For decades the US and Saudi Arabia have shared a peculiar relationship: the Saudis sell relatively cheap oil to the United States for which they accept our fiat currency. They then recycle those paper dollars into the US military-industrial complex through the...
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Defending Democracy to the Last Drop of Oil
by Eric Margolis | Apr 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
Poor President Barack Obama flew to Saudi Arabia this past week but its ruler, King Salman, was too busy to greet him at Riyadh’s airport. This snub was seen across the Arab world as a huge insult and violation of traditional desert hospitality. Obama should have...
Ron Paul Rewind: ‘You’re Painting an Overly Optimistic Picture of Afghanistan Success’ (2004)
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
It was yet another in a periodic series of House International Relations Committee hearings where the "experts" were trotted out to tell us how incredibly well the US intervention in Afghanistan was going and that if only Congress would keep the money train at full...
US-Saudi Relations: Yesteryear Days are Gone Forever
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Apr 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
President Barack Obama’s visit to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday has boomeranged. His good intentions were never in doubt – mend fences between the two countries. But what emerges is that it will need much more than one visit – maybe, even one full presidency cannot...
US Assaults British Sovereignty
by Paul Craig Roberts | Apr 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Washington elite believe that the British people should serve Washington’s interest and not their own. To this end, President Obama has been sent to London to emphasize that the UK must remain in the EU. Does this make you wonder why it is important to Washington...
US Protects Saudis From Terror Suits, Yet Backs Suits Against Iran
by Jason Ditz | Apr 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
Intense debate and international diplomatic blackmail has dominated the discussion of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, a bipartisan bill which would open up civil lawsuits against any foreign nations if they are found to be involved in the funding of a...
Saudis To Kerry: We Created ISIS…And CIA Knew
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
It was US intervention in the Middle East, say the Saudis, that led us to create first al-Qaeda and then ISIS. The US attack on Iraq tipped the balance in the region in favor of Iran and counter-measures needed to be taken. This is nothing new. The CIA helped create...
Collateral Damage – Obama OKs More Civilian Drone Deaths
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
Civilians will continue to pay a heavy price in the ongoing US war on at least seven other countries. According to a recent article, the Pentagon has issued new rules permitting a strike on a target even if up to ten innocent civilians may also get killed....
Sue Saudis for 9/11…and the US For All its Wars
by David Swanson | Apr 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry say that allowing family members of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for its complicity in that crime would set a terrible precedent that would open the United States up to lawsuits from abroad. Wonderful! Let...
Nation-Building: Global Hegemony Without Local Knowledge
by Dan Sanchez | Apr 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
In 1974, when Friedrich Hayek won the Nobel Prize in Economics, he used his acceptance speech to deliver a warning to the world. Do not again fall for “the pretense of knowledge,” he counseled. Hayek was singling out economic policymakers who presume to possess the...
Enemies Everywhere – The US War On The World
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 19, 2016 | Featured Articles
The USS Donald Cook, equipped with the Aegis combat system, recently found the Russian air force unwelcoming as the US conducted military maneuvers just 50 miles from Russian soil. The Russian flyover was greeted in Washington with howls of "aggression!" But why was a...
Washington’s War Against the World
by Philip Giraldi | Apr 19, 2016 | Featured Articles
Secretary of War Ash Carter is concerned about America’s posture. No, it’s not about sitting with your back straight up and your knees placed primly together. It all has to do with how many enemies there are out there threatening the United States and what we have to...
The Terrorist iPhone Snow Job
by Adam Dick | Apr 18, 2016 | Featured Articles
It all started so “harmless.” The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) wanted to access the information of a person being investigated for mass murder so, the FBI said, it could try to prevent more terrorist attacks. A couple months later this has morphed into a...
After Vote to Remove Brazil’s President, Key Opposition Figure Holds Meetings in Washington
by The Intercept | Apr 18, 2016 | Featured Articles
Brazil’s lower house of Congress on Sunday voted to impeach the country’s President, Dilma Rousseff, sending the removal process to the Senate. In an act of unintended though rich symbolism, the House member who pushed impeachment over the 342-vote threshold was Dep....
What Did Fed Chairman Yellen Tell Obama?
by Ron Paul | Apr 18, 2016 | Featured Articles
This week, President Obama and Vice President Biden held a hastily arranged secret meeting with Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen. According to the one paragraph statement released by the White House following the meeting, Yellen, Obama, and Biden simply...
The Phony War in Syria
by Eric Margolis | Apr 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
The great, long-awaited counterattack against ISIS has finally begun. The offensive that spans Syria and western Iraq is targeting the ISIS-held cities of Raqqa and Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city.For a variety of reasons, the much ballyhooed “final offensive”...
Deadly Myths: Iraq ‘Surge’ General Calls for ‘Surge 2.0’
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
The history of post Cold War US involvement in Iraq is the story of the enduring power of myths to drive a false foreign policy narrative and achieve the goals of a singularly-focused pressure group (the interventionist neocons). From the 1990 myth that Saddam Hussein...
Ron Paul’s ‘What If’ Speech – Like You’ve Never Seen it Before
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
Many people remember Ron Paul's powerful 2011 House Floor speech, "What If?" In less than four minutes, Rep. Paul completely obliterated the entire neocon foreign policy of interventionism. He turned their claims around on them, he used their lies against them. It was...
Does Over-Classification Matter With the Hillary Emails?
by Peter van Buren | Apr 15, 2016 | Featured Articles
Rules are for fools, and in this case the fools in question are you, me, and what’s left of the American democratic system. Obama, in an interview, basically made it clear nobody is going to indict Hillary Clinton for exposing classified material via her unclassified...
President Killary: Would The World Survive Another President Clinton?
by Paul Craig Roberts | Apr 13, 2016 | Featured Articles
Hillary Clinton is proving to be the “teflon candidate.” In her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, she has escaped damage from major scandals, any one of which would destroy a politician. Hillary has accepted massive bribes in the form of speaking...
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