It looks like Trump will get his “Jolly Little War” (as Eric Margolis pegged it) against Iran or Venezuela, although the newsfeeds say today it will be Iran. It might change tomorrow. Who knows? Trump might have himself a two-front war against the Oil Evildoers. I...
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Bolton Held “Extremely Rare” Iran Meeting At CIA Headquarters
by Tyler Durden | May 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
NBC has revealed that national security adviser John Bolton convened what was described as a "highly unusual" meeting at CIA headquarters last week to discuss Iran among top intelligence, diplomatic and military advisers. The outside-the-norm nature of the meeting...
John Bolton is the Problem
by Douglas Macgregor | May 9, 2019 | Featured Articles
Thanks in large part to John Bolton, America, the global cop, is back on the beat. This time it’s the Caribbean and the Persian Gulf in a near-simultaneous demonstration of resolve. For Bolton, President’s Trump national security adviser, Venezuela is an exceptionally...
Pandering to Israel Means War With Iran
by Philip Giraldi | May 9, 2019 | Featured Articles
The United States is moving dangerously forward in what appears to be a deliberate attempt to provoke a war with Iran, apparently based on threat intelligence provided by Israel. The claims made by National Security Advisor John Bolton and by Secretary of State Mike...
Obama Spied on Other Republicans and Democrats As Well
by Larry C. Johnson | May 8, 2019 | Featured Articles
Do not focus on July 2016 as the so-called start of the counter intelligence investigation of Donald Trump. That is a lie. We know, thanks to the work of Judicial Watch, that the FBI had signed up Christopher Steele as a Confidential Human Source (aka CHS) by February...
D Is for a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy
by John W. Whitehead | May 7, 2019 | Featured Articles
“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville...
Iran to Even the Nuclear Score With US
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | May 7, 2019 | Featured Articles
It is going to be 30 years in another six months since the USS Abraham Lincoln, named in honour of the 16th US President, was commissioned on Nov.11, 1989 as the 5th Nimitz-class aircraft carrier of the American Navy. Now, as it leaves Croatia and heads toward the...
A Nuclear War? Over Venezuela?
by Ron Paul | May 6, 2019 | Featured Articles
Is President Trump about to invade Venezuela? His advisors keep telling us in ever-stronger terms that “all options are on the table” and that US military intervention to restore Venezuela’s constitution “may be necessary.” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was on the...
NATO’s Stoltenberg, Satan’s ‘Man of Straw’
by Martin Sieff | May 6, 2019 | Featured Articles
Satan, we read in the second verse of the second chapter of the Biblical Book of Job, can never just relax and take it easy. He is always on the go, always looking for more trouble to stir up. “And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered...
Another ‘Jolly Little War’?
by Eric Margolis | May 4, 2019 | Featured Articles
Sure. Let’s invade Venezuela. Another jolly little war. It’s full of commies and has a sea of oil. The only thing those Cuban-loving Venezuelans lack are weapons of mass destruction. This week, leading US neocons openly threatened that if the CIA’s latest attempts to...
Democrats Don’t Get It on the Drug War
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 4, 2019 | Featured Articles
After decades of working with Republicans to destroy people with their much-vaunted war on drugs, some Democrats are now coming out in favor of legalizing marijuana. Their change of position is a testament to the power of the shifting winds of public opinion. When the...
McAdams: Venezuela’s Guaido Worth More to Maduro Than to Opposition
by Daniel McAdams | May 3, 2019 | Featured Articles
After the failed US-engineered coup in Venezuela this week, self-declared president Juan Guaido continues to scramble around for support to overthrow the Maduro government. Why isn't he arrested for openly fomenting a military coup against his government? RPI's Daniel...
US Hypocrisy on Venezuela
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 3, 2019 | Featured Articles
Like other US regime-change operations, the current one against the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is rife with hypocrisy. After all, what is the main complaint that President Trump and other US officials have against Maduro? It is that he is a...
Biden’s Ukrainian Corruption Scandal Casts Ominous Shadow Over 2020 Run
by Tyler Durden | May 2, 2019 | Featured Articles
It looks like Joe Biden isn't the chosen one after all. After getting that whole "groping" thing out of the way and announcing his 2020 bid for the White House, Biden emerged as the Democratic frontrunner this week according to several polls. Alas for Biden, his past...
Israeli Ambassador Calls For The Criminalization of Antisemitic Speech
by Jonathan Turley | May 2, 2019 | Featured Articles
In the aftermath of another tragic shooting at another synagogue, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon has again called for the criminalization of antisemitic speech. I have previously written about such international efforts to criminalize speech,...
US Mainstream Media Worships Superficial ‘Diversity,’ but Diversity of Thought is Forbidden
by Helen Buyniski | May 2, 2019 | Featured Articles
The mainstream media’s obsession with racial, ethnic, and gender diversity masks its virulent opposition to ideological diversity, which is clearer than ever in the establishment’s reporting on Venezuela. For all that the left and right wings of the establishment...
Venezuela – Guaidó Got Snookered
by Moon of Alabama | May 1, 2019 | Featured Articles
Yesterday's failed coup attempt in Venezuela significantly hurt the Trump administration's international standing. It delegitimized its Venezuelan clients Juan Guaidó and Leopoldo López. After recognizing that their original 'regime change' plan failed (again) the...
US Troops In Syria For ‘Long Haul’ Atop ‘A Lot Of Oil Resources’ – Pentagon Official
by Tyler Durden | May 1, 2019 | Featured Articles
A high level Pentagon official has admitted that US forces will be in Syria for "the long haul" and coupled his statement by declaring the territory contains “a lot of the oil resources and arable land.” The unusually frank remarks were made this week by Michael...
Why Are Clapper and Brennan Not in Jail?
by Angelo Codevilla | Apr 30, 2019 | Featured Articles
The clearest of all the laws concerning US intelligence is Section 798, 18 US Code—widely known in the Intelligence Community as “the Comint Statute,” or “the 10 and 10.” Unlike other laws, this is a “simple liability” law. Motivation, context, identity, matter not at...
Tit for Tat? Why Did Mueller Let Trump Off the Hook?
by Mike Whitney | Apr 29, 2019 | Featured Articles
Why did Robert Mueller end the Russia investigation when he did? He could have let it drag it out for another year or so and severely hurt Trump’s chances for reelection. But he didn’t do that. Why? Of course, we’re assuming that the investigation was never intended...
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