors at secret prisons around the world. The drawings were sickening. With a...
How Not To Be a CIA Propagandist
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 13, 2019 | Featured Articles
How enthusiastic should non-interventionists be about what appear to be "popular uprisings" overseas? RPI's Daniel McAdams argues at the Mises Institute's Lake Jackson Symposium that endorsing CIA-backed "regime change" operations overseas makes one responsible for...
Key Takeaway from Ukraine Peace Talks in Paris is that Zelensky’s Best Friend is Putin
by John Laughland | Dec 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Paris talks on Ukraine have enabled Putin and Zelensky to meet for the first time. But they have agreed only to kick the can down the road, to agree to disagree, while seeking progress on issues other than the war in Donbass. It would be difficult to exaggerate...
America’s Unreliable Friends: Today’s Allies Are Tomorrow’s Enemies
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
One might postulate that the United States is regularly supporting so-called allies whose very nature will eventually generate blowback that will do terrible damage to actual American interests. The recent example of the mass shooting at the Pensacola Naval Air...
The Fabricated ‘Predicate’ to Spy on the Trump Campaign
by Larry C. Johnson | Dec 11, 2019 | Featured Articles
While Inspector General Michael Horowitz did a pretty fair job of documenting the crimes of the FBI in getting the green light from a Federal Judge to spy on Carter Page as an ostensible agent of the Russians, he utterly failed to investigate the cornerstone (aka the...
Democrats Drop Bribery and Other Crimes In Favor Of A Two-Article Impeachment
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Democratic leadership announced today that it has decided that President Donald Trump will be accused of just two articles of impeachment: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. I commend the Committee in dropping the previous claims of bribery, extortion,...
Who Spied on Julian Assange?
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Julian Assange drama drags on. Though he continues to sit in a top security British prison awaiting developments in his expected extradition to the United States, the Spanish High Court has been given permission to interview him. Assange is claiming that the...
‘Sexy Tricks’: How Journalists Demonize Venezuela’s Socialist Government, in Their Own Words
by Alan MacLeod | Dec 9, 2019 | Featured Articles
It is clear that mainstream US media correspondents are no fans of the Venezuelan government. But rarely do you hear them speak so openly about their biases. One Caracas-based correspondent now working for the New York Times told me on the record that he employs “sexy...
Congress is Trump’s Co-Conspirator Against Liberty
by Ron Paul | Dec 9, 2019 | Featured Articles
Imagine that President Trump spent his phone call with the Ukrainian president threatening to withhold military aid unless the Ukrainian government agreed to use the money to purchase weapons from a US manufacturer. Does anyone seriously think that foreign service...
Senile, Demented and Incontinent: NATO at 70
by Martin Sieff | Dec 8, 2019 | Featured Articles
“Old Age,” the great French President Charles De Gaulle famously said, “is a shipwreck.” We should certainly feel that way about the 70th birthday celebrations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization – the most venerable security alliance and organization in the...
George Bush’s Wars Set the Stage for 25 Years of Endless War
by Ryan McMaken | Dec 8, 2019 | Featured Articles
By 1989, it had become apparent to all — everyone except the CIA, of course — that the Soviet economy, and thus the Soviet state was in very deep trouble. In November 1989, the Berlin Wall came down in the face of Soviet impotence. And, with the Cold-War corpse not...
Target… Iran !
by Steve Brown | Dec 7, 2019 | Featured Articles
In June of this year we examined why the United States will not attack Iran subsequent to raised tensions in the region. Six months later on the cusp of 2020, the United States has not attacked Iran militarily ... yet. However, Defense Secretary Esper just threatened...
Jonathan Turley Versus the Impeachment Steamroller
by Adam Dick | Dec 5, 2019 | Featured Articles
Following up on his previous call for caution in the effort in the United States House of Representatives to impeach President Donald Trump, George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley on Wednesday presented to the House Judiciary Committee oral...
Let’s Invade Mexico!
by Fred Reed | Dec 5, 2019 | Featured Articles
I suppose that by now everyone has heard of Trump’s offer to send the American military to “wage WAR on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth,” which he asserts can be done “quickly and effectively. “ Trump phrased this as an offer to help, not a...
The Pentagon’s Destruction of the Bill of Rights
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Dec 4, 2019 | Featured Articles
It is supremely ironic that Pentagon officials take an oath to support and defend the Constitution because they intentionally destroyed the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the Constitution when they set up their “judicial” system at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In fact, the...
How I Survived for 3 Years as a Libertarian Cop
by John Baeza | Dec 3, 2019 | Featured Articles
When I retired as a Detective from the NYPD I moved to Florida and decided to join a local sheriff’s office to work as a Deputy. I needed to make some money and it was the only job for which I was qualified. I was accepted and took the job. From the start I wanted to...
Human Rights and Hypocrisy in the White House and Congress
by Brian Cloughley | Dec 3, 2019 | Featured Articles
For months Western media outlets have been retailing stories about riots in Hong Kong. With lip-smacking relish there have been such reports as “On October 1, China’s National Day, the first live round to hit a protester was fired by riot police pursued by protesters...
NATO at 70: Sclerotic & bureaucratic zombie should be pensioned off
by John Laughland | Dec 3, 2019 | Featured Articles
Seventy is normally considered a ripe old age at which people should be enjoying retirement. The NATO alliance, which meets to celebrate its anniversary in London, should have been pensioned off long ago. The French president, who told the Economist in early November...
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