You know what gets in the way of progress? Dogma. When people are wedded to ideologies, society atrophies and ideas become non-existent. Voltaire once said, “it is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.” Truer words have rarely been spoken; it’s as...
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‘US in Grip of Anti-Russia Hysteria, Worse Than Days of Salem Witch Trials’
by RT | Sep 29, 2017 | Featured Articles
The whole "Russia thing" is due to the neocons who are looking for another Cold War because it is very profitable for them, Daniel McAdams, executive director of the Ron Paul Institute, told RT.Twitter has published a report on how the company battled against alleged...
Coverup? FBI, DOJ Refuse To Comply With Congressional ‘Trump Dossier’ Subpoena
by Tyler Durden | Sep 29, 2017 | Featured Articles
In what looks like a naked coverup meant to obscure the fact that the Department of Justice's decision to launch a criminal investigation into possible Russia-Trump collusion was based on a lie, Reuters reports that the DOJ and FBI are resisting a Congressional...
The Push To ‘Fight Foreign Propaganda’ Is The Same As Government Book Burning
by Caitlin Johnstone | Sep 28, 2017 | Featured Articles
As with all the over-hyped and under-substantiated claims that have been shown to the public over the last year about Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 US presidential election, the latest forced effort by America’s unelected power establishment to show...
North Korea Would Be Stupid to Trust the US
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Sep 28, 2017 | Featured Articles
To many mainstream pundits, the solution to the crisis in Korea is for US officials to sit down and “talk” to North Korea in the hopes of negotiating a mutually beneficial agreement. While it won’t guarantee that a deal will be worked out, they say, “talking” is the...
The Atlantic Council: ‘Debates’ Between People Who Hate Russia & People Who Really Hate Russia
by Bryan MacDonald | Sep 27, 2017 | Featured Articles
Welcome to the Atlantic Council. A think tank which isn't given to introspection and which ultimately amounts to NATO's propaganda arm. This week, I endured an Atlantic Council echo-chamber to spare you the bother. The list of lobbyists retained by the club (who...
Christians Return to Syria- But Not to Iraq
by William Murray | Sep 27, 2017 | Featured Articles
Christians in the Middle East are voting with their feet for the government of President Assad in Syria. With all that American government officials and the news media have said to condemn the secular government of Syria, surely no one should want to return there,...
Washington Post Pushes More Dubious Russia-Bashing
by Robert Parry | Sep 26, 2017 | Featured Articles
Some people are calling the anti-Russian hysteria being whipped up across the US mainstream news media a new “golden age of American journalism,” although it looks to me more like a new age of yellow journalism, prepping the people for more military spending, more...
More on Imran Awan – Where Are All Those Congressional Emails?
by Philip Giraldi | Sep 26, 2017 | Featured Articles
I wrote an article on the strange case of Imran Awan about two months ago. To summarize it briefly, Awan, his two brothers and wife, naturalized U.S. citizens born in Pakistan living in the Washington DC area, found employment as IT administrators in the House of...
Syria – US CentCom Declares War On Russia
by Moon of Alabama | Sep 25, 2017 | Featured Articles
bigger Yesterday three high ranking Russian officers were killed in an "ISIS attack" in eastern-Syrian. It is likely that they were killed by US special forces or insurgents under US special forces control. The incident will be understood as a declaration of war.The...
Trump Vs The NFL – The Right To Protest
by Ron Paul | Sep 25, 2017 | Featured Articles
Do NFL players have the "right" to protest against the national anthem on the playing field? Should Trump's demand that anyone who does not stand should be fired? What about the owners? And what about the millions the Defense Department sent the NFL to militarize the...
How to End the Korea Crisis
by Ron Paul | Sep 25, 2017 | Featured Articles
The descent of US/North Korea “crisis” to the level of schoolyard taunts should be remembered as one of the most bizarre, dangerous, and disgraceful chapters in US foreign policy history.President Trump, who holds the lives of millions of Koreans and Americans in his...
How World War One Still Haunts America
by James Bovard | Sep 23, 2017 | Featured Articles
This year is the 100th anniversary of Woodrow Wilson’s pulling America into World War I. Many people celebrate this centenary of America’s emergence as a world power. But at a time when the Trump administration is bombing or rattling sabers at half a dozen nations and...
Trump’s UN Speech: the Swamp’s Wine in an ‘America First!’ Bottle
by James George Jatras | Sep 22, 2017 | Featured Articles
In his maiden speech to the United Nations General Assembly, President Donald Trump invoked the terms “sovereign” and “sovereignty” 21 times. In a manner unimaginable coming from any other recent occupant of the White House, the President committed the United States...
Oil, Gas, Geopolitics Guide US Hand In Playing The Rohingya Crisis
by Whitney Webb | Sep 22, 2017 | Featured Articles
In recent years, Myanmar (formerly Burma) has only rarely been in the news. The quiet treatment owed much to the assumption that the country’s fledgling democracy was in “good hands” once the U.S-backed 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi gained renewed...
Hysteria in America: Congress Filled With ‘Totalitarians’ Who Oppose ‘Free Market of Ideas’
by RT | Sep 21, 2017 | Featured Articles
There are members of Congress who don’t want anyone on TV saying America’s foreign policy is a disaster and it costs a fortune, Daniel McAdams, executive director, Ron Paul Institute, told RT. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for the fiscal year 2018,...
Juggalo Blues: Their Beef With FBI No Laughing Matter
by James Bovard | Sep 21, 2017 | Featured Articles
Photo: James Bovard Despite being billed as a showdown of competing political protests and rallies, the only political action on the streets of Washington this past weekend were the raging clowns. They did not come to beat Nazis or chase Pro-Trumpers off the Mall, the...
Let Catalonia Decide
by Jeff Deist | Sep 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
Should Catalonia be independent?Surely Catalans, and nobody else, must answer that question. Some Catalans consider themselves Spanish and some don’t. Many Spaniards consider Catalonia part of Spain, while some don’t. But it’s clear that a significant number of...
The Worst Mistake in US History
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Sep 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
The worst mistake in US history was the conversion after World War II of the US government from a constitutional, limited-government republic to a national-security state. Nothing has done more to warp and distort the conscience, principles, and values of the American...
Trump’s UN Speech: A Neocon Dream?
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Trump's speech yesterday at the United Nations got rave reviews from neocons like John Bolton and Elliot Abrams. The US president threatened North Korea, Venezuela, Syria, Yemen, and Iran. At the same time he claimed that the US is the one country to lead by...
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