Three recent stories regarding three government agencies — the IRS, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) — show why we should oppose big government for practical, as well as philosophical, reasons. In recent...
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As Our Past Wars Are Glorified This Memorial Day Weekend, Give Some Thought To Our Prospects Against The Russians And Chinese In World War III
by Paul Craig Roberts | May 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Saker reports that Russia is preparing for World War III, not because Russia intends to initiate aggression but because Russia is alarmed by the hubris and arrogance of the West, by the demonization of Russia, by provocative military actions by the West, by...
Memorializing the Horrors of War with 10 Must-See War Films
by John W. Whitehead | May 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
“The horror... the horror...”—Apocalypse Now (1979) “You can’t show war as it really is on the screen, with all the blood and gore. Perhaps it would be better if you could fire real shots over the audience’s head every night, you know, and have actual casualties in...
Europe Revolts Against Russian Sanctions
by Finian Cunningham | May 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
From ministerial offices to barricades on the streets, Europe is in open revolt against anti-Russian sanctions which have cost workers and businesses millions of jobs and earnings. Granted, the contentious issues are wider than anti-Russian sanctions. However, the...
The New State Department Report on Hillary’s Email, and Why it Matters
by Peter van Buren | May 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
The State Department Inspector General’s (IG) investigation report leaked out a day early on May 25 makes a number of significant points. These matter, and need to be considered by anyone voting in November. What’s in the IG Report — Neither Clinton nor any of her...
State Department Refutes Key Statements By Clinton On Email Scandal; Finds That She Violated Clear Rules
by Jonathan Turley | May 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
While the New York Times has reported that the “State Department’s inspector general sharply criticized Hillary Clinton’s exclusive use of a private email server” and “undermined some of Mrs. Clinton’s previous statements”, the report did far more than criticize and...
My Dreams Seek Revenge: Hiroshima
by Peter van Buren | May 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
Unlike President Obama, who today is the first sitting president to ever visit the site of the first atomic bombing, I’ve visited Hiroshima many times while living in Japan.The thing that always struck me about Hiroshima was simply being there. The train pulled into...
Kosovo: Hillary Clinton’s Legacy of Terror
by Justin Raimondo | May 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
Kosovo is Clinton Country: a 10-foot-high statue of Bill overlooks “Bill Clinton Boulevard” in the capital city of Pristina. Hillary is also memorialized in what has become the crime capital of Europe: right off the street named for her husband is a store named...
Intel Vets Urge Fast Report on Clinton’s Emails
by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity | May 24, 2016 | Featured Articles
A group of U.S. intelligence veterans is calling on President Obama to expedite the FBI review of former Secretary of State Clinton’s alleged email security violations so the public can assess this issue in a timely fashion. MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran...
How the World Ends – Baiting Russia is Not Good Policy
by Philip Giraldi | May 24, 2016 | Featured Articles
Last week I attended a foreign policy conference in Washington that featured a number of prominent academics and former government officials who have been highly critical of the way the Bush and Obama Administrations have interacted with the rest of the world....
Much Ado About Restrooms
by Ron Paul | May 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
Debates over the US government’s foreign and economic policies have recently taken a backseat to the debate over what bathroom transgender individuals should use. The two sides of the debate both believe that government has the legitimate authority to tell private...
Poof! Our Wars are All Forgotten
by Peter van Buren | May 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
One of the most popular apps these days is Snapchat. It allows the sender to set a timer for any photo dispatched via the app, so that a few seconds after the recipient opens the message, the photo is automatically deleted. The evidence of what you did at that party...
Obama in Vietnam: Diplomacy Or Deep State Duplicity?
by Daniel McAdams | May 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
President Obama's visit to Vietnam was more about bringing this former adversary into the US sphere of influence against China than about truly developing further mutually-beneficial trade and other relations. The opening of weapons sales to Vietnam will be a boon to...
Beware What You Wish For: Russia is Ready for War
by Pepe Escobar | May 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
So foreign ministers from the 28 NATO member-nations met in Brussels for a two-day summit, while mighty military power Montenegro was inducted as a new member. Global Robocop NATO predictably discussed Afghanistan (a war NATO ignominiously lost); Iraq (a war the...
America – the Most Frightened Nation on Earth
by Finian Cunningham | May 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
America is exceptional alright. It is the most frightened nation on Earth, subjected to hysterical propaganda over decades warning about foreign enemies and ideologies. No wonder its supposed democratic freedom is in so appallingly bad shape, when the preponderant...
Ron Paul Rewind: Repeal Indefinite Detention!
by Daniel McAdams | May 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
This week served as another reminder that the Beltway serves the Beltway and not the American people. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) again appeared on the House Floor and again it flushed away hundreds of billions of dollars to maintain the US military...
Merle Haggard vs. Eliot Cohen
by Justin Raimondo | May 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
Poor Eliot Cohen: one of the principal architects of the Iraq war, and chief ideologue of Bushism in foreign policy – remember the “freedom agenda”? – he’s miffed that “This campaign shows that the foreign policy consensus that has framed this country’s work overseas...
Obama’s Global Anti-Corruption Cops Should Call Internal Affairs
by James Bovard | May 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Obama administration wants Americans to believe that it is fiercely anti-corruption. “I've been shocked by the degree to which I find corruption pandemic in the world today," declared Secretary of State John Kerry at last week’s Anti-Corruption Summit in London....
Bill Clinton to Poland and Hungary: Do As We Say on Immigration, You Dirty Little Putins!
by Daniel McAdams | May 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
Shortly after World War II, after the Soviet Red Army liberated Hungary from Nazi occupation, the Hungarians held their first election in six years. The November, 1945 vote resulted in an overwhelming victory for a coalition led by the agrarian, anti-communist...
Lavender Leninists and Heretic-Hunters: The Thoughtcrime Prosecution of Ruth Neely
by William Norman Grigg | May 19, 2016 | Featured Articles
During her years as a Magistrate Judge in Pinedale, Wyoming, Ruth Neely performed dozens of civil marriage ceremonies. State law (Sect. 20-1-106[a]) specifies that magistrates, like “every licensed or ordained minister of the gospel, bishop, priest, or rabbi … may...
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