The battle of Mosul has been joined, finally, as Iraqi Special Forces entered the city limits earlier today from the east. (BBC) The early reports suggest that the Islamic State fighters responded with guided anti-tank missiles and small arms to block the Iraqi...
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Who Will Weed Out the Warmongers?
by Robert Parry | Nov 1, 2016 | Featured Articles
If Hillary Clinton hangs on to win the presidency, liberal Democrats have vowed to block her appointment of Wall Street-friendly officials to key Cabinet and sub-Cabinet jobs. But there has been little organized resistance to her choosing hawkish foreign policy...
Obama’s Victory Lap?
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 1, 2016 | Featured Articles
In between nearly daily campaign stops shilling for Hillary, President Barack Obama has been promoting his record as Head of State. To Obama’s credit, he talks nice and appears to be both thoughtful and rational, qualities that were not always evident in his...
Raqqa Now Key to US Strategy in Syria and the Wider Region
by John Wight | Oct 31, 2016 | Featured Articles
To understand the situation in Aleppo is to understand the key to the conflict in Syria at this juncture: Will Washington and its allies or the Syrian Army and Russia liberate Raqqa, the capital of the so-called Islamic State. It does not take a military genius to...

Blame Government, Not Markets for Monopoly
by Ron Paul | Oct 31, 2016 | Featured Articles
When Time-Warner announced it planned to merge with another major communications firm, many feared the new company would exercise near-total monopoly power. These concerns led some to call for government action to block the merger in order to protect both...
Not Guilty: The Power of Nullification to Counteract Government Tyranny
by John W. Whitehead | Oct 31, 2016 | Featured Articles
“The people have the power, all we have to do is awaken that power in the people. The people are unaware. They’re not educated to realize that they have power. The system is so geared that everyone believes the government will fix everything. We are the...
Selling ‘Regime Change’ Wars to the Masses
by John Pilger | Oct 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
American journalist Edward Bernays is often described as the man who invented modern propaganda. The nephew of Sigmund Freud, the pioneer of psychoanalysis, it was Bernays who coined the term “public relations” as a euphemism for spin and its deceptions. In 1929, as a...
Comey Sends Letter To Congress Citing New Evidence (and An Investigation) In The Clinton Email Scandal
by Jonathan Turley | Oct 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
There is a major news development with the release of a letter from FBI Director James B. Comey that the Bureau has decided that new evidence requires further investigation into the Clinton emails. It was a surprising change just days before the election. After all,...
Paper Tiger ISIS Digs Into Mosul
by Eric Margolis | Oct 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
As a former soldier and war correspondent who has covered 14 conflicts, I look at all the media hoopla over tightening siege of Mosul, Iraq and shake my head. This western-organized “liberation” of Mosul is one of the bigger pieces of political-military theater that...
Should America Pardon the National Security State?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Oct 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
Several weeks ago, contemporaneously with the release of Oliver Stone’s excellent movie Snowden, friends and admirers of Edward Snowden launched a campaign to have President Obama pardon him for disclosing the NSA’s super-secret illegal surveillance scheme to the...
Why Is the Foreign Policy Establishment Spoiling for More War? Look at Their Donors.
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Oct 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
Washington, DC, may be the only place in the world where people openly flaunt their pseudo-intellectuality by banding together, declaring themselves “think tanks,” and raising money from external interests, including foreign governments, to compile reports that...
Looking Ahead: Clinton’s Plans for Syria
by Peter van Buren | Oct 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
Hillary Clinton has a plan for defeating Islamic State in Syria. Donald Trump has one, too. With the conflict in Syria spreading beyond its borders, it’s essential to understand the new president’s strategies – and how they may need to be adjusted over the next four...
Hypocritical Air Force Secretary Deborah James Wants to Draft Women (Other Than Herself)
by Shane Kastler | Oct 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
Sometimes I wonder if I live in an alternative universe. The third dimension or the twilight zone. Do women in America honestly think it is a sign of “equality” to be forced to register for a military draft? In a recent interview with Greta Van Sustern, Air Force...
The Path to Total Dictatorship: America’s Shadow Government and Its Silent Coup
by John W. Whitehead | Oct 24, 2016 | Featured Articles
“Today the path to total dictatorship in the US can be laid by strictly legal means,unseen and unheard by Congress, the President, or the people. Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system … a...

Obama’s Pivot to Asia Hits a Roadblock in the Philippines
by Ron Paul | Oct 24, 2016 | Featured Articles
While the mainstream media continues its obsessive reporting on the mud-slinging campaign for the White House, a dramatic development in China last week brought President Obama’s “pivot to Asia” to a sudden halt. Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, while in Beijing,...
Khadaffi’s Murder
by Eric Margolis | Oct 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
“We came, we saw…he died” boasted a beaming Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, speaking of the 2011 western overthrow of Libya’s leader Muammar Khadaffi.She was, of course, shamelessly paraphrasing Caesar’s famous summary of his campaign around the Black Sea. Mrs....
Former Hungarian Communist Party Paper Goes Bankrupt, Washington Panics
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
Everywhere in the western world, printed newspapers are struggling to stay afloat. The old advertising-based model is no longer sustainable as more people turn to the Internet and alternative sources for their news and analysis. Hungary is no different. But some...
Paranoid Apoplexy Over the Russkies
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Oct 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
As I watch the paranoid apoplexy that US officials and their acolytes in the mainstream press are displaying over the hacking of Democratic Party computers and the disclosure of their emails, I’m tempted to say that it might all be some sort of karmic justice. But...
Obama and Hillary’s Two-Minutes of Hate for Russia
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
President Obama claimed that Donald Trump's "flattery" of Russian president Putin is "unprecedented in American politics." But as RPI Board Member Lew Rockwell tells RT, there is nothing new about it. During the Cold War Americans were told they had to hate the...
An ‘Epidemic of Graft’ – Anti-Corruption Efforts in Afghanistan Fail Hard
by Peter van Buren | Oct 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
The US spends spends $5 billion of your tax money a year in “aid” to Afghanistan, plus billions more for the cost of the thousands of American troops and Pentagon-sponsored military contractors there.An “Epidemic of Graft”One of the (many) reasons why all that money...
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