On the campaign trail last year, Donald Trump derided the Transportation Security Administration as a “total disaster.” But his administration is making TSA more intrusive and abusive while its 42,000 screeners remain as incompetent as ever. New TSA screening...
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Secretary Mattis Is Off Base: US Military Presence in Syria Has No Legal Grounds
by Peter Korzun | Nov 17, 2017 | Featured Articles
Although the US has many times stated that its target is IS only, it appears that its intentions may go beyond the stated objective. In fact, Washington is seeking to retain post-conflict zones of influence within the country, where the American presence is...
How America’s Deep State Operates to Control the Message
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 17, 2017 | Featured Articles
It is not possible to overstate the power of certain constituencies and corporate lobbies in the United States. These pressure groups, joined by powerful government agencies, many of which have secret agendas that focus on national security, constitute what is...
There is Nothing Patriotic or Conservative About Our Bloated Defense Budget
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Nov 16, 2017 | Featured Articles
Several times over my 29 years in Congress I have wondered whether there are any fiscal conservatives at the Pentagon. It seems that the Defense Department is just like every other gigantic bureaucracy. When it comes to money, the refrain is always “more, more, more.”...
Do Trump’s Liberal Critics Seem Increasingly Unhinged?
by James Bovard | Nov 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
Last week’s anniversary of Trump’s election sparked widespread teeth-gnashing by the nation’s pundits. Trump is supposedly the gravest threat to American democracy since the secession of the Confederacy. His presidency, probably, continues to be a boon for...
America’s Righteous Russia-gate Censorship
by Robert Parry | Nov 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
A stark difference between today’s Washington and when I was here as a young Associated Press correspondent in the late 1970s and the early 1980s is that then – even as the old Cold War was heating up around the election of Ronald Reagan – there were prominent...
Bombshell Report Confirms US Coalition Struck A Deal With ISIS
by Tyler Durden | Nov 14, 2017 | Featured Articles
At a moment of widespread acknowledgement that the short-lived Islamic State is no longer a reality, and as ISIS is about to be defeated by the Syrian Army in its last urban holdout of Abu Kamal City in eastern Syria, the US is signalling an open-ended military...
Mocking Trump Doesn’t Prove Russia’s Guilt
by Ray McGovern | Nov 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
If the bloody debacle in Iraq should have taught Americans anything, it is that endorsements by lots of important people who think something is true don’t amount to evidence that it actually is true. If endorsements were the same as evidence, U.S. troops would have...
Saudi Arabia and Israel Know They Cannot Defeat Iran, Want to Drag the US into an Uncontainable War
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
There is considerable confusion about what is occurring in the Middle East, to include much discussion of whether Israel and Saudi Arabia have formally agreed to combine forces to increase both military and economic pressure on Iran, which both of them see as their...

Education Scholarship Tax Credits Help Children and Advance Liberty
by Ron Paul | Nov 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
Shutting down the Department of Education and returning control of the education dollar to the American people is the key to improving education. The best way to put the people in charge of education is by shutting down all unconstitutional bureaucracies, repealing...
US Demand for RT FARA Registration ‘Sounds Like Desperation’ – Daniel McAdams
by Sputnik News | Nov 12, 2017 | Featured Articles
The US Department of Justice has demanded that Russia's broadcaster RT America should get registered under the US Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) by Monday, November 13. Daniel McAdams, the executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity,...
Foreign Agents Registration Act Marked by History of Politicization, Selective Enforcement
by Whitney Webb | Nov 11, 2017 | Featured Articles
Though it garnered renewed interest thanks to Robert Mueller’s investigation of the Trump administration and the rise of “Russiagate” hysteria, the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) of 1938 has been irregularly enforced over the course of its 79-year history....
Can Trump Salvage his Presidency?
by Hillary Mann Leverett | Nov 11, 2017 | Featured Articles
As US President Donald Trump marks the first anniversary of his election with a high-profile, 11-day tour of Asia, the spotlight remains largely fixed on Washington investigations into whether his presidential campaign "colluded" with Russia and whether these...
America’s ‘Allies’ Are Setting Up Another Trap for US in the Middle East
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 10, 2017 | Featured Articles
Whatever their plans, the stakeholders in the Middle East must remember that clever plans to remake the Middle East have hitherto been remarkable for their inability to anticipate countermoves by opposing forces.Tension is increasing all across the Middle East and the...
Manipulation: The US State Department’s New Program to Take On Hungarian Media
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 10, 2017 | Featured Articles
Hypocrisy may be the only consistent guiding principle of US foreign policy. Here's a prime example of the "do as we say, not as we do" that is the core of how Washington does business overseas: In the same week that the the US Justice Department demanded that the...
South Korea Should ‘Brexit’ the United States
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 8, 2017 | Featured Articles
With President Trump being accompanied by three U.S. carrier groups during his trip to Korea, South Koreans should pull a “Brexit” on the United States. As I counseled last April and August in two separate articles, South Korea should dissolve their alliance with the...
The Creation of ‘Russia-Gate’
by Joe Lauria | Nov 8, 2017 | Featured Articles
The two sources that originated the allegations claiming that Russia meddled in the 2016 election — without providing convincing evidence — were both paid for by the Democratic National Committee, and in one instance also by the Clinton campaign: the Steele dossier...
America Breaks Down: The Anatomy of a National Nervous Breakdown
by John W. Whitehead | Nov 7, 2017 | Featured Articles
'This country has been having a nationwide nervous breakdown since 9/11. A nation of people suddenly broke, the market economy goes to shit, and they’re threatened on every side by an unknown, sinister enemy. But I don't think fear is a very effective way of dealing...

GOP Tax Plan Increases the Most Insidious Tax
by Ron Paul | Nov 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
Last Thursday, congressional Republicans unveiled their tax reform legislation. On the same day, President Trump nominated current Federal Reserve Board Governor Jerome Powell to succeed Janet Yellen as Federal Reserve chair. While the tax plan dominated the...
Dubious Osama bin Laden Documents: A Pretext for a War on Iran
by Kurt Nimmo | Nov 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
The CIA has given the Long War Journal exclusive access to the supposed Osama bin Laden files taken from his “compound” in Pakistan.The Long War Journal is a project of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) where its editors are senior fellows. The...
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