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...
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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...
Rich’s Ghost Haunts the Courts
by Ray McGovern | Aug 14, 2019 | Featured Articles
As if it weren’t enough of a downer for Russiagate true believers that no Trump-Russia collusion was found, federal judges are now demanding proof that Russia hacked into the DNC in the first place. It is shaping up to be a significant challenge to the main premise of...
A Sino-Russian Firewall Against US Interference
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
A sit-in at Hong Kong international airport, Aug 9, 2019China has explicitly accused the United States and Britain for fomenting the “pro-democracy” protests in Hong Kong. Beijing has taken up the matter via the diplomatic channel demanding that the US intelligence...
Endgame for the Fed?
by Ron Paul | Aug 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Federal Reserve, responding to concerns about the economy and the stock market, and perhaps to criticisms by President Trump, recently changed course on interest rates by cutting its “benchmark” rate from 2.25 percent to two percent. President Trump responded to...
Who Inflicts the Most Gun Violence in America? The US Government and Its Police Forces
by John W. Whitehead | Aug 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
“It is often the case that police shootings, incidents where law enforcement officers pull the trigger on civilians, are left out of the conversation on gun violence. But a police officer shooting a civilian counts as gun violence.”—Journalist Celisa Calacal Yes, gun...
Eight Years Ago NATO Killed My Family in Their Sleep
by Dr Mustafa Fetouri | Aug 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
Eight years ago, NATO and its partners, killed nearly 200 Libyan civilians across the North African country. Eight years on, no one has been held accountable. Neither NATO nor its partners gave any explanation or offered an apology let alone compensation while the...
China Accuses US Of ‘Gangster Logic’ For Defending Meetings With HK Independence Activists
by Tyler Durden | Aug 9, 2019 | Featured Articles
China hit back Friday over the developing fresh diplomatic crisis centered on a US State Department official caught meeting with notable Hong Kong independence activists. The Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong said Washington is...
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