Legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh is challenging the Trump administration’s version of events surrounding the April 4 “chemical weapons attack” on the northern Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun – though Hersh had to find a publisher in Germany to get his...
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The Age of No Privacy: The Surveillance State Shifts Into High Gear
by John W. Whitehead | Jun 26, 2017 | Featured Articles
“We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.” ― William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice (1966) The government has become an expert in finding ways to sidestep what it...

Republican Healthcare Plan Fails the ‘Jimmy Kimmel Test’
by Ron Paul | Jun 26, 2017 | Featured Articles
This week the Senate Republican leadership unveiled its Obamacare replacement plan. Like its House counterpart, the misnamed Senate plan retains most of Obamacare’s core features.Both the House and Senate plans allow states to obtain waivers providing relief from some...
Tyranny at Home to Fight Tyranny Abroad
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 24, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Trump has reminded us of how the US government destroyed the liberty of the American people in the name of fighting tyranny abroad. Exercising the same dictatorial method that his predecessors have employed — executive decrees — he has made it illegal again...
Snowden Part Two: Edward Interviews Ron!
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 24, 2017 | Featured Articles
As our interview last week with Edward Snowden ended, Edward asked Ron Paul a question while the cameras were still rolling that was so important and interesting that with his permission we decided to release the "after credit sequence." Why so important? As a former...
Groundhog Day in Iraq? Nope, Worse
by Peter van Buren | Jun 23, 2017 | Featured Articles
It’s a helluva question: “Tell me how this ends.”It was a good question in 2003 when then Major General David Petraeus asked it as the United States invaded Iraq, an ironic one in 2011 when the US withdrew, worth revisiting in 2014 when the US reinvaded Iraq, and...
The Saudi-Qatar Spat – An Offer To Be Refused
by Moon of Alabama | Jun 23, 2017 | Featured Articles
After the crown prince of the Austia-Hungary monarchy Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot and killed in Sarajevo the government of Austria waited three weeks to issue a 10 point ultimatum to Serbia which it held responsible for the incident. At least three of those...
How America Armed Terrorists In Syria
by Gareth Porter | Jun 22, 2017 | Featured Articles
Three-term Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, a member of both the Armed Services and Foreign Affairs committees, has proposed legislation that would prohibit any U.S. assistance to terrorist organizations in Syria as well as to any organization working directly...
Ron Paul: ‘US Should Mind its Own Business; It Shouldn’t be in Syria’
by RT | Jun 21, 2017 | Featured Articles
The US has no right to fly into Syrian airspace where it shouldn’t be and set boundaries but should mind its own business. Otherwise, it is an act of aggression, says former US Congressman Ron Paul.The US fighter jet downed an armed drone belonging to pro-Syrian...
Our Rush to War in Syria — It’s a Disaster in the Making
by Justin Raimondo | Jun 21, 2017 | Featured Articles
The downing of a Syrian fighter jet by the United States – and, more recently, of an Iranian drone – augurs a confrontation that could take us down the road to World War III. The US media is echoing the Pentagon’s explanation, which is that the Syrian jet bombed (or...
Supreme Court Rules Overwhelmingly To Strike Down ‘Disparagement Clause’ Used To Bar Offensive Trademarks
by Jonathan Turley | Jun 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a major victory for free speech on Monday in striking down a provision of the Lanham Act that barred registration for “disparaging” trademarks. The decision came in Matal v. Tam, a case that we have been following. I have previously...
Self-Defense Is No Defense for US Acts of War in Syria
by Finian Cunningham | Jun 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
The shooting down of a Syrian fighter jet by US forces this week comes on the back of several aggressive actions by American military on the ground. Taken together the US actions mark an alarming escalation of intervention in the Syrian war – to the point where the...
Hodgkinson’s Disease: Politics and Paranoia in the Age of Trump
by Justin Raimondo | Jun 19, 2017 | Featured Articles
James T. Hodgkinson, the would-be assassin of Republican congressmen, wasn’t a radical. If you look at his published output – a series of letters to his local newspaper in Belleville, Illinois, as well as the majority of his Internet postings – it’s mostly about...

Trump Turns Back the Clock With Cold War Cuba U-Turn
by Ron Paul | Jun 19, 2017 | Featured Articles
Nostalgia seems to be very popular in Washington. While the neocons and Democratic Party hard-liners have succeeded in bringing back the Cold War with Russia, it looks like President Trump is determined to take us back to a replay of the Bay of Pigs! In Miami on...
The ICC Should be on Trial not Saif Gaddafi
by Richard Galustian | Jun 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
Saif Gaddafi at a press conference last week.The International Criminal Court has demanded that Libya hand over former leader Muamar Gaddafi's son Saif after his release by an armed militia last week, but it is the Court, not Saif, which should be on trial.One word...
It’s the Russia, Stupid
by James George Jatras | Jun 16, 2017 | Featured Articles
It’s another week in Washington and another horror show. This time it was Attorney General Jeff Sessions being grilled by Senators on whether, when, and how he might have met with certain Russians, or any Russian, or someone who might actually know a Russian. In...
Derangement And Danger On The Potomac
by David Stockman | Jun 16, 2017 | Featured Articles
The horrific shooting spree on the practice field of the GOP's congressional baseball team happened early yesterday morning, but it was hardly the end of Wednesday's madness on the Potomac. As it happened, the former was apparently another random eruption by of one of...
Trump Administration Following in Obama Administration’s Footsteps on Marijuana
by Adam Dick | Jun 16, 2017 | Featured Articles
Last month, United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent a letter to congressional leaders urging them to oppose Congress again including in Department of Justice appropriations legislation a provision intended to stop, through a restriction on the use of...
The War In Afghanistan Is A Racket
by Moon of Alabama | Jun 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
The United States will again escalate the war in Afghanistan.Sixteen years ago the US invaded the country and decided to eliminate the ruling Taliban for something that was planned elsewhere by a different group. Since the invasion, the US tried to defeat the Taliban....
New Russia Sanctions: The Deep State Unifies Congress
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
When it comes to bad foreign policy, the House and Senate are completely bipartisan. Yesterday's 97-2 Senate vote for more Russia sanctions was a perfect case in point. What justifies yet more sanctions on Russia? Violating the territorial integrity of Ukraine,...
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