Last week, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) reminded Congress that in matters of war, they have the authority and the responsibility to speak for the American people. Most Senators were not too happy about the reminder, which came in the form of a forced vote on whether to...
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Accused of War Crimes, Saudis Investigate Themselves and Find No Wrongdoing
by Carey Wedler | Sep 16, 2017 | Featured Articles
Amid international calls for an independent inquiry into Saudi war crimes in Yemen, the Kingdom has investigated itself and found it has done nothing wrong.Countries including China, the Netherlands, and Canada have pushed forward with a U.N. Human Rights Council...
Afghanistan – US Resolved To Repeat Failures
by Moon of Alabama | Sep 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
The US military and political leadership is so devoid of learning capability that it does not fight multiyear long wars. Instead it fights one disconnected campaign after the other on the very same battlefield. Each of these campaigns will repeat the mistakes that...
Janet Reno: Saint or Tyrant?
by James Bovard | Sep 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
When former Attorney General Janet Reno died last November, the media heaped praise on her as if she had been justice incarnate. Reno had long enjoyed sainthood inside the Beltway; the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia even created a Janet Reno...
Reagan Documents Shed Light on US ‘Meddling’
by Robert Parry | Sep 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
“Secret” documents, recently declassified by the Reagan presidential library, reveal senior White House officials reengaging a former CIA “proprietary,” The Asia Foundation, in “political action,” an intelligence term of art for influencing the actions of foreign...
Six Major US Foreign Policy Failures of the Post-Cold War Era
by Adam Garrie | Sep 14, 2017 | Featured Articles
In the 1990s, US officials, all of whom would go on to serve in the George W. Bush White House, authored two short, but deeply important policy documents that have subsequently been the guiding force behind every major US foreign policy decision taken since the year...
Bombshell Report Catches Pentagon Falsifying Paperwork For Weapons Transfers To Syrian Rebels
by Tyler Durden | Sep 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
A new bombshell joint report issued by two international weapons monitoring groups Tuesday confirms that the Pentagon continues to ship record breaking amounts of weaponry into Syria and that the Department of Defense is scrubbing its own paper trail. On Tuesday the...
The UN Losing Poker Hand in Libya
by Richard Galustian | Sep 12, 2017 | Featured Articles
In poker, smart players know that the best thing to do with a weak hand is dump it. Not so the United Nations. Libya is doubling down on backing the failing Government of National Accord (GNA), hoping that by reopening its UN base in the capital, the previously...
The Case Against the Iranian Nuclear Deal is One Big Lie
by Stephen Walt | Sep 11, 2017 | Featured Articles
Imagine we were back in 1948. Suppose Joseph Stalin offered to halt the Soviet Union’s efforts to develop its own atomic bomb for up to 15 years. As part of the deal, suppose he agreed to let inspectors from the United Nations enter the USSR and monitor all of its...
Why Did Robert Mueller Obstruct Congress’s 9/11 Probe?
by Justin Raimondo | Sep 11, 2017 | Featured Articles
Sixteen years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we still don’t know what happened. How did a ragtag bunch of hijackers, armed only with box cutters, manage to gain control of those airliners? How did they get into the United...

Congress Exploits Hurricane to Raise Debt Ceiling
by Ron Paul | Sep 11, 2017 | Featured Articles
Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel famously counseled politicians to never let a crisis go to waste. Sadly, this week President Trump and congressional leaders of both parties showed that they have taken this advice to heart when they attached a debt...
What We Lost on September 11th
by Jeff Deist | Sep 11, 2017 | Featured Articles
The cliché is true: September 11, 2001 represents a defining American moment. Generation X and Millennials suddenly had their own day of infamy, just as their parents and grandparents had Pearl Harbor and the Kennedy assassination. 9/11 marked the end of a relatively...
Israel Launches Air Strikes On Syria And Assad’s Waiting Game’
by Tyler Durden | Sep 8, 2017 | Featured Articles
Immediately after Israel's latest unprovoked strike on Syria we posed the question, did Benjamin Netanyahu just panic? The answer is yes, Israel is now acting from a position of desperation as it has failed in its goal of regime change in Syria. Overnight (Wed....
The Bombast of Nikki Haley
by Justin Raimondo | Sep 8, 2017 | Featured Articles
How Nikki Haley got her job as UN ambassador, and a major foreign policy spokesperson for the Trump administration, is a mystery, at least to me. Her vicious personal attacks on Trump when he was a candidate should’ve ruled her out from the get-go. Where oh where is...
The USS Liberty Wins One!
by Philip Giraldi | Sep 7, 2017 | Featured Articles
On June 8th 1967 the United States Navy intelligence ship the U.S.S. Liberty was attacked in international waters by aircraft and vessels belonging to Israel. Thirty-four sailors, Marines and civilians were killed in the attack. The deliberate Israeli air and sea...
GOP Congressman: Trump Losing Me on Foreign Policy
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Sep 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
A few days before the 2000 elections, I hosted the Duncan Family Barbecue at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum, which aside from free food, always features bands, choirs, and top names from the Country music and Oldies worlds, drawing upwards of 10,000 people.Governor...
Interventionism and the Korean Crisis
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Sep 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
If war ends up breaking out in Korea, President Trump, the Pentagon, and the CIA will be announcing that it was all North Korea's fault. They’ll say that North Korea was “begging for war,” and that the United States was “forced” to act to protect “national security.”...
What Michael Moore Gets Right and Wrong about the Police State
by Adam Dick | Sep 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
Documentarian Michael Moore, in a Friday post at Twitter, linked to video of Alex Wubbels, a nurse at a Salt Lake City, Utah hospital, being arrested for refusing to comply with a police demand that she draw blood from an unconscious patient at the hospital without...
American Jackboot Diplomacy
by Finian Cunningham | Sep 5, 2017 | Featured Articles
The latest extraordinary roughshod violation of Russian diplomatic rights by the American authorities shows that the US doesn’t want to restore normal bilateral relations. Indeed, it has now resorted publicly to jackboot diplomacy.The rapid ordering of Russia to...

Government ‘Aid’ Makes Disasters Worse
by Ron Paul | Sep 4, 2017 | Featured Articles
Texans affected by Hurricane Harvey, including my family and me, appreciate the outpouring of support from across the country. President Donald Trump has even pledged to donate one million dollars to relief efforts. These private donations will be much more valuable...
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