Can the increasing politicization of life in America be stopped, or even slowed? To be sure, average Americans do not want this. Most people prefer not to lead overly political lives, beyond perhaps voting once in a while and grumbling about taxes or potholes. Most...
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Terrorized, Traumatized and Killed: The Police State’s Deadly Toll on America’s Children
by John W. Whitehead | Oct 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
“‘Am I going to get shot again.’”—2-year-old survivor of a police shooting that left his three siblings, ages 1, 4 and 5, with a bullet in the brain, a fractured skull and gun wounds to the face Children learn what they live. As family counselor Dorothy Law Nolte...
BREAKING: US Working With Russia to Handover Patrols Between Turkish and Syrian Armies in Manbij
by Patrick Henningsen | Oct 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
This morning, Russian military officials announced they are now patrolling the region surrounding Syria’s northern town of Manbij, specifically in the areas which separate Turkish troops and the Syrian Arab Army soldiers. According to a Russian Defense Ministry...
Twitter Targets Hong Kong in US-backed Regime Change Operation
by Tony Cartalucci | Oct 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
When Twitter Safety announced that it was taking actions against “information operations” directed at Hong Kong, informed observers could have immediately assumed that Twitter was not actually serious about stopping anything of the sort but rather ensuring the...

Washington is Wrong Once Again – Kurds Join Assad to Defend Syria
by Ron Paul | Oct 14, 2019 | Featured Articles
When President Trump Tweeted last week that “it is time for us to get out of these ridiculous endless wars,” adding that the US would be withdrawing from Syria, Washington went into a panic. Suddenly Republicans, Democrats, the media, the think tanks, and the war...
Washington’s Sum of All Fears: Kurdish Militants Cut a Deal with Damascus
by Patrick Henningsen | Oct 14, 2019 | Featured Articles
Last night, Kurdish officials in northeastern Syria issued a statement that an agreement has been reached with the government in Damascus allowing the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) to takeover key strategic positions along the Syria’s northern border with Turkey. Not...
Finding a Vaccine for the Impeachment Derangement Virus
by Peter van Buren | Oct 14, 2019 | Featured Articles
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons.Once intelligent people are talking about actual civil war in America. This began after Trump retweeted a pastor saying impeachment would cause a “civil war-like fracture in this Nation.” Never mind that it was a retweet, and never mind...
Turkey Beats the War Drums
by Eric Margolis | Oct 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
More war in wretched Syria. Half the population is now refugees; entire cities lie shattered by bombing; bands of crazed gunmen run rampant; US, French, Israeli and Russian warplanes bomb widely. Now, adding to the chaos, President Donald Trump has finally given...
The Plague of Western Adventurism in Syria
by Steve Brown | Oct 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Russian and Turkish leadership attended a summit in Ankara on September 16th, 2019, where the two leaders agreed to cooperate in Syria. Besides such cooperation, Mr Erdogan and Mr Putin also committed to the future of the Turkstream pipeline. And at the MAKs air...
‘The Economic Costs of US Empire’ – Nathan Goodman
by RPI Staff | Oct 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
George Mason University PhD candidate Nathan Goodman speaks at the 2019 RPI Washington Conference on how the US global military empire makes us poorer and less free. As Goodman points out, our excessive military spending deprives us of actual useful consumer and other...
Empty Desks at the NSC
by Larry C. Johnson | Oct 11, 2019 | Featured Articles
Looks like President Trump finally realizes that he is working in a snake pit. When he took office on January 20, 2017, he left an enormous cadre of Obama/Hillary sycophants in place. He could have (and should have) moved them out and reassigned them to the...
Why Gilligan’s Island May be the Answer to Police Brutality
by John Baeza | Oct 11, 2019 | Featured Articles
I retired from the NYPD and moved to Florida like many NYC policemen and firemen do- there is no state income tax here and it doesn’t snow. I decided I needed a job so I worked for a local Sheriff’s office for three years. Policemen always have their hands full when...
Sanctioning Away Free Speech: Americans Meet With Iranians at Their Peril
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
The issue of the United States waging what seems to be a global war by way of sanctions rarely surfaces in the western media. The argument being made by the White House is that sanctions are capable of putting maximum pressure on a rogue regime without the necessity...
Investigation Of Biden-Enriching Burisma Opened Months Before Zelensky Even Elected: Report
by Tyler Durden | Oct 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
A new report from recent Fox News hire John Solomon tosses gasoline on the dumpster-fire narrative at the heart of an impeachment inquiry launched after a CIA officer filed a whistleblower complaint, alleging President Trump abused his office by "pressuring" the...
Syria: Another Forever War Beckons
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Oct 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
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...
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...
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