US Secretary of Defense James Mattis has said “civilian casualties are a fact of life in this sort of situation,” referring to America’s war against Islamic State. How can America in clear conscience continue to kill civilians across the Middle East? It’s easy; ask...
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NYT Finally Retracts Russia-gate Canard
by Robert Parry | Jun 30, 2017 | Featured Articles
The New York Times has finally admitted that one of the favorite Russia-gate canards – that all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies concurred on the assessment of Russian hacking of Democratic emails – is false.On Thursday, the Times appended a correction to a June 25...
Mad Dog’s Pathetic Syrian Chemical Attack Propaganda
by Kurt Nimmo | Jun 30, 2017 | Featured Articles
It’s obvious Mad Dog and the war-makers take us for complete idiots.On Wednesday Trump’s Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, otherwise fondly known as Mad Dog, said Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian government backed down on a chemical attack after a stern warning from the...
Fake News Media Suppress Two Blockbuster Stories on Syria
by James George Jatras | Jun 29, 2017 | Featured Articles
It has become the conventional wisdom that the information world has been forever changed by the advent of the Internet Age. Whereas in the past the established media were the only source of news and opinion, we are led to believe that now, with a virtually unlimited...
Peace Is Popular
by Jeff Deist | Jun 29, 2017 | Featured Articles
Capitalism is essentially a scheme for peaceful nations. What the incompatibility of war and capitalism really means is that war and high civilization are incompatible. — Ludwig von MisesPeace is popular.That was Ron Paul’s message to our audience in Texas earlier...
Trump’s Reckless Syria Folly
by James Bovard | Jun 27, 2017 | Featured Articles
Last year on the campaign trail, crowds roared when Donald Trump denounced his opponent as "trigger-happy" Hillary. But President Trump is rapidly incarnating the vice he condemned. Nowhere is this more evident than in Syria, where Trump’s recklessness risks dragging...
Intel Behind Trump’s Syria Attack Questioned
by Ray McGovern | Jun 26, 2017 | Featured Articles
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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