State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said on December 22 that the US was going to provide Ukraine with "enhanced defensive capabilities as part of our effort to help Ukraine build its long-term defense capacity, to defend its sovereignty and territorial...
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Intel Vets Tell Trump Iran Is Not Top Terror Sponsor
by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity | Dec 26, 2017 | Featured Articles
MEMORANDUM FOR: The PresidentFROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for SanitySUBJECT: Is Iran the “World’s Leading Sponsor of Terrorism?”EXECUTIVE SUMMARY/BACKGROUND We are concerned by recent strident and stark public statements from key members of your...
Political Immorality and Personal Immorality
by Ron Paul | Dec 25, 2017 | Featured Articles
Many Americans have been shocked by recent revelations of the extent of sexual harassment in Congress. However, no one should be too surprised that those who spend their lives defending and expanding the welfare-warfare state engage in immoral personal conduct. It is...
Iraq Redux in the Making? US Rhetoric on Iran Brings Back Memories of 2003
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 22, 2017 | Featured Articles
Sometimes you wake up in the morning and it’s 2003 all over again. That was the year when the United States embarked on its catastrophic course of intervention in Asia. It was at least somewhat justified in invading Afghanistan to eliminate al-Qaeda but then made the...
De Facto Travel Restrictions Now Exist For Americans
by Paul Craig Roberts | Dec 21, 2017 | Featured Articles
Green Party presidential Candidate Jill Stein is being investigated by the Senate Intelligence (sic) Committee for “Russian connections.”What has brought Russiagate to Jill Stein? The answer is that she attended the 10th Anniversary RT dinner in Moscow as did the...
‘A Stunning Rebuke’ – 128 Nations Support UN Call For Trump To Withdraw Jerusalem Decision
by Tyler Durden | Dec 21, 2017 | Featured Articles
One day after Trump escalated his war of words with the UN, threatening to cut off foreign financial aid over today's UN vote on the president's decision to recognize Jerusalem the capital of Israel, the United Nations on Thursday delivered what has been dubbed a...
Trump’s National Security Speech
by Paul Craig Roberts | Dec 19, 2017 | Featured Articles
What do we make of Trump’s national security speech? First of all, it is the military/security complex’s speech, and it is inconsistent with Trump’s intention of normalizing relations with Russia.The military/security complex, using Trump’s position as President, has...
The RussiaGate Witch-Hunt – The Deep State’s ‘Insurance Policy’
by David Stockman | Dec 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
There was a sinister plot to meddle in the 2016 election, after all. But it was not orchestrated from the Kremlin; it was an entirely homegrown affair conducted from the inner sanctums -- the White House, DOJ, the Hoover Building and Langley -- of the Imperial...
Who to Believe on Washington’s Korea Policy, Tillerson or Trump?
by Ron Paul | Dec 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Trump has often said that his foreign policy objective was to keep his enemies guessing. If that’s the goal, you could say that he’s doing a good job. The problem is who does he think his enemies are, because the American people are often left guessing as...
US Defense Secretary Mattis Rejects War on Iran
by Adam Garrie | Dec 17, 2017 | Featured Articles
US Defense Secretary James “Mad Dog” Mattis has refuted claims that the US is preparing for war on Iran after US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley led a bizarre press conference in which she stated that Iran has armed Houthi fighters in Yemen and thus violating the...
Heads Up, President Trump, Secretary Tillerson: Beware ‘Project Overreach’
by Faith Whittlesey | Dec 17, 2017 | Featured Articles
The State Department recently announced it was committing $700,000 to what might be called Project Overreach – an American government initiative to “help” the Hungarians get the “right” news.Department mandarins, it seems, have determined that Hungarians need access...
Deconstructing the Almighty Russian Hackers Myth
by Patrick Armstrong | Dec 16, 2017 | Featured Articles
Sometimes things can be made more complicated than they really are. And such is the case with the story that the Russian government hacked the Democratic National Committee so as to help Trump become president.In July 2016 Wikileaks released a number of documents...
Weapons Went From The CIA To ISIS In Less Than Two Months
by Tyler Durden | Dec 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
Years late to the party, mainstream media outlets like USA Today, Reuters, and Buzzfeed are just out with "breaking" and "exclusive" stories detailing how a vast arsenal of weapons sent to Syria by the CIA in cooperation with US allies fuelled the rapid growth of...
The Foundering Russia-Gate ‘Scandal’
by Robert Parry | Dec 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
The disclosure of fiercely anti-Trump text messages between two romantically involved senior FBI officials who played key roles in the early Russia-gate inquiry has turned the supposed Russian-election-meddling “scandal” into its own scandal, by providing evidence...
‘Everyone is Worried About War’
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 14, 2017 | Featured Articles
Are you worried about war? We are. Iran, North Korea, Russia. Every day we feel we might wake up to hear that the missiles have been launched. Ron Paul created his Institute for Peace and Prosperity in 2013 to be an uncompromising voice opposing war and war...
Why America’s Law Enforcement Empire Resembles Secret Police in a Dictatorship
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 14, 2017 | Featured Articles
Secret police are characteristic of dictatorships, or so goes the conventional thinking on the subject. Police in democracies operate for the most part transparently and within a set of rules and guidelines that limits their ability to gratuitously punish citizens who...
Tillerson Ready For North Korea Talks…But Is Trump?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told an audience at the Atlantic Council this week that the US is ready for direct talks with North Korea without preconditions. This seems to be a major shift for the Trump Administration, however the US president's spokesperson...
The Non-Crime of ‘Lying to the FBI’
by Ilana Mercer | Dec 12, 2017 | Featured Articles
In a fit of pique in 2016, then-President Barack Obama expelled Russian diplomats from the United States. K. T. McFarland, Michael Flynn's deputy in the Trump transition team, worried that Obama's expulsion of the diplomats was aimed at "boxing Trump in...
The Enemy Within – the ‘Intelligence Community’
by Justin Raimondo | Dec 11, 2017 | Featured Articles
It was the Holy Grail of #TheResistance, the smoking gun they had been desperately searching for, solid evidence that Trump had colluded with the Russians to steal the presidency from its rightful owner: an email written and sent before WikiLeaks published the DNC...
Yes, the FBI is America’s Secret Police
by James Bovard | Dec 11, 2017 | Featured Articles
Politifact delivered a “pants on fire” slam to Fox News on Friday because one of its commentators asserted that the Federal Bureau of Investigation “has become America's secret police.” The FBI has legions of new champions nowadays among liberals and Democrats who...
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