President Donald Trump’s announcement of an imminent withdrawal of US troops from northeastern Syria summoned a predictable paroxysm of outrage from Washington’s foreign policy establishment. Former Secretary of State and self-described “hair icon” Hillary Clinton...
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Rough Times Ahead, But Liberty Can Still Win
by Ron Paul | Dec 31, 2018 | Featured Articles
While Congress and the president fight over funding a border wall, they continue to ignore the coming economic tsunami caused by the approximately 22 trillion dollars (and rapidly increasing) federal debt. President Trump may not be troubled by the debt’s effect on...
Good Riddance To General Mattis And The Rest Of Washington’s Mad Dogs Of War
by David Stockman | Dec 28, 2018 | Featured Articles
From the wailing and gnashing of teeth among the mainstream media and officialdom over General Mattis' (welcome) departure, you would think that the Rapture had come and Washington's ruling class was being unjustly left behind to eternal perdition. And if not that,...
Newsweek Gets Russia Experts from the Atlantic Council, the Atlantic Council & the Atlantic Council
by Danielle Ryan | Dec 28, 2018 | Featured Articles
Sources are everything to a journalist. Without them, their stories would be hollow. Imagine there was a ready-made list of experts always willing to bring that crucial air of credibility to any story about...Russia, for example. Well, it turns out there is — and that...
Two Strikes on Bolton…Why Wait For a Third?
by James W. McConnell | Dec 28, 2018 | Featured Articles
President Trump’s foreign policy appointments have frequently been difficult to reconcile with the views he has often expressed. The most disappointing was the appointment of John Bolton as National Security Advisor. Bolton is a long-time and very vocal advocate of...
LinkedIn Billionaire ‘Sorry’ for Funding ‘Russian bot’ Disinformation Campaign Against Roy Moore
by RT | Dec 27, 2018 | Featured Articles
The co-founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman, has apologized to Republican Roy Moore for funding an organisation that faked a "Russian bot" involvement to mar his election campaign in Alabama. American Engagement Technologies (AET), which Hoffman gave $750,000 to, put...
The Mattis Dilemma
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 27, 2018 | Featured Articles
The resignation letter of Secretary of Defense James Mattis that was published last Thursday revealed much of the Deep State mindset that has produced the foreign policy catastrophes of the past seventeen years. Mattis, an active duty general in the Marine Corps who...
Senate Report on Russian Interference Was Written by Information Warriors Behind Alabama ‘False Flag’ Operation
by Dan Cohen | Dec 26, 2018 | Featured Articles
On December 17, two reports detailing ongoing Russian interference operations commissioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee were made public. They generated a week’s worth of headlines and sent members of Congress and cable news pundits into a Cold War frenzy....
Syria Withdrawal Enrages the Chickenhawks
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 26, 2018 | Featured Articles
President Donald Trump’s order to withdraw from Syria has been greeted, predictably, with an avalanche of condemnation culminating in last Thursday’s resignation by Defense Secretary James Mattis. The Mattis resignation letter focused on the betrayal of allies, though...
Troops Out of Syria and Afghanistan? That’s a Good Start!
by Ron Paul | Dec 24, 2018 | Featured Articles
We all had a big shock this week when, seemingly out of the blue, President Trump announced that he was removing US troops from Syria and would draw down half of the remaining US troops in Afghanistan. The president told us the troops were in Syria to fight ISIS and...
Was Jim Mattis the Last ‘Adult’ in Trump’s Room?
by Peter van Buren | Dec 24, 2018 | Featured Articles
The idea Mattis was the “adult in the room,” the moral and intellectual restraint on Trump’s evil wishes, is tired. We’ve been recycling that one for two years and more now, as various “adults” were christened as such and rose and fell in the eyes of the media —...
Fallout Of Trump’s Syria Withdrawal – Why Erdogan Does Not Want To Invade
by Moon of Alabama | Dec 22, 2018 | Featured Articles
President Trump's strategic decision to withdraw US troops from Syria creates some significant fallout. The US and international borg is enraged that Trump ends an occupation that is illegal under international as well as US domestic law. "That's un-American!"Defense...
Did Someone Slip Donald Trump Some Kind of Political Viagra?
by James George Jatras | Dec 22, 2018 | Featured Articles
This has been an extraordinary week. After two years of getting rolled by the Washington establishment, it seems that President Donald Trump woke up and suddenly realized, “Hey – I’m the president! I have the legal authority to do stuff!” - He has announced his order...
US Leaves Trail of Bitterness in Syria
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Dec 22, 2018 | Featured Articles
On December 17, Ankara was notified of President Trump’s decision on troop withdrawal from Syria. During an earlier phone conversation between him and President Recep Erdogan on Dec 14, Trump had pointedly asked and elicited a positive response from the Turkish leader...
CrossTalk: Enforced Speech
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 21, 2018 | Featured Articles
As western society moves from things you should not say to things you must say or face severe consequences, are we at war with freedom of speech and thought itself? What happens when the concept of "group rights" supplants the rights of the individual? Are we slipping...
Trump Shocker: ‘We’re Leaving Syria!’ Does He Mean It?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 19, 2018 | Featured Articles
President Trump shocked Washington this morning when he Tweeted confirmation of rumors that he would order the removal of US troops from Syria. According to his spokesperson, the order has already been given. The neocons are not happy, with Sen. Lindsey Graham...
The Disgrace of Maria Butina’s Prosecution
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Dec 19, 2018 | Featured Articles
Some anti-Russianites and Trump critics are saying that the guilty plea by 30-year-old Russian citizen Maria Butina confirms that the Russian government was meddling in the 2016 presidential election. It’s true that Russia might well have been helping Donald Trump,...
US Leaders Allowing Ukraine to Pull Them into Global War
by Martin Sieff | Dec 18, 2018 | Featured Articles
George Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel was right – Again: The only thing the human race learns from history is that it learns nothing from history.In 1914,the British Empire, largest in human history and one of the longest-lasting, charged into World War I to defend “gallant...
A Texas Elementary School Speech Pathologist Refused to Sign a Pro-Israel Oath, Now Mandatory in Many States — So She Lost Her Job
by Glenn Greenwald | Dec 17, 2018 | Featured Articles
A children's speech pathologist who has worked for the last nine years with developmentally disabled, autistic, and speech-impaired elementary school students in Austin, Texas, has been told she can no longer work with the public school district after she refused to...
The ‘Integrity Initiative’ – A Military Intelligence Operation, Disguised As Charity, To Create The ‘Russian Threat’
by Moon of Alabama | Dec 17, 2018 | Featured Articles
The British government financed Integrity Initiative is tasked with spreading anti-Russian propaganda and thereby with influencing the public, military and governments of a number of countries. What follows is an contextual analysis of the third batch of the...
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