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...
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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...
The Last Fed Chairman?
by Ron Paul | Jan 29, 2018 | Featured Articles
Last week the Senate confirmed Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve Chairman by a vote of 84-13. This is in contrast to the contentious debates and closer votes over Janet Yellen’s confirmation in 2014 and Ben Bernanke’s confirmation for a second term in 2010. Powell...
Russiagate Isn’t About Trump, And It Isn’t Even Ultimately About Russia
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jan 28, 2018 | Featured Articles
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes recently asked a question of his Twitter following that was so heavily loaded it wouldn’t be permitted on most interstate highways: “Aside from genuine cranks, is there anyone left denying it was the Russians that committed criminal sabotage in the...
America’s National Defense Is Really Offense
by Philip Giraldi | Jan 26, 2018 | Featured Articles
On Friday, the Pentagon released an unclassified summary of the 2018 National Defense Strategy report. On the same day, Secretary of Defense James Mattis delivered prepared remarks relating to the document.Reading the summary is illuminating, to say the least, and...
Is the Trump Revolution Over?
by Paul-Martin Foss | Jan 26, 2018 | Featured Articles
A year after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, analysts and commentators are assessing both his performance in the first year of his presidency as well as the outlook for the remainder of his first term. Entering office as a surprise winner and a political...
Lew Rockwell: ‘It’s About Time the US Realized it Needs to Get Out of Afghanistan’
by RT | Jan 25, 2018 | Featured Articles
The US has no business in Afghanistan but it loves war and could be there for another 17 years, killing hundreds of thousands more people, according to Lew Rockwell, chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.The US State Department confirmed Tuesday that several...
Playing ‘Kurdish Card’ in Syria Backfires on US As Turks Move In
by James George Jatras | Jan 25, 2018 | Featured Articles
What the result will be of Turkey’s offensive against the Kurdish-held enclave of Afrin in northwest Syria may not be clear for a while, but two things are already certain. Bad decisions in Washington provided the trigger, and Washington’s regional position will...
Trump’s National Defense Strategy Has the Pentagon Popping Champagne
by Andrew Bacevich | Jan 24, 2018 | Featured Articles
Here’s what we can say about the Trump administration’s just-released National Defense Strategy: it’s not a strategy and its subject is not defense. Bearing the imprimatur of Pentagon chief James Mattis, the NDS—at least the unclassified summary that we citizens are...
Destroying, Suppressing Evidence is FBI Standard Procedure
by James Bovard | Jan 24, 2018 | Featured Articles
Congressional investigators were rocked this weekend when the FBI notified them that five months of text messages from a top FBI investigator into the Trump campaign’s Russian connections had mysteriously vanished.The FBI-issued cell phone of Peter Strzok, whose...
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