'Shock and awe' over Baghdad, 2003.Bombs going off in Iraq? Well, it happens all the time — what's there to see? Let’s all move along shall we? On Thursday, at least 13 people were killed in a ISIS attack on a café in Baghdad for the “crime” of watching a football...
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The Civil War Inside the US Military
by Justin Raimondo | May 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
In early April, a battalion of senior military officials appeared before a Senate panel and testified that the US Army is “outranged and outgunned,” particularly in any future conflict with Russia. Arguing for a much bigger budget for the Army, they claimed that,...
Kurd Fighter in Iraq Destroys U.S.-Made Turkish Helo With Russian-Model Missile
by Peter van Buren | May 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
There’s no past in Washington. There is no sense that actions taken today will exist past today, even though in reality they often echo for decades.A video making the rounds online shows a fighter from a Kurdish group known as Kurdish Workers Party, or, more commonly,...

Defense Bill Coming This Week: A Boost for War and Tyranny
by Ron Paul | May 15, 2016 | Featured Articles
For many of us concerned with liberty, the letters “NDAA” have come to symbolize Washington’s ongoing effort to undermine the US Constitution in the pursuit of constant war overseas. It was the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2012 that introduced into...
Ellen Brown Scripps Would Have Been Proud
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 14, 2016 | Featured Articles
An interesting controversy has broken out at Scripps College in Claremont, California. Several students and professors are protesting the selection of former US Ambassador to the United Nations, Madeleine Albright, as the commencement speaker. The controversy at the...
Washington Coup in Brazil? Was Incoming President US Embassy Informant?
by Daniel McAdams | May 13, 2016 | Featured Articles
Adding to suspicions of a US role in the ouster of independent-minded Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff is a revelation making the rounds today that Michel Temer, the opposition leader who will step in as interim president, had met with US embassy officials in Sau...
Showdown: Poland Refuses To Accept Any Refugees, Will Not Comply With European ‘Blackmail’
by Tyler Durden | May 13, 2016 | Featured Articles
Seemingly unfazed by the recent European Commission proposal to punish countries which refuse to comply with "fair" refugee allocation quotas with fines as high as €250,000 per asylum seeker, the head of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party and former PM Jaroslaw...
US Asia ‘Rebalance’ Threatened With Meltdown
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | May 12, 2016 | Featured Articles
Elections in the Philippines can be very funny. The candidates often try to connect with their electorate by taking recourse to singing and dancing. Cutting bawdy jokes and making funny faces or dressing outrageously comes very readily to politicians in their...
Another Needless US/China Clash In South China Sea
by Daniel McAdams | May 11, 2016 | Featured Articles
For the third time in seven months, the US has sent a warship to challenge China in territorial waters it claims in the South China Sea. The US claims its purpose is to keep shipping lanes open, while China arguably benefits as much as anyone from trade going in and...
Against the Feel-Good Study of History and Literature
by Robert Higgs | May 11, 2016 | Featured Articles
The educational establishment seems to be expending a great deal of effort these days to excise “offensive” material from the curricula of history and literature. For example, Mark Twain’s great anti-racist novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been removed...
Syria, ISIS, and the US-UK Propaganda War
by Eric Draitser | May 11, 2016 | Featured Articles
With the war in Syria raging in its fifth year, and the Islamic State wreaking havoc throughout the Middle East and North Africa, it’s clear that the entire region has been made into one large theater of conflict. But the battlefield must not be understood solely as a...
US Escalation in Afghanistan: A ‘Recipe For Disaster’
by Daniel McAdams | May 10, 2016 | Featured Articles
The recently-released Pentagon report on the US bombing of a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan last October was heavily redacted, but it still revealed a great deal about the ongoing disaster of the longest war in US history. US troops complain...
Turkey’s Erdogan Gives Europe the Middle Finger
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | May 9, 2016 | Featured Articles
The impact of Turkish President Recep Erdogan’s move Wednesday to replace Prime Minister Ahmet Dautoglu is already being felt in the western chancelleries with the signs that the scenario now is one of an acrimonious divorce between Ankara and the European Union. The...
Secret Service Handcuffs The First Amendment
by Peter van Buren | May 9, 2016 | Featured Articles
Thomas Jefferson said that an informed citizenry is critical to a democracy, and with that as a cornerstone the Founders wrote freedom of the press into the First Amendment to the Constitution. The most basic of ideas at play is that the government should in no way be...
Trump’s Wall vs Kerry’s Open Border – Is There A Libertarian Option?
by Daniel McAdams | May 9, 2016 | Featured Articles
In a university commencement speech over the weekend, US Secretary of State John Kerry ridiculed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's plan to build a wall on the Mexican border. He told the students to get ready for a borderless society. He also said that...

What Happened to the Revolution?
by Ron Paul | May 9, 2016 | Featured Articles
In a recent interview I was asked why Bernie Sanders, a self-described “democratic socialist” had seemingly attracted so much support among young people. In fact polls suggest Sanders is the most popular candidate among people aged 18-29, and 51 percent of that same...
Mr. Trump, Explain Why America First Must Mean Ending Foreign Aid and Foreign Military Assistance
by Michael Scheuer | May 6, 2016 | Featured Articles
Now that Mr. Trump has vowed that the concept of “America First” will be at the core of his administration’s foreign and domestic policies, he should begin to tell Americans what he intends to do make that pledge a reality and why it needs to be done. He should do...
US Ambassador to Hungary: Overthrow Assad, Let in Refugees, and Fight Russia…or Else!
by Daniel McAdams | May 6, 2016 | Featured Articles
US Ambassador to Hungary, Coleen BellIf anyone wants a short course on what's wrong with US diplomacy look no further than US Ambassador to Hungary Coleen Bell's speech Friday to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Hungarian Parliament. In typical diplo-speak there...
Aleppo – Syria’s Stalingrad?
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | May 6, 2016 | Featured Articles
In a message on Thursday addressed to Vladimir Putin felicitating Russia on its Victory Day, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad compared the fighting around the city of Aleppo to Stalingrad, which turned the tide of World War II. It’s a powerful metaphor for the Russian...
Texas Teachers and Police Launch Absurd Investigation After Eighth Grader Attempted To Pay for Lunch With $2 Bill
by Jonathan Turley | May 5, 2016 | Featured Articles
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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