Was French president Emmanuel Macron correct at the WWI commemoration over the weekend when he asserted that patriotism is the opposite of nationalism in a pointed dig at US president Donald Trump? RPI Board Members Lew Rockwell and John Laughland join scholar George...
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Libya’s Peace Process Dies in Palermo
by Richard Galustian | Nov 16, 2018 | Featured Articles
“Resounding flop” was the verdict of Italy’s former prime minister Matteo Renzi on this week’s Libya peace conference held in Palermo. He’s not wrong. The conference hosted by Italy’s new government achieved the remarkable feat of making Libya’s tensions worse, not...
Deception in North Korea? Nope, But a New Flavor of Neocon
by Peter van Buren | Nov 15, 2018 | Featured Articles
What is the state of diplomacy on the Korean peninsula? Are we again heading toward the lip of war, or is progress being made at an expected pace? Are there Asian Neocons fanning the flames for conflict in Pyongyang much as others did with Baghdad? A year ago, in...
America Has No Peace Movement – Blame the ‘White Supremacists’
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 15, 2018 | Featured Articles
The United States of America has no peace movement even though the country has been mired in unwinnable wars since 2001 and opinion polls suggest that there is only lukewarm support among the public for what is taking place in Afghanistan and Syria. This is in part...
US Midterms Expose Russia Hacker Myth
by Finian Cunningham | Nov 14, 2018 | Featured Articles
Don’t hold your breath for it, but there should be an abject apology coming from US politicians, pundits, media and intelligence agencies. For months leading up to the midterm elections held last week, we were told that the Kremlin was deviously targeting the ballot,...
Beltway BS on ‘Speaking Truth to Power’
by James Bovard | Nov 14, 2018 | Featured Articles
Lying and piety go together in Washington like ham and eggs. After 9/11, a profusion of government falsehoods on Iraq and other topics ravaged official credibility. The political class responded with an endless profusion of promises to “speak truth to power.”...
The Korean War: The Moral Bankruptcy of Interventionism
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 14, 2018 | Featured Articles
An article in Sunday’s New York Times entitled “Remembering the Forgotten War” demonstrates perfectly the moral bankruptcy of the philosophy of foreign interventionism. Calling for the Korean War to become more highly remembered, the author, Hampton Sides, extols some...
World War I Homage – A Triumph of Lies and Platitudes
by Finian Cunningham | Nov 13, 2018 | Featured Articles
World leaders gathered in Paris on Sunday under the Arc de Triomphe to mark the centennial anniversary ending World War I. In an absurd way, the Napoleon-era arc was a fitting venue – because the ceremony and the rhetoric from President Emmanuel Macron was a “triumph”...
America Should Have Skipped the War, Not Just the Ceremony
by David Stockman | Nov 13, 2018 | Featured Articles
This weekend the Donald took some heavy duty flack from liberals, Dems, the MSM and harrumphing patriots for canceling his appearance at a wreath laying ceremony at the famous WWI battle site at Belleau, France owing to inclement weather. For instance, former...
Brennan and Clapper Should Not Escape Prosecution
by John Kiriakou | Nov 12, 2018 | Featured Articles
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, the longtime chairman of the Judiciary Committee, made a dramatic announcement Nov. 1 that should lead to jail time for both former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. As reported, but...
Dirty Little Secret: ‘Think Tanks’ are Among Top Culprits in Media Disinformation Crisis
by Bryan MacDonald | Nov 12, 2018 | Featured Articles
Most consumers are unaware off the mainstream media’s dirty little secret. Think tanks are increasingly taking advantage of tight news budgets to influence the press agenda in favor of their sponsors. Decades ago, these outfits generally operated as policy advisories....

President Trump’s Iran Policy – Is It ‘Normal’?
by Ron Paul | Nov 12, 2018 | Featured Articles
It’s not often that US Government officials are honest when they talk about our foreign policy. The unprovoked 2003 attack on Iraq was called a “liberation.” The 2011 US-led destruction of Libya was a “humanitarian intervention.” And so on.So, in a way, Secretary of...
US Directs Iran to Act Like a ‘Normal’ Country. What is a Normal Country?
by Danielle Ryan | Nov 10, 2018 | Featured Articles
After reimposing crippling sanctions on Iran this week, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo threatened that Iran should “act like a normal country, or see its economy crumble.” But, how exactly does a “normal” country act? Since the dictat was issued from Washington DC,...
We Are Headed For Another Tragedy Like WWI
by Eric Margolis | Nov 10, 2018 | Featured Articles
We are now before the 100th anniversary of World War I, the war that was supposed to end all wars. While honoring the 16 million who died in this conflict, we should also condemn the memory of the politicians, officials and incompetent generals who created this...
US envoy: Russia should allow Israel air strikes in Syria
by Middle East Monitor | Nov 10, 2018 | Featured Articles
US envoy to Syria James Jeffrey said yesterday that Russia should maintain a “permissive approach” towards Israeli airstrikes in Syria. Speaking with journalists via a conference call, Jeffrey explained that “in the past Russia has been permissive in consultation with...
Edward Snowden: Saudi Used Israel Spyware to Target Khashoggi
by Middle East Monitor | Nov 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
US whistle-blower Edward Snowden yesterday claimed that Saudi Arabia used Israeli spyware to target murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Addressing a conference in Tel Aviv via a video link, Snowden claimed that software made by an Israeli cyber intelligence...
Iran’s Leadership Must Decide ‘If They Want Their People To Eat’ – Pompeo
by Tyler Durden | Nov 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
Less than a week after US Secretary of State Secretary Mike Pompeo told Fox News Sunday that the "Iranians are responsible for the starvation' of Yemeni civilians" he's again issued hugely provocative words, telling the BBC during an interview that Iranian "leadership...
We Don’t Need Daily Press Briefings at the White House
by Col. W. Patrick Lang | Nov 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
There was an unseemly verbal brawl Wednesday in the East Room of the White House in which members of the press who are avowed enemies of President Trump (Acosta, Peter Alexander and April Ryan among others) attempted to debate the president over the wisdom and probity...
Will the ‘Taiwan Question’ Give Rise to a World War III Scenario?
by Darius Shahtahmasebi | Nov 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
The United States and China are set to go head-to-head over disputes in relation to Taiwan and the South China Sea, with deadly consequences on the immediate horizon. You wouldn’t know it with all the media hype over the US mid-term elections, but the US and China are...
Did the Russians Influence My Vote?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
I voted Libertarian yesterday, and the New York Times has me really worried. In an article yesterday entitled “Russians Meddling in the Midterms? Here’s the Data,” the authors, Jonathan Morgan and Ryan Fox, state that while Russian meddling in the midterm election was...
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