There is no doubt that Jim Comey was part of a conspiracy to destroy Donald Trump and his Presidency. But all the evidence is not yet on the record. There is some understandable frustration reverberating around the web that Comey is not being indicted in the wake of...
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How To Make Sense Of Foreign Protests, Conflicts And Uprisings
by Caitlin Johnstone | Aug 28, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, our government-funded media outlet, has published an article titled “Australian expat living in Hong Kong throws off business suit to join protest movement“. The entire story is in the headline: some random guy, who ABC keeps...
New Jersey Event Canceled After Threats From Anti-Free Speech Groups
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 27, 2019 | Featured Articles
We have been discussing the rising attacks on free speech across the country, including students and faculty who support the silencing of speakers who hold opposing views. What is most concerning is that these attacks are working. The latest example can be found in...
The FBI Tried and Failed to Entrap Donald Trump Using his Business Associate, Felix Sater
by Larry C. Johnson | Aug 27, 2019 | Featured Articles
I am revisiting a story I did nine months ago about Felix Sater and the Steele Dossier (you can read it here). Let me cut to the chase--Felix Sater was an FBI informant since 1998. He was originally signed on as a "cooperator" in December 1998 by Robert Mueller's...
Rothbard and War
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Aug 27, 2019 | Featured Articles
This talk was delivered at the Ron Paul Institute’s Conference on Breaking Washington’s Addiction to War.Murray Rothbard was the creator of the modern libertarian movement and a close friend of both Ron Paul and me. His legacy was a great one, and at the Mises...
Who Are The Real Extremists?
by Ron Paul | Aug 26, 2019 | Featured Articles
The recent mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton have re-ignited efforts to pass “Red Flag” laws, which allow the government to take away a person’s guns without due process, and expanded background checks on those wishing to purchase a gun. Some supporters of these...
Spending on Defense Is One Great Big Lie
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 23, 2019 | Featured Articles
Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson is worried. He thinks that maybe — just maybe — the US government is not spending enough on defense. In a column entitled, “Here’s Why We Could Be Under-Spending on Defense,” Samuelson has come up with a complicated formula...
US Ambassador Grenell’s Threat to Germany Has Backfired, Driving Germany Closer to Russia
by 21st Century Wire | Aug 22, 2019 | Featured Articles
Last week, German lawmakers sent a stark message to Washington. The argument escalated following a series of flippant comments made by US ambassador Richard Grenell who had demanded Germany increase its defense spending, claiming it was “really insulting to expect the...
Trump Fine-Tunes Peace Deal With Taliban
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 22, 2019 | Featured Articles
The US President Donald Trump’s remarks at the Oval Office in the White House on August 20 regarding the Afghan peace talks and related issues exuded an overall sense of satisfaction that the “endless war” is finally ending —although issues still remain to be sorted...
Lindsey Graham’s Blank Check. Why a Defense Agreement With Israel Would Be a Disaster for Americans
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 22, 2019 | Featured Articles
Two world wars began because of unconditional pledges made by one country to come to assistance of another. On July 5, 1914, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany pledged his country’s complete support for whatever response Austria-Hungary would choose to make against Serbia...
Joseph Mifsud, British Intel Asset, Not Russia’s Boy
by Larry C. Johnson | Aug 21, 2019 | Featured Articles
Joseph Mifsud, the Maltese Diplomat who reportedly told George Papadopoulos that Russia had Hillary's emails, was a British intelligence asset. But the Brits did not keep Mifsud for themselves. They offered him to the CIA and the FBI, and those two US agencies, in a...
End Foreign Aid to Israel and Everyone Else
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 20, 2019 | Featured Articles
Democratic Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are calling on the US Congress to reevaluate US foreign aid to the Israeli government. Their reason? Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, denied entry into Israel for the two of them, owing to their public...
The Saudis Learn the Term ‘Asymmetric Response’
by Tom Luongo | Aug 19, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Saudis just learned that some moments in history show their significance as they unfold. Iran shooting down a US Global Hawk stealth drone and President Trump refusing his war-hawk cabinet in retaliating militarily is one of them. I said then and still maintain...
Behind a Made-for-TV Hong Kong Protest Narrative, Washington is Backing Nativism and Mob Violence
by Dan Cohen | Aug 19, 2019 | Featured Articles
President Donald Trump tweeted on August 13 that he “can’t imagine why” the United States has been blamed for the chaotic protests that have gripped Hong Kong. Trump’s befuddlement might be understandable considering the carefully managed narrative of the US...
Are Recessions Inevitable?
by Ron Paul | Aug 19, 2019 | Featured Articles
Stocks fell last week following news that the yield curve on Treasury notes had inverted. This means that a short-term Treasury note was paying higher interest rates than long-term Treasury note. An inverted yield curve is widely seen as a sign of an impending...
Mass Media’s Phony Freakout Over Bernie’s WaPo Criticism Is Backfiring
by Caitlin Johnstone | Aug 17, 2019 | Featured Articles
After days of ridiculous, hysterical garment rending by mass media talking heads in response to Senator Bernie Sanders’ utterly undeniable assertion that The Washington Post has displayed unfair bias against his campaign, people with extensive experience in the...
The Hypocrisy of President Trump and His Administration
by Robert Wenzel | Aug 17, 2019 | Featured Articles
On Thursday, the state of Israel banned two United States congresswomen from visiting the country, Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. Israel cited the congresswomen’s support for a boycott against Israel. Israel passed a domestically controversial law in March 2017...
America’s Benevolent Bombing of Serbia
by James Bovard | Aug 17, 2019 | Featured Articles
Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton commenced bombing Serbia in the name of human rights, justice, and ethnic tolerance. Approximately 1,500 Serb civilians were killed by NATO bombing in one of the biggest sham morality plays of the modern era. As British...
Punishing the World With Sanctions
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
Sanctions are economic warfare, pure and simple. As an alternative to a direct military attack on a country that is deemed to be misbehaving they are certainly preferable, but no one should be under any illusions regarding what they actually represent. They are war by...
Violent Protests In Hong Kong Reach Their Last Stage
by Moon of Alabama | Aug 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
The riots in Hong Kong are about to end. The protests, as originally started in June, were against a law that would have allowed criminal extraditions to Taiwan, Macao and mainland China. The law was retracted and the large protests have since died down. What is left...
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