Several years ago the Commonwealth of Virginia enacted a law restricting firearms purchases to one per month. This was intended to discourage smuggling of weapons to urban areas outside Virginia with tight gun control laws and (unsurprisingly) high homicide rates. The...
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America the Punitive
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 17, 2018 | Featured Articles
There has been a dramatic shift in how the United States government carries out its business internationally. Admittedly, Washington has had a tendency to employ force to get what it has wanted ever since 9/11, but it also sometimes recognized that other countries had...
A Milestone in Afghanistan
by Richard Galustian | Aug 17, 2018 | Featured Articles
Sometime late next year, possibly as early as September, news crews will gather in Afghanistan for a unique event: To interview an American serviceman or woman who was not born when the war they are fighting began. He or she will not remember 9/11, and will have grown...
Russia Hysteria Undercuts Our Values, Impedes Relations
by Rep. Thomas Massie | Aug 16, 2018 | Featured Articles
The mainstream media and out-of-touch politicians and bureaucrats want us to believe that the Cold War never ended, it’s a crime to talk with a Russian, and we should all be fearful of any Russians here in the U.S. Apparently our $21 trillion national debt, lack of...
Trump Strikes Back at ‘Ringleader’ Brennan
by Ray McGovern | Aug 16, 2018 | Featured Articles
There’s more than meets the eye to President Donald Trump’s decision to revoke the security clearances that ex-CIA Director John Brennan enjoyed as a courtesy customarily afforded former directors. The President’s move is the second major sign that Brennan is about to...
Trump Would be Stupid to Talk to Mueller
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 15, 2018 | Featured Articles
The US mainstream press is obviously becoming increasingly anxious about Special Counsel (and former FBI Director) Robert Mueller’s efforts to bring an early end to Donald Trump’s presidency. After all, it has now been 15 months (and millions of taxpayer dollars)...
Senator Richard Burr: a Longtime Fan of Torture
by Ray McGovern | Aug 15, 2018 | Featured Articles
Newly released official documents obtained by the National Security Archive showing that CIA Director Gina Haspel directly supervised waterboarding at the first CIA “Black Site” simply confirm what Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Richard Burr (R-NC) already knew...
The US-Turkey Crisis: The NATO Alliance Forged in 1949 Is Today Largely Irrelevant
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 13, 2018 | Featured Articles
There has been some reporting in the United States mass media about the deteriorating relationship between Washington and Ankara and what it might mean. Such a falling out between NATO members has not been seen since France left the alliance in 1966 and observers note...
Trump vs. His Own Administration?
by Ron Paul | Aug 13, 2018 | Featured Articles
Are President Trump’s senior cabinet members working against him? It’s hard not to conclude that many of the more hawkish neocons that Trump has (mistakenly, in my view) appointed to top jobs are actively working to undermine the president’s stated agenda. Especially...
Butina Case: Neo-McCarthyism Engulfs America
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 10, 2018 | Featured Articles
The United States Department of Justice would apparently have you believe that the Kremlin sought to subvert the five-million-member strong National Rifle Association (NRA) by having two Russian citizens take out life memberships in the organization with the intention...
What if a #MAGA Guy Ate Twitter’s Face?
by Peter van Buren | Aug 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
More than a few people have cited the exchange below as justification for my forever trip down the Memory Hole, my ban from Twitter. I used to be there as @wemeantwell. My bad zombie joke about #MAGA, or anything else I wrote that was flippant, is not writing I’m...
A Four Person NATO-Funded Team Advises Facebook On Flagging ‘Propaganda’
by Tyler Durden | Aug 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
This is not at all comforting: during a week that's witnessed Alex Jones' social media accounts taken down by Facebook, Apple, Spotify and Google, and what appears to be a growing crackdown against alternative media figures including several prominent Libertarians,...
Senator Rand Paul Visits Russia to Encourage ‘Vital Engagement’ Between Lawmakers
by Arkady Savitsky | Aug 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
Donald Trump is not the only American politician to be striving for a better relationship with Moscow in defiance of multiple opponents who are raising a ruckus about his stance on Russia. The hysterical reaction to the US president’s summit with the Russian leader in...
VIPS Asks Twitter to Restore Van Buren’s Account
by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity | Aug 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
August 8, 2018 TO: Twitter Board of Directors FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: Suspension of VIPS Associate Peter Van Buren’s Twitter Account We at Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) are greatly disturbed by the...
Institutionalizing Intolerance: Bullies Win, Freedom Suffers When We Can’t Agree to Disagree
by John W. Whitehead | Aug 7, 2018 | Featured Articles
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” ― Benjamin Franklin What a mess. As America has become ever more polarized, and those polarized factions have become more militant and less inclined to listen to—or even...
More Lies About the White Helmets
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 7, 2018 | Featured Articles
When is a terrorist group not a terrorist group? Apparently the answer is that it ceases to be terrorist when it terrorizes someone who is an enemy of the United States. The most prominent recent example is the Mujaheddin e Khalq (MEK), a murderous Iranian Marxist...
Silence on US Meddling Abroad
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
Among the most fascinating aspects of the brouhaha over supposed Russian meddling in America’s electoral system is the total silence in the US mainstream press about US meddling in the political affairs of other countries. Consider the mass outrage and indignation...
Facebook Censoring Getting Out of Control
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 4, 2018 | Featured Articles
Facebook has been crowing about finding 32 "Russian-backed" accounts seeking to "sow division" among Americans. Only despite their over-confidence in sussing out these Kremlin-backed miscreants, they got it wrong. They shut down a page managed by real Americans who...
There Will Be No American-Russian Alliance Against China
by James George Jatras | Aug 4, 2018 | Featured Articles
Since 1991 and the formal end of the first Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the world has experienced an American “unipolar moment” as the bipartisan US policy establishment sought to consolidate and perpetuate its hegemonic control over the...
Pakistan Needs a Strong New Leader
by Eric Margolis | Aug 4, 2018 | Featured Articles
The words "hope" and "Pakistan" do not often appear together. Pakistan, a sprawling nation of 205 million, is hard to govern, even harder to finance, and seething with tribal or religious violence and discord. But Pakistan, which for me is one of the most interesting...
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