Did the Russians hack the US elections? In a Senate hearing yesterday, National Intelligence Director James Clapper assured the Senators that Russia had indeed taken a role in affecting the outcome of the US election. The proof was not supplied, however, and Clapper's...
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Purge the CIA
by Justin Raimondo | Jan 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified at a hearing on “Russian interference” in the election that there’s a difference between “skepticism” of the intelligence community’s assessment and “disparagement” of said community. While stopping short of...
The Coup Against Truth
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jan 5, 2017 | Featured Articles
Jon Rappoport’s mocking of the US presstitutes is superb: Vladimir Putin is the secret president of the United States.Yep. That’s it. The US is now the USSR. It’s all over. Trump is a Communist who took orders from Putin. Trump is a Red. That was his game all along....
Foreign Policy Blowback in Germany
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
Ever since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, one of the things that has fascinated me most is the response of the mainstream media. Supporting the retaliatory invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, ever-increasing budgets for the national-security establishment, and constantly...
America or Israel? Quislings in Congress and the Media Need to Decide Which Comes First
by Philip Giraldi | Jan 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
I am reluctant to write about the “Israel problem” at the heart of US foreign policy two weeks in a row but it seems that the story just will not go away as the usual suspects pile on the Barack Obama Administration over its alleged betrayal of America’s “best and...

Good News: Washington Frozen Out of Syria Peace Plan
by Ron Paul | Jan 2, 2017 | Featured Articles
As the US mainstream media obsessed last week about Russia's supposed “hacking” of the US elections and President Obama’s final round of Russia sanctions in response, something very important was taking place under the media radar. As a result of a meeting between...
Russia Hysteria Infects WashPost Again: False Story About Hacking US Electric Grid
by Glenn Greenwald | Dec 31, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Washington Post on Friday reported a genuinely alarming event: Russian hackers have penetrated the US power system through an electrical grid in Vermont. The Post headline conveyed the seriousness of the threat: Russian operation hacked a Vermont utility, showing...
Another 50 Years of Mideast Strife
by Eric Margolis | Dec 31, 2016 | Featured Articles
One of my favorite literary expressions is the term "Parthian shaft." It refers to the favored tactic of the Parthians, a Persian people, of turning while on horseback and firing arrows while retreating.The Roman consul Crassus, who defeated Spartacus, may have died...
Symbolic Failure Point: Female Afghan Pilot Wants Asylum In The US
by Peter van Buren | Dec 30, 2016 | Featured Articles
History loves little markers, tidy packages of symbolism that wrap up a big, complex thing.You know, the helicopter on the roof of the American Embassy in Saigon standing in for years of failed war, the Berlin Wall being knocked down to visually note the end the Cold...
Obama Under ‘Intense Pressure’ To Release Evidence Proving Russians Hacked The Election
by Tyler Durden | Dec 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
As noted previously, at some point today the White House is set to unveil new sanction, and other retaliatory "measures" against Russia and specifically the Kremlin, in retaliation for what according to a constantly repetitive narrative has been Russian hacking of the...
Does the Cause of Peace Have a Future?
by Ron Paul | Dec 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
Ron Paul delivers keynote at his 'Peace and Prosperity 2016' conference this yearThe full wrath of the Beltway neocons is about to hit my Institute for Peace and Prosperity. Congress snuck language into this year's Defense Authorization Bill that enables President...
2016: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year
by John W. Whitehead | Dec 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
“What’s past is prologue.” ― William Shakespeare, The Tempest What a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year this has been. Endless wars. Toxic politics. Violence. Hunger. Police shootings. Mass shootings. Economic downturns. Political circuses. Senseless...
Syria – Peace Talk Rumors And Parameters
by Moon of Alabama | Dec 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
Since February 2016 Russia had negotiated with the US about a peace deal on Syria. The main agreed upon point was to fight together against the Takfiris, mainly ISIS and al-Qaeda. The US in turn promised to separate the "moderate rebels" it supported from their close...
Behind the Real US Strategic Blunder in Syria
by Gareth Porter | Dec 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
President Barack Obama has long been under fire from the US national security elite and the media for failing to intervene aggressively against the Assad regime. But the real strategic blunder was not that Barack Obama didn’t launch yet another war in Syria, but that...
Obama Quietly Signs The ‘Countering Disinformation And Propaganda Act’ Into Law
by Tyler Durden | Dec 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
Late on Friday, with the US population embracing the upcoming holidays and oblivious of most news emerging from the administration, Obama quietly signed into law the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which authorizes $611 billion for the military in 2017....

New Year’s Resolutions for Donald Trump and Congress
by Ron Paul | Dec 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
In the spirit of New Year’s, here are four resolutions for President-elect Trump and Congress that will enable them to really make America great again: 1) Audit the Fed….and then end it: The Federal Reserve Bank's easy money policies have eroded the American people’s...
Trump’s Need to Trust Americans
by Robert Parry | Dec 24, 2016 | Featured Articles
Barack Obama’s chance for a transformative presidency ended when he bowed to Official Washington’s foreign-policy establishment of neocons and liberal interventionists and bought into the elitist notion that the American people should be guided by propaganda, not...
The Fraudulent Obama War on Corruption
by James Bovard | Dec 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Obama administration wants Americans to believe that it is fiercely anti-corruption. “I have been shocked by the degree to which I find corruption pandemic in the world today,” declared Secretary of State John Kerry at an Anti-Corruption Summit in London last May....
Meltdown in Turkey?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
After the July coup attempt, Turkey has faced increased instability. Over the past ten days more than 60 people have been killed in Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) bombings. And just days ago, the Russian ambassador to Turkey was assassinated by an apparent radical....
The War on Terror: Anyway You Look at it, it’s a Failure
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
The twenty-first century, at least up until this point, might well be described as the age of the terrorist. Even though most Americans and Europeans rank terrorism as low among their concerns, the repercussions when a terrorist attack does take place are greatly...
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