Ron Paul Institute Director Daniel McAdams opens the August 24, 2019, Peace and Prosperity Washington conference with some thoughts on what anti-interventionism really means and why non-intervention is so important to our national security and our moral and financial...
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The Cost of War!
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 13, 2019 | Featured Articles
What are the financial costs of our 18 years of the "war on terror"? What about the moral costs, the psychological costs, the opportunity costs? RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins Libertarian Institute founder Scott Horton, former USAF officer Kal Molinet, and USAF...
Color Revolutionaries of the World, Unite! Hong Kong Protest Leader Pictured with White Helmets Boss
by Danielle Ryan | Sep 13, 2019 | Featured Articles
Hong Kong protest figurehead Joshua Wong, who has been rocking up to "pro-democracy" meetings with various Western officials in recent weeks, has been spotted hanging out with the chairman of the White Helmets in Berlin. Wong attended the "Bild 100" summer party in...
How To Defeat The Empire
by Caitlin Johnstone | Sep 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
One of the biggest and most consistent challenges of my young career so far has been finding ways to talk about solutions to our predicament in a way that people will truly hear. I talk about these solutions constantly, and some readers definitely get it, but others...
Trump the Russian Puppet. A Story That Just Will Not Die
by Philip Giraldi | Sep 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
Certainly, there are many things that President Donald Trump can rightly be criticized for, but it is interesting to note how the media and chattering classes continue to be in the grip of the highly emotional but ultimately irrational “Trump derangement syndrome...
John Brennan’s and Jim Clappers’ Last Gasp?
by Larry C. Johnson | Sep 11, 2019 | Featured Articles
A flood of news in the last 24 hours regarding Russiagate. I am referring specifically to reports that the CIA ex-filtrated Oleg Smolenkov, a mid-level Russian Foreign Ministry bureaucrat who reportedly hooked himself on the coat-tails of Yuri Ushakov, who was...
The Pentagon’s Upcoming Kangaroo Show Trial in Cuba
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Sep 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
After 18 years, there is a possibility that the Pentagon is finally going to permit a “trial” of five men who are accused of conspiracy to commit the 9/11 attacks. If so, the proceedings will prove what a charade the Pentagon’s entire “judicial system” at Guantanamo...
Trump Foreign Policy as Theater of the Absurd
by Philip Giraldi | Sep 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
One might be forgiven for thinking that the foreign policy of the United States is some kind of theatrical performance, like a comic opera, with new characters appearing on stage willy-nilly and then being driven off after committing an incredible faux pas only to be...
Does Trump Believe What He Says About Syria?
by Col. W. Patrick Lang | Sep 9, 2019 | Featured Articles
Why does Donald Trump say the things he does about Syria and its government? He insists that the SAG attacks its people with chemical weapons when such attacks have never been proven. They have only been asserted by opponents of the government and in fact there exists...
‘Hands Off Hong Kong’ – the Cry That Seldom Is Heard
by John V. Walsh | Sep 9, 2019 | Featured Articles
Through the summer the world has watched as protests shook Hong Kong. As early as April they began as peaceful demonstrations which peaked in early June, with hundreds of thousands, in protest of an extradition bill. That bill would have allowed Hong Kong, a Special...
Bill Dudley’s Noble Lie
by Ron Paul | Sep 9, 2019 | Featured Articles
Former Federal Reserve official Bill Dudley’s recent op-ed calling for the Federal Reserve to implement policies that will damage President Trump’s reelection campaign states that such action would be unprecedented. Dudley claims the Federal Reserve bases its policies...
Establishment Right and Left Call for COINTELPRO 2.0
by Kurt Nimmo | Sep 4, 2019 | Featured Articles
Both heads of the two-headed establishment political hydra want to resurrect COINTELPRO, the FBI’s illegal subversion program, in response to speech they oppose and want outlawed. In August, The Verge (owned by liberal Vox Media and founded by former CIA asset Markos...
Meet the Militantly Pro-Israel Trump Official Directing the Economic War on Iran
by Max Blumenthal | Sep 4, 2019 | Featured Articles
Several US citizens have been questioned by the FBI and threatened with arrest for their participation in New Horizon, a public media conference held each year in Iran. The interrogations and threats are the result of orders apparently delivered by Under Secretary for...
Yes, Vaccine Safety IS Too Dangerous for Us to Discuss
by Bretigne Shaffer | Sep 3, 2019 | Featured Articles
Recently, the news and opinion site HuffPost removed an article that had been up for more than six years. The piece, titled “Government Concedes Vaccine-Autism Case in Federal Court – Now What?” was published in January of 2013, and dealt with a case in which the US...
In Search of a Russiagate Scalp: The Entrapment of Maria Butina
by John Kiriakou | Sep 2, 2019 | Featured Articles
Much has been written about Maria Butina, the Russian “spy” who was accused of seeking to infiltrate the National Rifle Association and other organizations to try to gain a foothold in the Trump campaign and, later, in the White House. Much of it turned out to be...
Bankrupt and Irrelevant: the Presidential Debates and Four Recent Studies on Pentagon Spending
by Chuck Spinney | Sep 2, 2019 | Featured Articles
In the almost 12 hours of Democratic Party presidential primary debates on June 26-27 and July 30-31, the words “Pentagon budget” or “defense spending” were not uttered, except for a fleeting, unanswered comment from Senator Bernie Sanders. Nor did any of the cable...
Forget the Russians: It’s the Federal Reserve Seeking to Meddle in Our Elections
by Ron Paul | Sep 2, 2019 | Featured Articles
The US Constitution never granted the federal government authority to create a central bank. The Founders, having lived through hyperinflation themselves, understood that government should never have a printing press at its disposal. But from the very beginning of...
Do ratings trump accountability in journalism? Latest retracted MSNBC ‘bombshell’ suggests ‘yes’
by Danielle Ryan | Aug 31, 2019 | Featured Articles
Lawrence O’Donnell’s walkback of a supposed “bombshell” story involving a claim that Donald Trump received loans co-signed by Russian billionaires is the latest sign that journalism has become accountability-free. Indicating that MSNBC deliberately chose to prioritize...
Saudi Arabia Acknowledges Defeat In Yemen – Starts To Sue For Peace
by Moon of Alabama | Aug 30, 2019 | Featured Articles
Two weeks ago we wrote that war on Yemen will soon end. The Saudis lost their ally, they lost the war and would have to sue for peace. They are now doing so. But their fighting in Yemen will continue until that country finds a new balance. Today the United Arab...
Julian Assange: Deprivation of Justice and Double Standards in Belmarsh Prison
by Nina Cross | Aug 30, 2019 | Featured Articles
Alfred de Zayas, former UN Rapporteur, has described the actions of the British authorities in pursuit of Assange as “… contrary to the rule of law and contrary to the spirit of the law.” What we see on the surface is an illusion of British justice, masking a...
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