The current ideological debate between the right (which normally defends private enterprise, market economies with minimal government interference, democratic forms of government and traditional family values) and the left (which supports social solidarity, government...
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‘Draft Notice’ from the Shop of Horrors
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Jun 26, 2024 | Featured Articles
The coming wars are not patriotic. They are the result of the abject failure of political leadership and a long trail of lies stretching back decades. Those who control the narrative and push for ever-increasing war as a solution to all ills are leading America,...
Putin’s ‘War’ to Re-Shape the American Zeitgeist
by Alastair Crooke | Jun 25, 2024 | Featured Articles
The G7 and the subsequent Swiss “Bürgenstock Conference” can – in retrospect – be understood as preparation for a prolonged Ukraine war. The three centrepiece announcements emerging from the G7 – the 10 year Ukraine security pact; the $50 “billion Ukraine loan;” and...
Ideas for Candidates Beyond Talking Points
by Douglas Macgregor | Jun 25, 2024 | Featured Articles
American political, economic, and military global hegemony—sustained by America’s past economic productivity, the dollar’s reserve status, and the reliance on forward-deployed American military power—is over. In a new world shaped by sweeping technological change in...
The Myth of the European ‘Far-Right Surge’
by David Thunder | Jun 24, 2024 | Featured Articles
There has been much talk of a “far-right surge” in the European Parliament. For example, BBC ran a headline, “Far right eyes Europe vote surge…,” shortly before the elections. On June 5th, Politico reported, “As the far right surges, this week’s...
Stop Taxing Tips
by Ron Paul | Jun 24, 2024 | Featured Articles
Donald Trump recently promised that, if he wins the November election, he will support eliminating taxes on tips as part of his proposal to renew and expand the 2017 tax cuts. This tax law change would be a long overdue boost for millions of Americans. Tips often...
What If It’s Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong?
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jun 20, 2024 | Featured Articles
What if the government is a myth? What if it doesn’t produce what we pay it for? What if it fails to safeguard our lives, liberties and property from its own agents? What if nothing changes after these failures and after elections? What if we’re stuck with it? What if...
Macron’s Idiotic Ukraine Policies Have Paved Way For Triumph Of The French Right
by Tyler Durden | Jun 19, 2024 | Featured Articles
The EU, NATO, and a number of European capitals are watching France's political turmoil with growing alarm, as President Emmanuel Macron is clearly on the ropes, having called early elections, leaving a path open for the French 'far-right' to triumph. The...
A Terribly Lopsided, Very Cruel War Continues
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Jun 19, 2024 | Featured Articles
As I write this, in the last 15 days, Israel has bombed a tent city and a UN school and has killed 276 Palestinian non-combatants in a mid-day raid to gain the release of four Israelis being held as hostages. Almost 400 people were killed in the three actions, with...
Poll: Only 28 Percent of the Public Has “High Confidence” in Higher Education
by Jonathan Turley | Jun 18, 2024 | Featured Articles
A new poll conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago (commissioned by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) shows that only 28% of Americans have a lot of trust in higher education. Academia has continued to alienate much of the country as an...
The US Is Preparing For WWIII While Expanding Draft Registration
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jun 18, 2024 | Featured Articles
So I guess we should probably talk about the way NATO powers are rapidly escalating toward hot war with Russia at the same time the US is expanding its draft policies to make it easier to force more Americans go and fight in a giant war. In an article titled “NATO:...
We Spent a Billion Dollars Fighting the Houthis…and Lost
by Ron Paul | Jun 17, 2024 | Featured Articles
Why does it seem the Pentagon is far better at spending money than actually putting together a successful operation? The failed “Operation Prosperity Guardian” and the disastrous floating Gaza pier are but two recent examples of enormously expensive initiatives that,...
Why is the EU Copying Communist Albania?
by Timofey Bordachev | Jun 15, 2024 | Featured Articles
In history, entire countries sometimes suddenly leave the path of normal development and begin to behave differently towards their neighbors. However, while this used to be typical of small and weak states, it is now characteristic of the whole of...
Death of Petrodollar is a Biden legacy
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jun 14, 2024 | Featured Articles
The Deep State should have been alert five years ago when Candidate Joe Biden announced that he, if elected as president, was determined to make the Saudi rulers “pay the price, and make them in fact the pariah that they are.” Biden was blunt to the point of being...
America Prepares for Global War and Restarts the Draft for 18-26 Year Olds
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Jun 14, 2024 | Featured Articles
Our government is planning a big draft, conscripting millions of young Americans for an even bigger war! I call to your attention a Democratic amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which was slipped into the almost trillion-dollar Pentagon war...
Israel and the Misjudgement of Reality
by Alastair Crooke | Jun 13, 2024 | Featured Articles
On all fronts, the Israeli internal paradigm is fracturing; and externally, the West is itself fissuring, and becoming a pariah on the global stage. The western leaderships’ explicit facilitation of a bloody cleansing of Palestinians has incised the old spectre of...
War and the Constitution
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jun 13, 2024 | Featured Articles
Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses? Are there constitutional and legal requirements that must first be met before war is waged? Can the United States legally attack an ally? These questions should be front and center in a...
Can Democracy Survive the ‘Defenders of Democracy’?
by Jonathan Turley | Jun 12, 2024 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in The Hill on the latest calls to protect democracy with distinctly undemocratic measures. Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton insisted that the 2024 election was our D-Day, suggesting that voters would have to fight the GOP like the...
Anti-Liberty Conservatives Want More Theft
by Ron Paul | Jun 10, 2024 | Featured Articles
American Compass, a think tank promoting a conservatism lacking even a rhetorical commitment to free markets, recently called for Republicans to support tax increases. The organization claims a GOP embrace of higher taxes will enable the uniparty’s left (Democratic)...
Wild, Wonderful New York
by Eric Margolis | Jun 8, 2024 | Featured Articles
NEW YORK – This city’s splendid Fifth Avenue and parts of the adjacent Central Park were thronged last weekend by masses of pro-Israel demonstrators demanding even more US support of Israel’s laying to waste of Gaza. New York is the world’s leading Jewish City,...
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