In July of last year neoconservative death cultist John Bolton, now the National Security Advisor of the United States, gave a speech at the Grand Gathering of Iranians for Free Iran in which he openly called for regime change in Tehran.Bolton, who is so stupid, crazy...
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When Washington Think Tanks Call for ‘Action’ in the Balkans, Expect Trouble
by James George Jatras | May 11, 2018 | Featured Articles
Any time two prestige think tanks in Washington issue a report calling for US “action” in any region of the world, hold onto your hat – you can be sure that trouble is a-brewing. That’s doubly true if the call relates to the Balkans, the place where in the 1990s the...
Leaked Doc Reveals White House Planning ‘Regime Change’ In Iran
by Tyler Durden | May 11, 2018 | Featured Articles
It appears Rudy Giuliani wasn't lying.Just a few days after the former NYC mayor and latest member of President Trump's unexpectedly let it slip that "we got a president who is tough, who does not listen to the people who are naysayers, and a president who is...
A Retirement Community for Drug-sniffing Dogs
by Adam Dick | May 10, 2018 | Featured Articles
Legalizing marijuana in Illinois would likely cause some drug-sniffing dogs in the state to be killed. That is the claim asserted by Chad Larner, the training director of the K-9 Training Academy in Macon County, Illinois in an in-depth Pantagraph article this week by...
Trump’s Pyrrhic Victory: the US Opts for a Path That Can Only Lead to War
by Philip Giraldi | May 10, 2018 | Featured Articles
Nearly everyone loses by President Donald Trump’s decision on Tuesday to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) relating to Iran’s nuclear energy program and to reinstate the “highest level” of sanctions while also threatening secondary sanctions...
Washington Secrecy is Creating a Know-Nothing Democracy
by James Bovard | May 10, 2018 | Featured Articles
Washington may be more secretive nowadays than at any time in recent decades. Federal policymakers have become accustomed to rationing what they release while citizens are assured that official secrecy makes them more secure. But American democracy cannot survive...
The Donald’s Done — The Deep State Wins Its War On America First
by David Stockman | May 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
The Donald's action to ash-can the Iranian nuclear deal marks the War Party's complete and baleful triumph. There is now nothing much left of America First. Trump's reckless, unwarranted and utterly irrational action will pull Washington ever deeper into an incendiary...
Iran Deal Stunt Slams US Reputation: Questions Korean Talks – Analyst
by Sputnik News | May 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
US President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal weakens the reputation of the United States, and reduces trust in the upcoming negotiations with North Korea, US Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity Executive Director Daniel McAdams...
The Conservative Case Against Gina Haspel
by John Kiriakou | May 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
The White House is insisting that Gina Haspel move forward in nomination as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, despite her own concerns that the Senate hearings—expected to begin Wednesday—could turn brutal over her history in the CIA’s torture program. The...

The NSA Continues to Abuse Americans by Intercepting Their Telephone Calls
by Ron Paul | May 7, 2018 | Featured Articles
One of the few positive things in the ill-named USA FREEDOM Act, enacted in 2015 after the Snowden revelations on NSA domestic spying, is that it required the Director of National Intelligence to regularly report on its domestic surveillance activities. On Friday, the...
Pompeo Rocks the Middle East: Lessons from a Former CIA Officer for the Secretary of State
by Philip Giraldi | May 7, 2018 | Featured Articles
Former Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo has recently completed his first trip to the Middle East as US Secretary of State. Perhaps not surprisingly as President Donald Trump appears prepared to decertify the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)...
Don’t Celebrate Karl Marx. His Communism has a Death Count in the Millions.
by James Bovard | May 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
Saturday marked 200 years since the birth of Karl Marx, and tributes are arising out around the globe. In a New York Times tribute headlined, “Happy Birthday, Karl Marx. You Were Right!” philosophy professor Jason Barker declared that “educated liberal opinion is...
The US is Playing with Fire if It Walks Away from the Iran Nuclear Deal on May 12
by Peter van Buren | May 5, 2018 | Featured Articles
A foreign policy crisis is coming May 12. President Donald Trump’s likely decision on that day to not continue waiving sanctions on Iran under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action will significantly increase the chances of war.The 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of...
Trump Cuts Off Funding For Syria’s ‘White Helmets’
by Tyler Durden | May 4, 2018 | Featured Articles
The Trump State Department has frozen funding to the controversial Syrian aid group known as the White Hemlets, a non-governmental organization (NGO) which provided the sole evidence that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad reportedly used chemical weapons on his own...
Atlantic Council Explains Why We Need To Be Propagandized For Our Own Good
by Caitlin Johnstone | May 4, 2018 | Featured Articles
I sometimes try to get establishment loyalists to explain to me exactly why we’re all meant to be terrified of this “Russian propaganda” thing they keep carrying on about. What is the threat, specifically? That it makes the public less willing to go to war with Russia...
Iran Isn’t Violating the Nuclear Agreement — America Is
by Darius Shahtahmasebi | May 3, 2018 | Featured Articles
On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his most grandiose anti-Iranian performance to date, revealing what he believed was direct proof that Iran “lied” about its nuclear program. This isn’t the first time Netanyahu has overhyped the threat of...
No, Your Intelligence Is Actually Bad. Very Bad
by Patrick Armstrong | May 3, 2018 | Featured Articles
About a year ago, one Evelyn Farkas boasted "we have good intelligence on Russia...". She was an important functionary on Russian matters in the Obama Administration and was, therefore, much involved in "intelligence on Russia". My immediate reaction when I read it...
Congress Again Fails to Discover Collusion to Subvert the 2016 Election
by Philip Giraldi | May 3, 2018 | Featured Articles
There have been a number of developments in the endless inquiry into possible collusion between the Russian government and Donald Trump to manipulate perceptions and voting relating to the two presidential candidates in the November 2016 election. In particular, it...
Comey v. Comey: How New Disclosures Could Put Just One Week Between Comey and Perjury
by Jonathan Turley | May 2, 2018 | Featured Articles
Former FBI Director James Comey continues to market his book – and himself – as a lesson in “ethical leadership.” However, the historical record is proving increasingly at odds with Comey’s account and image. After months of spins and swerves by defenders, a consensus...
Unmasking the ‘White Helmets’
by Harper | May 2, 2018 | Featured Articles
British government official agencies are the patrons, managers and funders of the White Helmets, who have been the go-to source for the mainstream Western media reporting on the ongoing Syrian war. For good measure, the U.S. State Department's Agency for International...
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