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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Death Knell For Syria Pullout: ‘We Have To Protect Israel’ Says Trump
by Tyler Durden | Feb 4, 2019 | Featured Articles
After approaching two months of talk of a "full" and "immediate" US troop withdrawal from Syria, first ordered by President Trump on December 19 — which was predictably met with swift and fierce pushback from beltway hawks including in some cases his own advisers — it...
John Bolton’s Plan to Starve Millions of Venezuelans into Submission
by Kurt Nimmo | Feb 4, 2019 | Featured Articles
It is true Venezuela’s economic problems are in large part due to that country’s socialist command economy, but this overlooks the role played by the United States, the United Nations, and the European Union. Over the last five years, the US has imposed financial...

Shut Down the TSA!
by Ron Paul | Feb 4, 2019 | Featured Articles
Hard as it is to believe, airline travel recently became even more unpleasant. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees being required to work without pay for the duration of the government shutdown resulted in many TSA workers calling in sick. The...
Iraq Redux: Trump’s Venezuela ‘Regime Change’ Another Pack of Lies
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 3, 2019 | Featured Articles
(Note: This is from an RPI exclusive weekly update to our subscribers. Are you subscribed? It's free and we'll never sell/loan your name!)It has been just over a week since I last wrote to you, at the time just before Trump's Venezuela regime change operation hit the...
NBC News, to Claim Russia Supports Tulsi Gabbard, Relies on Firm Just Caught Fabricating Russia Data for the Democratic Party
by Glenn Greenwald | Feb 3, 2019 | Featured Articles
NBC News Published a predictably viral story Friday, claiming that “experts who track websites and social media linked to Russia have seen stirrings of a possible campaign of support for Hawaii Democrat Tulsi Gabbard.” But the whole story was a sham: the only...
Bolton: I’ll Send Maduro to Gitmo
by Kurt Nimmo | Feb 2, 2019 | Featured Articles
On Friday, the neocon running Trump’s foreign policy, John Bolton, threatened to send the elected president of Venezuela to the indefinite torture camp at Guantanamo.Maduro should be relieved. The previous neoliberal regime in DC had the disfavored leader of Libya...
Trump Regime Launches Coup in Venezuela: Here’s What You Need to Know
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 2, 2019 | Featured Articles
What's really going on in Venezuela? Is war propaganda even more dangerous than war itself? RPI's Daniel McAdams joins the Corbett Report to discuss the US-launched coup against the government of Venezuela and how non-interventionists and antiwar activists should react:
‘Moral disgrace’: EU Parliament lectures world on rule of law, then destroys legality in Venezuela
by John Laughland | Feb 2, 2019 | Featured Articles
It’s a moral disgrace when the EU Parliament, which lectures the world on the need to respect the rule of law, uses legal language to tell lies about the legality of the situation in Venezuela, and to destroy that legality. Exciting news from France: Marine le Pen is...
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