Taking over the annual Munich security conference, the Atlantic Council has come out with a declaration of principles that seeks to legitimize the rogue behavior of the West after the Cold War as a "rules-based" world order. For almost three decades now, Washington...
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American ‘Progressives’ Support Civil Liberties as The Rope Supports The Hanging Man
by Adam Garrie | Feb 19, 2019 | Featured Articles
In the year 2001, what ought to be called the most controversial legislation in the history of the United States was rapidly passed through Congress with few objections. The Patriot Act was an almost entirely unconstitutional expansion of American governmental power,...
Marco Rubio Declares War On Venezuela
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 18, 2019 | Featured Articles
Sen. Rubio (R-FL) travelled down to the Colombia/Venezuela border over the weekend to threaten a US invasion of Venezuela if a US "aid" convoy is not allowed to cross the bridge. Rubio's sudden concern for the humanitarian situation in Venezuela smacks of hypocrisy,...
Hezbollah in S. America: Mike Pompeo’s Big Lie
by Kurt Nimmo | Feb 18, 2019 | Featured Articles
It’s late 2002, early 2003 again. This time, instead of the evil (former CIA asset) Saddam Hussein posing a dire threat to America, it’s Iran and Hezbollah stationed in Venezuela. Throw in the perennial enemy of a post-colonial Caribbean, Castro’s Cuba, and we have...
Walter Jones and the Vote to End US War on Yemen
by Ron Paul | Feb 18, 2019 | Featured Articles
In a fitting legacy for my friend Walter Jones, Jr. who passed away last week, the US House made history by voting in favor of H.J.Res. 37, a resolution “Directing the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities in the Republic of Yemen that have not been...
Hate-Fest in Warsaw
by Eric Margolis | Feb 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
Warsaw, Poland is not a fun place to visit in darkest February, but that is where the US just staged an anti-Iranian jamboree of 60 client states that brought derision and scorn from Europeans and much of the Mideast. The point of this cynical exercise was to lay the...
Real ‘Obscene Masquerade’: How BBC Depicted Staged Hospital Scenes as Proof of Douma Chemical Attack
by Vanessa Beeley | Feb 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
In an extraordinary turn of events, corporate media appears to have been exposed again as an extension of state foreign policy, by a member of the establishment media cabal, manufacturing consent for regime change in Syria. Riam Dalati is on the BBC production team...
Goodbye My Friend, Walter Jones
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Feb 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
I just retired after serving 30 years in the US House of Representatives and 16 years before that as a lawyer and Judge. I have to say, of all the great men and women with whom I have worked during my career, Walter Jones was one of the best.There is greater turnover...
Ilhan Omar Smacks Down Elliott Abrams In Front Of Everybody
by Caitlin Johnstone | Feb 14, 2019 | Featured Articles
Days after being smashed with a vicious establishment smear campaign to paint her as an antisemite for accurately criticizing AIPAC, Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is already back on the horse aggressively disrupting the establishment narrative matrix that our...
In Libya, ‘We Came. We Saw. He Died.’ Will There Be a Repeat in Venezuela?
by Brian Cloughley | Feb 14, 2019 | Featured Articles
Libya is in a state of anarchic turmoil, with various groups fighting each other for control of the country, and as the Wall Street Journal reported last September, “Islamic State is staging a resurgence in chaotic Libya, claiming more than a dozen attacks in the...
Netanyahu Asks Arabs to ‘Advance The Common Interest Of War With Iran’
by Moon of Alabama | Feb 13, 2019 | Featured Articles
The U.S. had called for a high level anti-Iran meeting in Poland. The purpose of the meeting was to bring with its allies and poodles into line with the U.S. agenda on Iran, to press them at least into issuing harsher sanctions. But the Europeans rejected that. The...
Understanding Why Iranians Bash the US Government
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 13, 2019 | Featured Articles
Two days ago, the New York Times carried an article by Times’ journalist Thomas Erdbrink entitled, “For Iran, a Grand Occasion to Bash the US,” which was about Iran’s celebration of the 40th anniversary of its revolution in 1979. The article included the following...
How the Media Manufactures Consent for Regime Change in Venezuela
by Alan MacLeod | Feb 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
The latest extraordinary chapter in the bizarre world of Venezuelan politics is playing out before our eyes. After winning the 2018 presidential elections, Nicolás Maduro was inaugurated in January, only for the head of the National Assembly, Juan Guaidó -- a man...
Afghan Civilians Fear CIA-Backed Death Squads that Can Call In Airstrikes
by Alexander Rubinstein | Feb 11, 2019 | Featured Articles
Elite CIA-backed special forces in Afghanistan are leaving a trail of carnage in the country. As such units do not operate under the umbrella of the Department of Defense, they have been given near-impunity despite standing accused of war crimes. Last month, the New...
Understanding State Propaganda From The USSR to The USA
by Adam Garrie | Feb 11, 2019 | Featured Articles
While the de jure role of state sponsored propaganda is to convince a population to adopt a certain line of thinking on the issues of the day, the de facto function of state sponsored propaganda is rather different. In a society in which even a sizeable minority of...
President Starts a War? Congress Yawns. Threatens to End One? Condemnation!
by Ron Paul | Feb 11, 2019 | Featured Articles
Last week’s bipartisan Senate vote to rebuke President Trump for his decision to remove troops from Syria and Afghanistan unfortunately tells us a lot about what is wrong with Washington, DC. While the two parties loudly bicker about minor issues, when it comes to...
The Cynicism of Empire: Sen. Rubio Tells Venezuelans to Overthrow Their Government…or Starve!
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
(This is from RPI's weekly newsletter offered free to subscribers. Are you signed up yet?)There is a sad disregard for human life among the neocon regime-changers. The devastation of Iraq, with its million dead, was a mere stepping stone to a "re-making" of the Middle...
The Tienditas Bridge ‘Blockade’
by Justin Emery | Feb 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
Over the last couple of days, you may have seen an image the one above in the news. This is Tienditas International Bridge (Spanish: Puente Binacional Tienditas) on the border between Colombia and Venezuela. I have a feeling that we will be seeing much more of this...
Trump’s Syria ‘Pullout’ Aimed at Aggressing Iran
by Finian Cunningham | Feb 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
US President Donald Trump again this week portrayed his plan to pull troops out of Syria as a “victory homecoming” and “an end to endless wars”. Then, in stepped Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to clarify what’s really going on: it’s a “tactical change” to put Iran in...
How Chrystia Freeland Organized Donald Trump’s Coup in Venezuela
by Eric Zuesse | Feb 9, 2019 | Featured Articles
On Monday, February 5th, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland announced that the 14 countries of the Lima Group — who had actually formed themselves under her direction into this new group on 8 August 2017 in order to overthrow and replace Venezuela’s current...
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