Everything grows old. I’m told one day the stars and planets will turn to dust. So I suppose it’s no surprise that America’s arsenal of nuclear weapons is also showing signs of advancing age, and may have to be replaced.One would think that the growing decrepitude of...
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The Ron Paul Conference
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 12, 2016 | Featured Articles
If you haven’t already registered for the Ron Paul Institute’s Peace and Prosperity Conference, now would be a great time to do so. When I spoke to RPI’s executive director Daniel McAdams about the conference a few weeks ago, he said that tickets were going fast and...
In Vilifying Russian Swimmer Yulia Efimova, Americans are Splashing Murky Waters
by Sally Jenkins | Aug 12, 2016 | Featured Articles
Feels good, doesn’t it, to slap water in the face of the rest of the world and go all jingoist? Lilly King kept America strong and pure when she sent a blast of chlorine into the eyes of that Russian criminal mastermind Yulia Efimova and prevented her from melting the...
Bush Administration Official: Saudi Ties to 9/11 Hidden to Protect Iraq War Narrative
by Brian McGlinchey | Aug 11, 2016 | Featured Articles
In his September 20, 2001 address to a joint session of Congress, President George W. Bush laid out a defining principle of his nascent war on terror: “We will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation, in every region, now has a...
Recovered Emails Show Clinton Foundation Officials Intervening For Donors and Aides With State Department
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 11, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Clinton Foundation has been the subject of long-standing allegations of questionable donations and reporting. It is also viewed by many critics as a massive shadow campaign structure that employed aides and funded Clinton trips. However, the most serious...
The Military Base Dole
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 10, 2016 | Featured Articles
During my recent visit to my hometown of Laredo, Texas, as I was heading out of town toward Corpus Christi, I passed by the former site of Laredo Air Force Base. Serving as a training base for new pilots, the base was a prominent part of Laredo life when I was growing...
‘Prague Calling, Prague Calling’ – The Alternative Reality of RFE/RL
by Bryan MacDonald | Aug 10, 2016 | Featured Articles
“Germany calling, Germany calling, Germany calling.” During the Second World War, those words meant only one thing - that William Joyce was on the radio and spewing his unique brand of anti-British bile. Known as “Lord Haw Haw,” the American-born Joyce tried to...
Killer Instincts: When Police Become Judge, Jury and Executioner
by John W. Whitehead | Aug 9, 2016 | Featured Articles
Any police officer who shoots to kill is playing with fire. In that split second of deciding whether to shoot and where to aim, that officer has appointed himself judge, jury and executioner over a fellow citizen. And when an officer fires a killing shot at a fellow...
Chemical Weapons in Syria: Methods of Waging Information Wars
by Peter Korzun | Aug 9, 2016 | Featured Articles
The use of chemical weapons in Syria has absolutely no influence on the military situation on the ground. But it’s a good example of how propaganda wars are waged. Some Western media outlets seem to dance to the tune of terrorist groups. Here is the confirmation of...
Pentagon, CIA Form Praetorian Guard for Clinton as Warmonger President
by Finian Cunningham | Aug 8, 2016 | Featured Articles
Former director of the Central Intelligence Agency Michael J. Morell is the latest in a phalanx of senior US military-intelligence figures who are shedding any pretense of political neutrality and giving their full-throated endorsement to Democrat presidential...

The Phony Job Recovery
by Ron Paul | Aug 8, 2016 | Featured Articles
Last Friday saw the release of a bombshell jobs report, with headlines exclaiming that the US economy added over 250,000 jobs in July, far in excess of any forecasts. The reality was far more grim. Those “jobs” weren't actually created by businesses – they were...
Hiroshima: the Crime That Keeps on Paying, But Beware the Reckoning
by Diana Johnstone | Aug 7, 2016 | Featured Articles
On his visit to Hiroshima last May, Obama did not, as some had vainly hoped he might, apologize for the August 6, 1945 atomic bombing of the city. Instead he gave a high-sounding speech against war. He did this as he was waging ongoing drone war against defenseless...
Trump’s Mouth is His Worst Enemy
by Eric Margolis | Aug 6, 2016 | Featured Articles
It’s been the week from hell for Donald Trump. Everything seems to be going wrong for him. The worst was the foolish and painful fight he picked with the grieving Khan family.What happened was clearly a very clever ambush devised by the Clinton camp. A Muslim-American...
The Sham Rebrand of al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front
by Gareth Porter | Aug 5, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Nusra Front’s adoption of the new name Jabhat Fateh al-Sham and claim that it has separated itself from al-Qaeda was designed to influence US policy, not to make the group any more independent of al-Qaeda. The objective of the manoeuvre was to head off US-Russian...
Kerry’s And Al-Qaeda’s ‘Very Different Track’ Attack On Aleppo Fails
by Moon of Alabama | Aug 4, 2016 | Featured Articles
Early May US Secretary of State Kerry set a deadline for "voluntary" regime change in Syria: [He] said 'the target date for the transition is 1st of August' in Syria or else the Assad government and its allies 'are asking for a very different track.' Hoping that...
Milosevic Exonerated, as the NATO War Machine Moves On
by Neil Clark | Aug 3, 2016 | Featured Articles
piece:The ICTY’s exoneration of the late Slobodan Milosevic, the former President of Yugoslavia, for war crimes committed in the Bosnia war, proves again we should take NATO claims regarding its “official enemies” not with a pinch of salt, but a huge lorry load. For...
Captain Khan Was Waging an Unconstitutional War
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 2, 2016 | Featured Articles
Amidst the fury over the exchanges between Donald Trump and Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the couple who lost their son in Iraq, the mainstream media and mainstream political commentators are missing some important elements in the controversy. In his speech at the...
As Israel Prospers, Obama Set to Give Billions More in Aid While Netanyahu Demands Even More
by Glenn Greenwald | Aug 1, 2016 | Featured Articles
For all the chatter about animosity between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Washington Post reports that “a senior Israeli official will arrive in Washington next week for a final round of negotiations involving the largest...
Can Hillary Clinton Be Pro-War and a Progressive?
by Adam Dick | Aug 1, 2016 | Featured Articles
Despite Hillary Clinton obtaining the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination last week, many people, including many Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) delegates who publicly dissented throughout the Democratic National Convention and even walked off the convention floor...

Americans Are Going to be Disappointed in Election Outcome
by Ron Paul | Aug 1, 2016 | Featured Articles
It is a sad commentary on the state of political life in the United States that our political conventions have become more like rock music festivals than competitions of ideas. There has been a great deal of bombast, of insults, of name-calling, and of chest-beating...
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