John Bolton, White House national security adviser and notorious Iraq-era hawk, is a man on a mission. Given broad latitude over policy by Donald Trump, he is widely held to be driving the US confrontation with Iran. And in his passionate bid to tame Tehran, Bolton...
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Who Was Epstein Working For?
by Eric Margolis | Jul 20, 2019 | Featured Articles
I’ve had many strange experiences in my decades of covering intelligence affairs. These run from being invited to KGB HQ in Moscow, Chinese intelligence in Beijing, US intelligence in Virginia, Libyan intelligence in Tripoli, South African intelligence, and even...
New US Pentagon Chief – Vested Interest in War & Conflict
by strategic culture foundation | Jul 19, 2019 | Featured Articles
Mark Esper is expected to be confirmed in coming days as the new US Secretary of Defense. His appointment is awaiting final Congressional approval after customary hearings this week before senators. The 55-year-old nominee put forward by President Trump was previously...
How Corporate Media Are Fueling a New Iran Nuclear Crisis
by Gareth Porter | Jul 19, 2019 | Featured Articles
The US news media’s coverage of the Iran nuclear issue has been woefully off-kilter for many years. Now, however, those same outlets are contributing to the serious crisis building between Washington and Tehran. Iran has responded to Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015...
New CNN Assange Smear Piece Is Amazingly Dishonest, Even For CNN
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jul 18, 2019 | Featured Articles
CNN has published an unbelievably brazen and dishonest smear piece on Julian Assange, easily the most egregious article of its kind since the notoriously bogus Assange-Manafort report by The Guardian last year. It contains none of the “exclusive” documents which it...
Hating America After 9/11
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 18, 2019 | Featured Articles
Listening to President Trump accuse Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of supporting al-Qaeda reminds me of how conservatives behaved toward libertarians who dared talk about motive immediately after the 9/11 attacks. At the time of those attacks, some of us...
It’s Un-American To Be Anti-Free Speech: Protect the Right to Criticize the Government
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 17, 2019 | Featured Articles
Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? The constitutional theory is that we the people are the sovereigns, the state and federal officials only our agents. We who have the...
Pirate Nation: Why Britain Hijacked Iranian Ship on Behalf of Washington
by Tony Cartalucci | Jul 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
Had Iran openly hijacked a vessel of any nation, for any reason, plying through waters anywhere on Earth, the US and its allies would immediately cite it as a provocation toward war. In fact, even without evidence, suspiciously timed attacks carried out last month on...
Pompeo’s Big Lie on Iran
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
In a tiff over whether Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his delegation would be permitted to enter the United States as part of a meeting of the United Nations and over whether they would be free to travel freely around New York City, US Secretary of...
Ukraine Remains the Signpost of World Politics
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jul 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
The ice in the frozen lake shifting is one of the coolest sounds you can hear. The air is cold but not freezing, and the woods are silent. The frozen lake looks like it’s been stopped in time, but beneath the placid surface it keeps shifting and moaning. The...

Conservatives Against Liberty
by Ron Paul | Jul 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
Recently several prominent social and populist conservatives have attacked libertarianism. These conservatives, some of whom are allies in the fight against our hyper-interventionist foreign policy, blame libertarianism for a variety of social and economic ills. The...
Two-Faced Democrats Move to Prevent Trump’s Iran War
by Kurt Nimmo | Jul 14, 2019 | Featured Articles
House Democrats and a few Republicans have approved an amendment to the fiscal 2020 National Defense Authorization Act that they say will prevent President Trump from violating the Constitution by bombing the daylight out of Iran without approval from Congress. House...
Trump Consiglieres Giuliani and Bolton Paid Big Bucks by MEK Terrorist Group
by Kurt Nimmo | Jul 13, 2019 | Featured Articles
Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, his pockets stuffed with terrorist cash, tweeted on Saturday that MEK is a viable alternative to the rule of the mullahs in Iran. Tom Ridge, Louis Freeh and Bob Torricelli agree that NCRI (National Council of Resistance in Iran) is a...
Turkey Calls Trump’s Bluff
by Eric Margolis | Jul 13, 2019 | Featured Articles
Turkey has just called Donald Trump’s bluff by going ahead with the purchase of Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missiles. The outrage in Washington is volcanic. Trump is vowing to rain fire and brimstone sanctions down on the disobedient Turks. The S-400 is Russia’s...
Americans Should Adopt Unilateral Free Trade
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
Given the ongoing destruction of liberty and prosperity from President Trump’s trade wars, tariffs, sanctions, and embargoes, it’s time to think at a higher level, one that goes beyond mere criticism of Trump’s trade antics. It’s time to think in terms of individual...
Mueller Does Not Have Evidence That The IRA Was Part of Russian Government Meddling
by Larry C. Johnson | Jul 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
In the criminal case against alleged Russian operatives - Internet Research Agency and Concord Management and Consulting LLC - a Federal judge has declared that Robert Mueller has not offered one piece of solid evidence that these defendants were involved in any way...
Iran Keeps Calm While US And Britain Continue Their Provocations
by Moon of Alabama | Jul 11, 2019 | Featured Articles
Great Britain has joined the US pressure and provocation campaign against Iran. It is creating incidents to put Iran into a defensive position and to provoke into a violent reaction. Early today 'two US officials' spread a scare story about Iran which lead to this CNN...
The Death of Privacy: Government Fearmongers to Read Your Mail
by Philip Giraldi | Jul 11, 2019 | Featured Articles
It is discouraging to note just how the United States has been taking on the attributes of a police state since 9/11. Stories of police raids on people’s homes gone wrong are frequently in the news. In one recent incident, a heavily armed SWAT team was sent to a St....
DSA/Jacobin/Haymarket-Sponsored ‘Socialism’ Conference Features US Gov-Funded Regime-Change Activists
by Ben Norton | Jul 9, 2019 | Featured Articles
The 2019 Socialism Conference, sponsored by American leftist juggernauts the DSA, Jacobin magazine, and ISO’s Haymarket Books, features regime-change activists from multiple US government-funded NGOs. Socialism is now apparently brought to you by the US State...
Bolton Losing Ground on Venezuela, Iran – But Far From Down and Out
by Martin Sieff | Jul 9, 2019 | Featured Articles
The wave of wishful thinking articles, including some by friends of mine whose judgment I usually respect was entirely wrong. President Donald Trump has not fired John Bolton for the failed fiasco of his latest inept attempt to topple the legitimate...
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