The Obama administration, and especially the CIA and the State Department, seem to be in trouble. They shout everything they can against Russia and allege that the cleansing of east-Aleppo of al-Qaeda terrorist is genocidal. Meanwhile no mention is ever made of the...
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The US is Your Know-it-All Friend Who Should Just Keep His Mouth Shut
by Stephen Kinzer | Sep 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
When makers of American foreign policy dream of an ideal world, they fixate on one word: primacy. It used to be called “full-spectrum dominance.” On the street, it comes out as “Don’t even think about it.” Tough guys in Western movies put it differently: “This town...
Obama Humiliated: For The First Time, Congress Votes To Override President’s ‘Sept 11’ Bill Veto
by Tyler Durden | Sep 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
The US Congress, first the Senate and then the House, humiliated the president when it voted on Wednesday to override Obama for the first time in his eight-year tenure, as the House voted 348-77 to reject a veto of legislation allowing families of terrorist victims to...
The Symbiotic Relationship Between Central Banking and Total War
by Paul-Martin Foss | Sep 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
The following is the prepared version of a speech delivered at the Ron Paul Institute Conference in Sterling, VA. I am here today to talk about one of the most important, but also most overlooked, issues of our day: the relationship between central banking and total...
Israel’s $38 Billion Scam
by Philip Giraldi | Sep 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
As an American it is difficult to imagine a more unseemly bit of political theater playing out than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s appearance before his cabinet to claim that he had gotten every last dollar of military assistance out of the Obama...
George Soros’s False Flag Factories
by Wayne Madsen | Sep 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
Global hedge fund tycoon and political provocateur George Soros is leading a war of symbols, namely flags and banners either resurrected or conjured up by his myriad non-profit groups, to stir religious, racial, and ethnic tensions the world over. From the Serbian...
The Hillary Clinton Presidency Has Already Begun As Lame Ducks Promote Her War
by Diana Johnstone | Sep 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
If the British Empire was built on the playing fields of Eton, United States world hegemony gets its training in Hollywood studios and advertising agencies. Selling your product, or yourself, by looking sincere is a cultivated American art. Current top US leaders are...

Wells Fargo or the Federal Reserve: Who’s the Bigger Fraud?
by Ron Paul | Sep 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Wells Fargo bank account scandal took center stage in the news last week and in all likelihood will continue to make headlines for many weeks to come. What Wells Fargo employees did in opening bank accounts without customers' authorization was obviously wrong, but...
A Few Uncomfortable Truths You Won’t Hear from the 2016 Presidential Candidates
by John W. Whitehead | Sep 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”—George Orwell In the interest of liberty and truth, here are a few uncomfortable truths about life in the American police state that we will not be hearing from either...
How the Pentagon Sank the US-Russia Deal in Syria – and the Ceasefire
by Gareth Porter | Sep 24, 2016 | Featured Articles
Another US-Russian Syria ceasefire deal has been blown up.Whether it could have survived even with a US-Russian accord is open to doubt, given the incentives for al-Qaeda and its allies to destroy it. But the politics of the US-Russian relationship played a central...
Journey To Aleppo: Exposing The Truth Buried Under NATO Propaganda
by Vanessa Beeley | Sep 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
The extent of the destruction inflicted upon the Kurdish-held Sheikh Maqsoud by the U.S.-backed “moderate rebels” and the scars of the battle for its liberation are highlighted in the state of the neighborhood’s infrastructure. (Photo by Vanessa Beeley)ALEPPO, Syria —...
The US Road Map to Balkanize Syria
by Pepe Escobar | Sep 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
Forget about those endless meetings between Sergei Lavrov and John Kerry; forget about Russia’s drive to prevent chaos from reigning in Syria; forget about the possibility of a real ceasefire being implemented and respected by US jihad proxies. Forget about the...
How American Media Serves as a Transmission Belt for Wars of Choice
by James George Jatras | Sep 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
Several weeks ago the mainstream media (MSM) gave saturation coverage to a picture of a little boy pulled from the rubble of Aleppo after his home and family were crushed in what was dubiously reported as a Russian airstrike. Promptly dubbed “Aleppo Boy,” his dusty...
Syria – The Aid Convoy Attack Points To Further Escalation
by Moon of Alabama | Sep 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
The show-down over the damaged aid convoy west of Aleppo is reaching comedy level. The UN/Syrian Red Crescent convoy came from the government held west-Aleppo. It had reached a Syrian Red Crescent center in Umm al Kubra in the "rebel" held area further west where it...
Deep State America
by Philip Giraldi | Sep 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
This article is a lightly edited version of a paper presented at the Ron Paul Institute’s conference on peace and prosperity held on September 10, 2016 in Dulles, Virginia On September 9th the Washington Post featured a front page article describing how the Defense...
Time to Admit Washington’s Syria Policy Has Gone Completely Off the Rails
by Danielle Ryan | Sep 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
Fifteen years, hundreds of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars later, the United States’ war on terror has spawned more instability, violence and chaos than we could have imagined when this undefined and never-ending global campaign began. Today, jihadist...

Why Are We Sending $38 Billion to Rich and Powerful Israel?
by Ron Paul | Sep 19, 2016 | Featured Articles
Last week’s announcement of a record-breaking US aid package for Israel underscores how dangerously foolish and out-of-touch is our interventionist foreign policy. Over the next ten years, the US taxpayer will be forced to give Israel some $38 billion dollars in...
Western Media Credibility In Free Fall Collapse
by Paul Craig Roberts | Sep 17, 2016 | Featured Articles
The latest from the Gallup Poll is that only 32 percent of Americans trust the print and TV media to tell the truth. Republicans, 18 to 49 year old Americans, and independents trust the media even less, with trust rates of 14 percent, 26 percent, and 30 percent. The...
American Commandos ‘Forced to Run Away’ From US-Backed Syrian Rebels
by Raf Sanchez | Sep 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
Video footage appears to show US commandos fleeing a Syrian town under a barrage of abuse and insults hurled at them by fighters from the American-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebel group. The video appears to be the first evidence of US special forces cooperating...
Two Boys in Aleppo
by Justin Raimondo | Sep 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
Oh, it was a very big deal, one of those Defining Moments our media likes to chortle over. There was Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson on “Morning Joe” being interviewed by a panel of pundits including Mike Barnicle. “What,” asked Barnicle, “would...
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