The Nuclear Question is becoming increasingly obfuscated by spin and lobbying as the West sleepwalks into Cold War II — a walk made all the more dangerous when the loose lips of the US tweeter-in-chief announced that another nuclear arms race is a great idea (see...
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Ron Paul Rewind: Discussing Foreign Policy with Alan Colmes
by Adam Dick | Feb 24, 2017 | Featured Articles
Radio and television talk show host Alan Colmes, who died on Thursday, interviewed Ron Paul several times over the years. Colmes’ interviews with Paul were always interesting, in large part due the research, thoughtfulness, and intelligence Colmes could be counted on...
The Futility and Corruption of the Drug War
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 24, 2017 | Featured Articles
I just finished watching the much-acclaimed series “Narcos” on Netflix. What a fantastic program. And what an excellent depiction of the futility and corruption of the war on drugs.The series is a true-life account of Pablo Escobar, a Colombian drug lord who headed up...
Trump’s First Terror Arrest: A Broke Stoner The FBI Threatened at Knifepoint
by Murtaza Hussain | Feb 23, 2017 | Featured Articles
photo: Boone County Sheriff's Department The Department of Justice proudly announced the first FBI terror arrest of the the Trump administration on Tuesday: An elaborate sting operation that snared a 25-year old Missouri man who had no terrorism contacts besides the...
The Sacrifice of Tulsi Gabbard
by David Gornoski | Feb 22, 2017 | Featured Articles
The media continues to be an increasingly petty, insecure clique as it mimetically parrots its own echo chamber talking points against any person who challenges their preferred leftist-corporatist brand of state hegemony. Think of political ideologies like...
Why Do ‘Progressives’ Like War?
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 21, 2017 | Featured Articles
Liberals are supposed to be antiwar, right? I went to college in the 1960s, when students nationwide were rising up in opposition to the Vietnam War. I was a Young Republican back then and supported the war through sheer ignorance and dislike of the sanctimoniousness...
Veterans Being Misled On JASTA, Says International Law Expert
by Brian McGlinchey | Feb 21, 2017 | Featured Articles
As Saudi lobbyists continue to fly U.S. military veterans to Washington to oppose a recently-passed law that cleared the way for 9/11 families and victims to sue the kingdom for its alleged assistance to the hijackers, an expert on international law says the principal...
McCain in Munich: The War Party Fights Back
by Justin Raimondo | Feb 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
The Munich conference held over the weekend – an annual event that brings the leaders of the Atlantic alliance together to celebrate their hegemonic pretensions – was anything but celebratory this time around. Despite the assurances of Vice President Pence that...

Trump’s ISIS Plan: Another US Invasion?
by Ron Paul | Feb 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
Just over a week into the Trump Administration, the President issued an Executive Order giving Defense Secretary James Mattis 30 days to come up with a plan to defeat ISIS. According to the Order, the plan should make recommendations on military actions, diplomatic...
The ‘Blind Sheik’ And The CIA – Media Bury US Support For Radical Islamism
by Moon of Alabama | Feb 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
Two days ago the Takfiri Islamist leader Omar Abdul-Rahman , the so called "Blind Sheik", died in a US prison. He had been found guilty of involvement in the 1993 attempt to bring down the World Trade Center in New York and of other crimes.The obituaries of Omar...
Red Hysteria Engulfs Washington
by Eric Margolis | Feb 19, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Dwight Eisenhower’s warning about the dangers of the military-industrial complex made half a century ago ring as loud and clear today. The soft coup being mounted against the Trump government by America’s "deep state" reached a new intensity this week as...
‘America wants empire and for Europeans to remain subservient’
by RT | Feb 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
The US spends more on its military than the next seven nations combined. Russian military spending is a fraction of US spending. The US spends an enormous amount on the military to maintain its empire, says Daniel McAdams, executive director, Ron Paul Peace...
Bribes, Catapults, and Corruption Trump Trumps Wall
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 17, 2017 | Featured Articles
Donald Trump is obviously a smart man. One cannot build up a billion-dollar financial empire without being smart.Unfortunately, however, Trump is not so smart when it comes to some things, like the drug war. He thinks that simply by cracking down in the drug war and...
Flynn’s Gone But They’re Still Gunning For You, Donald
by David Stockman | Feb 17, 2017 | Featured Articles
General Flynn's tenure in the White House was only slightly longer than that of President-elect William Henry Harrison in 1841. Actually, with just 24 days in the White House, General Flynn's tenure fell a tad short of old "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too". General Harrison...
You Are Forbidden to Talk with Russians!
by Michael S. Rozeff | Feb 16, 2017 | Featured Articles
A New York Times article says “The agency’s [FBI’s] investigation of Mr. Manafort began last spring as an outgrowth of a criminal investigation into his work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine and for the country’s former president, Viktor F. Yanukovych. It...
Trump and Duterte: Birds of a Feather
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
When it comes to the drug war, the verdict is in: The big, drain-the-swamp, anti-establishment president, Donald Trump, is turning out to be just like all the other mainstream establishment politicians. He made that clear last week in a speech before a group of...
Trump Caves on Flynn’s Resignation
by Robert Parry | Feb 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
The neocon-dominated U.S. foreign policy establishment won an important victory in forcing the resignation of President Trump’s National Security Advisor Michael Flynn over a flimsy complaint that he had talked to the Russian ambassador during the transition.The...
Ignore The Tough Talk – Trump’s Iran Policy Will be Much Like Obama’s
by Gareth Porter | Feb 14, 2017 | Featured Articles
The first public pronouncements by President Donald Trump's administration on Iran have created the widespread impression that the US will adopt a much more aggressive posture towards the Islamic Republic than under Barack Obama's presidency.But despite the rather...
Can’t Judge Fake News in the Dark
by Peter van Buren | Feb 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
This isn’t about Trump. It’s about judging the media, whoever and whatever they report on. It is about reading critically when so much out there is just simply inaccurate. Not maybe inaccurate, pure dead solid perfect stupid. So don’t call me a nazi.Step One is to...
Saudi Lobbyists Recruiting Veterans to Kill 9/11 Lawsuit
by Brian McGlinchey | Feb 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
Using misinformation and lots of cash, Saudi Arabia is recruiting well-meaning U.S. military veterans into its campaign to eviscerate a recently-passed law allowing 9/11 families to sue the monarchy for its alleged role in facilitating the attacks that killed nearly...
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