Millions of people around the world were at the edge of their seats over the weekend, waiting to hear whether Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff’s indirect talks with the Iranian foreign minister would ratchet down tensions or would break down and bring on a major...
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The Dud Flu Shots
by Adam Dick | Apr 14, 2025 | Featured Articles
“Getting vaccinated every year is the best way to lower your chances of getting the flu.” That is the declaration of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) at its website’s page dedicated to immunization for flu. The problem is that actual...
War With Iran?
by Moon of Alabama | Apr 12, 2025 | Featured Articles
There are a number of discussions about a potentially imminent U.S. war on Iran. Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism concludes that a war is more likely than not. Crooke, Mercouris and Diesen are ambivalent (vid) but also seem to expect a conflict....
Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Mexico?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 11, 2025 | Featured Articles
According to press accounts, the Trump administration, which some right-wing libertarians have humorously described as being “antiwar,” is now contemplating dropping bombs on Mexico. Yes, real bombs that kill people and destroy things, just like the bombs that U.S....
Donald Trump is Making the Case for BRICS
by Larry C. Johnson | Apr 10, 2025 | Featured Articles
The boys and girls on Wall Street heaved a big sign of relief yesterday, with the stock market making historic gains, a welcome respite for the losses of the preceding days, when Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause in the severe tariffs, opting only to impose a 10%...
Tariffs and the Constitution
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Apr 10, 2025 | Featured Articles
“No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of [the Constitution’s] provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.”-- Ex Parte Milligan, Supreme Court of the United States, 1866....
AIPAC leader boasts of special ‘access’ to top Trump natsec officials in leaked audio
by Max Blumenthal | Apr 10, 2025 | Featured Articles
The Grayzone has obtained audio of an off-the-record session from the 2025 Congressional Summit of AIPAC, the main US lobbying arm of the state of Israel. Recorded by an attendee of the panel discussion, the audio features AIPAC’s new CEO, Elliott Brandt, describing...
‘Break-a-Leg’ (that old Mafia warning) – Trump has threatened Iran over an ultimatum that likely cannot be met
by Alastair Crooke | Apr 9, 2025 | Featured Articles
Trump’s ultimatum to Iran? Colonel Doug Macgregor compares the Trump ultimatum to Iran to that which Austria-Hungary delivered to Serbia in 1914: An offer, in short, that “could not be refused.” Serbia accepted nine out of the ten demands. But it refused one – and...
Why America Don’t Need No Stinkin’ ‘Allies’
by David Stockman | Apr 9, 2025 | Featured Articles
OK, the title is a bit crude and is deliberately mocking in tone. But it has to be because there is a deeply-entrenched, almost sacred presumption embedded in the nation’s foreign policy catechism that “allies”, “alliances” and “coalitions of the willing” are the...
Trump and Netanyahu Reaffirm Their Vision for the Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza
by Dave DeCamp | Apr 8, 2025 | Featured Articles
President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met at the White House on Monday and reaffirmed their desire for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, both claiming that there are other countries willing to take in the Palestinian population. Trump...
Trump’s Third Term
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 8, 2025 | Featured Articles
The pundits are having a difficult time understanding how President Trump would fulfill his expressed desire to serve a third term as president. Some of them have fallen back on the possibility that he is joking and just trolling his critics. Others have come up with...
Attack Yemen? Yeah, I Warned you, Mr. Trump
by Larry C. Johnson | Apr 7, 2025 | Featured Articles
What surprises me is that many in Washington, DC and media are surprised by the failure of the latest phase of Operation Prosperity Guardian to quell the Houthis. As Homer Simpson is prone to say, “Doh!” Here’s the latest from CNN: US air strikes in Yemen...
Liberation or Obliteration?
by Ron Paul | Apr 7, 2025 | Featured Articles
President Trump was elected in part because he promised to reduce prices and not drag the country into foreign wars. Sadly, President Trump has adopted a tariff policy that will raise prices and abandoned his “America First” foreign policy in favor of a return to...
Russia and the US made “three steps forward” after two days of consultations in Washington
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Apr 7, 2025 | Featured Articles
The visit by the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and special representative of the Russian president for investment and economic cooperation Kirill Dmitriev to Washington on April 2-3, the first such visit by a senior Kremlin official since 2022, appears to...
Oh, That Influence Peddling: Times Finds Evidence Suggesting Hunter Acted as Foreign Agent
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 7, 2025 | Featured Articles
For years, some of us have written about the Biden family’s multimillion-dollar influence-peddling operation and the Justice Department’s refusal to charge Hunter Biden with being an unregistered foreign agent. Now, years later, the New York Times has found...
Trump Shares Collateral Murder-Style Snuff Film On 15th Anniversary Of Collateral Murder
by Caitlin Johnstone | Apr 6, 2025 | Featured Articles
President Trump has posted a video on social media showing a US airstrike in Yemen killing dozens of people who he claims are “Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack.” Trump also bizarrely suggested that Ansar Allah has been sinking US ships in its...
Our Peanut Allergy Epidemic Sprang From Experts’ Exactly-Wrong Guidance
by Brian McGlinchey | Apr 6, 2025 | Featured Articles
In the 1980s, peanut allergies were almost entirely unheard-of. Today, the United States has one of the highest peanut-allergy rates in the world. Disturbingly, this epidemic was precipitated by institutions that exist to promote public health. The story of...
A Powerful Government and a Weak Nation
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 5, 2025 | Featured Articles
For many Americans, it is an article of faith that a vast and powerful federal government equals a great and strong nation. Actually, it’s the exact opposite. The more powerful the federal government, the weaker the nation. Contrariwise, the smaller and weaker the...
America’s New Lost Cause
by Michael Vlahos | Apr 4, 2025 | Featured Articles
They say that “History is written by the victors.” Fortunately, we know that that is not always true. History is written by those who can assert the most appealing narrative. Those who offer the most charismatic and beguiling story — even those defeated in battle —...
General Cavoli’s Schizophrenia on Ukraine
by Larry C. Johnson | Apr 4, 2025 | Featured Articles
The Commander of US forces in Europe (aka USEUCOM), General Chris Cavoli, was on Capitol Hill today testifying before the Senate Armed Services committee. His opening statement is a remarkable mix of candor, fantasy and pure unadulterated male bovine...
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