President Trump has been notoriously inconsistent in his foreign policy. He campaigned on and won the presidency with promises to repair relations with Russia, pull out of no-win wars like Afghanistan, and end the failed US policy of nation-building overseas. Once in...
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US Deploys Special Forces ‘Decapitation’ Team To South Korea
by Tyler Durden | Oct 16, 2017 | Featured Articles
Today, the South Korean and US navies on Monday kicked off massive combined drills off the coast of the peninsula amid heightened tensions, a train exercise which North Korea has warned may prompt another ballistic missile launch, potentially to coincide with the...
Trump Shoot The US in The Foot Over Iran
by Eric Margolis | Oct 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Donald Trump has put the United States on the course for war with Iran. That was clearly his objective last Friday when he refused to certify the international nuclear accord with Iran and proclaimed heavy sanctions against Tehran’s powerful paramilitary...
The Russiagate Scandal Descends into Total Absurdity
by Alexander Mercouris | Oct 14, 2017 | Featured Articles
Even as the Trump administration disintegrates – with the President publicly quarrelling with his Secretary of State, and his Chief of Staff forced to deny he is about to resign – the scandal which more than anything else has defined this Presidency has disintegrated...
This Is What Americans Heard During The Mysterious Cuban Sonic Attacks, And Why Experts Don’t Buy It
by Tyler Durden | Oct 14, 2017 | Featured Articles
Multiple neurologists and experts have told The Guardian that the mysterious "sonic attacks" upon US diplomats in Cuba are likely just a case of mass hysteria. The extensive Guardian report is based on research and interviews with top neurologists and medical experts...
Eager To Kill Iran Deal, Trump Finds Allies In Iraq WMD Peddling Neocons
by Whitney Webb | Oct 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
With the memory of the saber-rattling prelude to the US’ 2003 invasion of Iraq largely faded, many of that war’s biggest proponents have recently found themselves uniting behind a new cause – the dissolution of the Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint...
The Deep State’s Bogus ‘Iranian Threat’
by David Stockman | Oct 12, 2017 | Featured Articles
Yesterday we identified a permanent fiscal crisis as one of the quadruple witching forces arising in October 2017 which will shatter the global financial bubble. Today the Donald is on the cusp of making the crisis dramatically worse by decertifying the Iranian nuke...
Russia Wades into Saudi-Iran Rift
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Oct 12, 2017 | Featured Articles
The remark Wednesday by the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister and Presidential envoy for the Middle East Mikhail Bogdanov offering Moscow’s mediation for a rapprochement between Riyadh and Tehran comes within the week of the Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz’s talks with...
Sputnik and RT Under Investigation
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 10, 2017 | Featured Articles
Somehow everything keeps coming back around to Russia. In one of its recent initiatives, the Justice Department (DOJ) appears to be attacking the First Amendment as part of the apparent bipartisan program to make Vladimir Putin the fall guy for everything that goes...
Antifa in Theory and in Practice
by Diana Johnstone | Oct 9, 2017 | Featured Articles
“Fascists are divided into two categories: the fascists and the anti-fascists.” – Ennio Flaiano, Italian writer and co-author of Federico Fellini’s greatest film scripts. In recent weeks, a totally disoriented left has been widely exhorted to unify around a masked...
Will Tax Reform Increase or Limit Liberty?
by Ron Paul | Oct 9, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Trump and the congressional Republican leadership recently unveiled a tax reform “framework.” The framework has a number of provisions that will lower taxes on middle-class Americans. For example, the framework doubles the standard deduction and increases...
Longest War in US History Turns 16 Today – Thousands Dead, No End in Sight & It’s Getting Worse
by Rachel Blevins | Oct 7, 2017 | Featured Articles
On this day 16 years ago, less than one month after 9/11, President George W. Bush delivered a televised address from the White House announcing the beginning of the Afghanistan War.“On my orders, the United States military has begun strikes against al Qaeda terrorist...
Trump Will Declare Iran Nuclear Deal ‘Not in the National Interest’
by Jason Ditz | Oct 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
Officials familiar with the situation say that President Trump is intending to “decertify” the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran ahead of the October 15 deadline. With no evidence Iran is violating the deal in any way, he is going to instead claim it is just “not in the...
Russia Issues Third Warning Against US Cooperation With Terrorists in Syria
by Moon of Alabama | Oct 5, 2017 | Featured Articles
The Syrian Army was on its way across the Euphrates river to liberate the oil- and gas-fields east of Deir Ezzor city. The US countered the move. It sent a small forces of Arab tribal mercenaries who were earlier allied with the Islamic State (ISIS). These proxy...
Britain Moves To Criminalize Reading Extremist Material On The Internet
by Jonathan Turley | Oct 5, 2017 | Featured Articles
For years, civil libertarians have warned that Great Britain has been in a free fall from the criminalization of speech to the expansion of the surveillance state. Now the government is pursuing a law that would make the repeated viewing of extremist Internet sites a...
Trump and ‘His Generals’ on Collision Course Over Iran
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 4, 2017 | Featured Articles
With President Trump again facing the requirement to certify whether Iran is complying with the P5+1 nuclear deal this month, it looks like a major clash may be brewing between the president and the neocons on one side, and the military generals he openly embraces in...
US Violence Abroad Begets Violence at Home
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Oct 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
Although ISIS is claiming that Las Vegas mass murderer Stephen Paddock was one of theirs and was acting on its behalf, so far no independent evidence has surfaced to confirm ISIS’s claim. If such evidence does emerge, it will be one more of a long series of deadly...
Whose Bright Idea Was RussiaGate?
by Paul Craig Roberts | Oct 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
The answer to the question in the title of this article is that Russiagate was created by CIA director John Brennan.The CIA started what is called Russiagate in order to prevent Trump from being able to normalize relations with Russia. The CIA and the...
America: The Dictatress of the World
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Oct 2, 2017 | Featured Articles
On July 21, 1821, John Quincy Adams, who would go on to become the sixth president of the United States, warned that if America were ever to abandon its founding principle of non-interventionism in foreign affairs, she might well become the dictatress of the...
What Did Washington Achieve in its Six Year War on Syria?
by Ron Paul | Oct 2, 2017 | Featured Articles
Now that the defeat of ISIS in Syria appears imminent, with the Syrian army clearing out some of the last ISIS strongholds in the east, Washington’s interventionists are searching for new excuses to maintain the illegal US military presence in the country. Their...
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