The media would do us all a service if they didn’t cover terrorism so much, because then people “wouldn’t know what’s going on.” That little bit of wisdom comes courtesy of US Secretary of State John Kerry. Kerry’s offhand remark was made during a visit to Bangladesh...
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How to Solve the Illegal Immigration Problem
by Ron Paul | Sep 5, 2016 | Featured Articles
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s recent speech on immigration really missed the point. I understand Trump’s frustration over the US government’s inability to control the US borders and keep out those who would come to this country illegally. Trump was...
Is the United States Trying to Incite Unrest in Venezuela?
by Robert Wenzel | Sep 3, 2016 | Featured Articles
The country of Venezuela is on the edge of collapse. This is partly the result of a weak oil price that has shrunk an important revenue lifeline for the Venezuelan government.The government has responded by printing massive amounts of new Venezuelan currency to keep...
US V US in Syria
by Eric Margolis | Sep 2, 2016 | Featured Articles
What a mess! In the crazy Syrian war, US-backed and armed groups are fighting other US-backed rebel groups. How can this be?It is so because the Obama White House had stirred up the war in Syria but then lost control of the process. When the US has a strong president,...
Acceptable Losses: Aiding and Abetting the Saudi Slaughter in Yemen
by Andrew Cockburn | Sep 2, 2016 | Featured Articles
Just a few short years ago, Yemen was judged to be among the poorest countries in the world, ranking 154th out of the 187 nations on the U.N.’s Human Development Index. One in every five Yemenis went hungry. Almost one in three was unemployed. Every year, 40,000...
The Campaign to Blame Putin for Everything
by Justin Raimondo | Sep 1, 2016 | Featured Articles
Hardly a day goes by without some “news” about the Russian “threat,” and in the past twenty-four hours the hate-on-Russia campaign seems to have picked up speed. After learning from Hillary Clinton that Vladimir Putin is not only responsible for the Trump campaign,...
The Real US Syria Scandal: Supporting Sectarian War
by Gareth Porter | Aug 30, 2016 | Featured Articles
The main criticism of US policy in Syria has long been that President Barack Obama should have used US military force or more aggressive arms aid to strengthen the armed opposition to Assad. The easy answer is that the whole idea that there was a viable non-extremist...
Tell Us Why We’re At War, Candidates
by Peter van Buren | Aug 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
When I was a kid, successive presidents told us we had to fight in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, because if we didn’t fight them over there, we’d have to fight them on the beaches of California. We believed. It was a lie. I was a teenager during the Cold War, several...
The Election Has Been Hacked: The Dismal Reality of Having No Real Electoral Choices
by John W. Whitehead | Aug 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
The FBI is worried: foreign hackers have broken into two state election databases. The Department of Homeland Security is worried: the nation’s voting system needs greater protection against cyberattacks. I, on the other hand, am not overly worried: after all, the...
US in Denial Over Sponsoring Terrorism is Why Syrian War Rages On
by Finian Cunningham | Aug 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
Marathon 10-hour talks this weekend between the US and Russia in Geneva failed to produce a comprehensive plan to end the brutal Syrian war. Cutting through diplomatic jargon, the fundamental problem is that the US remains in denial about its criminal role in fueling...
The Right Lessons from Obamacare’s Meltdown
by Ron Paul | Aug 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
The decision of several major insurance companies to cut their losses and withdraw from the Obamacare exchanges, combined with the failure of 70 percent of Obamacare's health insurance “co-ops, ” will leave one in six Obamacare enrollees with only one health insurance...
The Man Who Captured Abu Zubaydah Says It’s Time to End His Ordeal and Send Him Home
by John Kiriakou | Aug 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
Accused terrorist Abu Zubaydah has not had his day in court yet. But earlier this week he had his day before a military Periodic Review Board, which apparently has the power to determine whether or not he should be released from the prison at Guantanamo Bay. Zubaydah...
Do You Want a Peaceful and Prosperous Society or Not?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
Every Sunday at my church, we are exhorted to pray, among other things, for peace in the world and for the men and women who serve our nation — i.e., the military and the CIA . Naturally, the priests who craft the prayer, along with most of the congregation, fail to...
The Alternate Reality of Anders Fogh Rasmussen
by Danielle Ryan | Aug 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
Reading through a recent interview with former NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen, it becomes clear that his world is one in which US foreign policy has only ever made us all safer and the biggest risk we now face is diminished US power. The entire premise...
America’s Communist Program
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 24, 2016 | Featured Articles
Throughout the Cold War, the US national-security state told the American people that it was necessary for America to go over to the dark side in order to combat the threat of communism and the Soviet Union. By that, they meant adopting policies and practices employed...
The Blessing of Cash
by Joseph Salerno | Aug 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
Starting today, the Royal Bank of Scotland will become the first bank in the U.K. to impose a negative interest rate on depositors. The negative rate will apply only to corporate customers, including mutual fund managers and pension funds, holding deposits of certain...
The Neoconservatives, the War on Iraq, and the National Interest of Israel
by Stephen J. Sniegoski | Aug 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
The neoconservatives were the driving force in the George W. Bush administration’s war on Iraq and, in so doing, went a long way toward forming US policy in the Middle East that has continued under Obama. Neoconservatism emerged at the tail end of the 1960s as some...
Children of the American Police State: Just Another Brick in the Wall
by John W. Whitehead | Aug 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
We don’t need no education We don’t need no thought control No dark sarcasm in the classroom Teachers leave them kids alone… All in all it’s just another brick in the wall All in all you’re just another brick in the wall. —Pink Floyd, “Another Brick in the Wall” The...
Follow the Money Trail for Source of ‘Russian Threat’ Paranoia
by Neil Clark | Aug 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
You’d have to have been locked in a wardrobe if you live in the West not to have heard ominous phrases like “The Russian threat”, “Russian aggression in Europe” and “Russia set to invade Poland/Estonia/ Ukraine/Finland.” Certain people are trying to scare us witless...
What Should We Do About Crimea?
by Ron Paul | Aug 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
Is Crimea about to explode? The mainstream media reports that Russia has amassed troops on the border with Ukraine and may be spoiling for a fight. The Russians claim to have stopped a Ukrainian sabotage team that snuck into Crimea to attack key infrastructure. The...
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