On August 25, 2017, a raid involving Somali and U.S. forces took the lives of 10 civilians, including 3 children. Last Saturday (October 14, 2017), in an apparent revenge attack in Mogadishu, two truck bombs killed at least 300 people and injured about an equal...
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An Attack on Iran or North Korea Wouldn’t Be Putting ‘America First’
by James George Jatras | Oct 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
Almost every day I am asked by someone what the likelihood is that we may soon be at war with Iran or North Korea, or conceivably both. As it’s unlikely either of those countries will attack the United States since it would be suicidal, the question of war really...
McCain As Metaphor
by Justin Raimondo | Oct 19, 2017 | Featured Articles
Some people are living symbols, sheer embodiments of a concept that fits their persona as snugly as their skin: e.g. the Dalai Lama personifies Contemplative Piety, Harvey Weinstein is the incarnation of Brazen Vulgarity, and John McCain’s very person exudes the...
Donald Trump Didn’t Create Danger of Presidential Dictatorship, He Inherited it
by James Bovard | Oct 19, 2017 | Featured Articles
Americans nowadays have a bad attitude towards presidents. Many people are denouncing Donald Trump as a dictator. But the real problem in this nation is the dictatorial illiteracy that has allowed modern presidents to commandeer far too much power.Trump’s saber...
Saudi Money In Syria – Sowing The Seeds Of ISIS 2.0
by Moon of Alabama | Oct 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
Thamer al-Sabhan, Saudi Minister for Gulf Affairs There is dangerous news evolving from Raqqa, Syria. While ISIS is largely defeated seeds get sown for its reappearance.The Kurdish forces under the label SDF and led by U.S. special forces have defeated ISIS in Raqqa....
How Trump Is Fueling the Refugee Crisis He Despises
by Darius Shahtahmasebi | Oct 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
Donald J. Trump has been obsessed with refugees for some time, scapegoating vulnerable populations across the world and ultimately banning them from the United States. He expressed these sentiments throughout his campaign, and to this day, the president has extended...
Hillary Clinton Just Told Five Blatant Lies About WikiLeaks
by Caitlin Johnstone | Oct 17, 2017 | Featured Articles
As part of her ongoing “Thank God You Didn’t Elect Me” tour, Hillary Clinton made her debut on Australian television last night in an interview with the ABC’s Sarah Ferguson. Though she didn’t repeat her infamous “17 intelligence agencies” lie, which she’d continued...
This Is How Tyranny Rises and Freedom Falls: The Experiment in Freedom Is Failing
by John W. Whitehead | Oct 17, 2017 | Featured Articles
It is easy to be distracted right now by the circus politics that have dominated the news headlines for the past year, but don’t be distracted.Don’t be fooled, not even a little.We’re being subjected to the oldest con game in the books, the magician’s sleight of hand...
US Deploys Special Forces ‘Decapitation’ Team To South Korea
by Tyler Durden | Oct 16, 2017 | Featured Articles
Today, the South Korean and US navies on Monday kicked off massive combined drills off the coast of the peninsula amid heightened tensions, a train exercise which North Korea has warned may prompt another ballistic missile launch, potentially to coincide with the...

President Trump Beats War Drums For Iran
by Ron Paul | Oct 16, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Trump has been notoriously inconsistent in his foreign policy. He campaigned on and won the presidency with promises to repair relations with Russia, pull out of no-win wars like Afghanistan, and end the failed US policy of nation-building overseas. Once in...
Trump Shoot The US in The Foot Over Iran
by Eric Margolis | Oct 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Donald Trump has put the United States on the course for war with Iran. That was clearly his objective last Friday when he refused to certify the international nuclear accord with Iran and proclaimed heavy sanctions against Tehran’s powerful paramilitary...
The Russiagate Scandal Descends into Total Absurdity
by Alexander Mercouris | Oct 14, 2017 | Featured Articles
Even as the Trump administration disintegrates – with the President publicly quarrelling with his Secretary of State, and his Chief of Staff forced to deny he is about to resign – the scandal which more than anything else has defined this Presidency has disintegrated...
This Is What Americans Heard During The Mysterious Cuban Sonic Attacks, And Why Experts Don’t Buy It
by Tyler Durden | Oct 14, 2017 | Featured Articles
Multiple neurologists and experts have told The Guardian that the mysterious "sonic attacks" upon US diplomats in Cuba are likely just a case of mass hysteria. The extensive Guardian report is based on research and interviews with top neurologists and medical experts...
Eager To Kill Iran Deal, Trump Finds Allies In Iraq WMD Peddling Neocons
by Whitney Webb | Oct 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
With the memory of the saber-rattling prelude to the US’ 2003 invasion of Iraq largely faded, many of that war’s biggest proponents have recently found themselves uniting behind a new cause – the dissolution of the Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint...
The Deep State’s Bogus ‘Iranian Threat’
by David Stockman | Oct 12, 2017 | Featured Articles
Yesterday we identified a permanent fiscal crisis as one of the quadruple witching forces arising in October 2017 which will shatter the global financial bubble. Today the Donald is on the cusp of making the crisis dramatically worse by decertifying the Iranian nuke...
Russia Wades into Saudi-Iran Rift
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Oct 12, 2017 | Featured Articles
The remark Wednesday by the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister and Presidential envoy for the Middle East Mikhail Bogdanov offering Moscow’s mediation for a rapprochement between Riyadh and Tehran comes within the week of the Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz’s talks with...
Sputnik and RT Under Investigation
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 10, 2017 | Featured Articles
Somehow everything keeps coming back around to Russia. In one of its recent initiatives, the Justice Department (DOJ) appears to be attacking the First Amendment as part of the apparent bipartisan program to make Vladimir Putin the fall guy for everything that goes...
Antifa in Theory and in Practice
by Diana Johnstone | Oct 9, 2017 | Featured Articles
“Fascists are divided into two categories: the fascists and the anti-fascists.” – Ennio Flaiano, Italian writer and co-author of Federico Fellini’s greatest film scripts. In recent weeks, a totally disoriented left has been widely exhorted to unify around a masked...

Will Tax Reform Increase or Limit Liberty?
by Ron Paul | Oct 9, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Trump and the congressional Republican leadership recently unveiled a tax reform “framework.” The framework has a number of provisions that will lower taxes on middle-class Americans. For example, the framework doubles the standard deduction and increases...
Longest War in US History Turns 16 Today – Thousands Dead, No End in Sight & It’s Getting Worse
by Rachel Blevins | Oct 7, 2017 | Featured Articles
On this day 16 years ago, less than one month after 9/11, President George W. Bush delivered a televised address from the White House announcing the beginning of the Afghanistan War.“On my orders, the United States military has begun strikes against al Qaeda terrorist...
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