The United States is preparing for all options to counter the growing threat from North Korea, including launching a “preventive war,” national security adviser H.R. McMaster said in an interview that aired Saturday on MSNBC. The comments come after North Korea...
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Time to End the Lost Afghan War
by Eric Margolis | Aug 5, 2017 | Featured Articles
Media reports claim President Donald Trump let loose on his generals behind closed doors, blasting them royally for their startling failures in Afghanistan, America’s longest war.The president has many faults and is a lousy judge of character. But he was absolutely...
Where Trump Might Be Vulnerable
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 4, 2017 | Featured Articles
It’s still not clear to me the particular crime for which special prosecutor Robert Mueller is investigating President Trump.Was it illegal for Vladimir Putin to support Trump for president instead of Hillary Clinton?Nope.Was it illegal for Trump to receive advice,...
Isolated Trump Flails Helplessly as He Bows to Irrational Policies on Russia and Europe Imposed by Congress
by James George Jatras | Aug 4, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Donald Trump has signed the sanctions bill against Russia, North Korea, and Iran. With the near-unanimous, veto-proof margin by which the so-called "Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act" was passed by both the House and the Senate, Trump...
Russia Sanctions and The Coming Crackdown on Americans
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
Illustration from "Hamilton 68" project website.Last week I wrote an article and did an interview explaining that in my reading of the new Russia sanctions bill just signed by President Trump, there is a measure opening the door to a US government crackdown on some of...
US Ignores Saudi Beheading of 14 Activists, Labels Venezuela Dictatorship Despite Elections
by Carey Wedler | Aug 2, 2017 | Featured Articles
This week, the Trump administration condemned the Venezuelan government following the country’s recent election. But as the US imposes sanctions on Venezuela and vocally decries their lack of democracy, President Trump’s outrage is all but nonexistent as a US ally...
Groupthink at the CIA
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 1, 2017 | Featured Articles
Long ago, when I was a spear carrying middle ranker at CIA, a colleague took me aside and said that he had something to tell me “as a friend,” that was very important. He told me that his wife had worked for years in the Agency’s Administrative Directorate, as it was...
Trump Calls On Police To Be Rougher In Handling Suspects In Speech Denounced By Police Organizations
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 1, 2017 | Featured Articles
Controversial statements by President Donald Trump in the past have often been treated by his supporters as hyperbole or not to be taken strictly or even seriously. However, a speech last Friday had some particularly chilling elements for anyone who believes in the...
America Declares Economic War Against Europe
by Eric Zuesse | Jul 31, 2017 | Featured Articles
On Friday night, July 28, US President Donald Trump said that he would sign into law the increased economic sanctions (passed by 98-2 in the Senate and 419-3 in the House) against any business that is declared to have "knowingly provided goods or services... for...
Russia’s Expulsion of Staff From the US Embassy in Moscow is Unprecedented and Huge
by Alexander Mercouris | Jul 31, 2017 | Featured Articles
Last autumn, as the Obama administration considered mass expulsions of Russian diplomats from the US in response to the burgeoning Russiagate scandal, John Tefft – the US ambassador to Russia – is reported to have warned against taking this step. Tefft’s reasons for...

North Korea or Iran…Where Will President Trump Attack First?
by Ron Paul | Jul 31, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Trump seems to be impatiently racing toward at least one disastrous war. Maybe two. The big question is who will be first? North Korea or Iran? Over the past several days President Trump has sent two nuclear-capable B-1 bombers over the Korean peninsula to...
Countdown To War On Venezuela
by Moon of Alabama | Jul 29, 2017 | Featured Articles
On Sunday Venezuela will hold an general election of participants of a constitutional assembly. Half of the representatives will be elected from regular electoral districts. The other half will be elected from and by eight special constituencies like "workers",...
Bipartisanship! The Evil Party and Stupid Party Team Up to Cripple Trump, Subvert the Rule of Law, and Put the US on a Road to War
by James George Jatras | Jul 29, 2017 | Featured Articles
The overwhelming approval by both chambers of the US Congress of a bill imposing new, permanent sanctions on Russia, Iran, and North Korea puts President Donald Trump in an impossible position. He can either sign the bill or allow it to become law without his...
Get Out of Afghanistan and Go Home
by Brian Cloughley | Jul 28, 2017 | Featured Articles
In Afghanistan on 24 July, a Taliban suicide bomber killed forty people in the centre of Kabul, just four days after a US airstrike killed 16 Afghan policemen in Helmand Province. Both incidents of slaughter were terrible and highlighted the US State Department...
US Sanctions Aimed at Russia Strike Western European Allies
by Diana Johnstone | Jul 28, 2017 | Featured Articles
Do they know what they are doing? When the US Congress adopts draconian sanctions aimed mainly at disempowering President Trump and ruling out any move to improve relations with Russia, do they realize that the measures amount to a declaration of economic war against...
Home Alone – Trump Is the Kevin McCallister of American Politics
by David Stockman | Jul 27, 2017 | Featured Articles
It’s as if on election night the shocked and exasperated rulers of the Imperial City ordered Donald Trump to sleep in the White House attic. Unlike Kevin McCallister’s family in the movie, however, the establishment never stopped obsessing about his bratty insolence...
The Atlantic Council: Experts on the Front Line of Disinformation
by Bryan MacDonald | Jul 27, 2017 | Featured Articles
NATO's academic wing has been warning about disinformation for years. And it's no wonder when its staff and contributors are so well-versed in the practice themselves.The Atlantic Council is an organization dedicated to discussion between people who hate Russia and...
President Trump: The Only America First Afghan Policy is to Get Out of Afghanistan
by Michael Scheuer | Jul 26, 2017 | Featured Articles
Just when you think that you have heard all of the asinine ideas possible about US involvement in Afghanistan, out comes one that is so hideously ridiculous that you must assume the authors are demented and writing from a well-secured asylum.The quote below comes from...
Trump Is Being Moved Aside So That Conflict with Russia Can Proceed
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jul 26, 2017 | Featured Articles
What is the Congress up to with their stupid bill that imposes more sanctions and removes the power of President Trump to rescind the sanctions that President Obama imposed?Congress is doing two things. One is that Congress is serving their campaign contributors in...
Policing for Profit: Jeff Sessions & Co.’s Thinly Veiled Plot to Rob Us Blind
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 25, 2017 | Featured Articles
“Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner. The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle — a mere counter in a grotesque...
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