Maidhc Ó Cathail: In your latest book, you dub Hillary Clinton the “Queen of Chaos”. Can you explain why you chose this derogatory sobriquet to describe Hillary? Diana Johnstone: Libya, in a word. Hillary Clinton was so proud of her major role in instigating the war...
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Food Farm Freedom: Mr. Salatin Goes to Washington
by Joel Salatin | Mar 12, 2016 | Featured Articles
The nonprofit Food Tank recently posed 10 questions on food policy to the presidential candidates in the 2016 race. Joel Salatin throws his hat in the ring and answers. This query just came across my desk and provides good food for thought. I thought just for fun I’d...
Alternative Germany Speaks Up
by Ian Blohm | Mar 11, 2016 | Featured Articles
The final results of the local elections in the central German state of Hesse last Sunday were a cold shower for the ruling coalition. The new opposition party Alternative for Germany (AfD) won seats in every municipal council in that state, receiving an unprecedented...
Clinton Declares That She Will Never Be Indicted And Insists That Her 'Predecessors Did The Same Thing' On Emails
by Jonathan Turley | Mar 10, 2016 | Featured Articles
I watched last night’s debate with great interest. I thought both Sanders and Clinton had some very strong moments. However, I tend to watch these debates for the legal issues and I was most struck by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s discussion of the email...
Washington Hubris on Full Display at London Foreign Policy Speech
by Tina Jennings | Mar 9, 2016 | Featured Articles
Any doubts that the US government views the nature of its relationship with the UK on foreign policy as one of subservience can be finally put to rest after the visit to London last week of Evelyn Farkas, former US Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine...
You Should Care About Apple, Your iPhone, and the FBI
by Peter van Buren | Mar 8, 2016 | Featured Articles
FBI Director James Comey Yep, you should care. Very much. Hang up the phone and listen. What This is All About The FBI wants Apple to help unlock an iPhone used by one of the attackers who killed 14 people in the December San Bernardino shooting. Specifically, the...
Smelling EU fear, Turkey Moves in for $6.6bn Kill
by Finian Cunningham | Mar 8, 2016 | Featured Articles
When the Ankara government carried out a brutal media crackdown at the weekend and then saw minimal Western protest as a result, President Erdogan knew he had the upper-hand – to leverage the refugee crisis. It seems more than strange that, only three days before a...
Hungarian Revolution: Orban Says ‘No!’ to Brussels Migration Plan
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 7, 2016 | Featured Articles
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has emerged as the leader of the pro-sovereignty opposition to the dictates of the EU's Brussels bureaucrats. When German Chancellor Angela Merkel swung open Germany's doors to hundreds of thousands of migrants (mostly from places...
Just Shut Up and Vote: The Futility of Representative Government in an Age of Robber Barons
by John W. Whitehead | Mar 7, 2016 | Featured Articles
Despite the fact that we’ve been burned before, most Americans continue to allow themselves to be bamboozled into casting their votes for one candidate or another, believing that this time they mean what they say, this time they really care about the citizenry, this...
Do We Need To ‘Rebuild The Military’?
by Ron Paul | Mar 6, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Republican presidential debates have become so heated and filled with insults, it almost seems we are watching a pro wrestling match. There is no civility, and I wonder whether the candidates are about to come to blows. But despite what appears to be total...
US Sends ‘Small Armada’ to Confront China as Beijing Accuses Washington of ‘Containment’
by Matthew Allen | Mar 5, 2016 | Featured Articles
Obama's so-called "pivot to Asia" has always meant one thing and one thing only: Provoking China and threatening its sphere of influence. And luckily for Obama, the US has perfected the art of military provocation. It's now been confirmed that the US Navy has sent a...
Getting Intervention ‘Just Right’: The West’s Goldilocks Strategy in Libya
by Dan Glazebrook | Mar 5, 2016 | Featured Articles
A renewed Western military ‘commitment’ to Libya will not be enough to defeat ISIS – but it might be enough to establish the permanent military presence in North Africa the West has been hankering after ever since 1970. On 19th February, the US launched an airstrike...
Murder Is Washington’s Foreign Policy
by Paul Craig Roberts | Mar 4, 2016 | Featured Articles
Washington has a long history of massacring people, for example, the destruction of the Plains Indians by the Union war criminals Sherman and Sheridan and the atomic bombs dropped on Japanese civilian populations, but Washington has progressed from periodic massacres...
Libya: How Hillary Clinton Destroyed a Country
by Justin Raimondo | Mar 4, 2016 | Featured Articles
“We came, we saw, he died,” exclaimed an ebullient Hillary Clinton, as she exulted over the horrific death of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, who was sodomized with a bayonet before being brutally murdered by rampaging militiamen. Visiting Tripoli, the Libyan capital,...
Ron and Bernie
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Mar 3, 2016 | Featured Articles
Super Tuesday may have been the beginning of the end for the Bernie Sanders campaign, but the ideas that propelled it are likely to linger for quite some time. With some writers comparing Bernie to Ron Paul (not in terms of economics and philosophy, of course, but as...
US Military Contractors Return In Droves to Iraq
by Peter van Buren | Mar 2, 2016 | Featured Articles
America’s mercenaries smell the blood (and the money) and are returning to Iraq.Mercs are a great thing for the US government, in that they aren’t counted as “troops,” or as “boots on the ground,” even while they are both. The Defense Department can disavow any...
‘Plan B’ and the Bankruptcy of US Syria Policy
by Gareth Porter | Mar 2, 2016 | Featured Articles
US Secretary of State John Kerry provoked widespread speculation when he referred in testimony before the Senate foreign relations committee last week to “significant discussions” within US President Barack Obama's administration about a “Plan B” in Syria. The...
Washington’s Neocon Occupation Upholds Illusion Of Choice In The Two-Party Duopoly
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 1, 2016 | Featured Articles
A good part of the country heads to the primaries today, Super Tuesday, to cast a vote for which Democrat or Republican will run for president in November. The media and the pundits make their living playing up the illusion that there is a great difference between...
Intel Agencies: Clinton Emails Match Top Secret Documents
by Peter van Buren | Mar 1, 2016 | Featured Articles
Clinton supporters, erroneously, make much out of the idea that of the many, many emails that passed through her private server, none were “marked” classified. They claim that, when in fact thousands of those same emails are indeed now marked classified, that is just...
Reality Check: No Matter Who Wins the White House, the New Boss Will Be the Same as the Old Boss
by John W. Whitehead | Feb 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
“The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy—then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel...
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