The U.S. had called for a high level anti-Iran meeting in Poland. The purpose of the meeting was to bring with its allies and poodles into line with the U.S. agenda on Iran, to press them at least into issuing harsher sanctions. But the Europeans rejected that. The...
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Understanding Why Iranians Bash the US Government
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 13, 2019 | Featured Articles
Two days ago, the New York Times carried an article by Times’ journalist Thomas Erdbrink entitled, “For Iran, a Grand Occasion to Bash the US,” which was about Iran’s celebration of the 40th anniversary of its revolution in 1979. The article included the following...
How the Media Manufactures Consent for Regime Change in Venezuela
by Alan MacLeod | Feb 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
The latest extraordinary chapter in the bizarre world of Venezuelan politics is playing out before our eyes. After winning the 2018 presidential elections, Nicolás Maduro was inaugurated in January, only for the head of the National Assembly, Juan Guaidó -- a man...
Afghan Civilians Fear CIA-Backed Death Squads that Can Call In Airstrikes
by Alexander Rubinstein | Feb 11, 2019 | Featured Articles
Elite CIA-backed special forces in Afghanistan are leaving a trail of carnage in the country. As such units do not operate under the umbrella of the Department of Defense, they have been given near-impunity despite standing accused of war crimes. Last month, the New...
Understanding State Propaganda From The USSR to The USA
by Adam Garrie | Feb 11, 2019 | Featured Articles
While the de jure role of state sponsored propaganda is to convince a population to adopt a certain line of thinking on the issues of the day, the de facto function of state sponsored propaganda is rather different. In a society in which even a sizeable minority of...

President Starts a War? Congress Yawns. Threatens to End One? Condemnation!
by Ron Paul | Feb 11, 2019 | Featured Articles
Last week’s bipartisan Senate vote to rebuke President Trump for his decision to remove troops from Syria and Afghanistan unfortunately tells us a lot about what is wrong with Washington, DC. While the two parties loudly bicker about minor issues, when it comes to...
The Cynicism of Empire: Sen. Rubio Tells Venezuelans to Overthrow Their Government…or Starve!
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
(This is from RPI's weekly newsletter offered free to subscribers. Are you signed up yet?)There is a sad disregard for human life among the neocon regime-changers. The devastation of Iraq, with its million dead, was a mere stepping stone to a "re-making" of the Middle...
The Tienditas Bridge ‘Blockade’
by Justin Emery | Feb 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
Over the last couple of days, you may have seen an image the one above in the news. This is Tienditas International Bridge (Spanish: Puente Binacional Tienditas) on the border between Colombia and Venezuela. I have a feeling that we will be seeing much more of this...
Trump’s Syria ‘Pullout’ Aimed at Aggressing Iran
by Finian Cunningham | Feb 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
US President Donald Trump again this week portrayed his plan to pull troops out of Syria as a “victory homecoming” and “an end to endless wars”. Then, in stepped Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to clarify what’s really going on: it’s a “tactical change” to put Iran in...
How Chrystia Freeland Organized Donald Trump’s Coup in Venezuela
by Eric Zuesse | Feb 9, 2019 | Featured Articles
On Monday, February 5th, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland announced that the 14 countries of the Lima Group — who had actually formed themselves under her direction into this new group on 8 August 2017 in order to overthrow and replace Venezuela’s current...
Why I Hope Maduro Wins And North Korea Keeps Its Nukes
by Caitlin Johnstone | Feb 9, 2019 | Featured Articles
A second summit meeting for the US and North Korea is reportedly scheduled to take place in Vietnam at the end of the month. Expert opinions on where these negotiations are headed range from the insightful to the incredibly naive, with mainstream media consumers...
Venezuela: US Aid Gambit Fails – War Plans Lack Support
by Moon of Alabama | Feb 8, 2019 | Featured Articles
A day after the US coup attempt in Venezuela the US game plan was already quite obvious: The opposition in Venezuela will probably use access to that 'frozen' money to buy weapons and to create an army of mercenaries to fight a 'civil' war against the government and...
Blackface: Confronting One’s Integrity in the Past
by Peter van Buren | Feb 8, 2019 | Featured Articles
We live in an age when one’s past is dragged up by those with ill intent to confront one’s integrity in the present. If you worked in Asia in the 1980s or earlier, you likely remember a popular toothpaste called, sadly, Darkie. It featured a caricature of a...
Trump’s Absurd Claim that Americans Are Free from Government Coercion
by James Bovard | Feb 7, 2019 | Featured Articles
In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Trump received rapturous applause from Republicans for his declaration: “America was founded on liberty and independence — not government coercion, domination, and control. We are born free, and we will stay...
Does Washington Rule the World?
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 7, 2019 | Featured Articles
One of the most disturbing aspects of the past two years of Donald Trump foreign policy has been the assumption that decisions made by the United States are binding on the rest of the world. Apart from time of war, no other nation has ever sought to prevent other...
Venezuela: The US’s 68th Regime Change Disaster
by Medea Benjamin | Feb 7, 2019 | Featured Articles
In his masterpiece, Killing Hope: US Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II, William Blum, who died in December 2018, wrote chapter-length accounts of 55 US regime change operations against countries around the world, from China (1945-1960s) to Haiti...
Why are Democrats Driving Regime Change in Venezuela?
by William Walter Kay | Feb 6, 2019 | Featured Articles
Many see President Trump conspiring with oilmen to capture Venezuelan petroleum reserves. Trump’s earlier blunt talk about seizing oilfields buttresses this thesis. As well, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and Chevron appreciate better than anyone the astronomic value of...
A Guide to Decoding the Doublespeak on Syria
by Amb. Peter Ford | Feb 6, 2019 | Featured Articles
The prospect of US withdrawal from Syria has taken the use of doublespeak by frothing neocons and their liberal interventionist fellow travellers to a new level. Here to help the confused observer is a glossary of some of the most frequently used key terms and their...
Twitter Greenlights Venezuela’s Pro-Opposition Online Blitz – Shuts Down Genuine Opponents
by Alexander Rubinstein | Feb 6, 2019 | Featured Articles
As the US-backed coup attempt in Venezuela continues to take shape, shady anonymous actors are waging an information war manipulating social media with automated posts in an apparent attempt to manufacture a faux consensus for regime change in the online theater. If...
Donald Trump, Dictator
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 5, 2019 | Featured Articles
It is supremely ironic. To respond to the dictatorial mindset and policies of Venezuelan ruler Nicolas Maduro, President Trump has adopted his own dictatorial mindset and policies. Trump obviously believes that the way to fight foreign dictatorship is by adopting...
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