In explaining Donald Trump and the train wreck of the Republican Party, neoconservative contempt has targeted cultural rot, immigrant haters, and according to the the National Review, prescription drug addicted hillbillies. These poor, dumb racists have latched on to...
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Stop Giving Chickens Away, Bill Gates
by Peter van Buren | Jul 1, 2016 | Featured Articles
Bill Gates’ philanthropic efforts are usually greeted with near-universal praise from people who believe he is a great humanitarian, but Bill Gates knows very little about sustainable, intelligent development. Bolivia to Bill Gates: Go to Hell and Take Your Chickens...
Obama’s ‘New Beginning’ was the Beginning of the End
by Martin Berger | Jun 30, 2016 | Featured Articles
It’s been seven years since Obama delivered his famous speech at Cairo University in June 2009, which at the time was quite ironically heralded as the “new beginning” since it was believed that it would open a new page in the US relations with the Middle Eastern and...
RPI Conference Announcement: Paul and Rockwell Together Again in DC!
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 30, 2016 | Featured Articles
Here's one great reason to visit the US capital this September: Ron Paul and Lew Rockwell will be back together again in Washington, D.C., speaking at the RPI "Peace and Prosperity 2016" conference! Lew Rockwell, the founder and CEO of the Mises Institute and editor...
The Syria ‘Dissent’ Memo and US Bureaucratic Pressure Strategy
by Gareth Porter | Jun 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
The memorandum by 51 State Department officials calling for US military intervention in Syria last week has been treated in news media coverage as a case of dissent from existing Syria policy by individual officials involved in Syria policy. But the memo has all the...
The Magnitsky Hoax?
by Philip Giraldi | Jun 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
Sergei Magnitsky was a Russian lawyer hired by an Anglo-American investment fund operating in Moscow to investigate the apparent diversion of as much as $230 million in taxes due to the government. He became a whistleblower after discovering that the money had been...
‘We the Prisoners’: The Demise of the Fourth Amendment
by John W. Whitehead | Jun 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
“Our carceral state banishes American citizens to a gray wasteland far beyond the promises and protections the government grants its other citizens… When the doors finally close and one finds oneself facing banishment to the carceral state—the years, the walls, the...
Google, YouTube, Facebook, Others, Now Using Automated Blocking of ‘Extremist’ Content
by Peter van Buren | Jun 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
The web’s biggest content providers have started using automation to remove “extremist propaganda” videos from their sites. Censoring Content YouTube (owned by Google) and Facebook are among the sites deploying systems to block or rapidly take down Islamic State...

After ‘Brexit,’ Can We Exit a Few Things Too?
by Ron Paul | Jun 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
Last week’s UK vote to leave the EU may have come as a shock to many, but the sentiment that led British voters to reject rule from Brussels is nothing unique. In fact it is growing sentiment worldwide. Frustration with politics as usual, with political parties that...
Do We Really Want War With Russia?
by Eric Margolis | Jun 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
War with Russia appears increasingly likely as the US and its NATO satraps continue their military provocations of Moscow. As dangers mount, our foolish politicians should all be forced to read, and then re-read, Prof. Christopher Clark’s magisterial book, ‘The...
The Brexit Vote – What Does it Mean?
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jun 24, 2016 | Featured Articles
What does it mean?Hopefully, a breakup of the EU and NATO and, thereby, the avoidance of World War III.The EU and NATO are evil institutions. These two institutions are mechanisms created by Washington in order to destroy the sovereignty of European peoples. These two...
Saudis Push Washington Revolt Against Obama on Syria
by Finian Cunningham | Jun 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
That 51 US diplomats reproached President Obama’s Syria policy by calling for greater American military force deployed against the Damascus government was itself a remarkable sign of official dissent within Washington. But the president’s authority was further...
Teen Sues US Over Cavity Drug Search for Which She was Billed $575
by Peter van Buren | Jun 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
Ashley Cervantes, a then 18-year-old American citizen, was stopped at the Mexico border and, for some unspecified reason, perhaps related to her being young and of Hispanic ethnicity, accused by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of smuggling drugs. What Drugs? A...
‘Hello, Lenin!’ Three Components of America’s Misguided Foreign Policy
by Jim Jatras | Jun 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
Since the end of the Cold War, American foreign policy could almost have been designed to undermine our national interests. Whether under Republican George W. Bush or Democrats Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, we have seen “regime changes” and “color revolutions,”...
Fifty-One Foreign Service Officers Can't be Wrong…Or Can They? More bombs and Less Talk on Syria
by Philip Giraldi | Jun 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
Fmr US Ambassador Robert Ford meets with "moderate" terrorists in SyriaIt is ironic that fifty-one US State Department employees, perhaps overly-generously dignified in the media with the title of “diplomats,” have come out in favor of removing a foreign head of state...
Nazis Have Rights Too
by Adam Dick | Jun 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
Suffolk County, New York police arrested Edward Perkowski on Thursday after the police allegedly found in a raid of his home items including tens of thousands of dollars in cash, several guns and knives, ammunition, a bit of marijuana and illegal mushrooms, and some...

Orlando: The New 9/11?
by Ron Paul | Jun 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
Last week America was rocked by the cold-blooded murder of 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Unlike the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Orlando shooter appears to be a lone gunman who, while claiming allegiance to ISIS, was not...
Orlando: Islam or Blowback?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
According to the Telegraph newspaper, “Omar Mateen, the Orlando gunman, told his victims the attack was revenge for American bombing of Afghanistan, but allowed black Americans to be released because ‘they have suffered enough.’” The person who recounted what Mateen...
Why Are Defense Policy Wonks So Ineffectual?
by Franklin C. Spinney | Jun 18, 2016 | Featured Articles
“People say the Pentagon does not have a strategy. They are wrong; the Pentagon does have a strategy. It is: Don’t interrupt the money flow, add to it.” -Colonel John R. BoydFighter pilot, aircraft designer, strategist Today, America’s foreign policy is a shambles....
Interventionism is a Rotten Tree With Rotten Fruit
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 17, 2016 | Featured Articles
Fifty-one State Department officials are calling on President Obama to expand US interventionism in Syria by initiating a bombing campaign against the Syrian government. Apparently they’re not satisfied with the great “success” that their philosophy of interventionism...
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