There is a saying attributed to the French banker Nathan Rothschild that "Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes its laws." Conservative opinion in the United States has long suspected that Rothschild was right and there have been frequent calls...
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Was UK Paying White Helmets to Produce Syria ‘Chemical Weapon’ PR as Cover for Jaish Al Islam?
by Vanessa Beeley | Mar 20, 2019 | Featured Articles
Life returns to normal in Douma after SAA liberation. Photo © Vanessa Beeley.As controversy rages over the alleged April 2018 Douma “chemical weapon attacks” that signaled the end of Jaish Al Islam’s occupation, life in the Syrian city gradually returns to peace and...
Germany Backpedals On NATO Spending Promise As France Goes Full Throttle
by Tyler Durden | Mar 19, 2019 | Featured Articles
Germany is poised to renege on its promise to boost NATO spending, backtracking on a public commitment last year by Chancellor Angela Merkel to increase German military expenditure to 1.5 percent of gross domestic product by 2024 - bringing it closer to the 2 percent...
Attempt to Prosecute Assad at ICC is Aimed at Undermining Syrian Peace Process
by John Laughland | Mar 19, 2019 | Featured Articles
The announcement that “a group of Syrian refugees and their London lawyers” have found “a neat legal trick” to press for an indictment against Syrian President Bashar Assad by the International Criminal Court demonstrates, yet again, the dangerous corruption of...

Is Trump Really About to Attack Venezuela?
by Ron Paul | Mar 18, 2019 | Featured Articles
Last week Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ordered the last of the US diplomats out of Venezuela, saying their presence was a “constraint” on US policy toward the country. The wording seemed intended to convey the idea that the US is about to launch military action to...
Pompeo Announces Ban On International Criminal Court Officials Probing US War Crimes
by Tyler Durden | Mar 17, 2019 | Featured Articles
The US has threatened to revoke visas for members of the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague should they so much as investigate any criminal actions of American military personnel. The United States has never been a member of the ICC and considers it...
The Dialectics of Stupidity
by Harper | Mar 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
Someone astute once said "history repeats itself--the first as tragedy and then as farce." Oh, yes, it was Karl Marx in his Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon. Quite relevant to the subject. I have followed the beginning of the 2020 presidential campaign undecided...
War Against Venezuela Is War Against Us All
by Christopher Black | Mar 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
The American war on Venezuela continues to escalate with the sabotage of it’s electricity grid, the most serious action of all so far, which was not only an act of terrorism against the entire civilian population but also an attempt to shut down exports of Venezuelan...
Winning the War on the War on Drugs – RPI Houston Conference!
by RPI Staff | Mar 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
As RPI Senior Fellow Adam Dick informs us in the below video, we have a very good news story to tell: we who oppose the idiotic four-plus decade "war on drugs" are actually winning one! Especially when it comes to marijuana prohibition, the news is mostly good from a...
Secretary of State Pompeo Calls on the Energy Sector to Weaponize Itself
by Robert Wenzel | Mar 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
I don't believe there ever has been a speech quite like the keynote speech delivered on Tuesday by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Houston, Texas at CERAWeek, the major annual energy conference put together by Cambridge Energy Research Associates. The conference is...
Rubio’s Gloating Betrays US Sabotage in Venezuela Power Blitz
by Finian Cunningham | Mar 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
US imperialists are so desperate in their regime-change predations over Venezuela, they seem to have a problem controlling their drooling mouths. The latest orgy of American gloating was triggered by the massive power outages to have hit Venezuela. No sooner had the...
John McCain’s Disastrous Militaristic Legacy
by James Bovard | Mar 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
When Sen. John McCain passed away last August, he was lauded far and wide for his long career of public service. Rep. John Lewis, the famous civil-rights activist, hailed McCain as a “warrior for peace.” In reality, McCain embodied a toxic mix of moralism and...
Fox News Doubles Down on the Big Lie and Venezuela
by Kurt Nimmo | Mar 14, 2019 | Featured Articles
It doesn’t matter what corporate alphabet propaganda network you watch, you’re going to get the same line on Venezuela. Here we have Trish Regan, a fixture at Fox News, telling numerous lies about Venezuela, lies put out by neocons and their captured president. We...
The Trump Phenomenon as Seen in Europe
by Philip Giraldi | Mar 14, 2019 | Featured Articles
President Donald Trump is frequently seen through the prism of an American media that despises him and wants to discredit him so that he can either be impeached soon or defeated in 2020. To a certain extent the foreign media has picked up on that depiction of Trump,...
US Regime Change Blueprint Proposed Venezuelan Electricity Blackouts as ‘Watershed Event’ for ‘Galvanizing Public Unrest’
by Max Blumenthal | Mar 13, 2019 | Featured Articles
A September 2010 memo by a US-funded soft power organization that helped train Venezuelan coup leader Juan Guaido and his allies identifies the potential collapse of the country’s electrical sector as “a watershed event” that “would likely have the impact of...
Ethiopia Crash of Boeing 737 Max Might be Latest Example of Backfiring Safety Efforts
by James Bovard | Mar 13, 2019 | Featured Articles
Another Boeing 737 crashed Sunday in Ethiopia, killing all 157 aboard. This is the second crash of the new Boeing model Max 8 since October. Investigators have only begun sorting out this tragedy but some experts suggest that the plane’s automated safety software may...
Bruce Ohr, Liar or Moron?
by Larry C. Johnson | Mar 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
Last week's release by Congressman Collins of the interview transcript of Bruce Ohr, who appeared before the House Judiciary Committee last year, is quite damning of the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ). If our system of justice is truly blind and committed to...
NYT’s Exposé on the Lies About Burning Aid Trucks in Venezuela Shows How US Government and Media Spread Pro-War Propaganda
by Glenn Greenwald | Mar 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
Every major US war of the last several decades has begun the same way: the US government fabricates an inflammatory, emotionally provocative lie which large US media outlets uncritically treat as truth while refusing at air questioning or dissent, thus inflaming...

Bipartisan Attacks on the Second Amendment
by Ron Paul | Mar 11, 2019 | Featured Articles
The House of Representatives recently passed legislation that would expand the national background check system to require almost everyone selling firearms, including private collectors who supplement their incomes by selling firearms at gun shows, to perform...
US Taxpayers On the Hook for Nearly $1 Billion in Saudi Arabia’s Recent Missile Defense Purchase
by Whitney Webb | Mar 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
On Monday, in an all-but-unreported news item, the Pentagon announced that it would be paying $946 million to Lockheed Martin toward the installation of a missile defense system that was purchased — not by the United States government — but by Saudi Arabia. In other...
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