Lots of confusion about the infighting in the "rebel" held Idleb governate in Syria, the situation is now clearing up. After other tricks, like renaming the group, did not work to deceive al-Qaeda finally pulled back the veil. It is no longer hiding between the...
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Did the CIA Ruin Classical Music for the Masses?
by Adam Garrie | Jan 28, 2017 | Featured Articles
As both a classically trained musician and an audiophile, the 1950s and 1960s was something of a golden age of recorded music.It was at this time that some of the most remarkable conductors of the 20th century were invited to make recordings on new stereophonic...
Trump Bull in the Mideast China Shop
by Eric Margolis | Jan 27, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Donald Trump is getting ready to plunge into the burning Mideast with all the zeal and arrogance of a medieval crusader. The new administration’s knowledge of the region is a thousand miles wide and two inches deep.Reviving a truly terrible idea originated...
Those ‘Resignations’: What Really Happened at the State Department
by Peter van Buren | Jan 27, 2017 | Featured Articles
Yesterday at the State Department five officials resigned or retired. Another one today.The media has gone near-insane, claiming State is crumbling in protest under the Trump administration. This is not true. What happened at State is very routine.Leaving the...
The Syrian People Desperately Want Peace
by Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) | Jan 26, 2017 | Featured Articles
As much of Washington prepared for the inauguration of President Donald Trump, I spent last week on a fact-finding mission in Syria and Lebanon to see and hear directly from the Syrian people. Their lives have been consumed by a horrific war that has killed hundreds...
Trump Proposal For Syria ‘Safe Zones’ To Escalate US Military Involvement In The Region
by Tyler Durden | Jan 26, 2017 | Featured Articles
As part of his blitz of latest executive orders, which as reported yesterday would institute sweeping changes to US refugee and immigration policies including a ban on people from countries in the Middle East and North Africa deemed as a "terror risk", a separate...
Perpetual Drug War Deja Vu
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 25, 2017 | Featured Articles
The Justice Department is ecstatic that it finally secured the extradition from Mexico of notorious drug lord Joaquin Guzman Loera, also known as El Chapo. Arraigned in New York City, El Chapo is being charged with running a multibillion dollar drug enterprise, which...
Has the American Dream Become the American Nightmare?
by John W. Whitehead | Jan 24, 2017 | Featured Articles
For too long now, the American people have allowed themselves to be persuaded that the government’s job is to take care of us: to feed us, clothe us, house us, educate us, raise our children, heal our infirmities, manage our finances, protect us from our enemies,...
The Neocon Lament: Nobody Wants Them in Trump’s Washington
by Philip Giraldi | Jan 24, 2017 | Featured Articles
There is no limit to the hubris driven hypocrisy of America’s stalwart neoconservatives. A recent Washington Post front page article entitled “‘Never Trump’ national-security Republicans fear they have been blacklisted” shares with the reader the heartbreak of those...

Trump’s Foreign Policy: An Unwise Inconsistency?
by Ron Paul | Jan 23, 2017 | Featured Articles
Throughout the presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s foreign policy positions have been anything but consistent. One day we heard that NATO was obsolete and the US needs to pursue better relations with Russia. But the next time he spoke, these sensible positions were...
US intervention in Syria? Not under Trump
by Gareth Porter | Jan 21, 2017 | Featured Articles
A new coalition of US-based organizations is pushing for a more aggressive US intervention against the Assad regime. But both the war in Syria and politics in the United States have shifted dramatically against this objective. When it was formed last July, the...
What Trump Could Do
by Jeff Deist | Jan 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
Today Donald Trump becomes the 45th president of the United States. American voters rejected the devil they know so well — Hillary Clinton — for the devil they don’t. Why they did so, and how Trump prevailed, is the biggest political story of our age. But the...
We’re Still Here, 1/20/17, Consumed Most of All by Our Fears
by Peter van Buren | Jan 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
One of my favorite quotes includes the lines “I awoke this morning to find that it was not judgment day – only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.” I think that sums up a part of my thinking, but certainly not all.A nuclear reckoning, war with China, or anything...
Obama’s Wasted, Deadly, and Destructive Presidency
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 19, 2017 | Featured Articles
Eight years ago, President Obama’s administration started with hope and change. Eight years later, we end up with a legacy of nothing but waste, death, and destruction.Libertarians never had any hope, of course, that Barack Obama would dismantle any aspect of the...
Obama’s Achievement: Whitewashing Permanent Warfare With Eloquence
by Nile Bowie | Jan 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
Judging from how the mainstream media has characterized the legacy of Barack Obama so far, the outgoing president will be most remembered for his many rousing aspirational speeches and well-timed shows of emotion.His talent as a persuasive public communicator and the...
Chelsea Manning Clemency: Did Obama Do The Right Thing?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Obama's surprise move to grant clemency to whistleblower Chelsea Manning yesterday was cheered by those who support transparency for government and jeered by those who support the national security state. What did Manning reveal? Thousands of instances of...
A Demand for Russian ‘Hacking’ Proof
by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity | Jan 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
MEMORANDUM FOR: President Barack ObamaFROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)SUBJECT: A Key Issue That Still Needs to be ResolvedAs President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take the oath of office Friday, a pall hangs over his upcoming presidency...
Who Is Michael Morell?
by Jiri Valenta | Jan 16, 2017 | Featured Articles
“No doubt Putin is playing Trump!” Yes, former CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell is indeed at it again. During the presidential campaign he repeatedly attacked Donald Trump as an “unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.” In the same vein, anonymous CIA officials have...
Abolish the CIA
by Michael S. Rozeff | Jan 16, 2017 | Featured Articles
Every American who looks at the CIA objectively or in a balanced way and judges it by any number of criteria, such as moral, legal and pragmatic, should reach the conclusion that the CIA should be abolished. JFK wanted to break it into a million pieces. Trump is right...
Protesters Succeed In Preventing Conservative Speakers From Appearing At The University of California At Davis
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
We have been discussing the largely successful efforts by students and faculty to prevent certain conservative speakers like Milo Yiannopoulos from being able to speak on campuses. The latest such example is University of California at Davis where protesters succeeded...
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