Congratulations to Craig Murray for getting there first. The colorful former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, turned anti-establishment dissident after he was sacked from the Foreign Office in 2004, has published on his blog some key texts by authoritative scientists...
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It’s Time for a New American Foreign Policy
by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) | Mar 16, 2018 | Featured Articles
What kind of job can you have where you are consistently wrong, yet get to still go on TV talking endlessly and making more wild predictions that will no doubt lead to the same failed result?If you guessed “TV Weatherman” you’re close…but the job I’m referring to is...
Say No to ‘Hardening’ the Schools with Zero Tolerance Policies and Gun-Toting Cops
by John W. Whitehead | Mar 14, 2018 | Featured Articles
Just what we don’t need: more gun-toting, taser-wielding cops in government-run schools that bear an uncomfortable resemblance to prisons.Microcosms of the police state, America’s public schools already contain almost every aspect of the militarized, intolerant,...
US Commander: ‘US Troops Prepared to Die for Israel’ in War against Syria, Hezbollah
by Whitney Webb | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured Articles
Last Sunday, the largest joint military exercise between the United States and Israel began with little fanfare. The war game, dubbed “Operation Juniper Cobra,” has been a regular occurrence for years, though it has consistently grown in size and scope. Now, however,...
Why Not Execute Alcohol and Tobacco Dealers?
by Laurence M. Vance | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured Articles
Although about thirty countries have the death penalty for drug trafficking, only in China, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and Vietnam are drug offenders routinely executed. Yet, the worst place to be caught drug trafficking is in the Philippines,...
Christopher Steele As Seen By the New Yorker
by Philip Giraldi | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured Articles
The latest salvo in the Russiagate saga is a 15,000 word New Yorker article entitled “Christopher Steele the man behind the Trump dossier: how the ex-spy tried to warn the world about Trump’s ties to Russia” by veteran journalist Jane Mayer. The premise of the piece...
Politics, Justice, and the Surveillance State
by Peter van Buren | Mar 12, 2018 | Featured Articles
The role pervasive surveillance plays in politics today has been grossly underreported. Set aside what you think about the Trump presidency for a moment and focus instead on the new paradigm for how politics and justice work inside the surveillance state.“Incidental...
Happy Anniversary, James Clapper
by Jonathan Turley | Mar 12, 2018 | Featured Articles
Today is an important anniversary for former intelligence chief James Clapper. No it is not his marriage anniversary or conventional milestone. Clapper can celebrate the running out of the statute of limitations on his alleged perjury before Congress — five years and...

Tariffs Are Not the Answer
by Ron Paul | Mar 12, 2018 | Featured Articles
President Trump’s planned 25 percent tariff on steel imports and 10 percent tariff on aluminum imports may provide a temporary boost for those industries, but the tariffs will do tremendous long-term damage to the American and global economies. Tariffs raise the price...
Trump Seeks Congressional Funding For 60,000-Man Army To Overthrow Assad
by Eric Zuesse | Mar 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
ISIS, or ISIL, or Islamic State, has been almost completely defeated in Syria, but the U.S. Department of Defense is requesting an increase instead of a decrease in funding to support “Vetted Syrian Opposition,” or fighters in Syria against Syria’s Government, and it...
Double Standards in Libya
by Richard Galustian | Mar 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
Two weeks ago Interpol issued a Red Notice for the Libyan National Army "Saiqa" Special Forces Major, Mahmoud Werfalli. According to the notice, Werfalli is "wanted by the Judicial Authorities of the International Criminal Court."As to the Werfalla case, the Libya...
The US Ponders a Strike Against Syrian Government Forces: What’s Behind This Aggressive Approach?
by Peter Korzun | Mar 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
The US is considering the option of military action against Syria. The alleged use of chemical weapons (CW) by the Syrian government, which is not backed by any solid evidence, is to serve as the pretext. Syrian President Assad is going to be “punished.” On March 6,...
Gun Crackdowns Have Already Led to Too Many Federal Abuses
by James Bovard | Mar 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
President Trump declared last week that the law enforcement should “take the guns first, go through due process second.” But the history of federal firearms enforcement shows that due process is often a mirage when federal bureaucrats drop their hammer. Before...
What the Media Isn’t Telling You About America’s True Intentions in Syria
by Darius Shahtahmasebi | Mar 7, 2018 | Featured Articles
Just days ago, Israel openly voiced its frustrations with the United States for not taking a stronger role in countering Iran’s growing influence in neighboring Syria, a red line for Israel that has them planning to assault Syria’s sovereignty in order to defend its...
Washington Is Intent on Destroying Iran
by Brian Cloughley | Mar 7, 2018 | Featured Articles
On February 18 the leader of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, declared that Iran “is trying to establish this continuous empire surrounding the Middle East from the south in Yemen but also trying to create a land bridge from Iran to Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Gaza. This is a...
The New Blacklist
by Matt Taibbi | Mar 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
Putin loves you; therefore, you love Putin. The enemy re-tweets you, therefore, you're in league with the enemy. We're at war with them, therefore we're at war with you.One of the first rules of a shunning campaign is that it doesn't have to make sense. It just has to...
Russia Blamed For Italian Election Outcome
by Tyler Durden | Mar 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
If there is a European election, and the anti-establishment parties score a stunning victory (as just happened in Italy, and a few months prior, in Austria), who're you gonna blame? Vladimir Putin (of course)!That's what Samantha Power, one of the top diplomats in the...
What Mueller Has, and What He is Missing
by Peter van Buren | Mar 5, 2018 | Featured Articles
Each week brings a new indictment from Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller along with the same question: when will he produce evidence that the president of the United States committed treason?Because that’s what this is really about; Some Russians somewhere may have...
Why Libertarians Should Shrug-Off Memo Mania
by Ilana Mercer | Mar 5, 2018 | Featured Articles
First came the Republican memo, courtesy of the Republican House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes. Their memo detailed the surveillance abuses against one Carter Page, enabled by a kangaroo court which was strengthened immeasurably by the old...

We Should Listen to the Iraqi Parliament
by Ron Paul | Mar 5, 2018 | Featured Articles
This month marks the 15th anniversary of the US war on Iraq. The “shock and awe” attack was launched based on “stove-piped” intelligence fed from the CIA and Pentagon through an uncritical and compliant US mainstream media. The US media was a willing accomplice to...
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