The recently-released Pentagon report on the US bombing of a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan last October was heavily redacted, but it still revealed a great deal about the ongoing disaster of the longest war in US history. US troops complain...
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Turkey’s Erdogan Gives Europe the Middle Finger
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | May 9, 2016 | Featured Articles
The impact of Turkish President Recep Erdogan’s move Wednesday to replace Prime Minister Ahmet Dautoglu is already being felt in the western chancelleries with the signs that the scenario now is one of an acrimonious divorce between Ankara and the European Union. The...
Secret Service Handcuffs The First Amendment
by Peter van Buren | May 9, 2016 | Featured Articles
Thomas Jefferson said that an informed citizenry is critical to a democracy, and with that as a cornerstone the Founders wrote freedom of the press into the First Amendment to the Constitution. The most basic of ideas at play is that the government should in no way be...
Trump’s Wall vs Kerry’s Open Border – Is There A Libertarian Option?
by Daniel McAdams | May 9, 2016 | Featured Articles
In a university commencement speech over the weekend, US Secretary of State John Kerry ridiculed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's plan to build a wall on the Mexican border. He told the students to get ready for a borderless society. He also said that...

What Happened to the Revolution?
by Ron Paul | May 9, 2016 | Featured Articles
In a recent interview I was asked why Bernie Sanders, a self-described “democratic socialist” had seemingly attracted so much support among young people. In fact polls suggest Sanders is the most popular candidate among people aged 18-29, and 51 percent of that same...
Aleppo – Syria’s Stalingrad?
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | May 6, 2016 | Featured Articles
In a message on Thursday addressed to Vladimir Putin felicitating Russia on its Victory Day, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad compared the fighting around the city of Aleppo to Stalingrad, which turned the tide of World War II. It’s a powerful metaphor for the Russian...
Mr. Trump, Explain Why America First Must Mean Ending Foreign Aid and Foreign Military Assistance
by Michael Scheuer | May 6, 2016 | Featured Articles
Now that Mr. Trump has vowed that the concept of “America First” will be at the core of his administration’s foreign and domestic policies, he should begin to tell Americans what he intends to do make that pledge a reality and why it needs to be done. He should do...
US Ambassador to Hungary: Overthrow Assad, Let in Refugees, and Fight Russia…or Else!
by Daniel McAdams | May 6, 2016 | Featured Articles
US Ambassador to Hungary, Coleen BellIf anyone wants a short course on what's wrong with US diplomacy look no further than US Ambassador to Hungary Coleen Bell's speech Friday to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Hungarian Parliament. In typical diplo-speak there...
Texas Teachers and Police Launch Absurd Investigation After Eighth Grader Attempted To Pay for Lunch With $2 Bill
by Jonathan Turley | May 5, 2016 | Featured Articles
We have been discussing the over-reaction officials in past cases where police have been called to address pranks or controversies once handled internally in schools. A news story out of Houston only servers to capture this absurdity. It began when Danesiah Neal, an...
Suspect Held in Solitary for Seven Months for Forgetting Hard Drive Passwords
by Peter van Buren | May 4, 2016 | Featured Articles
Innocent until proven guilty? Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination? Hah! Not if you forget your passwords, in Post-Constitutional America. Former Philadelphia Police Sergeant Francis Rawls, above, has spent the past seven months in solitary confinement...
What Is the US Military Doing in the Baltics?
by Justin Raimondo | May 4, 2016 | Featured Articles
Get ready for the new cold war, which will no doubt turn hot if Hillary Clinton gets into the White House: NATO has just announced it is “considering” the addition of 4,000 more troops to be stationed in Poland and the Baltic states, i.e. right on Russia’s western...
Remember How We Got Out of Vietnam
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 4, 2016 | Featured Articles
Do you remember what US national-security state officials were saying when millions of Americans were demanding that the US government withdraw its troops from Vietnam and bring them home?They were saying that “national security” was at stake — i.e., the very survival...
Iraq: The Interventionist Hellhole
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 2, 2016 | Featured Articles
When Vice President Joseph Biden traveled to Iraq a few days ago, he did it, as always, under a shroud of secrecy. The mainstream press was asked in advance to keep the trip secret and dutifully complied. Biden declined to spend the night in Iraq, staying only 10...
‘This Is A Game’: The Clintons Continue To Mock Email Investigation
by Jonathan Turley | May 2, 2016 | Featured Articles
I have previously written about the peculiar position of being counsel for Hillary Clinton when your client, her advisers, and allies mock the massive federal investigation that continues into her reckless use of an unsecured personal server for her official...

Drafting Women Means Equality in Slavery
by Ron Paul | May 2, 2016 | Featured Articles
Last week the House Armed Services Committee approved an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act requiring women to register with Selective Service. This means that if Congress ever brings back the draft, women will be forcibly sent to war. The amendment...
US-Created System In Iraq Is Collapsing: Protesters Storm Parliament, State of Emergency Declared
by Tyler Durden | Apr 30, 2016 | Featured Articles
Less than two years ago, the US set up another puppet government in the mid-east this time in the state of Iraq when following substantial US pressure, on August 14, 2014 then prime minister al-Maliki agreed to stepped down and be replaced with Haider al-Abadi. Today,...
State Department Follies
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
After President Obama swore no fewer than eight times that he would not put boots on the ground in Syria and then did so, his State Department spokesman swore that he never said that he would not put boots on the ground. Why have US government press briefings turned...
Remember the Golan Heights?
by Eric Margolis | Apr 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
During the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Syrian forces had surprised Israel and were fast approaching the edge of the steep Golan Heights, captured by Israel during the 1967 war. It seemed as if Syrian armor and infantry would retake Golan, then pour down into Israeli...
Obama Went to Germany to Deliver Europe’s Latest Report Card
by Danielle Ryan | Apr 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
Shouldn’t the days of European leaders enlisting the help of American presidents to sell unpopular ideas to their citizens be long over? They should. But evidently, they are not. Barack Obama arrived in Europe last week, bursting with words of wisdom and friendly...
How NATO-Linked Think Tanks Control EU Refugee Policy
by F. William Engdahl | Apr 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
A flood of uncontrolled war refugees from Syria, Libya, Tunisia and other Islamic countries destabilized by Washington’s "Arab Spring" Color Revolutions, has created the greatest social dislocation across the EU from Germany to Sweden to Croatia since the end of World...
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