“The Facebook intervention is a qualitative escalation of the McCarthyite offensive.” Facebook has assumed additional political police powers, disrupting a planned counter-demonstration against white supremacists, set for August 12th in Washington, on the grounds that...
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The Ball is in Trump’s Court to Engage Iran
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 3, 2018 | Featured Articles
As I had written last week, a conversation of sorts has been under way between Washington and Tehran. The megaphone is no longer in use, the conversation is in civil tone from public platforms or more meaningfully, through the Twitter. It’s become an almost daily...
Southwest Syria Is Liberated – On To Idlib
by Moon of Alabama | Aug 2, 2018 | Featured Articles
The Syrian Arab Army campaign in southwest Syria is coming to an end. The whole (green/black) area held by "rebels" and ISIS just six weeks ago is now liberated. After early resistance was overcome by a large force, many "rebel" groups gave up their fight and agreed...
Revolving Door: How Security Clearances Perpetuate Top-Level Corruption in the United States
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 2, 2018 | Featured Articles
President Donald Trump is threatening to take away the security clearances of a number of former senior intelligence and security officers who have been extremely critical of him. Most Americans were unaware that any ex-officials continued to hold clearances after...
Veteran Intel Officers to Trump: Intel on Iran Could be CATASTROPHIC
by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity | Aug 2, 2018 | Featured Articles
As drums beat again for war — this time on Iran—-the VIPS’ warning is again being disregarded as it was before the Iraq debacle and this time VIPS fear the consequences will be all-caps CATASTROPHIC. August 1, 2018 MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran...
Have you gained or lost weight? Congrats, TSA is now tracking you for suspicious activity.
by James Bovard | Aug 1, 2018 | Featured Articles
If you fall asleep or use the bathroom during your next flight, those incriminating facts could be added to your federal dossier. Likewise, if you use your laptop or look at noisy children seated nearby with a “cold, penetrating stare,” that may be included on your...
Meet VIAB: Virginia’s Taxpayer-Funded Israel Lobby
by Grant Smith | Jul 31, 2018 | Featured Articles
The Virginia-Israel Advisory Board VIAB has one key difference with scores of privately funded state chambers of commerce created to foster closer economic integration between the United States and Israel while supporting the Israeli government’s policy...
After A Week Online, NATO’s Latest ‘Counter-Disinfo’ Facebook Game Is A Complete Flop
by Tyler Durden | Jul 30, 2018 | Featured Articles
We might consider this a bit of lighthearted weekend humor, but unfortunately it's all too real and all too lame, especially consideringsignificant funding and resources actually went into this. And given that it's NATO, somebody's tax dollars had to actually foot the...
Trump’s Tweets End the Myth of Fed Independence
by Ron Paul | Jul 30, 2018 | Featured Articles
President Trump’s recent Tweets expressing displeasure with the Federal Reserve’s (minor) interest rate increases led to accusations that President Trump is undermining the Federal Reserve’s independence. But, the critics ignore the fact that Federal Reserve...
Washington’s Vindictive Iran Policy is Doomed to Fail – Here’s Why
by Patrick Henningsen | Jul 30, 2018 | Featured Articles
Like every other major move in the Middle East, Washington's latest raft of economic sanctions against Iran are doomed to fail. Not because the policy instrument itself doesn't actually work, but because our government is making the same mistakes of the past. Now get...
The Looming War Against Iran
by Eric Margolis | Jul 28, 2018 | Featured Articles
President Donald Trump and his neocon advisors have been trying to provoke a war with Iran and Syria for many months. The neocons are echoing Cato the Elder’s cry, "delenda est Carthago!" Iran must be destroyed. So far, Tehran and its ally Damascus have refused to...
US Maximalist Stance on Denuclearization Holds Korean Peace Process Hostage
by Stu Smallwood | Jul 28, 2018 | Featured Articles
For the first time since the Singapore summit, a shadow of doubt has been cast over the Korean peace process. Its source is the United States’ unyielding demand for complete North Korean nuclear disarmament before ending the Korean War and prior to allowing the...
I traced missile casings in Syria back to their original sellers, so it’s time for the west to reveal who they sell arms to
by Robert Fisk | Jul 27, 2018 | Featured Articles
Readers, a small detective story. Note down this number: MFG BGM-71E-1B. And this number: STOCK NO 1410-01-300-0254. And this code: DAA A01 C-0292. I found all these numerals printed on the side of a spent missile casing lying in the basement of a bombed-out Islamist...
Trump Threatens Turkey with Sanctions. What if He’s Serious?
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jul 27, 2018 | Featured Articles
The frequency with which US President Donald Trump holds out threats to other countries is such that he is no longer being taken seriously. The list of countries threatened by Trump so far includes North Korea, Germany, Canada, China, Venezuela, Pakistan, Syria, Iran...
Julian Assange and the Dying of the Light
by Raúl Ilargi Meijer | Jul 26, 2018 | Featured Articles
One thing that’s not receiving enough attention in the respective Assange and Russia coverage is to what extent both protagonists are needed in each other’s narratives to keep each of these alive. Without explicitly linking Assange to Russia, allegations against him...
The Madness Gripping Washington
by Philip Giraldi | Jul 26, 2018 | Featured Articles
The United States and Israel have been threatening Iran for something like twenty years, using the pretext that it was developing a nuclear weapon initially, but also more recently declaring that Tehran has become a threat to the entire Middle East. Both contentions...
NATO Trumped
by Patrick Armstrong | Jul 24, 2018 | Featured Articles
Those of us who regard NATO as one of the primary sources of international instability thanks to its wars of destruction in the MENA and provocation of Russia were looking forward with delighted anticipation to Trump's appearance at the NATO summit. We were not...
Is Bill Browder the Most Dangerous Man in the World?
by Philip Giraldi | Jul 24, 2018 | Featured Articles
At the press conference following their summit meeting in Helsinki, Russian President Vladimir Putin and American President Donald Trump discussed the possibility of resolving potential criminal cases involving citizens of the two countries by permitting interrogators...
Spending Our Way to a Fiscal Crisis
by Ron Paul | Jul 23, 2018 | Featured Articles
According to financial writer Simon Black, the federal government is spending approximately 52,000 dollars per second. This, not last year’s tax cuts, is the reason why the national debt has reached a record 21 trillion dollars, which is more than America’s gross...
Iran: Another US War of Aggression?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 23, 2018 | Featured Articles
I am getting that Iraq deja vu feeling again, only this time with respect to Iran. You’ll recall the build-up to the US war of aggression against Iraq: WMDs. Mushroom clouds. Charts and graphs. Preventive war. The anti-Iraq propaganda from US officials was...
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