In the past, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) justified its militarization of large swaths of Eastern Europe by pointing to the omnipresent threat of terrorism, or some 'rogue' foreign state, inherently understood to be Iran. Today the mask has slipped...
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Armed and Dangerous: If Police Don’t Have to Protect the Public, What Good Are They?
by John W. Whitehead | Feb 27, 2018 | Featured Articles
In the American police state, police have a tendency to shoot first and ask questions later.In fact, police don’t usually need much incentive to shoot and kill members of the public.Police have shot and killed Americans of all ages—many of them unarmed—for standing a...
Blundering Into Iran
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 27, 2018 | Featured Articles
The deluge of recent reporting regarding possible conflict with nuclear armed North Korea has somewhat obscured consideration of the much higher probability that Israel or even Saudi Arabia will take steps that will lead to a war with Iran that will inevitably draw...
Growing Risk of US-Iran Hostilities Based on False Pretexts, Intel Vets Warn
by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity | Feb 26, 2018 | Featured Articles
As President Donald Trump prepares to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week, a group of U.S. intelligence veterans offers corrections to a number of false accusations that have been levelled against Iran.February 26, 2018MEMORANDUM FOR: The...

Is the (Tea) Party Over?
by Ron Paul | Feb 25, 2018 | Featured Articles
The recently-passed big-spending budget deal’s failure to generate significant opposition from the “tea party” has led some to pen obituaries for this once-powerful movement. These commentators may have a point. However, few of them understand the true causes of the...
Syria’s Two East-Ghouta Campaigns: One For Liberation, The Other To Save Terrorists
by Moon of Alabama | Feb 24, 2018 | Featured Articles
Daily mortar and missile attacks against the Syrian capital Damascus have been ongoing for years but intensified in recent months. The often quoted Syrian Observatory notes: ... raising to 116 persons at least including 18 children and 14 citizen women, who were...
What Would an ‘America First!’ Security Policy Look Like?
by James George Jatras | Feb 24, 2018 | Featured Articles
Republicans love to caricature Democrats as big spenders whose only approach to any problem is to throw money at it. As with most caricatures, it is made easy by the fact that it is mostly true. At least when it comes to domestic entitlement programs, nobody can top...
Why One War When We Can Have Two!
by Eric Margolis | Feb 24, 2018 | Featured Articles
"We will continue to prosecute the campaign against terrorists, but great-power competition – not terrorism – is now the primary focus of US national security." Henceforth Russia and China will be America’s main enemies, with Iran and North Korea thrown in for good...
Something For Everyone: Mueller Indictment a Boon for Partisan Status Quo
by Whitney Webb | Feb 23, 2018 | Featured Articles
Last Friday, depending on which side of the partisan divide one was watching from, President Trump was either vindicated or his treachery was confirmed. The impetus for these seemingly disparate reactions was Robert Mueller’s indictment against 13 Russian nationals,...
Nobody Wants to Talk About What Many Mass Shooters Have in Common
by Carey Wedler | Feb 23, 2018 | Featured Articles
In the aftermath of yet another mass shooting in the United States, the internet and broadcast news alike are inundated with commentary about why this keeps happening in America. Some blame guns, others blame mental health, and still others confidently blame false...
America’s Elite Thinks it Has a Divine Right to Rule the World
by Bryan MacDonald | Feb 22, 2018 | Featured Articles
America’s ruling class has a curious attitude to democracy. It seems to be interpreted as something that’s good for the US and its allies but bad for critters who won't accept their role in the "America-led international order."First off, let me be clear. I think all...
Mueller’s Comic Book Indictment: How to Prosecute A Great Big Nothingburger
by David Stockman | Feb 21, 2018 | Featured Articles
We have always heard that a determined government prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich, and now we know it's true. After 38 years in the prosecution racket, Robert Mueller just made his biggest score ever -- that is, he nailed a great big Nothingburger.But he also did...
Russiagate Suddenly Becomes Bigger
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 20, 2018 | Featured Articles
It’s hard to know where to begin. Last Friday’s indictment of 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies by Special Counsel Robert Mueller was detailed in a 37 page document that provided a great deal of specific evidence claiming that a company based in St....
Merchants of Death: America’s Toxic Cult of Violence Turns Deadly
by John W. Whitehead | Feb 19, 2018 | Featured Articles
We are caught in a vicious cycle.With alarming regularity, the nation is being subjected to a spate of violence that terrorizes the public, destabilizes the country’s fragile ecosystem, and gives the government greater justifications to crack down, lock down, and...
Ex-CIA Director Thinks US Hypocrisy About Election Meddling Is Hilarious
by Caitlin Johnstone | Feb 19, 2018 | Featured Articles
Take off the terrorist’s mask, and it’s the CIA. Take off the revolutionary’s mask, and it’s the CIA. Take off the Hollywood producer’s mask, and it’s the CIA. Take off the billionaire tech plutocrat’s mask, and it’s the CIA. Take off the news man’s mask, and guess...

More Gun Violence: Let’s Look Beyond Politics
by Ron Paul | Feb 19, 2018 | Featured Articles
Another terrible school shooting took place in Parkland, Florida last week and unfortunately many politicians and pundits have used the tragedy – as they often do – to push their own agenda. Many will use the tragedy to argue that Americans should be prohibited from...
The US-UK Deep State Empire Strikes Back: ‘It’s Russia! Russia! Russia!’
by James George Jatras | Feb 18, 2018 | Featured Articles
There’s no defense like a good offense.For weeks the unfolding story in Washington has been how a cabal of conspirators in the heart of the American federal law enforcement and intelligence apparat colluded to ensure the election of Hillary Clinton and, when that...
There is No Justice in Our World
by Eric Margolis | Feb 17, 2018 | Featured Articles
A gathering of rich oil Arabs pledged $30 billion this week at a meeting in Kuwait to start rebuilding war-shattered Iraq. Sounds nice but these kinds of conclaves are notorious for offering big but delivering little. The event was billed as helping Iraq repair war...
The Result of Mueller’s Investigation: Nothing
by Paul Craig Roberts | Feb 17, 2018 | Featured Articles
Robert Mueller discredited himself and his orchestrated Russiagate investigation today (Friday, February 16, 2018) with his charges that 13 Russians and three Russian companies plotted to use social media to influence the 2016 election. Their intent, Mueller says, was...
Dutch Lies Over Putin’s ‘Aggression’ Expose NATO War Agenda
by Finian Cunningham | Feb 17, 2018 | Featured Articles
Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte was this week forced to bear a parliamentary vote of no confidence after his foreign minister finally came clean over a dangerous lie he has been telling for two years concerning Russian President Vladimir Putin.Halbe Zijlstra...
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