America is exceptional alright. It is the most frightened nation on Earth, subjected to hysterical propaganda over decades warning about foreign enemies and ideologies. No wonder its supposed democratic freedom is in so appallingly bad shape, when the preponderant...
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Obama’s Global Anti-Corruption Cops Should Call Internal Affairs
by James Bovard | May 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Obama administration wants Americans to believe that it is fiercely anti-corruption. “I've been shocked by the degree to which I find corruption pandemic in the world today," declared Secretary of State John Kerry at last week’s Anti-Corruption Summit in London....
Bill Clinton to Poland and Hungary: Do As We Say on Immigration, You Dirty Little Putins!
by Daniel McAdams | May 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
Shortly after World War II, after the Soviet Red Army liberated Hungary from Nazi occupation, the Hungarians held their first election in six years. The November, 1945 vote resulted in an overwhelming victory for a coalition led by the agrarian, anti-communist...
Ron Paul Rewind: Repeal Indefinite Detention!
by Daniel McAdams | May 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
This week served as another reminder that the Beltway serves the Beltway and not the American people. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) again appeared on the House Floor and again it flushed away hundreds of billions of dollars to maintain the US military...
Merle Haggard vs. Eliot Cohen
by Justin Raimondo | May 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
Poor Eliot Cohen: one of the principal architects of the Iraq war, and chief ideologue of Bushism in foreign policy – remember the “freedom agenda”? – he’s miffed that “This campaign shows that the foreign policy consensus that has framed this country’s work overseas...
Lavender Leninists and Heretic-Hunters: The Thoughtcrime Prosecution of Ruth Neely
by William Norman Grigg | May 19, 2016 | Featured Articles
During her years as a Magistrate Judge in Pinedale, Wyoming, Ruth Neely performed dozens of civil marriage ceremonies. State law (Sect. 20-1-106[a]) specifies that magistrates, like “every licensed or ordained minister of the gospel, bishop, priest, or rabbi … may...
Anti-War is Pro-American
by Mike Marion | May 19, 2016 | Featured Articles
Thomas Jefferson declared the American way of interacting with the world to be "peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations – entangling alliances with none." However, over the course of at least the past seven decades, the US government has turned this...
Return Of The Gold Standard? Why Now?
by Daniel McAdams | May 18, 2016 | Featured Articles
What does a discussion on gold and monetary policy have to do with an Institute that focuses on foreign policy and civil liberties? The Federal Reserve and its fiat currency policy is literally the lifeblood of the warfare state. Without endless printing of paper...
The Police State and License Plate Scanners
by Peter van Buren | May 18, 2016 | Featured Articles
One of the latest tools for violating our privacy and creating the American police state are license plate scanners. Watching You This technology allows the police to cruise through a city at normal speed and photographically gather images of vehicle license plates,...
Architects of Disastrous Iraq War Still at Large
by Neil Clark | May 17, 2016 | Featured Articles
'Shock and awe' over Baghdad, 2003.Bombs going off in Iraq? Well, it happens all the time — what's there to see? Let’s all move along shall we? On Thursday, at least 13 people were killed in a ISIS attack on a café in Baghdad for the “crime” of watching a football...
The Civil War Inside the US Military
by Justin Raimondo | May 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
In early April, a battalion of senior military officials appeared before a Senate panel and testified that the US Army is “outranged and outgunned,” particularly in any future conflict with Russia. Arguing for a much bigger budget for the Army, they claimed that,...
Kurd Fighter in Iraq Destroys U.S.-Made Turkish Helo With Russian-Model Missile
by Peter van Buren | May 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
There’s no past in Washington. There is no sense that actions taken today will exist past today, even though in reality they often echo for decades.A video making the rounds online shows a fighter from a Kurdish group known as Kurdish Workers Party, or, more commonly,...

Defense Bill Coming This Week: A Boost for War and Tyranny
by Ron Paul | May 15, 2016 | Featured Articles
For many of us concerned with liberty, the letters “NDAA” have come to symbolize Washington’s ongoing effort to undermine the US Constitution in the pursuit of constant war overseas. It was the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2012 that introduced into...
Ellen Brown Scripps Would Have Been Proud
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 14, 2016 | Featured Articles
An interesting controversy has broken out at Scripps College in Claremont, California. Several students and professors are protesting the selection of former US Ambassador to the United Nations, Madeleine Albright, as the commencement speaker. The controversy at the...
Washington Coup in Brazil? Was Incoming President US Embassy Informant?
by Daniel McAdams | May 13, 2016 | Featured Articles
Adding to suspicions of a US role in the ouster of independent-minded Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff is a revelation making the rounds today that Michel Temer, the opposition leader who will step in as interim president, had met with US embassy officials in Sau...
Showdown: Poland Refuses To Accept Any Refugees, Will Not Comply With European ‘Blackmail’
by Tyler Durden | May 13, 2016 | Featured Articles
Seemingly unfazed by the recent European Commission proposal to punish countries which refuse to comply with "fair" refugee allocation quotas with fines as high as €250,000 per asylum seeker, the head of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party and former PM Jaroslaw...
US Asia ‘Rebalance’ Threatened With Meltdown
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | May 12, 2016 | Featured Articles
Elections in the Philippines can be very funny. The candidates often try to connect with their electorate by taking recourse to singing and dancing. Cutting bawdy jokes and making funny faces or dressing outrageously comes very readily to politicians in their...
Against the Feel-Good Study of History and Literature
by Robert Higgs | May 11, 2016 | Featured Articles
The educational establishment seems to be expending a great deal of effort these days to excise “offensive” material from the curricula of history and literature. For example, Mark Twain’s great anti-racist novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been removed...
Syria, ISIS, and the US-UK Propaganda War
by Eric Draitser | May 11, 2016 | Featured Articles
With the war in Syria raging in its fifth year, and the Islamic State wreaking havoc throughout the Middle East and North Africa, it’s clear that the entire region has been made into one large theater of conflict. But the battlefield must not be understood solely as a...
Another Needless US/China Clash In South China Sea
by Daniel McAdams | May 11, 2016 | Featured Articles
For the third time in seven months, the US has sent a warship to challenge China in territorial waters it claims in the South China Sea. The US claims its purpose is to keep shipping lanes open, while China arguably benefits as much as anyone from trade going in and...
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