Photo creditRussia did not hack the DNC. This is not an opinion. It is a conclusion that flows from one very specific claim made by the Special Counsel—i.e., Guccifer 2.0 was a fictional identity created by Russian Military Intelligence, the GRU. If Guccifer was in...
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US and UK Policy Toward Libya Shifts to ISIS and the Brotherhood
by Richard Galustian | May 23, 2019 | Featured Articles
“The West” is much divided over what should happen in Libya. This is particularly true for France and Italy, who each have vast oil and gas economic interests and are increasingly at odds with one another. While admittedly the US and UK have an eye on their potential...
Poll: Almost Half Of College Students Do Not Believe First Amendment Protects Hate Speech
by Jonathan Turley | May 22, 2019 | Featured Articles
We have previously discussed how speech codes and regulations are changing the way students are viewing free speech. There is now a steady message for students from elementary school to college that speech must be regulated and that even people can be punished for not...
US Accuses Syria Of More Chemical Attacks Just As Chemical Weapons Narrative Crumbles
by Caitlin Johnstone | May 22, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Institute for Public Accuracy published a report today about the leaked engineering assessment from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons investigation into an alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria which directly contradicts the findings of...
Revisiting Ron Paul’s 1988 Case for Drug Legalization
by Adam Dick | May 22, 2019 | Featured Articles
Ron Paul Institute (RPI) Senior Fellow Adam Dick’s prepared comments for RPI’s May 18, 2019 Houston, Texas conference “Winning the War on the War on Drugs”: Ron Paul helped many people discover libertarian ideas in his presidential campaigns. For me, during Dr. Paul’s...
Impeach Trump But Only for the Right Reason
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 21, 2019 | Featured Articles
Notwithstanding the fact that their Special Counsel Robert Mueller, after a long detailed investigation, found no evidence that President Trump illegally conspired with Russian officials in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, Democrats are still hell bent on...
Do Iranian ‘Threats’ Signal Organized US-Israel Subterfuge?
by Gareth Porter | May 21, 2019 | Featured Articles
President Donald Trump’s national security team has been leaking “intelligence” about Iranian threats for a week now in an attempt to justify escalating tensions, including moving American air attack assets to the Persian Gulf. But a closer look suggests that National...
Violence Against Women Act Does Violence to the Constitution
by Ron Paul | May 20, 2019 | Featured Articles
A common trick of big-government loving politicians is to give legislation names so appealing that it seems no reasonable person could oppose it. The truth is, the more unobjectionable the title, the more objectionable the content. Two well-known examples are the...
CONFIRMED: Chemical Weapons Assessment Contradicting Official Syria Narrative Is Authentic
by Caitlin Johnstone | May 17, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has begun responding to queries by the press about a leaked document which contradicts official OPCW findings on an alleged chemical weapons attack last year in Douma, Syria. The prepared statement...
Trump Administration Withholds Information That Could Debunk Russian Interference Claims
by Moon of Alabama | May 17, 2019 | Featured Articles
On Tuesday Russia's President Putin again rejected US claims that his country interfered in the 2016 elections in the United States. Additional statements by Foreign Minister Lavrov provide that there is more information available about alleged Russian cyber issue...
Trump De-escalating? Satellite Intel Based On Tehran ‘Misreading’ US Intentions
by Tyler Durden | May 17, 2019 | Featured Articles
Soaring tensions of the past nearly two weeks paving the way for a potential direct military clash in the Persian Gulf between the US and Iran could be de-escalating as rapidly as they began as the president attempts to reign in hawks in his own administration, per a...
Iran Is Not a Major Sponsor of Terrorism, Not Even Close
by Larry C. Johnson | May 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
Self-delusion and denial with regards to Iran's alleged status as the leading sponsor of international terrorism are rampant in Washington and among the punditry. It is crazy, it is dishonest and it is wrong. This is not my opinion. I can do math. I can count. If Iran...
Top British Commander In Rare Public Dispute With US Over Iran Intelligence
by Tyler Durden | May 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
An awkward public exchange unfolded between the US military and its closest allied military coalition force during a Pentagon press conference on Tuesday wherein a top British commander in charge of anti-ISIS coalition forces rebuked White House claims on the...
Iraq Déjà Vu with Iran
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
Given US National-Security Advisor John Bolton’s war-provoking antics with Iran, I’m getting that déjà vu feeling with how President George W. Bush and his team of interventionists took the US to war with Iraq. Of course, the first question that naturally arises is:...
Drivers Beware: The Deadly Perils of Traffic Stops in the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead | May 14, 2019 | Featured Articles
"The Fourth Amendment was designed to stand between us and arbitrary governmental authority. For all practical purposes, that shield has been shattered, leaving our liberty and personal integrity subject to the whim of every cop on the beat, trooper on the highway and...
Pompeo Skips Moscow Trip To Pressure EU Officials In Brussels On Iran
by Tyler Durden | May 13, 2019 | Featured Articles
It seems for the State Department lately it's all Iran and Venezuela all the time, or perhaps there's just an aversion to real diplomatic work. After snubbing Germany's Merkel last week to make an unplanned stop in Iraq to pressure leaders there into resisting...
The World’s Dictatress
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 13, 2019 | Featured Articles
In his Fourth of July address to Congress in 1821, US Secretary of State John Quincy Adams stated that if America were ever to abandon its founding foreign policy of non-interventionism, she would inevitably become the world’s “dictatress” and begin behaving...
Losing Income Tax Privacy Is a Real Danger
by Ron Paul | May 13, 2019 | Featured Articles
Last week the New York Times published some of President Trump’s 1980s and 1990s tax returns information. The information detailed President Trump’s financial difficulties during that time. While you would not know it from reading some media reports, this is old news....
Iran and the Fairy Tale Atomic Bomb
by Kurt Nimmo | May 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
Is it possible Senator Tom Cotton ghostwrites fairy tales on his days off from Congress? Cotton and his neocon buddies are pretty good at making things up. For instance: Europe must not give in to Tehran’s nuclear blackmail as the ayatollahs threaten to renew their...
Bomb Iran Half Way Back to the Stone Age
by Eric Margolis | May 11, 2019 | Featured Articles
Is it just a coincidence that TV networks are re-running old “Dirty Harry” films just as a powerful US Naval armada and Air Force B-52 bombers are headed for what could be a clash with Iran? Here we go again with the “good guys” versus the “bad guys,” and “make my...
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