One of my favorite literary expressions is the term "Parthian shaft." It refers to the favored tactic of the Parthians, a Persian people, of turning while on horseback and firing arrows while retreating.The Roman consul Crassus, who defeated Spartacus, may have died...
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Symbolic Failure Point: Female Afghan Pilot Wants Asylum In The US
by Peter van Buren | Dec 30, 2016 | Featured Articles
History loves little markers, tidy packages of symbolism that wrap up a big, complex thing.You know, the helicopter on the roof of the American Embassy in Saigon standing in for years of failed war, the Berlin Wall being knocked down to visually note the end the Cold...
Obama Under ‘Intense Pressure’ To Release Evidence Proving Russians Hacked The Election
by Tyler Durden | Dec 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
As noted previously, at some point today the White House is set to unveil new sanction, and other retaliatory "measures" against Russia and specifically the Kremlin, in retaliation for what according to a constantly repetitive narrative has been Russian hacking of the...
Does the Cause of Peace Have a Future?
by Ron Paul | Dec 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
Ron Paul delivers keynote at his 'Peace and Prosperity 2016' conference this yearThe full wrath of the Beltway neocons is about to hit my Institute for Peace and Prosperity. Congress snuck language into this year's Defense Authorization Bill that enables President...
2016: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year
by John W. Whitehead | Dec 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
“What’s past is prologue.” ― William Shakespeare, The Tempest What a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year this has been. Endless wars. Toxic politics. Violence. Hunger. Police shootings. Mass shootings. Economic downturns. Political circuses. Senseless...
Syria – Peace Talk Rumors And Parameters
by Moon of Alabama | Dec 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
Since February 2016 Russia had negotiated with the US about a peace deal on Syria. The main agreed upon point was to fight together against the Takfiris, mainly ISIS and al-Qaeda. The US in turn promised to separate the "moderate rebels" it supported from their close...
Behind the Real US Strategic Blunder in Syria
by Gareth Porter | Dec 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
President Barack Obama has long been under fire from the US national security elite and the media for failing to intervene aggressively against the Assad regime. But the real strategic blunder was not that Barack Obama didn’t launch yet another war in Syria, but that...

New Year’s Resolutions for Donald Trump and Congress
by Ron Paul | Dec 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
In the spirit of New Year’s, here are four resolutions for President-elect Trump and Congress that will enable them to really make America great again: 1) Audit the Fed….and then end it: The Federal Reserve Bank's easy money policies have eroded the American people’s...
Obama Quietly Signs The ‘Countering Disinformation And Propaganda Act’ Into Law
by Tyler Durden | Dec 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
Late on Friday, with the US population embracing the upcoming holidays and oblivious of most news emerging from the administration, Obama quietly signed into law the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which authorizes $611 billion for the military in 2017....
Trump’s Need to Trust Americans
by Robert Parry | Dec 24, 2016 | Featured Articles
Barack Obama’s chance for a transformative presidency ended when he bowed to Official Washington’s foreign-policy establishment of neocons and liberal interventionists and bought into the elitist notion that the American people should be guided by propaganda, not...
The Fraudulent Obama War on Corruption
by James Bovard | Dec 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Obama administration wants Americans to believe that it is fiercely anti-corruption. “I have been shocked by the degree to which I find corruption pandemic in the world today,” declared Secretary of State John Kerry at an Anti-Corruption Summit in London last May....
Meltdown in Turkey?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
After the July coup attempt, Turkey has faced increased instability. Over the past ten days more than 60 people have been killed in Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) bombings. And just days ago, the Russian ambassador to Turkey was assassinated by an apparent radical....
The War on Terror: Anyway You Look at it, it’s a Failure
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
The twenty-first century, at least up until this point, might well be described as the age of the terrorist. Even though most Americans and Europeans rank terrorism as low among their concerns, the repercussions when a terrorist attack does take place are greatly...
The Bad Losers and What They Fear Losing
by Diana Johnstone | Dec 19, 2016 | Featured Articles
If the 2016 presidential campaign was a national disgrace, the reaction of the losers is an even more disgraceful spectacle. It seems that the political machine backing Hillary Clinton can’t stand losing an election. And why is that? Because they are determined to...

After Aleppo: We Need a New Syria Policy
by Ron Paul | Dec 19, 2016 | Featured Articles
Over the past week, eastern Aleppo was completely brought back under control of the Syrian government. The population began to return to its homes, many of which were abandoned when al-Qaeda-linked rebels took over in 2012. As far as I know, the western mainstream...
Moscow Attacks!
by Eric Margolis | Dec 18, 2016 | Featured Articles
A senior CIA source tells me "with a high level of certainty" that Russia’s Vladimir Putin was responsibly for Pearl Harbor, the Korean War, Vietnam, and Iraq. This miscreant was also behind 9/11 and ring around the collar.Not since Dr Fu Manchu have we seen such a...
Ron Paul: What’s Missing From The Russian Hack Argument?
by Ron Paul | Dec 17, 2016 | Featured Articles
Without any proof or evidence being presented that Russia interfered with our election, we're just seeing political grandstanding at this point by both President Obama and Secretary Clinton. Have you noticed that there's never any mention or concern about Secretary...
Guess Who’s Behind Facebook’s New ‘Fake News’ Detector?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
Are you terrified of "fake news"? Don't worry, the elites are doing something to combat it!As anyone active on the Internet is aware, there have been increasing calls for social media companies (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) to address the mostly manufactured crisis of...
You Opened the Box…
by Peter van Buren | Dec 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
Once you let the genie out of the bottle, you can’t stuff him back in.Attempts to overturn the results of our election, or to delegitimize a president before he even takes office, are attempts to overturn the system of transfer of power that has served America since...
Credibility Tips for Journalists
by Peter van Buren | Dec 14, 2016 | Featured Articles
The working journalists of America messed the bed with their election coverage this year.For the most part, the media as a whole fetishized the Clinton candidacy (first woman ever! most experienced candidate ever! dynasty!) and treated Trump as an oaf when they...
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