Maybe the president believes he’s won a great victory over the wicked Syrians by lobbing cruise missiles at one of their underused air bases. Maybe Trump believes that he’s scared the evil Russians and the too big for their sampans Chinese into obedience.His 22,000 lb...
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Saddam Hussein at 80: Iraq Without its ‘Liberation’
by Neil Clark | Apr 29, 2017 | Featured Articles
What would have happened had there been no Iraq War in 2003 and Saddam Hussein had stayed in power? Where would we be today?It’s the 28th of April 2017. Saddam Hussein, president of Iraq, now a member state of the newly reconstituted United Arab Republic (with Syria...
Gen Mattis’ Syria Chemical Claim Smacks of Politicized Intelligence
by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity | Apr 29, 2017 | Featured Articles
AN OPEN MEMORANDUM FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLEFrom: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)Subject: Mattis ‘No Doubt’ Stance on Alleged Syrian CW Smacks of Politicized IntelligenceDonald Trump’s new Secretary of Defense, retired Marine General James “Mad Dog”...
Phony Hysterics Over North Korea
by Justin Raimondo | Apr 28, 2017 | Featured Articles
A lot of my job as editorial director of Antiwar.com is cutting through the veil of obfuscation with which the War Party masks its ill intentions. But sometimes you don’t even have to read between the lines to see what our conniving rulers are up to. Such is the case...
Trump’s Foreign Policy after 100 Days: Tweeting with Bombs?
by Nile Bowie | Apr 28, 2017 | Featured Articles
As US President Donald Trump prepares to mark 100 days in office, the administration’s foreign policy approach has become a painful disappointment to anyone with mildly optimistic expectations Washington would take a more realist approach to its role in the world. In...
Do American Airports Suck? Yes, Yes They Do
by Peter van Buren | Apr 28, 2017 | Featured Articles
Traveling by air in America is one of the best ways to see the country, although it is not always the nicest view. I recently took a fresh look, with the goal of advising my foreign friends what to expect when they drop by the United States.Our Air PalacesYou’ll enjoy...
CIA Director Pompeo Doesn’t Understand the First Amendment
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 27, 2017 | Featured Articles
You would think that by the time a person becomes the Director of the CIA, he would have a correct understanding of the Constitution, which is the founding document of the federal government, which the CIA is part of. This should be especially true when the CIA...
What Comes After the US Missile Strike in Syria?
by Salman Rafi Sheikh | Apr 26, 2017 | Featured Articles
After experiencing a lot of hype after the missile strike, we have reached a point where the US seems to have nothing to offer to the people of Syria except support for the powers that have played a central role in fomenting the crisis in the first place. While the US...
State Governments Are Becoming the Biggest Drug Lords of All
by Robert Higgs | Apr 26, 2017 | Featured Articles
The so-called war on drugs—actually a war on certain people associated in various ways with certain drugs — has served since the Nixon administration as a major profit center for governments at every level. Owing to the ostensible efforts to suppress the possession,...
The Iron Jaws of the Police State: Trump’s America Is a Constitution-Free Zone
by John W. Whitehead | Apr 25, 2017 | Featured Articles
Please.Somebody give Attorney General Jeff Sessions a copy of the Constitution.And while you’re at it, get a copy to President Trump, too.In fact, you might want to share a copy with the nation’s police officers, as well.I have my doubts that any of these...
Why is US Media Ignoring Prof. Postol’s Study on Syria Chemical Weapons Attack?
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 24, 2017 | Featured Articles
The Trump Administration announced today that it was placing 271 Syrian scientists under sanctions for what it claimed was their work on producing chemical weapons for the Assad government. As with the chemical attack in Idlib earlier this month, for which the US...
Tell Us Why We’re At War, President Trump
by Peter van Buren | Apr 24, 2017 | Featured Articles
People speak of Afghanistan as “our generation’s” Vietnam, a quagmire, a war that goes on simply because it has been going on.The Afghan war is dragging into being our generation’s, and soon the next generation’s Vietnam as well, over a decade and a half old. There...
Will the FBI Spy on the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity? It Wouldn’t Surprise Me
by Michael S. Rozeff | Apr 24, 2017 | Featured Articles
Carter Page is an FBI target of investigation, and he shouldn’t be. He has been under surveillance for years, and he shouldn’t be. The FBI’s reasons are his associations with Russians, built through business and financial matters, and his views on U.S. foreign policy...

Candidate Trump: ‘I Love Wikileaks.’ President Trump: ‘Arrest Assange!’
by Ron Paul | Apr 24, 2017 | Featured Articles
“I love Wikileaks,” candidate Donald Trump said on October 10th on the campaign trail. He praised the organization for reporting on the darker side of the Hillary Clinton campaign. It was information likely leaked by a whistleblower from within the Clinton campaign to...
France: Will ‘La Morosite’ Win the Vote?
by Eric Margolis | Apr 22, 2017 | Featured Articles
I watched the final French presidential debate last Thursday night with fascination and even a measure of admiration. France has some very intelligent, well-educated politicians. They are fine until they get into office but then must begin pleasing France’s fractious...
US ‘Deep State’ Sold Out Counter-Terrorism to Keep Itself in Business
by Gareth Porter | Apr 22, 2017 | Featured Articles
New York Times columnist Tom Friedman outraged many readers when he wrote an opinion piece on 12 April calling on President Trump to "back off fighting territorial ISIS in Syria". The reason he gave for that recommendation was not that US wars in the Middle East are...
On Interventionistas and their Mental Defects
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Apr 22, 2017 | Featured Articles
Valerian, the human footstoolSkin in the Game is necessary to reduce the effects of the following divergences that arose mainly as a side effect of civilization: action and cheap talk (tawk), consequence and intention, practice and theory, honor and reputation,...
The Spy State Unleashed
by Justin Raimondo | Apr 21, 2017 | Featured Articles
After hearing about an alleged Russian plot to throw the election to Donald Trump for eight months, amid leaks by “former government and intelligence officials,” this media narrative being pushed relentlessly by Rachel Maddow and the fake journalists over at CNN has...
Berkeley Cancels Coulter Speech . . . Coulter Vows To Defy University
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
We have been discussing the erosion of free speech on our campuses across the country through speech codes and increasingly violent protests. Conservative speakers are now routined denied the opportunity to speak on campuses by university officials who cite security...
President Trump’s Disappearance
by Paul Craig Roberts | Apr 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
In my long experience in Washington, vice presidents did not make major foreign policy announcements or threaten other countries with war. Not even Dick Cheney stole this role from the weak president George W. Bush.But yesterday the world witnessed VP Pence threaten...
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