Prior to the 2018 midterm election, I speculated a Democrat-controlled House would result in hearings targeting “hate groups,” that is to say anybody on the “right” who challenges official narratives, otherwise known as “conspiracy theories.”“Rep. Bennie Thompson, an...
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Bolton’s Radical Reshaping Plan for Mideast Included ‘Mind Boggling’ Strikes on Iran, Syria, and Iraq
by Whitney Webb | Jan 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
In 2017, less than a year before he became national security advisor, John Bolton promised a gathering of the Mujahedeen Khalq (MEK) that: The declared policy of the United States should be the overthrow of the mullahs’ regime in Tehran. … The behavior and the...
Top 10 Reasons Not to Love NATO
by David Swanson | Jan 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
The New York Times loves NATO, but should you? Judging by comments in social media and the real world, millions of people in the United States have gone from having little or no opinion on NATO, or from opposing NATO as the world’s biggest military force responsible...
Please, TSA Workers, Don’t Come Back
by J.D. Tuccille | Jan 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
Understandably, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees are no more enthusiastic about working when their paychecks are delayed than is anybody else on the planet. That's why they've been calling-in sick in increased numbers—some to seek temporary work...
The New York Times Smears the President
by David Stockman | Jan 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Donald has been on a red hot twitter rampage, and he's completely justified. Actually, we didn't think the Russian Collusion Hoax could get any stupider until we saw the New York Times' Friday evening bushwhack. The trio of authors, apparently self-tortured...
Back to the USSR: How to Read Western News
by Patrick Armstrong | Jan 14, 2019 | Featured Articles
The heroes of Dickens' Pickwick Papers visit the fictional borough of Eatanswill to observe an election between the candidates of the Blue Party and the Buff Party. The town is passionately divided, on all possible issues, between the two parties. Each party has its...
Bolton Had Pentagon Draw Up “Far-Reaching Military Options To Strike Iran”
by Tyler Durden | Jan 14, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Wall Street Journal published an Iran bombshell Sunday morning, confirming the White House had the Pentagon prepare "military options" to strike the country last year. The sudden request, seen as an unprecedented Iraq-style "shock and awe" attack on Iran, caught...
Campaign Finance Reform Helps Special Interests
by Ron Paul | Jan 14, 2019 | Featured Articles
One of the new Democratic House majority’s top priorities is so-called campaign finance reform legislation. Contrary to the claims of its supporters, campaign finance reform legislation does not limit the influence of powerful special interests. Instead, it violates...
Trump’s Hail Mary Becomes Bolton’s Nightmare
by Tom Luongo | Jan 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
National Security Advisor John Bolton is making the rounds in the Middle East to try and salvage what’s left of the long-standing plan to balkanize Syria and overthrow President Bashar al-Assad in the wake of President Trump’s announced troop withdrawal. What began as...
How a NeoCon-Backed “Fact Checker” Plans to Wage War on Independent Media
by Whitney Webb | Jan 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
Soon after the social media “purge” of independent media sites and pages this past October, a top neoconservative insider — Jamie Fly — was caught stating that the mass deletion of anti-establishment and anti-war pages on Facebook and Twitter was “just the beginning”...
Mike Pompeo Says the US is a Force for Good in the Middle East. No, Really!
by Darius Shahtahmasebi | Jan 11, 2019 | Featured Articles
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the US a “force for good” in the Middle East. A closer look at the evidence reveals this to be the greatest lie ever told in the era of “fake news.” “The good news is this: The age of self-inflicted American shame is over, and...
Trump Foreign Policy for 2019 – Is it for real or more bait and switch?
by Philip Giraldi | Jan 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
Never before has any presidential administration been as all over the place in terms of national security and foreign policy as is that of Donald J. Trump. Indeed, one might well argue that there is no overriding policy at all in terms of a rational doctrine arrived...
LinkedIn Co-Founder Who Bankrolled Russian Bot “False Flag” Also Funded Left-Wing Midterm Meddling
by Tyler Durden | Jan 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
An online disinformation campaign conducted by a former Obama administration official leading up to the 2018 midterm elections was bankrolled by left-wing tech billionaire Reid Hoffman, according to the Daily Caller's Peter Hasson. Hoffman, who co-founded LinkedIn,...
Business As Usual: More Weapons To The Saudis
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 8, 2019 | Featured Articles
With the killing of opposition journalist Khashoggi safely out of the headlines and with the House refusing to hold a vote on US involvement in the Yemen war, the Trump Administration is back to its Plan A: Sell more weapons to the Saudis as the Saudis annihilate...
John Bolton Taps Iran Regime Change Advocate
by Curt Mills | Jan 8, 2019 | Featured Articles
John Bolton, national security advisor, is tapping Richard Goldberg of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) for a key post. FDD President Mark Dubowitz confirmed the hire on Twitter late Monday: “Couldn’t think of anyone better than my @FDD colleague...
Mattis: One More General for the ‘Self Licking Ice Cream Cone’
by Kelley B. Vlahos | Jan 8, 2019 | Featured Articles
Before he became lionized as the “only adult in the room” capable of standing up to President Trump, General James Mattis was quite like any other brass scoping out a lucrative second career in the defense industry. And as with other military giants parlaying their...
Trump’s Neocons Reverse His Syria Withdrawal Plan
by Ron Paul | Jan 7, 2019 | Featured Articles
I’m starting to wonder whether President Trump has any power over US foreign policy at all. Many people believe that the US president is just a figurehead, with actual foreign policy firmly in the hands of the deep state. Trump’s latest dramatic U-turn on pulling...
Cuban Crickets Blamed For Brain-Melting Sonic Embassy Attacks
by Tyler Durden | Jan 7, 2019 | Featured Articles
Forget Vladimir Putin and hi-tech microwave weapons, the mystery behind US Embassy workers in Havana suffering from "sonic attacks" has apparently been solved. The culprit of the mystery ailments which include damaged hearing, vision, cognition, balance and sleep?...
New Studies Show Pundits Are Wrong About Russian Social-Media Involvement in US Politics
by Aaron Maté | Jan 7, 2019 | Featured Articles
The release of two Senate-commissioned reports has sparked a new round of panic about Russia manipulating a vulnerable American public on social media. Headlines warn that Russian trolls have tried to suppress the African-American vote, promote Green Party candidate...
Some Confucian Calm, Please!
by Eric Margolis | Jan 5, 2019 | Featured Articles
The United States and China look like two punch-drunk prizefighters squaring off for a major championship fight. They have no good reason to fight and every reason to cooperate now that both their stock markets have been in turmoil. Six hundred point market swings...
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