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Why America’s Law Enforcement Empire Resembles Secret Police in a Dictatorship
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 14, 2017 | Featured Articles
Secret police are characteristic of dictatorships, or so goes the conventional thinking on the subject. Police in democracies operate for the most part transparently and within a set of rules and guidelines that limits their ability to gratuitously punish citizens who...
Tillerson Ready For North Korea Talks…But Is Trump?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told an audience at the Atlantic Council this week that the US is ready for direct talks with North Korea without preconditions. This seems to be a major shift for the Trump Administration, however the US president's spokesperson...
The Non-Crime of ‘Lying to the FBI’
by Ilana Mercer | Dec 12, 2017 | Featured Articles
In a fit of pique in 2016, then-President Barack Obama expelled Russian diplomats from the United States. K. T. McFarland, Michael Flynn's deputy in the Trump transition team, worried that Obama's expulsion of the diplomats was aimed at "boxing Trump in...
The Enemy Within – the ‘Intelligence Community’
by Justin Raimondo | Dec 11, 2017 | Featured Articles
It was the Holy Grail of #TheResistance, the smoking gun they had been desperately searching for, solid evidence that Trump had colluded with the Russians to steal the presidency from its rightful owner: an email written and sent before WikiLeaks published the DNC...
Yes, the FBI is America’s Secret Police
by James Bovard | Dec 11, 2017 | Featured Articles
Politifact delivered a “pants on fire” slam to Fox News on Friday because one of its commentators asserted that the Federal Bureau of Investigation “has become America's secret police.” The FBI has legions of new champions nowadays among liberals and Democrats who...

Government Should Leave Bakers Alone
by Ron Paul | Dec 11, 2017 | Featured Articles
Last week the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The case stems from the refusal of Masterpiece Cakeshop, a bakery, to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. The bakery was found guilty of a...
Strzok-Gate and the Mueller Cover-Up
by Alexander Mercouris | Dec 10, 2017 | Featured Articles
Almost eighteen months after Obama’s Justice Department and the FBI launched the Russiagate investigation, and seven months after Special Counsel Robert Mueller took the investigation over, the sum total of what it has achieved is as follows:(1) an indictment of Paul...
State Department, Meet the New Boss, Same/Worse as the Old Boss?
by Peter van Buren | Dec 9, 2017 | Featured Articles
The rumors of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s demise may finally not be greatly exaggerated.A marked man, it was only about a month ago the media speculated on how soon United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley would replace Tillerson. Two weeks ago a trial balloon...
US Made Secret Deal With ISIS to Let Thousands of Fighters Flee Raqqa to Battle Assad in Syria, Former Ally Says
by Tom O'Connor | Dec 9, 2017 | Featured Articles
The US military allowed thousands of Islamic State militant group (ISIS) fighters to flee from their de facto capital of Raqqa, Syria, in a secret deal that boosted the US fight against the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, according to a Pentagon-backed...
The US Just Announced It Will Stay in Syria Even After ISIS Is Defeated: Here’s Why
by Darius Shahtahmasebi | Dec 7, 2017 | Featured Articles
According to Newsweek, despite calls from Russia and Iran for the U.S. to abandon its illegal invasion of Syria, the Pentagon has just announced its intention to maintain its troop presence in the country even after ISIS is successfully defeated. “We are going to...
The FBI’s Perjury Trap Of The Century
by David Stockman | Dec 5, 2017 | Featured Articles
If you were a Martian visitor just disembarked from of one of Elon Musk's rocket ships and were therefore uninfected by earth-based fake news, the culprits in Washington's witch-hunt de jure would be damn obvious.They include John Brennan, Jim Comey, Sally Yates,...
From ‘Russia-Gate’ to ‘Israel-Gate’
by Justin Raimondo | Dec 4, 2017 | Featured Articles
Life is full of surprises. Like that time you were counting on a new bike for Christmas, and were totally certain your parents were going to come through, and then – lo and behold! – on Christmas morning there it was: a spanking brand-new Segway! The final evidence...
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Of The Flynn Plea
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 4, 2017 | Featured Articles
Below is my column on the Flynn plea agreement and its potential significance to the Russian investigation. One development is that President Donald Trump is now denying that he ever told Director James Comey to let Flynn go. This follows a highly damaging tweet that...

Good News: Young Americans Want a New Political Party
by Ron Paul | Dec 4, 2017 | Featured Articles
Do we need a third major political party? I often joke that I’d be happy if we actually had a second party, as when it comes to the big issues – war, monetary policy, civil liberties – the Republicans and Democrats are more alike than different. Perhaps that’s why a...
Slave Markets in ‘Liberated’ Libya and the Silence of the Humanitarian Hawks
by Neil Clark | Dec 2, 2017 | Featured Articles
The reports that black Africans are being sold at slave markets in "liberated" Libya for as little as $400 is a terrible indictment of the so-called "humanitarian intervention" carried out by NATO to topple the government of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.In March 2011...
ABC News Retracts Flynn Bombshell Story
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 2, 2017 | Featured Articles
During the frenzy yesterday over the Flynn plea deal, ABC dropped a bombshell report that Michael Flynn told Special Counsel Bob Mueller that he was prepared to testify that it was Trump who told him to contact the Russians. ABC News later not only retracted that...
The Case Against Michael Flynn: Lying to the FBI About Asking Russia’s Help to Protect Israel
by Alexander Mercouris | Dec 1, 2017 | Featured Articles
The indictment and guilty plea of General Flynn represent what I suspect is the high water mark of the Russiagate scandal.A few weeks ago, following the indictments issued against Paul Manafort, Rick Gates and George Papadopoulos, I speculated that Flynn would be the...
How Hitler Analogies Obscure Understanding of Mideast Power Struggle
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 30, 2017 | Featured Articles
While growing up in America during the 1950’s, one would sometimes encounter supermarket tabloid headlines asserting that Adolph Hitler had not died in May 1945 in the ruins of the Reich’s Chancellery. It was claimed that he had somehow escaped and was living under a...
What If Trump Dismantled the State Department, and It Didn’t Matter?
by Peter van Buren | Nov 30, 2017 | Featured Articles
Bad news: President Donald Trump may be dismantling the State Department. The good news? No recent president has made much use of those diplomats, so they are unlikely to be missed. And that’s really bad news.Recent stories try hard to make the case that something new...
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