“Our carceral state banishes American citizens to a gray wasteland far beyond the promises and protections the government grants its other citizens… When the doors finally close and one finds oneself facing banishment to the carceral state—the years, the walls, the...
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After ‘Brexit,’ Can We Exit a Few Things Too?
by Ron Paul | Jun 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
Last week’s UK vote to leave the EU may have come as a shock to many, but the sentiment that led British voters to reject rule from Brussels is nothing unique. In fact it is growing sentiment worldwide. Frustration with politics as usual, with political parties that...
Google, YouTube, Facebook, Others, Now Using Automated Blocking of ‘Extremist’ Content
by Peter van Buren | Jun 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
The web’s biggest content providers have started using automation to remove “extremist propaganda” videos from their sites. Censoring Content YouTube (owned by Google) and Facebook are among the sites deploying systems to block or rapidly take down Islamic State...
Do We Really Want War With Russia?
by Eric Margolis | Jun 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
War with Russia appears increasingly likely as the US and its NATO satraps continue their military provocations of Moscow. As dangers mount, our foolish politicians should all be forced to read, and then re-read, Prof. Christopher Clark’s magisterial book, ‘The...
The Brexit Vote – What Does it Mean?
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jun 24, 2016 | Featured Articles
What does it mean?Hopefully, a breakup of the EU and NATO and, thereby, the avoidance of World War III.The EU and NATO are evil institutions. These two institutions are mechanisms created by Washington in order to destroy the sovereignty of European peoples. These two...
Saudis Push Washington Revolt Against Obama on Syria
by Finian Cunningham | Jun 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
That 51 US diplomats reproached President Obama’s Syria policy by calling for greater American military force deployed against the Damascus government was itself a remarkable sign of official dissent within Washington. But the president’s authority was further...
Teen Sues US Over Cavity Drug Search for Which She was Billed $575
by Peter van Buren | Jun 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
Ashley Cervantes, a then 18-year-old American citizen, was stopped at the Mexico border and, for some unspecified reason, perhaps related to her being young and of Hispanic ethnicity, accused by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of smuggling drugs. What Drugs? A...
‘Hello, Lenin!’ Three Components of America’s Misguided Foreign Policy
by Jim Jatras | Jun 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
Since the end of the Cold War, American foreign policy could almost have been designed to undermine our national interests. Whether under Republican George W. Bush or Democrats Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, we have seen “regime changes” and “color revolutions,”...
Fifty-One Foreign Service Officers Can't be Wrong…Or Can They? More bombs and Less Talk on Syria
by Philip Giraldi | Jun 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
Fmr US Ambassador Robert Ford meets with "moderate" terrorists in SyriaIt is ironic that fifty-one US State Department employees, perhaps overly-generously dignified in the media with the title of “diplomats,” have come out in favor of removing a foreign head of state...
Orlando: Islam or Blowback?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
According to the Telegraph newspaper, “Omar Mateen, the Orlando gunman, told his victims the attack was revenge for American bombing of Afghanistan, but allowed black Americans to be released because ‘they have suffered enough.’” The person who recounted what Mateen...
Nazis Have Rights Too
by Adam Dick | Jun 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
Suffolk County, New York police arrested Edward Perkowski on Thursday after the police allegedly found in a raid of his home items including tens of thousands of dollars in cash, several guns and knives, ammunition, a bit of marijuana and illegal mushrooms, and some...
Orlando: The New 9/11?
by Ron Paul | Jun 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
Last week America was rocked by the cold-blooded murder of 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Unlike the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Orlando shooter appears to be a lone gunman who, while claiming allegiance to ISIS, was not...
Why Are Defense Policy Wonks So Ineffectual?
by Franklin C. Spinney | Jun 18, 2016 | Featured Articles
“People say the Pentagon does not have a strategy. They are wrong; the Pentagon does have a strategy. It is: Don’t interrupt the money flow, add to it.” -Colonel John R. BoydFighter pilot, aircraft designer, strategist Today, America’s foreign policy is a shambles....
Interventionism is a Rotten Tree With Rotten Fruit
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 17, 2016 | Featured Articles
Fifty-one State Department officials are calling on President Obama to expand US interventionism in Syria by initiating a bombing campaign against the Syrian government. Apparently they’re not satisfied with the great “success” that their philosophy of interventionism...
US Senate Votes to Legalize Kidnapping of Women (AKA: Military Draft)
by Shane Kastler | Jun 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
Here’s a joke for you: How many US Senators does it take to kidnap your daughter? Answer: I don’t know, but 85 of them would like to. On Tuesday the US Senate voted overwhelmingly to allow the federal government to kidnap women against their will and force them into...
Militarized USDA and EPA using SWAT Teams to Terrorize Innocent People Including Lemon Growers and Small Farmers
by Daniel Barker | Jun 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
The federal government is becoming increasingly militarized, with numerous agencies now employing their own SWAT teams to conduct raids on raw milk producers, beekeepers, lemon growers - or anyone else who runs afoul of agency policies. The trend has increased during...
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by Daniel McAdams | Jun 15, 2016 | Featured Articles
How did the use of military force become the first option in US foreign policy? Why must we spend a trillion dollars each year to fund a global empire that leaves us poorer and less safe? How does the military-industrial complex rip off working Americans while...
Clinton Discussed Top Secret CIA Drone Info, Approved Drone Strikes, Via Her Blackberry
by Peter van Buren | Jun 14, 2016 | Featured Articles
A new report in the Wall Street Journal reveals emails in which then-Secretary of State Clinton approved CIA drone assassinations in Pakistan from her unsecured Blackberry. Top Secret/SAP Messages The timing and location of these strikes are considered Top Secret/SAP...
Violence Begets Violence: The Orlando Shootings and the War on Terror
by John W. Whitehead | Jun 14, 2016 | Featured Articles
Until we start addressing the US government’s part in creating, cultivating and abetting domestic and global terrorism—and hold agencies such as the FBI and Defense Department accountable for importing and exporting violence, breeding extremism and generating...
Fascism: A Bipartisan Affliction
by Ron Paul | Jun 13, 2016 | Featured Articles
If neoconservatives and progressives truly understood fascism, they would stop using the word as a smear term. That is because both groups, along with most political figures and commentators, embrace fascist ideas and policies. Fascism’s distinguishing characteristic...
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