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...
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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...
Libya: Seven Years of Failed Western Diplomacy
by Richard Galustian | Feb 16, 2018 | Featured Articles
The approaching seventh anniversary of the "Libyan revolution," (where the celebratory date was last week arbitrarily moved to the 18th of February -- a bit like moving the 4th of July to the 8th) under what a majority of Libyans feel is an illegitimate, solely UN...
George W. Bush Doesn’t Deserve the Media’s Efforts at Rehabilitation
by James Bovard | Feb 15, 2018 | Featured Articles
"Our democracy is only as good as people trust the results,” former President George W. Bush declared in a presumably well-paid speech last week in the United Arab Emirates, a notorious Arab dictatorship. Bush is being exalted as if he is the second coming of George...
Christopher Steele: The Real Foreign Influence in the 2016 Election?
by Peter van Buren | Feb 15, 2018 | Featured Articles
Leaving aside the validity of what has become known as the “Steele dossier,” it’s important to look at how Christopher Steele was able to guarantee that the information in it would play a significant and ongoing role in American politics. Steele, who is British, did...
When Former Spies Turn into TV ‘Experts’
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 15, 2018 | Featured Articles
Once upon a time in the United States there was a general perception that organizations like the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were both apolitical and high-minded, existing only to calmly and professionally promote...
Is John Brennan the Mastermind Behind Russiagate?
by Mike Whitney | Feb 14, 2018 | Featured Articles
The report (“The Dossier”) that claims that Donald Trump colluded with Russia, was paid for by the DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign.The company that claims that Russia hacked DNC computer servers, was paid by the DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign.The FBI’s...
If America Wasn’t America, the United States Would Be Bombing It
by Darius Shahtahmasebi | Feb 13, 2018 | Featured Articles
On January 8, 2018, former government advisor Edward Luttwak wrote an opinion piece for Foreign Policy titled “It’s Time to Bomb North Korea.”Luttwak’s thesis is relatively straightforward. There is a government out there that may very soon acquire nuclear-weapons...
Lifting of US Propaganda Ban Gives New Meaning to Old Song
by Whitney Webb | Feb 12, 2018 | Featured Articles
Though its ostensible purpose is to fund the US military over a one year period, the National Defense Authorization Act, better known as the NDAA, has had numerous provisions tucked into it over the years that have targeted American civil liberties. The most...
US Feels Uneasy About Inter-Korean Amity
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Feb 12, 2018 | Featured Articles
The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has upset all doomsday predictions that once the Winter Olympics Games are over, the tensions on the Korean peninsula would reappear. Kim’s invitation to South Korean President Moon Jae-in to Pyongyang can be regarded as a "game...

E-Verify Threatens Us All
by Ron Paul | Feb 12, 2018 | Featured Articles
In addition to funding for a border wall and other border security measures, immigration hardliners are sure to push to include mandatory E-Verify in any immigration legislation considered by Congress. E-Verify is a (currently) voluntary program where businesses check...
Make Sports, Not War
by Eric Margolis | Feb 10, 2018 | Featured Articles
Considering that a nuclear conflict over North Korea appeared imminent in recent weeks, the winter Olympics at Pyeongchang, South Korea, is a most welcome distraction – and might even deter a major war on the peninsula.The highlight of the games was the arrival of Kim...
Guilt by Musical Association
by James Bovard | Feb 10, 2018 | Featured Articles
Should the feds be permitted to treat anyone who is not a choirboy like a criminal suspect? Unfortunately, local, state, and federal agencies have a long history of targeting, harassing, and entrapping fans of untraditional music. Because so many innocuous activities...
Is the Steele Dossier Full of ‘Russian Dirt’ – or British?
by James George Jatras | Feb 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
With text messages between US Justice Department (DOJ) conspirators Peter Strzok and his adulterous main squeeze Lisa Page now revealing that then-President Barack Obama “wants to know everything we’re doing,” it now appears that the 2016 plot to subvert the rule of...
‘Fig leaf of fighting ISIS is gone’ – Ron Paul Institute
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
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...
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"...
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