The basic formula for every breaking Trump/Russia story is essentially as follows: 1. The New York Times or Washington Post releases an article that at first blush appears extremely damning. 2. Anti-Trump pundits and Democrats react reflexively to the news, express...
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Lobbyists Concealed Their Saudi Paymasters From Veterans Pressed to Lobby Against 9/11 Bill
by Brian McGlinchey | Mar 2, 2017 | Featured Articles
Three veterans who were flown to Washington as part of a Saudi-sponsored campaign to lobby for changes to the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) say organizers of the event concealed the Saudi role in the initiative. Enacted in September 2016 over...
US-Backed Siege of Mosul Shows How Hypocritical Media Manipulates Us
by Darius Shahtahmasebi | Mar 1, 2017 | Featured Articles
In order to determine the truth when it comes to the mainstream media’s coverage of American-led offensives in the Middle East, be sure to scroll down to the bottom of any article. This is where the most important information can be found. As can be seen in a BBC...
Expect Increased Spending under President Trump, and Not Just on the Military
by Adam Dick | Mar 1, 2017 | Featured Articles
The Trump administration announced Monday its support for an additional 54 billion dollars in spending for military and national security programs in fiscal year 2018 and a 30 billion dollar bump for such spending in fiscal year 2017. Meanwhile, 54 billion dollars in...
Trump’s ‘Obsolete NATO’ Means Europe Paying for US Militarism
by Finian Cunningham | Feb 28, 2017 | Featured Articles
When US President Donald Trump dismisses the NATO alliance as “obsolete” what he really means is not withdrawing from the military pact, but rather offloading running costs onto European nations.Several times during his election campaign, Trump sounded contemptuous...
A Troubled CIA Analyst Finds Jesus (and the devil is spelled T-R-U-M-P)
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 28, 2017 | Featured Articles
Last Monday The Washington Post featured an op-ed by one Edward Price entitled “I didn’t think I’d ever leave the CIA. But because of Trump, I quit.” I must admit that it was refreshing at first to read something in The Post that did not rush to blame BOTHTrump and...
Trump and Haley’s Uncoordinated and Contradictory Syria Paths
by Michael S. Rozeff | Feb 27, 2017 | Featured Articles
Trump has stated in no uncertain terms that he’s against ISIS. He’s awaiting a military review due on Feb. 28 that provides him with options. In addition: ’The president has been very clear that he’s going to work with any country that shares our interest in defeating...
On Military and Spending, It’s Trump Versus Trump
by Ron Paul | Feb 27, 2017 | Featured Articles
It can be a challenge to follow the pronouncements of President Trump, as he often seems to change his position on any number of items from week to week, or from day to day, or even from minute to minute. Consider his speech last week at the Conservative Political...
Sleepwalking Into a Nuclear Arms Race with Russia
by Chuck Spinney | Feb 24, 2017 | Featured Articles
The Nuclear Question is becoming increasingly obfuscated by spin and lobbying as the West sleepwalks into Cold War II — a walk made all the more dangerous when the loose lips of the US tweeter-in-chief announced that another nuclear arms race is a great idea (see...
Ron Paul Rewind: Discussing Foreign Policy with Alan Colmes
by Adam Dick | Feb 24, 2017 | Featured Articles
Radio and television talk show host Alan Colmes, who died on Thursday, interviewed Ron Paul several times over the years. Colmes’ interviews with Paul were always interesting, in large part due the research, thoughtfulness, and intelligence Colmes could be counted on...
The Futility and Corruption of the Drug War
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 24, 2017 | Featured Articles
I just finished watching the much-acclaimed series “Narcos” on Netflix. What a fantastic program. And what an excellent depiction of the futility and corruption of the war on drugs.The series is a true-life account of Pablo Escobar, a Colombian drug lord who headed up...
Trump’s First Terror Arrest: A Broke Stoner The FBI Threatened at Knifepoint
by Murtaza Hussain | Feb 23, 2017 | Featured Articles
photo: Boone County Sheriff's Department The Department of Justice proudly announced the first FBI terror arrest of the the Trump administration on Tuesday: An elaborate sting operation that snared a 25-year old Missouri man who had no terrorism contacts besides the...
The Sacrifice of Tulsi Gabbard
by David Gornoski | Feb 22, 2017 | Featured Articles
The media continues to be an increasingly petty, insecure clique as it mimetically parrots its own echo chamber talking points against any person who challenges their preferred leftist-corporatist brand of state hegemony. Think of political ideologies like...
Why Do ‘Progressives’ Like War?
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 21, 2017 | Featured Articles
Liberals are supposed to be antiwar, right? I went to college in the 1960s, when students nationwide were rising up in opposition to the Vietnam War. I was a Young Republican back then and supported the war through sheer ignorance and dislike of the sanctimoniousness...
Veterans Being Misled On JASTA, Says International Law Expert
by Brian McGlinchey | Feb 21, 2017 | Featured Articles
As Saudi lobbyists continue to fly U.S. military veterans to Washington to oppose a recently-passed law that cleared the way for 9/11 families and victims to sue the kingdom for its alleged assistance to the hijackers, an expert on international law says the principal...
The ‘Blind Sheik’ And The CIA – Media Bury US Support For Radical Islamism
by Moon of Alabama | Feb 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
Two days ago the Takfiri Islamist leader Omar Abdul-Rahman , the so called "Blind Sheik", died in a US prison. He had been found guilty of involvement in the 1993 attempt to bring down the World Trade Center in New York and of other crimes.The obituaries of Omar...
McCain in Munich: The War Party Fights Back
by Justin Raimondo | Feb 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
The Munich conference held over the weekend – an annual event that brings the leaders of the Atlantic alliance together to celebrate their hegemonic pretensions – was anything but celebratory this time around. Despite the assurances of Vice President Pence that...
Trump’s ISIS Plan: Another US Invasion?
by Ron Paul | Feb 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
Just over a week into the Trump Administration, the President issued an Executive Order giving Defense Secretary James Mattis 30 days to come up with a plan to defeat ISIS. According to the Order, the plan should make recommendations on military actions, diplomatic...
Red Hysteria Engulfs Washington
by Eric Margolis | Feb 19, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Dwight Eisenhower’s warning about the dangers of the military-industrial complex made half a century ago ring as loud and clear today. The soft coup being mounted against the Trump government by America’s "deep state" reached a new intensity this week as...
‘America wants empire and for Europeans to remain subservient’
by RT | Feb 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
The US spends more on its military than the next seven nations combined. Russian military spending is a fraction of US spending. The US spends an enormous amount on the military to maintain its empire, says Daniel McAdams, executive director, Ron Paul Peace...
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