In attacking Syrian government-allied forces in eastern Syria earlier week, the US government has lost the ability to claim that its continued presence in Syria is to fight ISIS. With ISIS nearly defeated and the Pentagon announcing that the US military would remain...
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Political Gamesmanship at the Olympics
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
So, why is Vice-president Mike Pence attending the Winter Olympics in South Korea? Is it because he’s a sports fan who just wants to enjoy the quadrennial spectacle of the Olympic games?Unfortunately, no.Pence is going to the games for political purposes. He intends...
Nunes Memo: Another Step Towards Proving Russiagate Is a Hoax
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
The so-called Nunes memo prepared for the Republican majority on the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, even if overblown, clearly suggests that there might have been an unwarranted and quite possibly illegal Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...
US May Have Arranged ‘Self Defense’ Attack On Syrian Government Forces
by Moon of Alabama | Feb 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
Last night the illegal US occupation force in north-east Syria attacked a group of Syrian government aligned troops and their Russian support. The incident happened north-east of Deir Ezzor city on the east side of the Euphrates. The US claims that it killed some 100...
Your Guide to Top Anti-Russia Think Tanks in US & Who Funds Them
by Bryan MacDonald | Feb 7, 2018 | Featured Articles
Countering Russia has become a lucrative industry in Washington. In recent years, the think tank business has exploded. But who funds these organizations, who works for them and what are the real agendas at play?From the start, let’s be clear, the term "think tank"...
The US-ISIS Nexus in Afghanistan Becomes Hot Topic
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Feb 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
Tehran has begun highlighting in loud decibel its hitherto-low key voice of disquiet that the United States is transferring the Islamic State* fighters from Syria and Iraq, where they have been defeated, to Afghanistan.On January 30, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei...
America: A Military Nation
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
Americans like to think of their country as different from those run by military regimes. They are only fooling themselves. Ever since the federal government was converted into a national-security state after World War II (without a constitutional amendment...
What the FBI/FISA Memo Really Tells Us About Our Government
by Ron Paul | Feb 5, 2018 | Featured Articles
The release of the House Intelligence Committee’s memo on the FBI’s abuse of the FISA process set off a partisan firestorm. The Democrats warned us beforehand that declassifying the memo would be the end the world as we know it. It was reckless to allow Americans to...
Schiff's Latest Bizarre Claim: Russian Ads Promote 2nd Amendment 'So We All Kill Each Other'
by Tyler Durden | Feb 4, 2018 | Featured Articles
The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms... and, as The Duran's Alex Christoforou writes, according to California Congressman Adam Schiff, those pesky Russians are using bots to...
Mattis Threatens Military Action Over Syria Gas Attack Claims, Then Admits 'No Evidence'
by Tyler Durden | Feb 3, 2018 | Featured Articles
"I don’t have the evidence,” Mattis said. “What I am saying is that other groups on the ground - NGOs, fighters on the ground - have said that sarin has been used, so we are looking for evidence.”This week the American public was once again bombarded by fresh...
US Troops Arrive in Israel to Practice for Potential War With Hezbollah
by Darius Shahtahmasebi | Feb 3, 2018 | Featured Articles
At a time of heightened tensions in the Middle East, U.S. forces have been deployed in Israel ahead of a large-scale joint Israel-U.S. military exercise set to start next week, the Times of Israel reports.According to the Times, the drill will simulate a major...
The Syrian Madhouse Gets Even Crazier
by Eric Margolis | Feb 3, 2018 | Featured Articles
Last summer, I was positioned just across the border from the Syrian town of Afrin around which Turkish and Kurdish and, possibly, American forces, are now poised for a head-on clash. It seems crazy to me that anyone would want to fight over this one-donkey farm...
Turkish Invasion Pits Neocons Against Traditional Imperialists
by Mike Whitney | Feb 2, 2018 | Featured Articles
US foreign policy in the Middle East is not merely adrift, it is in a state of severe crisis. Even as Turkish tanks and warplanes continue to pound US allies in northwestern Syria (The Kurds), power-brokers in the White House and the Pentagon are unable to settle on a...
The Biggest Threat to our Country
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 2, 2018 | Featured Articles
The New York Times recently profiled three military veterans who are running for Congress. All three are women and all three graduated from the US Naval Academy in Annapolis. The Times highlighted the military experience of the women, which they plan to rely on to...
Meet the Corrupt Billionaire Who Has Brought About a New Cold War
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 1, 2018 | Featured Articles
One has to ask why there is a crisis in US-Russia relations since Washington and Moscow have much more in common than not, to include confronting international terrorism, stabilizing Syria and other parts of the world that are in turmoil, and preventing the...
Dennis Kucinich Hit with Spurious Criticism over Fox News Connection
by Adam Dick | Feb 1, 2018 | Featured Articles
A recent poll places Dennis Kucinich, who announced his run for Ohio governor on January 17, in second place among five Democratic primary contenders. When you are doing well in an election, like appears to be the case with Kucinich, you can expect attacks, including...
The US Empire Has up to 1,000 Military Bases in 80 Countries
by Darius Shahtahmasebi | Jan 31, 2018 | Featured Articles
On the weekend of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Baltimore University hosted more than 200 activists in the peace, environment, and social justice movements to launch a new initiative known as the Coalition Against US Foreign Military Bases, the Nation reported.In a...
The People v. Trump: Is There a Case for the 25th Amendment?
by harley | Jan 31, 2018 | Featured Articles
The media is of one mind: Donald Trump is mentally incompetent and must be removed from office before he blows us all to hell. It says so on Vox, New York Review of Books, CNN, The Intercept, CNBC, The Nation, Bill Moyers, Salon, and theNYT. A new book, The Dangerous...
The First Amendment Does Not Give Us Freedom of Speech
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 30, 2018 | Featured Articles
A special insert in Sunday’s New York Times reflects that it’s not just people in countries run by totalitarian regimes that are indoctrinated by the state. It also happens in representative democracies like the United States, especially owing to the government’s...
Golden Boy Robert Mueller's Forgotten Surveillance Crime Spree
by James Bovard | Jan 29, 2018 | Featured Articles
When Robert Mueller was appointed last May as Special Counsel to investigate Trump, Politico Magazine gushed that “Mueller might just be America’s straightest arrow — a respected, nonpartisan and fiercely apolitical public servant whose only lifetime motivation has...
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