President Donald Trump’s recent statement on the Jamal Khashoggi killing by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince might well be considered a metaphor for his foreign policy. Several commentators have suggested that the text appears to be something that Trump wrote himself...
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Allow Americans to ‘Opt Out’ of Abortion and War
by Ron Paul | Nov 26, 2018 | Featured Articles
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently released proposed rules allowing individuals to opt out of Obamacare’s abortion and contraception mandates for moral or religious reasons. These new rules should be cheered by all who agree with Thomas...
MI6 Scrambling To Stop Trump From Releasing Classified Docs In Russia Probe
by Tyler Durden | Nov 24, 2018 | Featured Articles
The UK's Secret Intelligence Service, otherwise known as MI6, has been scrambling to prevent President Trump from publishing classified materials linked to the Russian election meddling investigation, according to The Telegraph, stating that any disclosure would...
A Big Step for Greater Israel
by Eric Margolis | Nov 24, 2018 | Featured Articles
Hardly anyone noticed. The Trump administration quietly changed America’s long-held position on Syria’s strategic Golan Heights while attention was focused on the raucous political carnival in Washington. Though barely noticed, the policy change had enormous...
The Case for Leaving Syria
by Douglas Macgregor | Nov 24, 2018 | Featured Articles
Professor Michael Howard, the eminent British historian, frequently stated , “Wars are not tactical exercises writ large… They are conflicts of societies, and they can be fully understood only if one understands the nature of the society fighting them.” The professor...
Assange’s Persecution Highlights Dangers to the Freedom of Speech and Free Media
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 22, 2018 | Featured Articles
If you are a journalist and you discover something that is clearly unethical, and possibly even illegal, and you choose to report it what happens next? Well, you could win a Pulitzer Prize or, on the other hand, you might wind up hiding in the Ecuadorean Embassy in...
Assange Under Siege… Where is Justice? With Lew Rockwell
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 21, 2018 | Featured Articles
What kind of justice system do we have in the US when publishers of the truth that government does not want you to know are threatened with imprisonment and even the death penalty? Ron Paul and Lew Rockwell discuss the terrible and shameful treatment of publisher,...
Julian Assange Deserves a Medal of Freedom, Not a Secret Indictment
by James Bovard | Nov 21, 2018 | Featured Articles
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been secretly indicted by the Trump administration’s Justice Department, “a drastic escalation” of the feds’ efforts against him, the New York Times reported. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has denounced Wikileaks as a “non-state...
The Reason for Killing Iranians
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 20, 2018 | Featured Articles
While US sanctions technically permit Iran to import medicines, it is actually just a ruse to make it look like US officials are kind, compassionate, and benevolent. In actuality, the way the sanctions work will mean that the Iranian people will inevitably be deprived...
The Only Regime Change that Is Needed Is in Washington
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 19, 2018 | Featured Articles
Secretary Pompeo officiates the Swearing-In Ceremony for Ambassador James F. Jeffrey. Image credit: U.S. Department of State/ flickr) One of the things to look forward to in the upcoming holiday season is the special treats that one is allowed to sample. Fruitcake and...

Pentagon Fails First Audit, Neocons Demand More Spending!
by Ron Paul | Nov 19, 2018 | Featured Articles
The Pentagon has finally completed its first ever audit and the results are as many of us expected. After spending nearly a billion dollars to find out what has happened to trillions in unaccounted-for spending, the long look through the books has concluded that only...
Progress or Failure in North Korea?
by Peter van Buren | Nov 17, 2018 | Featured Articles
In this same week the New York Times asserted North Korea is engaged in a “great deception” over its nuclear forces, South Korean unification minister Cho Myoung Gyon is visiting the United States with plans to meet Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a Member of...
A White House Press Pass Has Nothing to do with the First Amendment
by Ryan McMaken | Nov 17, 2018 | Featured Articles
A federal judge this week ruled the White House must temporarily re-instate the press pass of CNN reporter Jim Acosta's, who had been barred after an argument with Donald Trump in the press room. The judge ruled the White House had violated due process by banning...
Amnesty Strips Aung San Suu Kyi of its Highest Honor; Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize Should be Next
by Danielle Ryan | Nov 17, 2018 | Featured Articles
Amnesty International announced it would strip Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi of its top award, saying it was “profoundly dismayed” at her failure to acknowledge the full scale of atrocities against the Rohingya people. Before you are tempted to view this as some...
Crosstalk: Nationalism
by RPI Staff | Nov 16, 2018 | Featured Articles
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...
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...
DoJ Filing Mistakenly References Sealed Criminal Charges Against Assange
by Jonathan Turley | Nov 16, 2018 | Featured Articles
In a truly astounding misstep, the United States Attorney’s Office in Eastern Virginia filed a document that referenced an indictment against the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange. The filng in an unrelated court filing seems to confirm that charges are pending or...
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,...
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