The annual meeting of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), which is the successor organization to the Soviet-era KGB is an important occasion to take the temperature in the ‘East-West’ relations. (The Cold War cliche is becoming useful once again.) President...
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NATO Weakens As Old Alliances Break Down
by Ryan McMaken | Feb 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
Last week, I suggested that since Turkey seems intent on starting a war with the Russians, NATO might be wise to dump Turkey, or face war with Russia over a part of the world that is not European. This suggestion came out of no special animosity for the Turkish state,...
The US Banking System as an Arm of US Foreign Policy
by Paul-Martin Foss | Feb 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Russian government is readying a new issuance of foreign bonds and has invited non-Russian banks to participate in the bond auction. US banks would like to participate in the auction but have been warned by the State Department that this would violate the spirit,...
The New Bipolar World Has Arrived
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Feb 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
The United States, the lone superpower, has presented two draft resolutions to the UN Security Council on the North Korea problem and Syrian conflict respectively (here and here) – based on the understanding it reached through two water-tight bilateral consultative...
What’s Wrong With Regime Change? RPI’s Daniel McAdams on LibertyTalkRadio
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
RPI Director Daniel McAdams joined Joe Cristiano of LibertyTalkRadio for a wide-ranging (and free-wheeling) discussion about the perils of empire, the insanity of US foreign policy, what's up with Syria, why they hate us, and the anatomy of regime change. Don't miss...
The Media are Misleading the Public on Syria
by Stephen Kinzer | Feb 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
Coverage of the Syrian war will be remembered as one of the most shameful episodes in the history of the American press. Reporting about carnage in the ancient city of Aleppo is the latest reason why. For three years, violent militants have run Aleppo. Their rule...
Killing by Sanctions
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
While Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, who is currently advising presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, famously said that the estimated 500,000 children who died as a result of US sanctions on Iraq was “worth it.” It was, perhaps, a rare moment of candor from...
Will Syria Ceasefire Deal End War, or Lead to Nuclear Exchange?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
As co-chairs of the International Syria Support Group, the US and Russia announced yesterday an agreement on the "cessation of hostilities" in Syria that is scheduled to go into effect at midnight on February 27th. According to the agreement, the militaries of the...
The Age of Authoritarianism: Government of the Politicians, by the Military, for the Corporations
by John W. Whitehead | Feb 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
“I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could speak, write, assemble, demonstrate without fear. It was in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights. We were a democracy... But I knew it wasn't a dream; there was a...
Intervention Fail: Back to Libya
by Ron Paul | Feb 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
The use of the US military overseas seems to have become so commonplace that the Obama Administration can bomb a country with no Congressional input and very little media interest at all. Such was the case on Friday, when the US military killed some 49 people in a...
Bush Haunts The GOP
by Eric Margolis | Feb 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
“The evil that men do lives after them,” wrote Shakespeare. A prime example, former US President George W. Bush who appeared last week campaigning in South Carolina for his amiable younger brother, Jeb. George W. continues to haunt the Republican Party and damage its...
Reading Ron Paul in Beijing
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 19, 2016 | Featured Articles
What a thrill it was for Dr. Paul to receive an email the other day from a young scholar and translator in Shanghai, China, to inform him that the Chinese language version of his very important book, Pillars of Prosperity, was now available on Amazon China! Imagine...
Aleppo Notebook: The City’s Terrorist Besiegers Will Now Be Besieged
by Peter Oborne | Feb 18, 2016 | Featured Articles
I had been trying to get to Aleppo for ages, but was unable to do so because rebel activity had cut off the city from the outside world. Syrian government military successes at the start of January meant there was at last a safe road. I hired a driver, was allocated a...
Terror in Turkey: Is Erdogan Playing Washington?
by Finian Cunningham | Feb 18, 2016 | Featured Articles
A massive apparent terror attack in Turkey’s capital comes at a crucial time just when the Erdogan government is trying to woo Washington’s support for its military intervention in Syria. The Turkish capital Ankara on Wednesday was hit with a deadly car bomb outside...
Obama’s ‘Moderate’ Syrian Deception
by Gareth Porter | Feb 18, 2016 | Featured Articles
Secretary of State John Kerry insisted at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday that the agreement with Russia on a temporary halt in the war in Syria can only be carried out if Russia stops its airstrikes against what Kerry is now calling “legitimate opposition...
NATO — America’s Misguided Instrument of Leadership
by Graham E. Fuller | Feb 17, 2016 | Featured Articles
On the world scene, America is a declining power. This decline is in part domestic and self-inflicted, reflecting a certain weariness and neglect of our social order. No amount of huffing and puffing from politicians will significantly change this decline. But the...
Federal Magistrate Orders Apple To Help FBI Hack Its Own Phones . . . Apple Refuses
by Jonathan Turley | Feb 17, 2016 | Featured Articles
Apple has decided to fight an unprecedented and highly controversial order by US Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym that the company has to assist the government in breaking into one of its encrypted phones. Apple says that it does not have the technology and does not want to...
Ron Paul Rewind: All US Supreme Court Justices are Good and Bad
by Adam Dick | Feb 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
With the death last week of United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, there is much discussion of whether Scalia was good or bad on the court and whether President Barack Obama and the next president will nominate good or bad people for the court. If you...
Cold War Redux: Dishing it to the Russkies
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
One of the most astonishing news stories I have read of late appeared in Business Insider at the beginning of February entitled “'The Russians are going to have a cow’: the US’s message to Putin ‘is a really big deal.’” The article described how the Barack Obama...
Turkey Flexes Muscle in Syria
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Feb 15, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Turkish army has continued for the second day the shelling of the positions of the Syrian Kurdish militia across the border, demanding that the latter withdraw from the territories they’ve gained lately in the northern Aleppo province, especially the strategic...
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