Here’s a joke for you: How many US Senators does it take to kidnap your daughter? Answer: I don’t know, but 85 of them would like to. On Tuesday the US Senate voted overwhelmingly to allow the federal government to kidnap women against their will and force them into...
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Militarized USDA and EPA using SWAT Teams to Terrorize Innocent People Including Lemon Growers and Small Farmers
by Daniel Barker | Jun 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
The federal government is becoming increasingly militarized, with numerous agencies now employing their own SWAT teams to conduct raids on raw milk producers, beekeepers, lemon growers - or anyone else who runs afoul of agency policies. The trend has increased during...
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by Daniel McAdams | Jun 15, 2016 | Featured Articles
How did the use of military force become the first option in US foreign policy? Why must we spend a trillion dollars each year to fund a global empire that leaves us poorer and less safe? How does the military-industrial complex rip off working Americans while...
Clinton Discussed Top Secret CIA Drone Info, Approved Drone Strikes, Via Her Blackberry
by Peter van Buren | Jun 14, 2016 | Featured Articles
A new report in the Wall Street Journal reveals emails in which then-Secretary of State Clinton approved CIA drone assassinations in Pakistan from her unsecured Blackberry. Top Secret/SAP Messages The timing and location of these strikes are considered Top Secret/SAP...
Violence Begets Violence: The Orlando Shootings and the War on Terror
by John W. Whitehead | Jun 14, 2016 | Featured Articles
Until we start addressing the US government’s part in creating, cultivating and abetting domestic and global terrorism—and hold agencies such as the FBI and Defense Department accountable for importing and exporting violence, breeding extremism and generating...

Fascism: A Bipartisan Affliction
by Ron Paul | Jun 13, 2016 | Featured Articles
If neoconservatives and progressives truly understood fascism, they would stop using the word as a smear term. That is because both groups, along with most political figures and commentators, embrace fascist ideas and policies. Fascism’s distinguishing characteristic...
The Peacemaker and the Psychopath
by William Norman Grigg | Jun 12, 2016 | Featured Articles
Dave Bundy was working at his home in Delta, Utah, when a caravan of at least 20 federal vehicles invaded his property last March. The vehicles decanted a platoon of FBI personnel, some of them clad in a battle dress and carrying assault weapons. In what must have...
State Department Emails Reveal How Unqualified Clinton Donor Was Named to Intelligence Board
by Peter van Buren | Jun 11, 2016 | Featured Articles
Emails recently released by the State Department give more information on how a securities trader and big-money Clinton donor was appointed by her office to the International Security Advisory Board (ISAB), a group that advises the Secretary of State on nuclear...
Democrats Are Now the Aggressive War Party
by Robert Parry | Jun 10, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Democratic Party has moved from being what you might call a reluctant war party to an aggressive war party with its selection of Hillary Clinton as its presumptive presidential nominee. With minimal debate, this historic change brings full circle the arc of the...
US Unleashes the Dogs of War in Afghanistan
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jun 10, 2016 | Featured Articles
A statement by the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday pointedly called on the ‘international community’ to respect Pakistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. It commended Pakistan’s contribution to the war against terrorism and stressed that the Afghan...
Sometimes You Eat the Bear and Sometimes the Bear Eats You – Thoughts on Syria
by Col. W. Patrick Lang | Jun 9, 2016 | Featured Articles
1. Unless the US Joint Chiefs of Staff are once again "off the reservation" and talking to the Russians behind the backs of the Obamanites, I don't think there is much effective coordination between the US and Russia over Syria other than the flight de-confliction...
Rehearsing for World War III
by Justin Raimondo | Jun 8, 2016 | Featured Articles
As I write this, US troops are building a bridge across Poland’s Vistula river, and conducting a nighttime helicopter assault to secure the eastern part of the country against a Russian assault.Has World War III started? Well, not quite yet, although it’s not for want...
Color Revolutions – Opium of the People
by Tony Cartalucci | Jun 7, 2016 | Featured Articles
Karl Marx said of religion: Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It...
State Department Tries to Send Embarrassing Press Video Down the Memory Hole
by Peter van Buren | Jun 7, 2016 | Featured Articles
Last week the State Department revealed that an unknown official within its public affairs office ordered the scrubbing of roughly eight minutes from a video of a State press briefing, which included a discussion about negotiations related to the Iran nuclear deal.In...
Next Time Someone Says Nothing Is Made in the USA Anymore, Show Them This
by JP Sottile | Jun 6, 2016 | Featured Articles
Who says nothing is made in the USA anymore? Certainly not the well-heeled denizens of the State Department’s diplomatic corps. And they should know. That’s because they’re stationed on the frontlines of the ongoing battle to preserve Uncle Sam’s dominant market share...

The Keynesians Stole The Jobs
by Ron Paul | Jun 6, 2016 | Featured Articles
Late last week the markets were shocked by a surprisingly bad May jobs report – the worst monthly report in nearly six years. The experts expected the US economy to add 160,000 jobs in May, but it turns out only 38,000 jobs were added. And to make matters worse,...
Muhammad Ali Risked It All When He Opposed The Vietnam War
by Justin Block | Jun 4, 2016 | Featured Articles
Muhammad Ali’s most famous act of social activism — one that would strip him of his best fighting years, cost him millions of dollars, forever alter his image and eventually send him into debt — began with one off-hand quote: “Man, I ain’t got no quarrel with them...
The Census Bureau’s Latest Peril to Freedom
by James Bovard | Jun 3, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Census Bureau is sending its hefty American Community Survey to more than three million households a year. I recently received this 28-page tsunami of questions about everything from my plumbing to my profession to my ethnicity and income. But as a former Census...
War Criminal Blair Warmongers for Ground Invasion of Syria and Iraq
by Steven MacMillan | Jun 2, 2016 | Featured Articles
In an ideal world, Tony Blair would have been tried for war crimes years ago, and most probably would be over a decade into a life-time jail sentence for his role in the Iraq war. However, in our Orwellian world, devoid of justice and accountability, Blair is doing...
No “Glitch”: State Department Admits That Press Briefing Was Intentionally Edited To Remove Passage . . . But Insisted It Cannot Find Official Responsible
by Jonathan Turley | Jun 2, 2016 | Featured Articles
You may recall the controversy of a press conference at the State Department was later edited to remove an embarrassing question and answer regarding the Iran negotiations. When the exchange with Fox New Reporter James Rosen was found missing, Elizabeth Trudeau,...
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