Yesterday we noted that the ascension to NATO of the Balkan Five (Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Albania) and the Baltic Three (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) amounts to some kind of bad joke. Their combined active military forces total...
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Making Our Rights Disappear: The Authoritarian War on Due Process
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Mar 27, 2025 | Featured Articles
“If Trump can disappear them, he can disappear you.”—Robert Reich The war on due process is here. No trials. No hearings. No rights. Just indefinite detention and secret deportations. This is the fate that awaits every one of us, not just immigrants (legal or...
A Brief History of the Freedom of Speech
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Mar 27, 2025 | Featured Articles
“I disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it.”-- Voltaire (1694-1778) When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, he included in it a list of the colonists’ grievances with the British government. Notably absent were...
The High Price of War with Iran: $10 Gas and the Collapse of the US Economy
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Mar 26, 2025 | Featured Articles
Israel is currently in turmoil, marked by widespread protests demanding Netanyahu's resignation. Critics accuse him of prolonging war for political gain, while his dismissal of top security officials and ongoing attacks on the judiciary have further intensified the...
It Wasn’t a Leak, It was a Devious ‘Charlie Foxtrot’
by Larry C. Johnson | Mar 26, 2025 | Featured Articles
Charlie Foxtrot is a polite euphemism for a crude military term — Clusterfu*k. That describes the first scandal of the Trump Administration. Somehow, whether deliberate or accidentally, a Zionist journalist by the name of Jeffrey Goldberg was added to...
Trump and Putin Begin Addressing Cumulated Geo-strategic Debris… Amidst Trump’s Ultimatum to Iran
by Alastair Crooke | Mar 25, 2025 | Featured Articles
The phone call on 18 March between Presidents Trump and Putin has happened. It was a success, insofar as it allowed both sides to label the result as “positive.” And it did not lead to a breakdown (by virtue of the smallest of concessions from Putin – an energy...
Scorch Marks in the Sand
by William Schryver | Mar 24, 2025 | Featured Articles
Javelin, Stinger, M-777 howitzer, HIMARS, Excalibur, Switchblade, all manner of electronic warfare gizmos and counter-battery radars, Bradley IFVs, Stryker, Leopard, Challenger, Abrams, Patriot, JDAMs, HARMS, Storm Shadow, ATACMS ... I'm sure I'm forgetting some. Oh,...
Shut Down the Department of Education!
by Ron Paul | Mar 24, 2025 | Featured Articles
President Trump’s executive order from last week titled “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities” could help bring about a major step toward restoring constitutional government and improving education. The executive order directs...
Does the US military even know why it’s bombing Yemen?
by Kelley B. Vlahos | Mar 22, 2025 | Featured Articles
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told Fox News last weekend that the U.S. military had launched operations against the Houthis in Yemen because "ships haven't been able to go through for over a year without being shot at." He then said that in December-ish (not...
Voice of America Has No Place in a Free Society
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 21, 2025 | Featured Articles
Statists are up in arms over President Trump’s decision to terminate the Voice of America and other U.S. government propaganda outlets that fall under the control of a federal entity called the U.S. Agency for Global Media. USAGM also encompasses Radio...
‘Independent’ anti-Russia outlet Meduza faces collapse after US funding slashed
by Kit Klarenberg | Mar 20, 2025 | Featured Articles
Alexey Kovalev, a self-described “Russian journalist currently living in exile for fear of persecution back home,” had spent much of his career at Meduza, the leading opposition media outlet in Russia. Since leaving the paper under mysterious circumstances in the...
Perilous Times for Personal Liberty
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Mar 20, 2025 | Featured Articles
“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out --Because I was not a socialist.Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out --Because I was not a trade unionist.Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out --Because I was not a...
Putin Gives Trump a Meaningless Concession, But Sticks to June 2024 Position
by Larry C. Johnson | Mar 19, 2025 | Featured Articles
The much anticipated phone conversation between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin took place on Tuesday, as expected. There was quite a bit of propaganda flack flying about prior to the call… for example, the Ukrainians told the NY Times that Trump was going...
Using Medicalization to Suppress the Exercise of First Amendment Rights
by Adam Dick | Mar 19, 2025 | Featured Articles
A repugnant tactic of authoritarianism is categorizing people’s desire for or exercise of freedom as illness that government should suppress. An example of this was the deeming of dissidents in the Soviet Union as mentally ill to justify their detention and...
Beware the Ides of March — Are Trump and Netanyahu, Acting in Tandem, Committing Political Suicide?
by Larry C. Johnson | Mar 18, 2025 | Featured Articles
“Beware the Ides of March” is a famous warning from William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar. This day, March 15, marked the midpoint of the month and was significant because it was the day Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BCE. March 15 marked the day...
Trump Hypes up Tensions with Iran
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Mar 18, 2025 | Featured Articles
On Saturday, US President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon “to launch a decisive and powerful military operation” against the Houthis of Yemen with “overwhelming lethal force” in the most significant military action of his second term, to date. The US...
What Makes the Crimean Custody Battle Bogus?
by William Dunkerley | Mar 18, 2025 | Featured Articles
In current rhetoric about the Ukraine War peace negotiations, a lot's being reported about Crimea. But it's worth questioning how much of it is truthful or accurate.Ukraine says Crimea is an integral part of Ukraine that was taken by force, and wants it back from...
President Trump: Stop Bombing Yemen and Exit the Middle East!
by Ron Paul | Mar 17, 2025 | Featured Articles
Over the weekend President Trump ordered a massive military operation against the small country of Yemen. Was Yemen in the process of attacking the United States? No. Did the President in that case go to Congress and seek a declaration of war against the country? No....
American Spring? Uphold Freedom of Speech on American Campuses
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Mar 17, 2025 | Featured Articles
Throughout my political career, I have steadfastly defended the First Amendment, particularly the right to free speech. In 2002, I delivered a speech entitled A Prayer for America, where I challenged the rationale of the PATRIOT Act and questioned actions that...
The Death of Free Speech in America?
by Philip Giraldi | Mar 15, 2025 | Featured Articles
There should be little doubt in anyone’s mind that the “wag the dog” relationship between the United States and Israel has done terrible damage to American institutions and constitutional liberties. The US bipartisan unconditional support of the ongoing Israeli...
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