Donald Trump is obviously a smart man. One cannot build up a billion-dollar financial empire without being smart.Unfortunately, however, Trump is not so smart when it comes to some things, like the drug war. He thinks that simply by cracking down in the drug war and...
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Flynn’s Gone But They’re Still Gunning For You, Donald
by David Stockman | Feb 17, 2017 | Featured Articles
General Flynn's tenure in the White House was only slightly longer than that of President-elect William Henry Harrison in 1841. Actually, with just 24 days in the White House, General Flynn's tenure fell a tad short of old "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too". General Harrison...
You Are Forbidden to Talk with Russians!
by Michael S. Rozeff | Feb 16, 2017 | Featured Articles
A New York Times article says “The agency’s [FBI’s] investigation of Mr. Manafort began last spring as an outgrowth of a criminal investigation into his work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine and for the country’s former president, Viktor F. Yanukovych. It...
Trump and Duterte: Birds of a Feather
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
When it comes to the drug war, the verdict is in: The big, drain-the-swamp, anti-establishment president, Donald Trump, is turning out to be just like all the other mainstream establishment politicians. He made that clear last week in a speech before a group of...
Trump Caves on Flynn’s Resignation
by Robert Parry | Feb 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
The neocon-dominated U.S. foreign policy establishment won an important victory in forcing the resignation of President Trump’s National Security Advisor Michael Flynn over a flimsy complaint that he had talked to the Russian ambassador during the transition.The...
Ignore The Tough Talk – Trump’s Iran Policy Will be Much Like Obama’s
by Gareth Porter | Feb 14, 2017 | Featured Articles
The first public pronouncements by President Donald Trump's administration on Iran have created the widespread impression that the US will adopt a much more aggressive posture towards the Islamic Republic than under Barack Obama's presidency.But despite the rather...
Saudi Lobbyists Recruiting Veterans to Kill 9/11 Lawsuit
by Brian McGlinchey | Feb 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
Using misinformation and lots of cash, Saudi Arabia is recruiting well-meaning U.S. military veterans into its campaign to eviscerate a recently-passed law allowing 9/11 families to sue the monarchy for its alleged role in facilitating the attacks that killed nearly...
Will Congress Stop Forcing Pro-Life Americans to Subsidize Abortion?
by Ron Paul | Feb 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
Last month marked 44 years since the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision declaring a constitutional right to abortion. Roe remains one of the Supreme Court’s most controversial decisions. Even some progressive legal theorists who favor legalized abortion have...
Can’t Judge Fake News in the Dark
by Peter van Buren | Feb 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
This isn’t about Trump. It’s about judging the media, whoever and whatever they report on. It is about reading critically when so much out there is just simply inaccurate. Not maybe inaccurate, pure dead solid perfect stupid. So don’t call me a nazi.Step One is to...
US Special Forces Deployed To 70 Percent Of The World In 2016
by Tyler Durden | Feb 11, 2017 | Featured Articles
US Special Operations Command launched a raid in Yemen’s Baida Province on Jan 29, targeting Qassim al-Rimi, the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The first high-profile special forces operation of Trump’s presidency, the raid resulted in the deaths of at...
The Warlords of Kiev
by Justin Raimondo | Feb 10, 2017 | Featured Articles
The warlords of Kiev are going on the offensive, violating the terms of the Minsk peace accords, and attacking separatist rebels in the eastern part of the country in a desperate bid to provoke open conflict with Russia. What motivates them is fear of President Donald...
Trump is Wrong – Saudi Arabia, Not Iran is the World’s ‘Number One Terrorist State
by John Wight | Feb 10, 2017 | Featured Articles
Donald Trump is proving himself a President prone to unleashing inconvenient truths side by side with blatant falsehoods. One of the most scurrilous of those falsehoods is his recent claim that Iran is the “number one terrorist state.”Throughout his campaign for the...
Trump’s Fearmongering is White House Tradition
by James Bovard | Feb 10, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Trump is being reviled for wildly exaggerating the peril of Muslim refugees. Some commentators fret that his rhetoric signals a new fascist era descending on America. A Washington Post news analysis on Saturday derided Trump’s fear-mongering: “Playing upon...
Are the Neocons Slithering into the New Administration?
by Justin Raimondo | Feb 8, 2017 | Featured Articles
Less than three weeks into the presidency of Donald J. Trump, there are several troubling signs that the new administration is abandoning its foreign policy mandate and going off the rails.First and foremost is the saber-rattling aimed at Iran. The ostensible reason...
The FBI: The Silent Terror of the Fourth Reich
by John W. Whitehead | Feb 8, 2017 | Featured Articles
“After five years of Hitler’s dictatorship, the Nazi police had won the FBI’s seal of approval.”— Historian Robert Gellately Lately, there’s been a lot of rhetoric comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. The concern is that a Nazi-type regime may be rising in...
‘When Trump won, Ukraine’s Poroshenko put himself in pretty bad position’
by RT | Feb 8, 2017 | Featured Articles
The Ukrainian president exposed his preference for Clinton during the US presidential campaign, explains Daniel McAdams, executive director at Ron Paul Institute, adding that it could have resulted in a change of tone in the US after Trump’s win. US President Donald...
US Tanks, Troops Arrive In Estonia As Part Of NATO Anti-Russia Build Up
by Tyler Durden | Feb 7, 2017 | Featured Articles
As part of continued a NATO build-up and US efforts to counter an alleged Russian threat, US military hardware, including M1A2 Abrams battle tanks and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles have arrived in the northern Estonian town of Tapa, shortly after similar...
Business As Usual – Is Trump’s Foreign Policy Just More Bush And Obama?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
The last two weeks have been quite a disappointment for those who expected President Trump to make a clear break with the interventionist, warmongering foreign policy of his two immediate predecessors. The Trump Administration threatened Iran several times --...
Cut, Don’t Reform, Taxes
by Ron Paul | Feb 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
Many Americans who have wrestled with a 1040 form, or who have paid someone to prepare their taxes, no doubt cheered the news that Congress will soon resume working on tax reform. However taxpayers should temper their enthusiasm because, even in the unlikely event tax...
‘The Media Coverage on Syria is the Biggest Media Lie of our Time’ — Interview with Flemish Priest in Syria
by Wierd Duk | Feb 4, 2017 | Featured Articles
Flemish Father Daniël Maes (78) lives in Syria in the sixth-century-old Mar Yakub monastery in the city of Qara, 90 kilometers north of the capital Damascus. Father Daniel has been a witness to the “civil war” and according to him, Western reports on the conflict in...
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