The Republican Party Debate, South Carolina, May 15th, 2007 MR. GOLER: Congressman Paul, I believe you are the only man on the stage who opposes the war in Iraq, who would bring the troops home as quickly as -- almost immediately, sir. Are you out of step with your...
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Are They Really Out to Get Trump?
by Philip Giraldi | May 16, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Donald Trump is not exactly known for his self-restraint. The recent firing of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey was not handled with any delicacy and has unleashed a firestorm of criticism coming from across the political spectrum....

President Trump: Toss Your Generals’ War Escalation Plans In the Trash
by Ron Paul | May 14, 2017 | Featured Articles
By the end of this month, Defense Secretary James Mattis and National Security Advisor HR McMaster will deliver to President Trump their plans for military escalations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. President Trump would be wise to rip the plans up and send his...
Comey Fring Justly Knocks FBI off its Pedestal
by James Bovard | May 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Trump’s firing of FBI chief James Comey provides a welcome chance to dethrone the FBI from its pinnacle in American politics and life. Last September, Comey denounced Twitter "demagoguery" for the widespread belief that the FBI was not "honest" or...
Shut Down the ‘Russia-gate’ Farce
by Justin Raimondo | May 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
The level of lunacy we’ve reached can be measured by the brouhaha over the presence of Russian photographers in the Oval Office during Sergey Lavrov’s visit: no US photographers were allowed, but the Russians somehow got in and the Paranoid Brigade went into...
Ron Paul Rewind (2010): ‘End the War in Afghanistan Now!’
by Daniel McAdams | May 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
As the tenth anniversary of the US war in Afghanistan approached, Rep. Ron Paul took to the Floor of Congress to demand an end to that unwinnable war. "It was said that it's hard to quit a war, and we shouldn't be quitting. But the real problem is that it's too easy...
Will Trump Agree to the Pentagon’s Permanent War in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria?
by Gareth Porter | May 12, 2017 | Featured Articles
The two top national security officials in the Trump administration – Secretary of Defence James Mattis and national security adviser HR McMaster - are trying to secure long-term US ground and air combat roles in the three long-running wars in the greater Middle East...
Watergate Redux or ‘Deep State’ Coup?
by Robert Parry | May 12, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday reflected a growing concern inside the White House that the long-rumored scheme by “deep state” operatives to overturn the results of the 2016 election may have been more than just rumors.The fear grew...
No Evidence of Russian Intrusion in US Political System
by RT | May 11, 2017 | Featured Articles
I think this is good progress between the US and Russia, but there will be plenty of individuals in this country who complain about it because it just seems like they are very content to keep the aggravation going, Ron Paul told RT.The focus of a meeting between...
Syria Doesn’t Need Our Help Against Terrorists
by Daniel McAdams | May 10, 2017 | Featured Articles
What was the real reason for the Lavrov/Tillerson/Trump meeting in Washington today? Likely it was to work out the new facts on the ground in Syria, where the "safe zones" that President Trump called for not long ago have actually been established through cooperation...
Comey Fired…Now Fire The FBI!
by Daniel McAdams | May 10, 2017 | Featured Articles
While everyone is talking about President Trump firing James Comey, Director of the FBI, what we should be talking about is whether we should even have an FBI. Look at the track record of this organization -- putting Americans in jail for opposing war, spying on...
On That Day Began Lies
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 9, 2017 | Featured Articles
Like many other mainstream political commentators, Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum is outraged and indignant over Donald Trump’s public praise and open embrace of foreign dictators who are allied or friendly with the US government. In an op-ed in the Post’s...
ProPublica Attacks First Amendment, Cloudflare Edition
by Peter van Buren | May 8, 2017 | Featured Articles
You’re almost certainly interacting with Cloudflare right now. Feel OK?Cloudflare is a web services company that, among other things, protects sites against various malicious attacks and hacks. They don’t “host” data in most cases, but work as a kind of middleman...

President Trump: Cancel Your Saudi Trip, Play More Golf
by Ron Paul | May 8, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Trump is about to embark on his first foreign trip, where he will stop in Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the Vatican, before attending a NATO meeting in Brussels and the G-7 summit in Sicily. The media and pundits have loudly wondered why hasn’t he gone on a...
How Berkeley and NYU’s Anti-Free Speech Actions are as Unconstitutional as Hell
by Peter van Buren | May 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
Ann Coulter will not speak at Berkeley this week because the threat of mob violence lead campus authorities to claim they could not protect her. The same threats led New York University (NYU) to cancel Milo Yiannopoulos’ appearance in February. These are shameful...
What the North Korean ‘Crisis’ Is Really About
by Paul Craig Roberts | May 4, 2017 | Featured Articles
The North Korean “crisis” is a Washington orchestration. North Korea was last at war 1950-53. North Korea has not attacked or invaded anyone in 64 years. North Korea lacks the military strength to attack any country, such as South Korea and Japan, that is protected by...
Madison Was Right About War
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 4, 2017 | Featured Articles
Given that so many Americans continue to express gratitude to the troops for their forever service in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and elsewhere, it would be worthwhile to revisit the immortal words of James Madison, the father of the U.S. Constitution: Of...
Welcome to the White House, President Duterte
by Adam Dick | May 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
Part of noninterventionism in foreign affairs is refraining from using threats, sanctions, foreign aid, or military attacks to make the governments of other countries change their actions in their own countries. The United States government has drifted so far from...
War or Peace?
by Dennis J. Kucinich | May 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
There is a dangerous condition in Washington, DC where people in positions of influence and great power are, at this very moment, pushing this nation and the world to the brink of a nuclear catastrophe. We did not arrive at crisis overnight but be sure we are at a...
The Real WMD in Syria – West’s Weapon of Mass Disorientation
by Finian Cunningham | May 2, 2017 | Featured Articles
A senior Rand analyst, inadvertently, gave the game away in a recent article inculpating Syrian President Bashar al Assad over the alleged toxic massacre of civilians on April 4. The Rand Corporation, a longtime conduit for CIA propaganda, wrote: "The use of chemical...
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