A new coalition of US-based organizations is pushing for a more aggressive US intervention against the Assad regime. But both the war in Syria and politics in the United States have shifted dramatically against this objective. When it was formed last July, the...
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What Trump Could Do
by Jeff Deist | Jan 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
Today Donald Trump becomes the 45th president of the United States. American voters rejected the devil they know so well — Hillary Clinton — for the devil they don’t. Why they did so, and how Trump prevailed, is the biggest political story of our age. But the...
We’re Still Here, 1/20/17, Consumed Most of All by Our Fears
by Peter van Buren | Jan 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
One of my favorite quotes includes the lines “I awoke this morning to find that it was not judgment day – only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.” I think that sums up a part of my thinking, but certainly not all.A nuclear reckoning, war with China, or anything...
Obama’s Wasted, Deadly, and Destructive Presidency
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 19, 2017 | Featured Articles
Eight years ago, President Obama’s administration started with hope and change. Eight years later, we end up with a legacy of nothing but waste, death, and destruction.Libertarians never had any hope, of course, that Barack Obama would dismantle any aspect of the...
Obama’s Achievement: Whitewashing Permanent Warfare With Eloquence
by Nile Bowie | Jan 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
Judging from how the mainstream media has characterized the legacy of Barack Obama so far, the outgoing president will be most remembered for his many rousing aspirational speeches and well-timed shows of emotion.His talent as a persuasive public communicator and the...
Chelsea Manning Clemency: Did Obama Do The Right Thing?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Obama's surprise move to grant clemency to whistleblower Chelsea Manning yesterday was cheered by those who support transparency for government and jeered by those who support the national security state. What did Manning reveal? Thousands of instances of...
A Demand for Russian ‘Hacking’ Proof
by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity | Jan 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
MEMORANDUM FOR: President Barack ObamaFROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)SUBJECT: A Key Issue That Still Needs to be ResolvedAs President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take the oath of office Friday, a pall hangs over his upcoming presidency...
Who Is Michael Morell?
by Jiri Valenta | Jan 16, 2017 | Featured Articles
“No doubt Putin is playing Trump!” Yes, former CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell is indeed at it again. During the presidential campaign he repeatedly attacked Donald Trump as an “unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.” In the same vein, anonymous CIA officials have...
Abolish the CIA
by Michael S. Rozeff | Jan 16, 2017 | Featured Articles
Every American who looks at the CIA objectively or in a balanced way and judges it by any number of criteria, such as moral, legal and pragmatic, should reach the conclusion that the CIA should be abolished. JFK wanted to break it into a million pieces. Trump is right...
Protesters Succeed In Preventing Conservative Speakers From Appearing At The University of California At Davis
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
We have been discussing the largely successful efforts by students and faculty to prevent certain conservative speakers like Milo Yiannopoulos from being able to speak on campuses. The latest such example is University of California at Davis where protesters succeeded...
Will Trump Continue the Bush-Obama Legacy?
by Ron Paul | Jan 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
This week, Congress passed a budget calling for increasing federal spending and adding $1.7 trillion to the national debt over the next ten years. Most so-called “fiscal conservatives" voted for this big-spending budget because it allows Congress to repeal some parts...
Is Trump Already Finished?
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jan 14, 2017 | Featured Articles
It did not take long before we knew there was no hope of change from President Obama. But at least he went into his inauguration with an unprecedented number of Americans on the Mall showing their support for the President of Change. Hope was abundant.But with Trump,...
One Final Expansion of the Surveillance State as Obama Heads for the Door
by Scott Shackford | Jan 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Barack Obama's administration ending its eight-year rule by expanding the sharing of intercepted communications and data between federal agencies may feel a little bit like a final giant middle finger to the many critics of the massive, secretive...
The Secret Trump Dossier — What Does It Mean?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
The strange UK "former" spy-produced report on information the Russians may have to compromise President-elect Donald Trump has been widely denounced and the website that released it in its entirety, BuzzFeed, criticized for irresponsibility. However, Buzzfeed has...
Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich Ask President Obama to Free Chelsea Manning
by Adam Dick | Jan 12, 2017 | Featured Articles
Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich sent a letter this week to President Barack Obama requesting that Obama “grant the application for clemency submitted by Chelsea Manning and commute her sentence to time served.” The result of Obama taking this action would be the...
American Troops ‘Roll Into Poland’ In Largest Deployment Since The Cold War
by Tyler Durden | Jan 12, 2017 | Featured Articles
"American soldiers rolled into Poland on Thursday, fulfilling a dream Poles have had since the fall of communism in 1989 to have US troops on their soil as a deterrent against Russia." That's how the AP begins its report on the first deployment of US soldiers into the...
Will the CIA Retaliate Against Trump?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 11, 2017 | Featured Articles
In a truly remarkable bit of honesty and candor regarding the U.S. national-security establishment, new Senate minority leader Charles Schumer has accused President-elect Trump of “being really dumb.”Was Schumer referring to Trump’s ideology, philosophy, or knowledge...
Where Was Meryl Streep When Obama Was Prosecuting Whistleblowers & Bombing Weddings?
by Danielle Ryan | Jan 10, 2017 | Featured Articles
Okay, first let’s get one thing out of the way: I adore Meryl Streep. Judge all you want, but The Devil Wears Prada is a classic and I won’t apologize for saying it.Streep’s anti-Trump speech on Sunday night at the Golden Globes was a sublime performance. It was...
Washington Invented Hacking and Interfering in Elections
by Philip Giraldi | Jan 10, 2017 | Featured Articles
Is the United States the victim of an unprovoked cyber and media attack by Russia and China or are the chickens coming home to roost after Washington’s own promotion of such activity worldwide? On Thursday Director of National Intelligence James Clapper asserted to...
The Globalists’ Russia Game
by Anne Williamson | Jan 9, 2017 | Featured Articles
Thanks to Barak Obama’s most recent expression of his low character and a foreign policy weirdly akin to fantasy-baseball gone bad, thirty-five US-resident Russian diplomats and their families targeted for rapid deportation feared a frantic search in the holiday...
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