Last week something historic happened in the US Senate. For the first time in 45 years, a chamber of the US Congress voted to pull US forces from a military conflict under the 1973 War Powers Act.While there is plenty to criticize in the War Powers Act, in this...
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‘New World Order’ Wine Pompoured into a Pro-‘Sovereignty’ Rhetorical Bottle
by James George Jatras | Dec 15, 2018 | Featured Articles
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo began his December 4 speech in Brussels at the German Marshall Fund with “a well-deserved tribute to America’s 41st president, George Herbert Walker Bush,” whom he praised as “an unyielding champion of freedom around the world.” It was...
The Maria Butina Case Is Not About Spying
by Leonid Bershidsky | Dec 15, 2018 | Featured Articles
Two things stand out in this week’s plea deal of Maria Butina, the Russian citizen branded by US media as an “accused spy.” The description of her offense by federal prosecutors doesn’t mention any link to Russian intelligence services and the plea agreement says...
US Demands Europe to Join Its War Against Russia
by Eric Zuesse | Dec 14, 2018 | Featured Articles
In recent decades, the US Constitution’s clause that requires a congressional declaration of war before invading any country, has been ignored. Furthermore, ever since 2012 and the passage by Congress of the Magnitsky Act sanctions against Russia, economic sanctions...
British Spies Infiltrated Bernie Sanders’ Campaign?
by Moon of Alabama | Dec 14, 2018 | Featured Articles
The Integrity Initiative, a British pseudo-NGO tasked with running anti-Russian propaganda operation, was recently exposed. Further digging into it revealed a much wider operation. It seems to involve a mole British spies inserted into the Bernie Sanders...
Averting World Conflict with China
by Ron Unz | Dec 13, 2018 | Featured Articles
As most readers know, I’m not a casual political blogger and I prefer producing lengthy research articles rather than chasing the headlines of current events. But there are exceptions to every rule, and the looming danger of a direct worldwide clash with China is one...
Federal Judge Orders Mueller To Turn Over Flynn Material
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 13, 2018 | Featured Articles
In a surprising move, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan ordered Mueller late Wednesday to turn over all of the government’s documents and “memoranda” related to Flynn’s questioning. This follows a Flynn filing that described an effective trap set by agents who...
Celebrating another Regulatory Conviction in the Anti-Russia Brouhaha
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Dec 11, 2018 | Featured Articles
The mainstream press is tipping its glasses in exultation over the latest regulatory conviction in the anti-Trump, anti-Russia brouhaha. This one comes in form of a upcoming guilty plea by a 28-year-old Russian woman named Maria Butina. Her crime? Failing to register...
In the Eyes of the State, We are All Russian (Bots) Now
by Karl-Friedrich Israel | Dec 11, 2018 | Featured Articles
Last September a very informative paper was published by the neoconservative Atlantic Council. In connection with this institution are such important public figures as Collin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and Henry Kissinger. The paper, written by John T. Watts, summarizes...
Mueller’s Investigation is Missing One Thing: A Crime
by Peter van Buren | Dec 10, 2018 | Featured Articles
A baby born when Robert Mueller started his investigation would be talking by now. But would she have anything to say?We last looked at what Mueller had publicly—and what he didn’t have—some 10 months ago, and I remained skeptical that the Trump campaign had in any...
Too Much Partisanship in Washington? No, Too Much Bipartisanship!
by Ron Paul | Dec 10, 2018 | Featured Articles
Washington is once again gripped by the specter of a government shutdown, as Congress and President Trump negotiate an end-of-year spending deal. A main issue of contention is funding for President Trump’s border wall. Sadly, but not surprisingly, neither Congress nor...
The ‘America Last’ Express Hurtles On: Saudi Arabia, INF, Ukraine
by James George Jatras | Dec 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
As the façade of 2016 Candidate Donald Trump’s promised “America First” continues to crumble away, the baked-into-the-cake pathologies of the foreign and security policy “experts” who monopolize President Trump’s administration plunge forward along their predetermined...
Nikki Haley To Be Replaced By Blonde Version Of Nikki Haley
by Caitlin Johnstone | Dec 7, 2018 | Featured Articles
When UN Ambassador Nikki Haley announced her upcoming resignation from the position, establishment loyalists spent the day awash with grief that the Trump administration was losing one of its remaining moderate Republican voices. “Nikki Haley, ambassador to the United...
The Russia Investigation is about Criminalizing Peace
by David Gornoski | Dec 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
"For those who long wondered why throughout the presidential campaign Trump could not bring himself to say a critical word about Russian President Vladimir Putin, we now know the answer: Trump was hoping to do business in Russia, and doing so would require the...
What the ‘Neocon Chickenhawks’ Have Wrought
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Dec 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
The 100th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice to end World War I has generated a lot of discussion and articles about the so-called “Great War.” Most of the neocon chickenhawks who so eagerly led us into the disastrous war in Iraq seemingly want to be regarded...
Loophole in Bernie Sanders’ Yemen Bill Actually Allows Continued US Involvement in Yemen
by Whitney Webb | Dec 5, 2018 | Featured Articles
Last week, many celebrated the advancement of Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 54, which had been introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), as a sign that the US Congress was finally willing to act to reduce the US’ culpability for the situation in Yemen, currently...
Trump’s Fawning Over Saudi Ties Backfires
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Dec 5, 2018 | Featured Articles
The G20 is an economic club and it has traditionally stuck to that groove. And Saudi Arabia has traditionally been represented at G20 events by government ministers, usually the oil minister. But this time around, the Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman, who is just a...
Why Can the CIA Assassinate People?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Dec 4, 2018 | Featured Articles
Given that we have all been born and raised under a regime that has the CIA, hardly anyone questions the power of the CIA to assassinate people. The CIA’s power of assassination has become a deeply established part of American life. Yet, the Constitution, which called...
What Foreign Threats? The Biggest Threats to America Come From its ‘Friends’
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 4, 2018 | Featured Articles
One of the local Washington television stations was doing a typical early morning honoring our soldiers schtick just before Thanksgiving. In it soldiers stationed far from home were treated to videolinks so they could talk to their families and everyone could nod...
Julian Assange Will Die Alongside Your 1st Amendment Rights
by Peter van Buren | Dec 3, 2018 | Featured Articles
Accidentally disclosed information confirms the US is actively planning to prosecute Julian Assange. What happens to Assange will almost certainly change what can be lawfully published in our democracy. This threat to our freedoms is being largely ignored because...
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