As the new year began, social media and corporate-owned news organizations alike were giving the protests in Iran constant coverage, despite the fact that the protests were relatively small in size and motivated primarily by economics — not politics, as many popular...
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70 Years of Disinformation: How the CIA Funded Opinion Magazines in Europe
by Philip Giraldi | Jan 16, 2018 | Featured Articles
When an intelligence agency arranges to disseminated fake news it is called “disinformation” and it is a subset of what is referred to as covert action, basically secret operations run in a foreign country to influence opinion or to disrupt the functioning of a...
Fed's Misconduct in Cliven Bundy Case Stems from Ruby Ridge
by James Bovard | Jan 15, 2018 | Featured Articles
Federal judge Gloria Navarro slammed the FBI and Justice Department on Monday, Jan. 8, for “outrageous” abuses and “flagrant misconduct” in the prosecution of Cliven Bundy and sons, the Nevada ranchers who spurred a high-profile standoff with the FBI and Bureau of...
Earmarks Are Not the Problem
by Ron Paul | Jan 15, 2018 | Featured Articles
Last week President Trump urged Congress to reassert its constitutional authority to direct how federal agencies spend taxpayer dollars. Ironically, many constitutional conservatives and libertarians disagree with the president. The reason is, President Trump wants...
A Warning for Democrats, and Indeed for All Americans
by John Kiriakou | Jan 15, 2018 | Featured Articles
Many Americans, at least most in my circle, are enjoying watching Donald Trump self-destruct. It’s bad for the country, but to some of us it’s as much fun as watching a train wreck. And maybe if the Democrats can get their act together, they can win back the House in...
Neocon Think Tanks Not Russian Media Are the Enemy Within
by John Wight | Jan 13, 2018 | Featured Articles
The latest salvo in the ongoing attempt to de-legitimize and demonize Russia-based media has arrived with a directive from the US Justice Department that Sputnik News in the US must register as a foreign agent.In this regard Sputnik now joins RT America (previously...
Trump Takes on Pakistan
by Eric Margolis | Jan 13, 2018 | Featured Articles
Henry Kissinger rightly noted that it’s often more dangerous being an ally of the United States than its enemy. The latest victim of this sad truism is Pakistan, a loyal ally of the US since the dawn of our era.President Donald Trump’s visceral hatred of Muslims...
The Persecution of Julian Assange
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jan 12, 2018 | Featured Articles
“We need a political intervention to make this situation end. He (Assange) is the only political prisoner in Western Europe.” Juan BracoThe persecution of Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, is now seven years old. Ecuador has protected Assange for the past half...
Who or What Is Feeding the Unrest in Iran?
by Philip Giraldi | Jan 12, 2018 | Featured Articles
There are two general theories about the protests that are taking place in Iran. One, unfavorable to the Iranian government and establishment, is that the widespread discontent and rioting is over mismanagement of the economy that has particularly hurt poorer...
The British Empire in Yemen
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 11, 2018 | Featured Articles
Over the holidays, I began watching a Netflix/BBC series entitled The Last Post, which revolves around a contingent of British troops in the early 1960s stationed in Aden, a port city in Yemen, the Arabian country today that Saudi Arabia and the United States are...
NATO’s Fraudulent War on Behalf of Women
by George Szamuely | Jan 10, 2018 | Featured Articles
In a recent Guardian article titled “Why NATO Must Defend Women’s Rights,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Soltenberg and Hollywood movie star Angelina Jolie assert that “NATO has the responsibility and opportunity to be a leading protector of women’s rights.” NATO,...
Showdown: Jeff Sessions’ Marijuana Memo vs Legalization Momentum and Public Support
by Adam Dick | Jan 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
On Thursday, United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memorandum in the Department of Justice (DOJ) that many people are concerned will lead to a crackdown by the US government on people acting in compliance with state laws under which, in varying ways,...
Steve Bannon's Done – But It's Way Too Late
by David Stockman | Jan 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
Good riddance to Steve Bannon. The last thing America needed was a conservative/populist/statist alternative to the Welfare State/Warfare State/Bailout State status quo. Yet what Bannonism boiled down to was essentially acquiescence to the latter -- even as it...
Justice Denied: The Government Is Not Going to Save Us
by John W. Whitehead | Jan 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
“The warlords of history are still kicking our heads in, and no one, not our fathers, not our Gods, is coming to save us.”— Journalist Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe U.S. Supreme Court has ruled: it will not hear the case of Young v. Borders. Despite the fact that a 26-year-old...
Who Killed The Iran Protests?
by Tyler Durden | Jan 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
One prime indicator that anti-government protests in Iran have truly died down to the point of now being completely snuffed out as reports today suggest, and as we began reporting at the end of last week, is that current headlines are now merely focused on the barely...
Just Say No to Jeff Sessions
by Ron Paul | Jan 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
Attorney General Jeff Sessions kicked off the New Year by reversing the Obama-era guidance for federal prosecutors to limit their enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states that have legalized marijuana for medical or recreational use. In what is almost certainly...
Trump's Failed Coup in Iran
by Eric Margolis | Jan 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
Listen to the state-"guided" US media this past week and you’d believe a series of spontaneous anti-government protests broke out across Iran. The protests, according to President Donald Trump and his Israeli allies, were caused by "anger over Iran’s spending billions...
Trump Isn’t Another Hitler. He’s Another Obama.
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jan 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
Not a lot of people remember this, but George W Bush actually campaigned in 2000 against the interventionist foreign policy that the United States had been increasingly espousing. Far from advocating the full-scale regime change ground invasions that his...
Cliven Bundy-FBI Debacle: Another Example of Why the Feds Need to be Leashed
by James Bovard | Jan 5, 2018 | Featured Articles
The Justice Department was caught in another high-profile travesty last month that continues to reverberate through the western states. On Dec. 20, federal judge Gloria Navarro declared a mistrial in the case against Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and others after...
Iran and Myths of Revolution
by James George Jatras | Jan 5, 2018 | Featured Articles
In just the past few days during which Iran has seen anti-government protests, much has been written and said about Iranians’ desire for freedom, mixed with speculation about whether or not the ayatollahs’ Islamic republic is in danger of collapse.The following is not...
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