We have been discussing the over-reaction officials in past cases where police have been called to address pranks or controversies once handled internally in schools. A news story out of Houston only servers to capture this absurdity. It began when Danesiah Neal, an...
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Suspect Held in Solitary for Seven Months for Forgetting Hard Drive Passwords
by Peter van Buren | May 4, 2016 | Featured Articles
Innocent until proven guilty? Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination? Hah! Not if you forget your passwords, in Post-Constitutional America. Former Philadelphia Police Sergeant Francis Rawls, above, has spent the past seven months in solitary confinement...
What Is the US Military Doing in the Baltics?
by Justin Raimondo | May 4, 2016 | Featured Articles
Get ready for the new cold war, which will no doubt turn hot if Hillary Clinton gets into the White House: NATO has just announced it is “considering” the addition of 4,000 more troops to be stationed in Poland and the Baltic states, i.e. right on Russia’s western...
Remember How We Got Out of Vietnam
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 4, 2016 | Featured Articles
Do you remember what US national-security state officials were saying when millions of Americans were demanding that the US government withdraw its troops from Vietnam and bring them home?They were saying that “national security” was at stake — i.e., the very survival...
Iraq: The Interventionist Hellhole
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 2, 2016 | Featured Articles
When Vice President Joseph Biden traveled to Iraq a few days ago, he did it, as always, under a shroud of secrecy. The mainstream press was asked in advance to keep the trip secret and dutifully complied. Biden declined to spend the night in Iraq, staying only 10...
‘This Is A Game’: The Clintons Continue To Mock Email Investigation
by Jonathan Turley | May 2, 2016 | Featured Articles
I have previously written about the peculiar position of being counsel for Hillary Clinton when your client, her advisers, and allies mock the massive federal investigation that continues into her reckless use of an unsecured personal server for her official...
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Drafting Women Means Equality in Slavery
by Ron Paul | May 2, 2016 | Featured Articles
Last week the House Armed Services Committee approved an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act requiring women to register with Selective Service. This means that if Congress ever brings back the draft, women will be forcibly sent to war. The amendment...
US-Created System In Iraq Is Collapsing: Protesters Storm Parliament, State of Emergency Declared
by Tyler Durden | Apr 30, 2016 | Featured Articles
Less than two years ago, the US set up another puppet government in the mid-east this time in the state of Iraq when following substantial US pressure, on August 14, 2014 then prime minister al-Maliki agreed to stepped down and be replaced with Haider al-Abadi. Today,...
Remember the Golan Heights?
by Eric Margolis | Apr 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
During the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Syrian forces had surprised Israel and were fast approaching the edge of the steep Golan Heights, captured by Israel during the 1967 war. It seemed as if Syrian armor and infantry would retake Golan, then pour down into Israeli...
State Department Follies
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
After President Obama swore no fewer than eight times that he would not put boots on the ground in Syria and then did so, his State Department spokesman swore that he never said that he would not put boots on the ground. Why have US government press briefings turned...
Obama Went to Germany to Deliver Europe’s Latest Report Card
by Danielle Ryan | Apr 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
Shouldn’t the days of European leaders enlisting the help of American presidents to sell unpopular ideas to their citizens be long over? They should. But evidently, they are not. Barack Obama arrived in Europe last week, bursting with words of wisdom and friendly...
How NATO-Linked Think Tanks Control EU Refugee Policy
by F. William Engdahl | Apr 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
A flood of uncontrolled war refugees from Syria, Libya, Tunisia and other Islamic countries destabilized by Washington’s "Arab Spring" Color Revolutions, has created the greatest social dislocation across the EU from Germany to Sweden to Croatia since the end of World...
Is This What’s in Those 28 Pages? And Does it Matter?
by Peter van Buren | Apr 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
Did the CIA meet with some of the 9/11 hijackers ahead of the attacks on New York? Did the Saudi government help finance those hijackers? Someone knows the answers, and soon, you might know as well. This Summer? James Clapper, the director of national intelligence,...
The Pentagon Gong Show
by Franklin C. Spinney | Apr 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
It should be clear that the Global War on Terror (GWOT) launched by George W. Bush and perpetuated by Barack Obama is a bust. It is now the longest war in US history; it is now the second most expensive war in US history; and there is no light at the end of the...
The Classified ’28 Pages’: A Diversion From Real US-Saudi Issues
by Gareth Porter | Apr 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
The controversy surrounding the infamous “28 pages” on the possible Saudi connection with the terrorists that were excised from the joint Congressional report on the 9/11 attacks is at fever pitch. But that controversy is a distraction from the real problems that...
The Hell on Earth Paved by Samantha Power’s Good Intentions
by Dan Sanchez | Apr 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
In Batman Vs. Superman, the intrepid reporter Lois Lane (played by Amy Adams), tries to expose a dastardly villain and gets herself into a deadly predicament from which Superman must save her. This has been the Lois Lane formula since 1938. But in this case, the...
Censored, Surveilled, Watch Listed and Jailed: The Absurdity of Being a Citizen in the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead | Apr 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
In the American police state, the price to be paid for speaking truth to power (also increasingly viewed as an act of treason) is surveillance, censorship, jail and ultimately death. However, where many Americans go wrong is in assuming that you have to be doing...
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Yes, Prince Faisal, We Need to ‘Recalibrate’ Our Relationship
by Ron Paul | Apr 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
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...
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...
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