“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion,and only one person were of the contrary opinion,Mankind would be no more justifiedIn silencing that one person,Than he, if he had the power,Would be justified in silencing mankind.”-- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) The...
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Media Flubs Chance to Avert Trump Shooting
by William Dunkerley | Jul 18, 2024 | Featured Articles
Were there signals of a possible assassination attempt that were missed? My research suggests there were. These signals were not out in the open, staring us in the face. Identifying them would have required putting together a series of clues and observing the...
Media Now Embarrassed For Covering Up Biden’s Weakness
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Jul 17, 2024 | Featured Articles
It is both a little bit funny and a little bit sad, even a little pathetic, when a very old man tries to show he is as strong and active as a much younger man. President Biden often tries to carry his arms and take a couple of quick steps when he comes on stage to...
Assassination Accomplishes Nothing
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 17, 2024 | Featured Articles
I was a few minutes into my talk at FreedomFest when former President Trump was almost assassinated. It was ironic because my talk was about the U.S. national-security establishment’s assassination of President Kennedy. While my talk specifically focused on the CIA’s...
‘Operation Jupiter’ and a Revolution in the Making
by Alastair Crooke | Jul 16, 2024 | Featured Articles
Brussels Élites let out their long sigh of relief – the French Right was blocked. Markets complacently shrugged; “everything must ‘change’ to remain the same.” The Centre will find a way! Macron successfully had blocked the “populist” Right and Left through...
A Time of Shame and Sorrow: When It Comes to Political Violence, We All Lose
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Jul 16, 2024 | Featured Articles
“Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily—whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence—whenever we tear at the...
Elon Musk is Right: End the Online Censorship Racket
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 16, 2024 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in the Hill on the recent report of the House Judiciary Committee and the disclosure of yet another effort to silence opposing viewpoints by squeezing the revenue of individuals or groups, including Elon Musk and Joe Rogan. Here is the column: Few...
Why We’ll Never Know What Really Happened in Butler, PA
by Ron Paul | Jul 15, 2024 | Featured Articles
Just days after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, theories are flying from all directions. Many who ridiculed the “conspiracy theories” of conservatives are now suggesting the whole event was a set-up to boost Trump in the polls ahead of...
Trump, Orban, Putin: Why are all the ‘dictators’ hellbent on peace?
by Robert Bridge | Jul 15, 2024 | Featured Articles
One of the greatest farces of these modern times is that those who scream the loudest about democracy and human rights are the very same people who violate international norms at every opportunity. In the June issue of The New Republic, a left-leaning US political...
Supporting Israel Is Big Business in the United States
by Philip Giraldi | Jul 14, 2024 | Featured Articles
In a recent article discussing how US Treasury Department tax breaks are exploited by groups that raise money in America in support of the Israeli so-called Defense Forces (IDF), I concluded that it does not require any particular brilliance on the part of...
It’s That Time Again: MSM Launches ‘Muh Russia’ Election Narrative As Brands Collude To Silence Dissent
by Tyler Durden | Jul 12, 2024 | Featured Articles
While the Democratic party melts down over Joe Biden's cognitive decline - an obvious risk to US national security, the 2024 election wouldn't be complete without a Trump-Russia narrative. To that end, the Wall Street Journal reports that the Russian...
Holes In the Constitution
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jul 11, 2024 | Featured Articles
In his famous dissent in Olmstead v. United States, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in 1928 called the right to be left alone the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men. He was referring to the right to be left alone from the...
We were ‘deceived and gaslit for years’, all in the name of ‘democracy’; then ‘poof’, it collapsed overnight
by Alastair Crooke | Jul 10, 2024 | Featured Articles
The Editor at Large for the Wall Street Journal, Gerry Baker, says: ‘We’ve been “gaslit’ and deceived” – for years – “all in the name of ‘democracy’”. That deceit “collapsed” with the Presidential debate, Thursday’. Until the world saw the truth … [against] the...
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Government: Rep. Goldman Insists that the Country is Safe in the Hands of Others
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 5, 2024 | Featured Articles
Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, wrote “The President [of the Galaxy] in particular is very much a figurehead—he wields no real power whatsoever. […] His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.” This week,...
Twilight’s Last Gleaming
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jul 4, 2024 | Featured Articles
When a presidential debate devolves into an argument over golf scores and afterward the public argues about the candidates’ mental acuity or personal honesty, when the question for voters is who is the sharper debater rather than who would be more faithful to the...
Former Israeli PM Admits Israel’s War Crimes Can’t Happen Without US Support
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jul 3, 2024 | Featured Articles
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has been launching a forceful attack on Benjamin Netanyahu in both US and Israeli media for sabotaging peace in Gaza and pushing Israel to the brink with Hezbollah in Lebanon, during which he inadvertently...
The Republican Establishment’s Sterile Foreign Policy Perspective
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jul 2, 2024 | Featured Articles
Those Americans who might hope that the growing public opposition to continuing U.S. aid to Ukraine might signal a wave of fresh thinking about foreign policy in the Republican party are likely to be disappointed. Most members of the establishment cling to the idea...
The West – Indubitably – has Lost Russia, and is Losing Eurasia Too
by Alastair Crooke | Jul 2, 2024 | Featured Articles
There perhaps was a momentary shrugging-off of slumber in Washington this week as they read the account of Sergei Lavrov’s démarche to the US Ambassador in Moscow: Russia was telling the US – “We are no longer at peace”! Not just “no longer at peace,” Russia was...
The Art of Being Eternally Shocked: How the Press and Pundits are Again Mystified by the Obvious
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 2, 2024 | Featured Articles
No one would think of the Beltway as being a place of the naive innocents of our society. Washington is the only ecosystem composed entirely of apex predators. Yet, this week everyone seems to be eternally shocked by what has been obvious for years. The press and...
The Debate Should Be a Wake-Up Call For Americans
by Ron Paul | Jul 1, 2024 | Featured Articles
There were plenty of surprises in last week’s presidential debate. For one, Americans who rely on the mainstream media for their news learned that they had been lied to for the past three years about President Biden’s capability to do the job he was elected to do. The...
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