The Donald's missile "attack" on Syria's al-Shairat air base is surely the most impetuous, thoughtless, reckless and stupid act from the Oval Office that we can remember — and that covers 50 years at least. And we put "attack" in quotes because it's now evident that...
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Why Does Assad Have To Go? — With Lew Rockwell
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 11, 2017 | Featured Articles
It was supposed to be different with Trump. Dozens of times as candidate and even early on as president, he stated that it would be a big mistake to go into Syria. He also finally cancelled Obama's "Assad must go" policy. Then came reports of a gas attack in Syria...
Is There A New US Syria Policy? Is There One At All?
by Moon of Alabama | Apr 11, 2017 | Featured Articles
What does the US administration want with regards to Syria?The elements were clear just a few days ago. The US would split off the east and set up a Kurdish enclave which it would then occupy with the help of proxy forces. It would use the leverage to push for...
Iran the Destabilizer
by Philip Giraldi | Apr 11, 2017 | Featured Articles
The real Donald Trump has been exposed. The man who promised a sensible and non-interventionist Middle Eastern policy and a reset with Moscow has now reneged on both pledges. His nitwit United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley has directly linked Russia and Syria for...

After Trump’s Syria Attack, What Comes Next?
by Ron Paul | Apr 10, 2017 | Featured Articles
Thursday’s US missile attack on Syria must represent the quickest foreign policy U-turn in history. Less than a week after the White House gave Assad permission to stay on as president of his own country, President Trump decided that the US had to attack Syria and...
If you have time, Mr. President, Senator Paul can help you learn the Constitution means what it says
by Michael Scheuer | Apr 9, 2017 | Featured Articles
“While we all condemn the atrocities in Syria, the United States was not attacked. The President needs congressional authorization for military action as required by the Constitution, and I call on him to come to Congress for a proper debate. Our prior interventions...
Bomb the Usual Arabs
by Eric Margolis | Apr 9, 2017 | Featured Articles
It seems that every new US president has to prove his machismo…or make his bones, as wiseguys say…by bombing the usual Arabs. By now, it’s almost a rite of passage. The American public loves it.So we just saw the US launch 59 or 60 $1.5million apiece cruise missiles...
Syria: New US Air Support On Request Scheme For Al-Qaeda
by Moon of Alabama | Apr 7, 2017 | Featured Articles
On this day one hundred years ago the US joined World War I. Last night the US attacked a Syrian government airport in an openly hostile and intentional manner. The strike established a mechanism by which al-Qaeda can "request" US airstrikes on Syrian government...
Another Dangerous Rush to Judgment in Syria
by Robert Parry | Apr 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
With the latest hasty judgment about Tuesday’s poison-gas deaths in a rebel-held area of northern Syria, the mainstream U.S. news media once more reveals itself to be a threat to responsible journalism and to the future of humanity. Again, we see the troubling pattern...
Woodrow Wilson Made Democracy Unsafe for the World
by James Bovard | Apr 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
This week is the 100th anniversary of President Woodrow Wilson’s speech to Congress seeking a declaration of war against Germany. Many people celebrate this centenary of America’s emergence as a world power. But, when the Trump administration is bombing or rattling...
By Jingo, an ‘Act of War!’
by Philip Giraldi | Apr 4, 2017 | Featured Articles
The latest Democratic Party shill to demonize Russia is, I am ashamed to say, my state of Virginia’s Senator Mark Warner, who, on Thursday said “Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a deliberate campaign carefully constructed to undermine our election.” Last...
Just Bring the Troops Home
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
One of the most amazing things about US foreign policy is how so many American remain mired in the interventionist paradigm. Case in point: the Middle East. No matter how much a failure US interventionism has been in that part of the world, people simply cannot bring...
Does it Matter Who Pulls the Trigger in the Drone Wars?
by Peter van Buren | Apr 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
We’re allowing a mindset of “anything Trump does is wrong” coupled with lightening-speed historical revisionism for the Obama era to sustain the same mistakes in the war on terror that have fueled Islamic terrorism for the past 15 years. However, there may be a window...

Yes, Let’s Allow The Syrian People To Decide For Themselves
by Ron Paul | Apr 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
Is common sense beginning to creep into US policy in the Middle East? Last week Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that the longer-term status of Syrian President Assad would be “decided by the Syrian people.” The media reported this as a radical shift in US...
The Sleazy Origins of Russia-Gate
by Robert Parry | Apr 1, 2017 | Featured Articles
An irony of the escalating hysteria about the Trump camp’s contacts with Russians is that one presidential campaign in 2016 did exploit political dirt that supposedly came from the Kremlin and other Russian sources. Friends of that political campaign paid for this...
War Between US And China Brewing in South China Sea?
by James Holbrooks | Mar 31, 2017 | Featured Articles
Adding fuel to an already highly combustible situation in Southeast Asia, Reuters reported Tuesday that China has “largely completed major construction of military infrastructure on artificial islands it has built in the South China Sea,” and that the Asian superpower...
Ron Paul Rewind (1999): ‘Our Foolish Policy in Iraq Invites Terrorist Attacks Against US Territory’
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 31, 2017 | Featured Articles
Ron Paul went to the House Floor in 1999 to blast President Clinton's claim that a 1991 UN resolution gave him authority to launch an air war against Iraq. It could have been 2017, the president could be Trump, the claim of authority could be the 2001 authorization to...
There Was No ‘Russian Hacking’ of the 2016 Election
by Justin Raimondo | Mar 31, 2017 | Featured Articles
The “cyber-security” firm that everyone is depending on to make the case for Russia’s alleged “hacking” of the 2016 presidential election, CrowdStrike, has just retracted a key component of its analysis – but the “mainstream” media continues to chug along, ignoring...
Mosul: Where Obama’s Last Gambit Could Ruin Trump
by Martin Jay | Mar 31, 2017 | Featured Articles
Here’s why the bombing has to stop and what US journalists are not telling you: hundreds are dying in Mosul, not at the hands of ISIS, but through a failed military strategy which no one, it seems, has the guts to tell President Trump cannot achieve its...
Constitutional Q&A: The Legality of Stop and ID Procedures
by John W. Whitehead | Mar 29, 2017 | Featured Articles
We are not supposed to be living in a “show me your papers” society.Despite this, the US government has recently introduced measures allowing police and other law enforcement officials to stop individuals (citizens and noncitizens alike), demand they identify...
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