Two police officers in Kissimmee, Florida, were recently shot and killed while investigating illegal drug activity in a dangerous part of town. According to the New York Times, government officials praised the officers for their service and asked Floridians to pray...
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I Predict a ‘RIOT’ as Dissent in American Media Becomes Illegitimate
by Bryan MacDonald | Aug 26, 2017 | Featured Articles
Since the German Marshall Fund of the United States unveiled its “Alliance For Securing Democracy (AFSD)," I’ve resisted commenting, simply because the lobby group’s “Hamilton 68 dashboard” is too preposterous to merit serious analysis.It has rightly been ridiculed by...
Trump and Korea. I’m Also Scared
by Eric Margolis | Aug 25, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Trump’s ability to trigger a nuclear war is "pretty damn scary" said former US intelligence director James Clapper this week. Remember when Trump vowed to "bomb the shit" out of his enemies?I don’t have much respect for Clapper, who brazenly lied to Congress...
Trump’s New Strategy for Afghanistan Is Neither New, nor a Strategy, nor Trump’s
by James George Jatras | Aug 25, 2017 | Featured Articles
For some time it has been clear that the White House of President Donald Trump was convulsed with a struggle among various court factions vying for the Emperor’s ear. Crudely oversimplified, these are variously described as:1. The military "Junta" (Generals McMaster,...
Unlike Trump, JFK Didn’t Bend the Knee
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 24, 2017 | Featured Articles
NOTE: I’ll be speaking at the Ron Paul Institute’s Peace and Prosperity 2017 Conference. Saturday, September 9, from 9:30 am to 3:00 p.m., Washington Dulles Airport Marriott. Last year’s conference was a sell-out and this year’s conference promises to be even better....
US Liberals Cozy up to Antifa, America’s Anti-Free Speech ‘Taliban’
by Robert Bridge | Aug 23, 2017 | Featured Articles
The liberal media is pushing the idea that any violence committed on the part of Antifa, the so-called "anti-fascist" leftist group, is acceptable if it is directed at the political right. Such delusional thinking will only lead to civil war.Following the recent spate...
The Mini-Skirt Deception: How McMaster Got His Afghan ‘Surge’
by Justin Raimondo | Aug 23, 2017 | Featured Articles
According to reports, Gen. H. R. McMaster convinced President Trump to give up his longstanding opposition to the Afghan war by showing him this photograph, below, of Afghan women in what the media are describing as “miniskirts.” As the Washington Post put it: One of...
Freedom for the Speech We Hate: The Legal Ins and Outs of the Right to Protest
by John W. Whitehead | Aug 22, 2017 | Featured Articles
“If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought — not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.”— Supreme Court Justice Oliver...
The International Criminal Court is the Antithesis of Justice
by Richard Galustian | Aug 22, 2017 | Featured Articles
If there was a prize for the world’s most ineffective institution, the International Criminal Court would win hands down.Consider this: The court has been in operation for fifteen years, has spent over a billion Euros, and has convicted just four war criminals. Yes,...
One Step Closer to War: US, South Korea Hold New Military Drills
by Andrei Akulov | Aug 21, 2017 | Featured Articles
The US and South Korean large-scale combined joint exercise Ulchi Freedom Guardian (UFG) begins on Aug. 21 to last till Aug. 31. There will be approximately 17,500 total US service members participating, with roughly 3,000 coming from off-peninsula - 500 more than...
Oppose Fascism of the Right and the Left
by Ron Paul | Aug 21, 2017 | Featured Articles
Following the recent clashes between the alt-right and the group antifa, some libertarians have debated which group they should support. The answer is simple: neither. The alt-right and its leftist opponents are two sides of the same authoritarian coin.The alt-right...
Escape from Aleppo
by Eric Margolis | Aug 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
AMMAN JORDAN – I haven’t seen many miracles in my decades of travel around the globe, particularly not in the strife-torn Mideast.But last week I participated in a real miracle in Jordan as the splendid Four Paws International group staged a daring rescue of 13 wild...
Everyone Is Wrong About North Korea
by Darius Shahtahmasebi | Aug 19, 2017 | Featured Articles
Imagine a world where one country – country X – is bombing at least seven countries at any one time and is seeking to bomb an eighth, all the while threatening an adversarial ninth state – country Y – that they will bomb that country into oblivion, as well. Imagine...
Weapons Money Intended for Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying
by Alex Emmons | Aug 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
The United Arab Emirates created a “slush fund” using money meant for domestic economic development projects and funneled it to a high-profile think tank in the United States, emails obtained by The Intercept show.Last week, The Intercept reported that the UAE gave a...
Marco Rubio Says It’s OK To Beat People For Their Thoughts
by Shane Kastler | Aug 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
In a truly “free” society, no one gets beaten up for their political views. Laws cannot be passed against thoughts or symbols. And mob violence is not allowed to rule the day. But Florida Senator Marco Rubio, like most establishment political hacks, is not interested...
Iran Will be Trump’s Nemesis
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 17, 2017 | Featured Articles
The White House readout of US President Donald Trump’s phone call to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday highlighted that the latter “thanked” Trump for his “strong leadership uniting the world against the North Korean menace.” Modi must be the only world leader...
Korea and Venezuela: Flip Sides of the Same Coin
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
By suggesting that he might order a US regime-change invasion of Venezuela, President Trump has inadvertently shown why North Korea has been desperately trying to develop nuclear weapons — to serve as a deterrent or defense against one of the US national-security...
North Korea and The Unintended Consequences of Trump
by Patrick Henningsen | Aug 14, 2017 | Featured Articles
There’s something very strange and disturbing about the hype around the White House and US media’s latest obsession with North Korea. It’s not just the usual war-mongering and hot air though. We’ve seen all that before. This goes beyond sabre-rattling. There’s...
Attack Venezuela? Trump Can’t be Serious!
by Ron Paul | Aug 14, 2017 | Featured Articles
There is something unsettling about how President Trump has surrounded himself with generals. From his defense secretary to his national security advisor to his White House chief of staff, Trump looks to senior military officers to fill key positions that have been...
The Wrong Narrative in Charlottesville
by Jeff Deist | Aug 14, 2017 | Featured Articles
The political violence in Charlottesville yesterday was as predictable as it was futile. One person was killed and dozens badly injured, marking a new low in the political and cultural wars that are as heated as any time since in America since the 1960s.This...
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