The world is still reeling in horror from the deadly Sri Lanka bombings that may have been the work of Islamic State madmen. Poor Sri Lanka has suffered so much after three decades of civil war and communal strife. We weep for this beautiful and once gentle nation....
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‘Miscarriage of Justice’ – RPI’s Daniel McAdams on The Sentencing of Maria Butina
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 26, 2019 | Featured Articles
Gun rights enthusiast and graduate student Maria Butina has spent the last 10 months in solitary confinement in a notorious Alexandria, VA, maximum security prison. Her "crime"? Befriending NRA leaders and other political movers and shakers with an eye on using their...
Trump Has Murdered Over 40,000 Venezuelans With Sanctions
by Caitlin Johnstone | Apr 26, 2019 | Featured Articles
A new study from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) has found that tens of thousands of Venezuelans have died as a direct result of Trump administration sanctions put into effect in August 2017, and that tens of thousands more are expected to die as a...
Trump’s Envoy to Ukraine is Paid by None Other Than Poroshenko Himself!
by Nebojsa Malic | Apr 26, 2019 | Featured Articles
US special envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker is drawing a salary from John McCain's think tank, which is funded by George Soros and a DC lobbying firm working for Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, among others. Volker was appointed Special Representative for Ukraine...
Jared Kushner, Not Maria Butina, Is America’s Real Foreign Agent
by Philip Giraldi | Apr 25, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Mueller Special Counsel inquiry is far from over even though a final report on its findings has been issued. Although the investigation had a mandate to explore all aspects of the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US election, from the start the focus was...
The Collapse of Deterrence with Iran
by Christopher J. Bolan | Apr 24, 2019 | Featured Articles
Earlier this month, the US administration announced its decision to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). Just this week, the Trump administration said that it will no longer exempt any country from US...
Governing Ukraine is No Laughing Matter
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Apr 23, 2019 | Featured Articles
Comedy, it is often said, is unusual people in real situations and farce is real people in unusual situations. No doubt, it can be said that by electing comedian Vladimir Zelensky as their new president in a landslide victory in Sunday’s runoff, the people of Ukraine...
The Three Purposes of Russiagate
by Paul Craig Roberts | Apr 23, 2019 | Featured Articles
Russiagate has three purposes. One is to prevent President Trump from endangering the vast budget and power of the military/security complex by normalizing relations with Russia. Another, in the words of James Howard Kunstler, is “to conceal the criminal conduct of US...
The Conspiracy Against Trump
by Philip Giraldi | Apr 23, 2019 | Featured Articles
The real “deplorable” in today’s United States is the continuation of a foreign policy based on endless aggression to maintain Washington’s military dominance in parts of the world where Americans have no conceivable interest. Many voters backed Donald J. Trump...
The Prosecution Of Julian Assange Is Infinitely Bigger Than Assange
by Caitlin Johnstone | Apr 22, 2019 | Featured Articles
Julian Assange’s mother reported yesterday that the WikiLeaks founder has not been permitted any visitors during his detention in Belmarsh Prison, including from doctors and his lawyers. Doctors who visited Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy have attested that he...
Pentagon’s Endless War Brings Endless Pollution
by Judi Yang | Apr 22, 2019 | Featured Articles
Many of us do our part to help the environment. We recycle, we bike to work, and we buy less plastic. Yet tap water everywhere is still so filthy; the air, coastlines, parks, and lands are more and more polluted; and cancer continues to take the lives of millions of...

(Government) Spending is Theft
by Ron Paul | Apr 22, 2019 | Featured Articles
Imagine being robbed every time you receive a paycheck, but once a year getting some of the stolen money back because the thieves took more than they intended. Would you be happy about it? If you are like most Americans the answer is yes, since most people are...
Mueller Was Supposed to be the Democrats’ Savior, But Now They’re Out For Blood
by Danielle Ryan | Apr 19, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Mueller report has finally dropped and instead of being relieved to discover, once and for all, that the president didn’t collude with a foreign power to steal an election, Democrats and media pundits are utterly devastated. This is America in the era of...
Robert Mueller Did Not Merely Reject the Trump/Russia Conspiracy Theories. He Obliterated Them.
by Glenn Greenwald | Apr 19, 2019 | Featured Articles
The two-pronged conspiracy theory that has dominated US political discourse for almost three years – that (1) Trump, his family and his campaign conspired or coordinated with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election, and (2) Trump is beholden to Russian President...
The Triumph of Evil
by Paul Craig Roberts | Apr 18, 2019 | Featured Articles
Today (April 17) I heard a NPR “news” report that described the democratically elected president of Venezuela as “the Venezuelan dictator Maduro.” By repeating over and over that a democratically elected president is a dictator, the presstitutes create that image of...
Rumors of War: Washington Is Looking for a Fight
by Philip Giraldi | Apr 18, 2019 | Featured Articles
It is depressing to observe how the United States of America has become the evil empire. Having served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War and in the Central Intelligence Agency for the second half of the Cold War, I had an insider’s viewpoint of how an...
VIPS Fault Mueller Probe, Criticize Refusal To Interview Assange
by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity | Apr 17, 2019 | Featured Articles
The bug in Mueller’s report to be released Thursday is that he accepts that the Russian government interfered in the election. Trump should challenge that, says VIPS.MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: The...
From Jesus Christ to Julian Assange: When Dissidents Become Enemies of the State
by John W. Whitehead | Apr 17, 2019 | Featured Articles
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” — George Orwell When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals. In the current governmental climate, where laws that run counter to the dictates of the...
Washington’s Biggest Fairy Tale: ‘Truth Will Out’
by James Bovard | Apr 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
The arrest of Julian Assange has produced rapturous cheering from the American political elite. Hillary Clinton declared that Assange “must answer for what he has done.” Unfortunately, Assange’s arrest will do nothing to prevent the vast majority of conniving...
Why the Gulf States Are So Edgy
by Alastair Crooke | Apr 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
A little more than a decade ago, I was asked to address a London dinner-table of about twenty Gulf “figures” – a mix of Ambassadors and those with “ties to power”. All represented the cosmopolitan, rich élite of the Gulf. Then, towards the evening’s end, talk turned...
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