An article in Sunday’s New York Times entitled “Remembering the Forgotten War” demonstrates perfectly the moral bankruptcy of the philosophy of foreign interventionism. Calling for the Korean War to become more highly remembered, the author, Hampton Sides, extols some...
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World War I Homage – A Triumph of Lies and Platitudes
by Finian Cunningham | Nov 13, 2018 | Featured Articles
World leaders gathered in Paris on Sunday under the Arc de Triomphe to mark the centennial anniversary ending World War I. In an absurd way, the Napoleon-era arc was a fitting venue – because the ceremony and the rhetoric from President Emmanuel Macron was a “triumph”...
America Should Have Skipped the War, Not Just the Ceremony
by David Stockman | Nov 13, 2018 | Featured Articles
This weekend the Donald took some heavy duty flack from liberals, Dems, the MSM and harrumphing patriots for canceling his appearance at a wreath laying ceremony at the famous WWI battle site at Belleau, France owing to inclement weather. For instance, former...
Brennan and Clapper Should Not Escape Prosecution
by John Kiriakou | Nov 12, 2018 | Featured Articles
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, the longtime chairman of the Judiciary Committee, made a dramatic announcement Nov. 1 that should lead to jail time for both former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. As reported, but...
Dirty Little Secret: ‘Think Tanks’ are Among Top Culprits in Media Disinformation Crisis
by Bryan MacDonald | Nov 12, 2018 | Featured Articles
Most consumers are unaware off the mainstream media’s dirty little secret. Think tanks are increasingly taking advantage of tight news budgets to influence the press agenda in favor of their sponsors. Decades ago, these outfits generally operated as policy advisories....
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President Trump’s Iran Policy – Is It ‘Normal’?
by Ron Paul | Nov 12, 2018 | Featured Articles
It’s not often that US Government officials are honest when they talk about our foreign policy. The unprovoked 2003 attack on Iraq was called a “liberation.” The 2011 US-led destruction of Libya was a “humanitarian intervention.” And so on.So, in a way, Secretary of...
US Directs Iran to Act Like a ‘Normal’ Country. What is a Normal Country?
by Danielle Ryan | Nov 10, 2018 | Featured Articles
After reimposing crippling sanctions on Iran this week, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo threatened that Iran should “act like a normal country, or see its economy crumble.” But, how exactly does a “normal” country act? Since the dictat was issued from Washington DC,...
We Are Headed For Another Tragedy Like WWI
by Eric Margolis | Nov 10, 2018 | Featured Articles
We are now before the 100th anniversary of World War I, the war that was supposed to end all wars. While honoring the 16 million who died in this conflict, we should also condemn the memory of the politicians, officials and incompetent generals who created this...
US envoy: Russia should allow Israel air strikes in Syria
by Middle East Monitor | Nov 10, 2018 | Featured Articles
US envoy to Syria James Jeffrey said yesterday that Russia should maintain a “permissive approach” towards Israeli airstrikes in Syria. Speaking with journalists via a conference call, Jeffrey explained that “in the past Russia has been permissive in consultation with...
Iran’s Leadership Must Decide ‘If They Want Their People To Eat’ – Pompeo
by Tyler Durden | Nov 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
Less than a week after US Secretary of State Secretary Mike Pompeo told Fox News Sunday that the "Iranians are responsible for the starvation' of Yemeni civilians" he's again issued hugely provocative words, telling the BBC during an interview that Iranian "leadership...
We Don’t Need Daily Press Briefings at the White House
by Col. W. Patrick Lang | Nov 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
There was an unseemly verbal brawl Wednesday in the East Room of the White House in which members of the press who are avowed enemies of President Trump (Acosta, Peter Alexander and April Ryan among others) attempted to debate the president over the wisdom and probity...
Edward Snowden: Saudi Used Israel Spyware to Target Khashoggi
by Middle East Monitor | Nov 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
US whistle-blower Edward Snowden yesterday claimed that Saudi Arabia used Israeli spyware to target murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Addressing a conference in Tel Aviv via a video link, Snowden claimed that software made by an Israeli cyber intelligence...
Did the Russians Influence My Vote?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
I voted Libertarian yesterday, and the New York Times has me really worried. In an article yesterday entitled “Russians Meddling in the Midterms? Here’s the Data,” the authors, Jonathan Morgan and Ryan Fox, state that while Russian meddling in the midterm election was...
Will the ‘Taiwan Question’ Give Rise to a World War III Scenario?
by Darius Shahtahmasebi | Nov 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
The United States and China are set to go head-to-head over disputes in relation to Taiwan and the South China Sea, with deadly consequences on the immediate horizon. You wouldn’t know it with all the media hype over the US mid-term elections, but the US and China are...
US Doublespeak Hinders Afghan Peace
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Nov 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
Within hours of the announcement on Saturday by the Russian Foreign Ministry that the second meeting of the Moscow format of consultations on Afghanistan will take place on November 9, the US government-funded Radio Free Europe and Liberty has announced that the...
America Goes to War: Fighting Russia, China and al-Qaeda Simultaneously Requires More Money
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
Some believe that the Cold War ended in 1991, when the Soviet Union fell apart. In retrospect, many observers also believe that a golden opportunity was missed to heal the wounds inflicted by over 45 years to hostility between the Washington and Moscow. Rather than...
The US ‘Cannot Win Militarily’ In Afghanistan, Says Top Commander In Shocking Interview
by Tyler Durden | Nov 5, 2018 | Featured Articles
Historians of the now seventeen-year old US war in Afghanistan will take note of this past week when the newly-appointed American general in charge of US and NATO operations in the country made a bombshell, historic admission. He conceded that the United States cannot...
Whatever Happened to the Russia-gate ‘Scandal’?
by Justin Raimondo | Nov 5, 2018 | Featured Articles
After all the screaming headlines and hysterical talk of “treason,” the Russia-gate hoax was almost entirely absent from the midterms. One would think that the other party being in the hands of a ruthless foreign dictator who has it in for America would be a major...
We Need a #MeToo Movement for Political Consent
by James Bovard | Nov 1, 2018 | Featured Articles
The #MeToo movement is spurring millions of Americans to reconsider the meaning of consent in sexual relations. But there is another realm where far too much has been presumed because of often token gestures. Political consent is defined radically differently than the...
Why Do We Need a National Security State?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 1, 2018 | Featured Articles
Given President Trump’s impulsive decision to suddenly send 5,200 armed US soldiers to the US-Mexico border to prevent a few thousand women and children and others from seeking refugee status in the United States, which foreign citizens are entitled to do under US...
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