The worst mistake in US history was the conversion after World War II of the US government from a constitutional, limited-government republic to a national-security state. Nothing has done more to warp and distort the conscience, principles, and values of the American...
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Trump’s UN Speech: A Neocon Dream?
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Trump's speech yesterday at the United Nations got rave reviews from neocons like John Bolton and Elliot Abrams. The US president threatened North Korea, Venezuela, Syria, Yemen, and Iran. At the same time he claimed that the US is the one country to lead by...
US Sanctions Against Venezuela Will Hurt Americans
by Ryan McMaken | Sep 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
After fifty years of imposing embargoes and other sanctions, the United States never managed to topple Cuba's communist regime. After forty years of the same in Iran, the US met with similar amounts of success. Ongoing sanctions against North Korea have not toppled to...
Let Catalonia Decide
by Jeff Deist | Sep 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
Should Catalonia be independent?Surely Catalans, and nobody else, must answer that question. Some Catalans consider themselves Spanish and some don’t. Many Spaniards consider Catalonia part of Spain, while some don’t. But it’s clear that a significant number of...
The US Has New Red Line in Syria — And It’s…Ridiculous!
by Darius Shahtahmasebi | Sep 19, 2017 | Featured Articles
In its latest breach of international law, the U.S. is unilaterally attempting to prevent the Syrian government from reclaiming its own territory. From Reuters: US-backed Syrian militias will not let government forces cross the Euphrates River in their bid to recover...
President Trump To Unleash The CIA Drones
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 19, 2017 | Featured Articles
It's not only "the generals" that President Trump defers to when it comes to war overseas. He's also planning to defer to Mike Pompeo and the CIA when it comes to operating killer drones in the "theaters" of military operations. Where President Obama toward the end of...
Korea Solution Needs US to Sign a Peace Treaty
by Finian Cunningham | Sep 19, 2017 | Featured Articles
Germany and France have backed the stance of Russia and China for negotiations to avert the Korea crisis. South Korea and Japan also seem to be amenable to recent calls by Russian President Vladimir Putin for exclusively diplomatic efforts. Any other option in the...
America’s Slow-Motion Military Coup
by Stephen Kinzer | Sep 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
In a democracy, no one should be comforted to hear that generals have imposed discipline on an elected head of state. That was never supposed to happen in the United States. Now it has.Among the most enduring political images of the 20th century was the military...
Rand Paul’s Senate Vote Rolls Back the Warfare State
by Ron Paul | Sep 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
Last week, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) reminded Congress that in matters of war, they have the authority and the responsibility to speak for the American people. Most Senators were not too happy about the reminder, which came in the form of a forced vote on whether to...
Accused of War Crimes, Saudis Investigate Themselves and Find No Wrongdoing
by Carey Wedler | Sep 16, 2017 | Featured Articles
Amid international calls for an independent inquiry into Saudi war crimes in Yemen, the Kingdom has investigated itself and found it has done nothing wrong.Countries including China, the Netherlands, and Canada have pushed forward with a U.N. Human Rights Council...
Afghanistan – US Resolved To Repeat Failures
by Moon of Alabama | Sep 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
The US military and political leadership is so devoid of learning capability that it does not fight multiyear long wars. Instead it fights one disconnected campaign after the other on the very same battlefield. Each of these campaigns will repeat the mistakes that...
Janet Reno: Saint or Tyrant?
by James Bovard | Sep 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
When former Attorney General Janet Reno died last November, the media heaped praise on her as if she had been justice incarnate. Reno had long enjoyed sainthood inside the Beltway; the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia even created a Janet Reno...
Reagan Documents Shed Light on US ‘Meddling’
by Robert Parry | Sep 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
“Secret” documents, recently declassified by the Reagan presidential library, reveal senior White House officials reengaging a former CIA “proprietary,” The Asia Foundation, in “political action,” an intelligence term of art for influencing the actions of foreign...
Six Major US Foreign Policy Failures of the Post-Cold War Era
by Adam Garrie | Sep 14, 2017 | Featured Articles
In the 1990s, US officials, all of whom would go on to serve in the George W. Bush White House, authored two short, but deeply important policy documents that have subsequently been the guiding force behind every major US foreign policy decision taken since the year...
Bombshell Report Catches Pentagon Falsifying Paperwork For Weapons Transfers To Syrian Rebels
by Tyler Durden | Sep 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
A new bombshell joint report issued by two international weapons monitoring groups Tuesday confirms that the Pentagon continues to ship record breaking amounts of weaponry into Syria and that the Department of Defense is scrubbing its own paper trail. On Tuesday the...
The UN Losing Poker Hand in Libya
by Richard Galustian | Sep 12, 2017 | Featured Articles
In poker, smart players know that the best thing to do with a weak hand is dump it. Not so the United Nations. Libya is doubling down on backing the failing Government of National Accord (GNA), hoping that by reopening its UN base in the capital, the previously...
What We Lost on September 11th
by Jeff Deist | Sep 11, 2017 | Featured Articles
The cliché is true: September 11, 2001 represents a defining American moment. Generation X and Millennials suddenly had their own day of infamy, just as their parents and grandparents had Pearl Harbor and the Kennedy assassination. 9/11 marked the end of a relatively...
The Case Against the Iranian Nuclear Deal is One Big Lie
by Stephen Walt | Sep 11, 2017 | Featured Articles
Imagine we were back in 1948. Suppose Joseph Stalin offered to halt the Soviet Union’s efforts to develop its own atomic bomb for up to 15 years. As part of the deal, suppose he agreed to let inspectors from the United Nations enter the USSR and monitor all of its...
Why Did Robert Mueller Obstruct Congress’s 9/11 Probe?
by Justin Raimondo | Sep 11, 2017 | Featured Articles
Sixteen years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we still don’t know what happened. How did a ragtag bunch of hijackers, armed only with box cutters, manage to gain control of those airliners? How did they get into the United...
Congress Exploits Hurricane to Raise Debt Ceiling
by Ron Paul | Sep 11, 2017 | Featured Articles
Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel famously counseled politicians to never let a crisis go to waste. Sadly, this week President Trump and congressional leaders of both parties showed that they have taken this advice to heart when they attached a debt...
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