The clearest of all the laws concerning US intelligence is Section 798, 18 US Code—widely known in the Intelligence Community as “the Comint Statute,” or “the 10 and 10.” Unlike other laws, this is a “simple liability” law. Motivation, context, identity, matter not at...
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Tit for Tat? Why Did Mueller Let Trump Off the Hook?
by Mike Whitney | Apr 29, 2019 | Featured Articles
Why did Robert Mueller end the Russia investigation when he did? He could have let it drag it out for another year or so and severely hurt Trump’s chances for reelection. But he didn’t do that. Why? Of course, we’re assuming that the investigation was never intended...

Why is Maria Butina in Prison?
by Ron Paul | Apr 29, 2019 | Featured Articles
Russian gun rights activist and graduate exchange student Maria Butina was sentenced to 18 months in prison last week for “conspiracy to act as a foreign agent without registering.” Her “crime” was to work to make connections among American gun rights activists in...
With Assad Victorious, US Oil Sanctions Now Strangle Entire Syrian Population
by Tyler Durden | Apr 28, 2019 | Featured Articles
The deep irony of the tragic Syria war is that after seven years of massive bloodshed, as the government has emerged victorious, it is only now with relative stability and ensuing calm over most of the country that an "economic siege" has hit the population with full...
Saudi Savagery: Kingdom Beheads 16-Year-Old For Sending Whatsapp Message
by Tyler Durden | Apr 27, 2019 | Featured Articles
The controversy over Saudi Crown Prince MbS's alleged orchestration of the murder of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi has largely subsided since the government insider-turned-critic walked into the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul in early October and never walked out....
Trump’s Crusaders March To War
by Eric Margolis | Apr 27, 2019 | Featured Articles
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....
Int’l Monitors: US Coalition Killed Over 1,600 Civilians During Bombing of Raqqa, Syria
by 21st Century Wire | Apr 27, 2019 | Featured Articles
According to a new report issued by an independent conflict monitoring group, the US-led bombing campaign waged in 2017 to ‘liberate’ the Syrian city of Raqqa from the Islamic State (ISIS), ended up killing more than 1,600 civilians – a figure that is 10 times as high...
‘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...
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...
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...
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...
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