In the end, the emails mattered. How much they mattered — how many votes went to Trump, how many would be-Clinton supporters stayed home, how many voted third party — we’ll never know.Clinton supporters were surprised the emails mattered at all, because they had been...
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The Russians are Coming – By Sea!
by Eric Margolis | Nov 19, 2016 | Featured Articles
Russia’s dispatch of a ten-ship flotilla to the Syrian Coast has raised some outrage and sneers aplenty in the West. Particularly when one of its embarked MiG-29K fighters crashed on takeoff from Russia’s sole carrier, the obsolescent Admiral Kuznetsov which lacks...
Donald and Vladimir
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 18, 2016 | Featured Articles
Are we seeing an opening to better US/Russia relations? One of president-elect Donald Trump's first moves after victory was a telephone conversation with Russian president Vladimir Putin. But turning away from the past several years of deteriorating relations will not...
The Best Iran Deal Is Unilateral Hands-Off Iran
by Michael S. Rozeff | Nov 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
Trump wants to renegotiate the Iran nuclear deal and/or “dismantle” it. Why? What good does this do Americans? Why not continue to follow the path of peaceful trade and cultural exchange? Why not continue to build mutual respect and understanding with this historic...
Trump and Putin Begin Work on US-Russia Reset
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Nov 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Russian President Vladimir Putin made the long-expected phone call to the US president-elect Donald Trump on Monday. It stands to reason that the presidential spokesman in the Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, one of Putin’s closest aides, travelled to New York last week...
The Bolton Threat to Trump’s Middle East Policy
by Gareth Porter | Nov 15, 2016 | Featured Articles
Post-election comments on Middle East policy last week by President-elect Donald Trump and one his campaign advisers have provoked speculation about whether Trump will upend two main foreign policy lines of the Obama administration in the Middle East.But the more...
US Elections Shockwaves Hit Europe
by Eric Margolis | Nov 14, 2016 | Featured Articles
Donald Trump’s startling and explosive victory has not only shaken America’s oligarchy to its core, it’s also sending shock waves across Europe and scaring the top hats off plutocrats and their tame politicians.The great Mark Twain wrote early in the 20th century: ‘if...
Bulgaria & Moldova Switch from Hillary’s Euro-Atlantic Column
by Mark Almond | Nov 14, 2016 | Featured Articles
November 13th was as unlucky for stalwart backers of the foreign policy-line embodied by Hillary Clinton just as 8th November was for her domestic supporters. In both Bulgaria and Moldova, the voters rejected candidates for president who had been openly endorsed by...

Memo to the Next Administration: Defense Spending Must Be For Actual Defense
by Ron Paul | Nov 14, 2016 | Featured Articles
In a disturbing indication of how difficult it would be to bring military spending in line with actual threats overseas, House Armed Services Chairman Rep. Mac Thornberry (R – TX) told President Obama last week that his war funding request of $11.6 billion for the...
Long Live the Establishment!
by Michael S. Rozeff | Nov 12, 2016 | Featured Articles
What happens next in Washington? Trump fills out his administration. At the same time, Washington insiders attempt to capture Trump and influence his positions, policies and decisions. The presidency is an institution, not a man, not a president. The presidency is a...
Commander-In-Chief Donald Trump Will Have Terrifying Powers. Thanks, Obama.
by Alex Eammons | Nov 11, 2016 | Featured Articles
When Donald Trump becomes commander in chief in January, he will take on presidential powers that have never been more expansive and unchecked.He’ll control an unaccountable drone program, and the prison at Guantanamo Bay. His FBI, including a network of 15,000 paid...
Ron Paul to Trump: Don’t Listen to Neocons!
by Adam Dick | Nov 11, 2016 | Featured Articles
Ron Paul, known for his promotion of the United States following a noninterventionist foreign policy, presented Thursday his take on the prospects of Donald Trump’s foreign policy as president. Paul set out his analysis in an extensive interview with host Peter...
Trump: Don’t Follow the Bush-Obama Foreign Policy Legacy
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 10, 2016 | Featured Articles
Eight years ago, President Obama had a chance to change the warmongering direction that outgoing President Bush and the U.S. national-security establishment had led America for the previous eight years. Obama could have said, “Enough is enough. America has done enough...
Strange Silence of Neo-Con Trolls as Mikheil Saakashvili Stabs His Patron Poroshenko in the Back
by Mark Almond | Nov 8, 2016 | Featured Articles
The sudden resignation of Mikheil Saakashvili as Governor of Odessa and his accompanying tirade of accusations of corruption and treason against the Ukrainian President, Petro Poroshenko and his coterie in Kiev came as a bombshell for the Western media on 7th...
Oh, What a Lovely War!
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 8, 2016 | Featured Articles
The American people don’t know very much about war even if Washington has been fighting on multiple fronts since 9/11. The continental United States has not experienced the presence a hostile military force for more than 100 years and war for the current generation of...
Another US Massacre in Afghanistan
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 7, 2016 | Featured Articles
The latest massacre of many innocent people by US forces in Afghanistan provides another demonstration as to why it is imperative that the American people stop deferring to the authority of the national security state and demand the immediate withdrawal of all US...

Regardless of How America Votes, Americans Want a Different Foreign Policy
by Ron Paul | Nov 7, 2016 | Featured Articles
I have said throughout this presidential campaign that it doesn’t matter much which candidate wins. Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are authoritarians and neither can be expected to roll back the leviathan state that destroys our civil liberties at home while...
US Hypocrisy: Bombing of Aleppo is No Worse Than What Happened in Gaza and Iraq
by Gareth Porter | Nov 5, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Russian-Syrian bombing campaign in eastern Aleppo, which has ended at least for the time being, has been described in press reports and op-eds as though it were unique in modern military history in its indiscriminateness. In an usual move for a senior US official,...
Washington’s Meddling in Foreign Elections
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 5, 2016 | Featured Articles
As US officials continue to accuse Russia of meddling with the US presidential election, an accusation that they have provided no evidence whatsoever to support, let’s review some of the US government’s history of meddling with elections in others countries.1. In...
Will the Media Reset After the Election or Are We Stuck With This Tabloid Stuff?
by Peter van Buren | Nov 4, 2016 | Featured Articles
The venerable New York Times ran a story saying Donald Trump lies about the height of his buildings.For no apparent reason, the Times resurrected some information from 1979 saying Trump insisted on counting the basement levels of his signature Trump Tower in the...
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