An explosion of criticism had erupted in Congress and the news media in response to President Trump’s decision to withdraw a small contingent of US troops stationed in northern Syria. Those forces served as a (mostly symbolic) barrier to Turkey’s ambitions to conduct...
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After US Senator Asks Public to ‘Imagine’ CIA Interfering in Foreign Elections, Historians Are Like… Uhhh
by Eoin Higgins | Oct 9, 2019 | Featured Articles
Comments from Sen. Mark Warner responding to reports that Attorney General Bill Barr asked a number of world governments for help in refuting the investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 U.S. election were met with ridicule Friday as observers mocked the...
Pinning an ‘Antisemite’ Label on President Trump
by Adam Dick | Oct 9, 2019 | Featured Articles
In a Friday The Intercept editorial, Mehdi Hasan wrote that President Donald Trump “and his acolytes” have been “banging their anti-Semitic drum in plain sight” since United States House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s September 24 announcement of an...
Who Are the Real Friends of the Troops?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Oct 8, 2019 | Featured Articles
Ever since the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, it has been an article of faith that Americans should thank the troops for their service in those two countries. Yet, with the exception of libertarians and few leftists, the fact is that during the two decades of...
Worried for Kurds in Syria, abandoned by US? Here’s an obvious solution but it will make Washington hawks MAD
by Nebojsa Malic | Oct 8, 2019 | Featured Articles
US President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out US troops from northern Syria has been met with bipartisan outrage, calling it a “betrayal” of the Kurds. Wait till the regime-changers hear the obvious solution to keep them safe. As some two dozen US troops stationed...
The ‘Whistleblower’ Probably Isn’t
by Matt Taibbi | Oct 7, 2019 | Featured Articles
Start with the initial headline, in the story the Washington Post “broke” on September 18th: TRUMP’S COMMUNICATIONS WITH FOREIGN LEADER ARE PART OF WHISTLEBLOWER COMPLAINT THAT SPURRED STANDOFF BETWEEN SPY CHIEF AND CONGRESS, FORMER OFFICIALS SAY The unnamed person at...

Federal Reserve’s Latest Bailouts More Proof Bad Times Ahead
by Ron Paul | Oct 7, 2019 | Featured Articles
Since September 17, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has pumped billions of dollars into the repurchasing (repo) market, the first such intervention since 2009. The Fed has announced that it will continue to inject as much as 75 billion dollars a day into the repo...
When Ukraine’s Prosecutor Came After His Son’s Sponsor Joe Biden Sprang Into Action
by Moon of Alabama | Oct 4, 2019 | Featured Articles
There are some serious questions around the Biden family involvement in the Ukraine that the media have not picked up on. The first regards the ownership of the company which hired Joe Biden's son Hunter for an exorbitant amount of money while Joe Biden ran the US...
Trump Administration Provides New Evidence for a Saudi Connection to 9/11
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 4, 2019 | Featured Articles
The debate over what actually occurred on 9/11 and, more to the point, who might have been behind it, continues to preoccupy many observers worldwide. There is considerable legitimate concern that the commission that reviewed the incident engaged in a cover-up...
CrossTalk on Deep State: CIA COUP?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 4, 2019 | Featured Articles
Is there a "deep state" and has it progressed to where it can actually take down a president? RPI's Daniel McAdams joins Peter Lavelle and Crosstalk to debate whether we should "trust our intelligence community" or whether we should fear the"permanent" government. Do...
Ukraine Gains From Trump’s Impeachment Inquiry
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Oct 3, 2019 | Featured Articles
The controversy swirling around the phone conversation between the US President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky regarding the business interests of former vice-president Joe Biden’s son is having a salutary effect on the conflict in Ukraine. The...
Why Even Liberals Should be ‘Climate Change Skeptics’
by Tom Mullen | Oct 2, 2019 | Featured Articles
When you’re several decades older than Greta Thunberg, her impassioned warning of impending doom hits you differently than it may college students or early twentysomethings just a few years older than she. In a word, it sounded “familiar.” I’m not just talking about...
What Exactly Is Trump’s Impeachable Offense?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Oct 2, 2019 | Featured Articles
I confess that I still don’t get what exactly is going to be the particular offense for which President Trump is going to be impeached. Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m all in favor of impeaching Trump and removing him from office, but only for grave crimes, such as...
Guns for Hire: No, the Government Shouldn’t Be Using the Military to Police the Globe
by John W. Whitehead | Oct 1, 2019 | Featured Articles
“Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.… No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” — James Madison Eventually, all military empires fall and...
What Was This CIA Officer Thinking?
by John Kiriakou | Oct 1, 2019 | Featured Articles
Photo: White HouseThe news is dominated by “the whistleblower,” the CIA officer who reported to the CIA Inspector General (IG) that President Donald Trump may have committed a crime during a conversation with the president of Ukraine. I’ve been fascinated by the story...
Foreign Aid for Dictators
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Sep 30, 2019 | Featured Articles
Notice something important about the hoopla regarding President’s Trump withholding of US foreign aid to Ukraine while he was requesting Ukrainian officials to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden for possible corruption: Nobody in Washington, D.C., or...
Daniel McAdams: ‘The US Has Ceased Being a Republic and Has Become a National Security State’
by Mohsen Abdelmoumen | Sep 30, 2019 | Featured Articles
Mohsen Abdelmoumen: Your Twitter account has just been closed. Why? Daniel McAdams: In August I was watching a segment of the Sean Hannity program while at a friend’s house and noticed that despite an hour of Hannity ranting against the “deep state” in the US, he was...

Impeachment…or CIA Coup?
by Ron Paul | Sep 30, 2019 | Featured Articles
You don’t need to be a supporter of President Trump to be concerned about the efforts to remove him from office. Last week House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced impeachment proceedings against the President over a phone call made to the President of Ukraine. According...
UK’s Johnson Plays Court Jester for Trump to Wreck Iran Deal
by Finian Cunningham | Sep 28, 2019 | Featured Articles
Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson showed his true colors this week when he led the collapse of European support for the nuclear deal with Iran. What’s more, it was pathetically evident that Johnson was pandering to US President Donald Trump. Since the clownish...
Intel Community Quietly Scrapped Requirement For ‘First-Hand Knowledge’ Before CIA ‘Rumorblower’ Relied On Hearsay
by Tyler Durden | Sep 28, 2019 | Featured Articles
In the months leading up to a CIA whistleblower's hearsay complaint about President Trump's July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the US intelligence community quietly eliminated a requirement that whistleblowers must provide first-hand...
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