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...
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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...
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...
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...
Twenty Years of a Dictatorial Democracy
by James Bovard | Nov 4, 2016 | Featured Articles
The 2016 election campaign is mortifying millions of Americans in part because the presidency has become far more dangerous in recent times. Since Sept. 11, 2001, we have lived in a perpetual emergency, which supposedly justifies routinely ignoring the law and...
Sleepwalking into a New Cold War, Pentagon Style
by Franklin C. Spinney | Nov 4, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Pentagon’s five year plan has been planted (or in Pentagon-speak, “front loaded”) with the seed money for a top-to-bottom modernization of our nuclear forces — a new bomber, new inter-continental ballistic missiles (ICBM) (even though the Minutemen III has just...
ISIS: Mortal Threat Or Paper Tiger?
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 3, 2016 | Featured Articles
If ISIS is such a mortal threat to the United States, why has US military action in Iraq and Syria been proceeding at such a leisurely pace? Is it possible that ISIS and al-Qaeda in Syria are being used -- or even supported -- by the US and its allies as a "regime...
Bill Weld is Hillary Clinton’s Libertarian Party Surrogate
by Adam Dick | Nov 3, 2016 | Featured Articles
It is common in presidential campaigns for surrogates to speak at events or take part in media interviews where they vouch for a presidential candidate. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has many such surrogates, including her former presidential primary...
The Rise of Mandatory Vaccinations Means the End of Medical Freedom
by Shaun Bradley | Nov 3, 2016 | Featured Articles
Mandatory vaccinations are about to open up a new frontier for government control. Through the war on drugs, bureaucrats arbitrarily dictate what people can and can’t put into their bodies, but that violation pales in comparison to forcibly medicating millions against...
Purchasing Loyalty with Foreign Aid
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 2, 2016 | Featured Articles
A dispute that is taking place between Saudi Arabia and Egypt indirectly demonstrates the nature of US foreign aid. After dumping a walloping $25 billion in foreign aid to help the Egyptian military dictatorship’s economic woes, the Saudis are hopping mad. Why?...
Turkey Prepares to Intervene in Mosul
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Nov 2, 2016 | Featured Articles
The battle of Mosul has been joined, finally, as Iraqi Special Forces entered the city limits earlier today from the east. (BBC) The early reports suggest that the Islamic State fighters responded with guided anti-tank missiles and small arms to block the Iraqi...
Who Will Weed Out the Warmongers?
by Robert Parry | Nov 1, 2016 | Featured Articles
If Hillary Clinton hangs on to win the presidency, liberal Democrats have vowed to block her appointment of Wall Street-friendly officials to key Cabinet and sub-Cabinet jobs. But there has been little organized resistance to her choosing hawkish foreign policy...
Obama’s Victory Lap?
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 1, 2016 | Featured Articles
In between nearly daily campaign stops shilling for Hillary, President Barack Obama has been promoting his record as Head of State. To Obama’s credit, he talks nice and appears to be both thoughtful and rational, qualities that were not always evident in his...
Not Guilty: The Power of Nullification to Counteract Government Tyranny
by John W. Whitehead | Oct 31, 2016 | Featured Articles
“The people have the power, all we have to do is awaken that power in the people. The people are unaware. They’re not educated to realize that they have power. The system is so geared that everyone believes the government will fix everything. We are the...
Raqqa Now Key to US Strategy in Syria and the Wider Region
by John Wight | Oct 31, 2016 | Featured Articles
To understand the situation in Aleppo is to understand the key to the conflict in Syria at this juncture: Will Washington and its allies or the Syrian Army and Russia liberate Raqqa, the capital of the so-called Islamic State. It does not take a military genius to...

Blame Government, Not Markets for Monopoly
by Ron Paul | Oct 31, 2016 | Featured Articles
When Time-Warner announced it planned to merge with another major communications firm, many feared the new company would exercise near-total monopoly power. These concerns led some to call for government action to block the merger in order to protect both...
Selling ‘Regime Change’ Wars to the Masses
by John Pilger | Oct 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
American journalist Edward Bernays is often described as the man who invented modern propaganda. The nephew of Sigmund Freud, the pioneer of psychoanalysis, it was Bernays who coined the term “public relations” as a euphemism for spin and its deceptions. In 1929, as a...
Comey Sends Letter To Congress Citing New Evidence (and An Investigation) In The Clinton Email Scandal
by Jonathan Turley | Oct 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
There is a major news development with the release of a letter from FBI Director James B. Comey that the Bureau has decided that new evidence requires further investigation into the Clinton emails. It was a surprising change just days before the election. After all,...
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