Thanks no doubt to his bellicose national security adviser John Bolton, President Donald Trump has now lost control of the movement toward peace between the two Koreas. Trump has put himself in a corner; he must now either reject — or, better, fire — Bolton, or face...
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Real Patriotism on Memorial Day Means Losing Fewer Soldiers in Meaningless Wars
by Ivan Eland | May 26, 2018 | Featured Articles
Most people, when thinking of Memorial Day—if they don’t confuse it with Veterans Day—think of the start of the summer season or great sales at the stores and online. Yet the holiday is supposed to honor those who died in America’s wars. Even some of the limited...
Brilliant Strategy Of Offering North Korea ‘The Libya Model’ Somehow Falls Through
by Caitlin Johnstone | May 25, 2018 | Featured Articles
Three days before President Trump announced him as the new National Security Advisor, deranged mutant death walrus John Bolton appeared on Radio Free Asia and said of negotiations with North Korea, "I think we should insist that if this meeting is going to take place,...
Your Tax Dollars Bankroll Afghan Child Molesters
by James Bovard | May 25, 2018 | Featured Articles
Donald Trump was hailed by the media last August when he announced he was sending more US troops to fight in Afghanistan. A Washington Post editorial praised his “principled realism” and saluted “a rare but welcome story of self-correction” (since Trump had portrayed...
For US Congress, Running a Torture Prison Is a Good Career Move
by Philip Giraldi | May 25, 2018 | Featured Articles
Gina Haspel has now been confirmed as the new Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) by a Senate vote of 54 to 45. She had previously been approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee by 10 votes to 5, with six Democrats joining all but three of the...
A Time to Remember: Some Memorial Weekend Reading
by Justin Raimondo | May 24, 2018 | Featured Articles
We’re headed into the Memorial Day weekend, and what better time to remember those stories that held your attention, briefly, weeks or even months and years ago ? Well, here’s some follow-up:Perfidious Albion, Revisited – Remember when Judge Andrew Napolitano, the Fox...
Justice Delayed Is Justice: Mueller Fights To Delay Russian Collusion Trial
by Jonathan Turley | May 24, 2018 | Featured Articles
There is an old joke among criminal defense attorneys that “justice delayed is justice,” a twist of the old adage that “justice delayed is justice denied.” The joke reflects that fact that the defense almost always benefits from the passage of time and it is the...
N. Korea Conundrum: ‘Washington Confuses Concept of Negotiation With Surrender’
by RT | May 23, 2018 | Featured Articles
The US is essentially irrelevant to the solution of the Korean problem and, if a deal is made between the North and South, the US will be asked to leave, says Daniel McAdams, executive director of the Ron Paul Peace Institute.Donald Trump said during a meeting with...
Mike Pompeo Hurls ‘Assassination’ Charges at Iran, but Nobody Knows What the Hell he’s Talking About
by Ricky Twisdale | May 23, 2018 | Featured Articles
America’s chief foreign negotiator has a message for Iran: stop assassinating people.The problem is, nobody from security experts to Iranian dissidents has any idea what the hell he means.The Guardian picks up the story: Mike Pompeo’s claim that the Iran’s...
The Skripal Case Is Being Pushed Down The Memory Hole With Libya And Aleppo
by Caitlin Johnstone | May 22, 2018 | Featured Articles
On the fourth of March, in the sleepy British cathedral town of Salisbury, an ex-spy named Sergei Skripal was poisoned by an assassin with the most deadly nerve agent known to man.The Russian government was immediately blamed by a shocked and outraged world. Foreign...
Among the Persians
by Philip Giraldi | May 22, 2018 | Featured Articles
I have just spent a week in Mashad and Tehran Iran, speaking at an international conference on the future of Jerusalem as well as other related issues while also meeting with a broad range of Iranians, including journalists, students and government officials. The...
Haspel is Not the Problem. The CIA is the Problem.
by Ron Paul | May 21, 2018 | Featured Articles
As a general rule, when Dick Cheney favors a foreign policy position it’s best to be on the opposite side if you value liberty over war and authoritarianism. The former vice president’s enthusiastic endorsement of not only Gina Haspel as CIA director but of the...
Gaza Massacre Exposes Western Hypocrisy on Russia’s ‘Annexation’ of Crimea
by Finian Cunningham | May 19, 2018 | Featured Articles
This week, Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled a new 19-kilometer bridge linking the Crimean Peninsula with mainland southern Russia. Thousands of kilometers away, in occupied Palestine, a massacre was being carried out by Israeli soldiers with full support of...
Will Trump’s Pyrrhic Victory End with America’s Role As Global Bully?
by Philip Giraldi | May 17, 2018 | Featured Articles
I am in Iran speaking at a conference on the future of the Middle East. The timing for the meeting is particularly appropriate due to the recent American withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which limited the Iranian nuclear program in...
Spare me claims Gina Haspel will ‘speak truth to power’. Real truth-tellers go to jail.
by James Bovard | May 17, 2018 | Featured Articles
In the Senate Intelligence Committee secret vote today on whether to confirm Trump nominee Gina Haspel as chief of the CIA, she will likely again be praised for promising to “speak truth to power.” This has recently become one of the favorite accolades in the least...
The ‘Fake News’ Story is Fake News
by Philip Weiss | May 16, 2018 | Featured Articles
Almost every day on public radio or public television, I hear reports about how fake news is undermining our democracy. These high-minded reporters and anchors seem truly to believe that a feverish menace is overwhelming the minds of once-sensible people.This story is...
I Am Julian Assange
by Raúl Ilargi Meijer | May 16, 2018 | Featured Articles
Julian Assange appears to be painfully close to being unceremoniously thrown out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London. If that happens, the consequences for journalism, for freedom of speech, and for press freedom, will resound around the world for a very long time. It...
Why The Empire Never Sleeps: The Indispensable Nation Folly
by David Stockman | May 15, 2018 | Featured Articles
Like the case of Rome before it, the Empire is bankrupting America. The true fiscal cost is upwards of $1.0 trillion per year (counting $200 billion for veterans and debt service for wars), but there is no way to pay for it. That's because the 78-million strong Baby...
The Ruinously Expensive American Military
by Philip Giraldi | May 15, 2018 | Featured Articles
America’s Republican politicians complain that “entitlements,” by which they mean pensions and medical care, are leading the country to bankruptcy even as they fatten the spending on the Pentagon, which now takes 12 percent of the overall budget. And it should be...
Trump’s Ten Lies: A Response to the Iran Nuclear Agreement Speech
by Ted Snider | May 14, 2018 | Featured Articles
After listening to Trump’s speech explaining his decision to pull out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear agreement with Iran, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said that Trump’s speech contained "over ten lies." Khamenei didn’t go...
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