It’s hardly a secret that the hardships of common people are getting worse by the year. Due to continuous attempts by Washington to redraw the map of the world, in many countries, American intelligence agencies have been particularly active in launching so-called...
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Lena Dunham Encourages People To Tear Apart The Movie Posters Of Other Artists
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 14, 2016 | Featured Articles
Fresh from declaring her support of Oberlin students in claiming the serving of sushi is cultural appropriation, actress Lena Dunham (creator of HBO’s “Girls”), is supporting producer Tami Sagher’s effort to get people to deface the posters for the Jason Bourne movie....
Time to Talk to Syria
by Stephen Kinzer | Jul 13, 2016 | Featured Articles
As the horrific carnage in Syria continues, a depressingly familiar chorus is rising from Washington. The new consensus is the same as it was in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan: Bombing isn’t working, so let’s bomb more. A familiar coalition — generals, defense...
Connecting the Dots
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 13, 2016 | Featured Articles
In the last few days, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have contained the following news stories: 1. “North Korea Cuts UN Line With US.” The story showed how the US government’s latest round of sanctions against North Korea failed, once again, to bring...
Don’t Just Blame the Cops: Who Is Responsible for America’s Killing Fields?
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 12, 2016 | Featured Articles
“I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for...

Fool’s Errand: NATO Pledges Four More Years of War in Afghanistan
by Ron Paul | Jul 11, 2016 | Featured Articles
The longest war in US history just got even longer. As NATO wrapped up its 2016 Warsaw Summit, the organization agreed to continue funding Afghan security forces through the year 2020. Of course with all that funding comes US and NATO troops, and thousands of...
Whitewash Won’t Cover Blair’s Guilt
by Eric Margolis | Jul 9, 2016 | Featured Articles
This week’s Chilcot report on Britain’s role in the 2003 invasion of Iraq was as polite and guarded as a proper English tea party. No direct accusations, no talk of war crimes by then Prime Minister Tony Blair or his guiding light, President George W. Bush. But still...
A Primer: USAID & US Hegemony
by Tony Cartalucci | Jul 9, 2016 | Featured Articles
A nation is its institutions. If those institutions are overrun and no longer exist, so too does the nation itself cease to exist. Institutions range from the offices of government, to education, to agricultural and economic development, to the management of natural...
Why Dallas Happened
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jul 8, 2016 | Featured Articles
Is the Dallas police shooting a false flag affair in behalf of gun control? Is it the result of a war veteran suffering from post traumatic stress disorder? Is the shooting the beginning of retribution for thousands of wanton police murders of US citizens in the 21st...
The Baghdad Bombings, Islamic State, and What America Still Hasn’t Learned
by Peter van Buren | Jul 8, 2016 | Featured Articles
The suicide bombings in Baghdad by Islamic State, timed for maximum violence, are only the latest reminders that the United States should not downplay the group. Since the wave of Islamic State suicide bombings in May – killing 522 people inside Baghdad, and 148...
‘FBI’s Failure to Prosecute Clinton is Essentially a Political Coup’
by RT | Jul 7, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has basically said the upcoming presidential election belongs to Hillary Clinton, and we really needn’t do much more than wait out the clock until November, former State Department official Peter Van Buren told RT. The FBI...
Is NATO necessary?
by Stephen Kinzer | Jul 6, 2016 | Featured Articles
Britain's vote to quit the European Union was a rude jolt to the encrusted world order. Now that the EU has been shocked into reality, NATO should be next. When NATO leaders convene for a summit in Warsaw on Friday, they will insist that their alliance is still vital...
Programmed to Kill: The Growing Epidemic of Cops Shooting Dogs
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 6, 2016 | Featured Articles
Almost two years after the firestorm that took place in Ferguson, Missouri, when a white police officer shot an unarmed black teenager and militarized police descended in a brutal show of force to quell local protests, not much has really changed for the better....

On July 4th Demand Freedom, Don’t Celebrate The State
by Ron Paul | Jul 4, 2016 | Featured Articles
As we gather with family and friends to celebrate the July 4th holiday we should remember that we are not celebrating the state, but rather commemorating an act of secession from an oppressive government. We are celebrating the adoption of the Declaration of...
America Should Exit From NATO and the National Security State
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 3, 2016 | Featured Articles
In its reporting on Brexit, the New York Times asks an interesting question: “Is the post-1945 order imposed on the world by the United States and its allies unraveling, too?” Hopefully, it will mean the unraveling of two of the most powerful and destructive...
Confessions Of A War Propagandist
by Jim Hale | Jul 2, 2016 | Featured Articles
In explaining Donald Trump and the train wreck of the Republican Party, neoconservative contempt has targeted cultural rot, immigrant haters, and according to the the National Review, prescription drug addicted hillbillies. These poor, dumb racists have latched on to...
Stop Giving Chickens Away, Bill Gates
by Peter van Buren | Jul 1, 2016 | Featured Articles
Bill Gates’ philanthropic efforts are usually greeted with near-universal praise from people who believe he is a great humanitarian, but Bill Gates knows very little about sustainable, intelligent development. Bolivia to Bill Gates: Go to Hell and Take Your Chickens...
Obama’s ‘New Beginning’ was the Beginning of the End
by Martin Berger | Jun 30, 2016 | Featured Articles
It’s been seven years since Obama delivered his famous speech at Cairo University in June 2009, which at the time was quite ironically heralded as the “new beginning” since it was believed that it would open a new page in the US relations with the Middle Eastern and...
RPI Conference Announcement: Paul and Rockwell Together Again in DC!
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 30, 2016 | Featured Articles
Here's one great reason to visit the US capital this September: Ron Paul and Lew Rockwell will be back together again in Washington, D.C., speaking at the RPI "Peace and Prosperity 2016" conference! Lew Rockwell, the founder and CEO of the Mises Institute and editor...
The Syria ‘Dissent’ Memo and US Bureaucratic Pressure Strategy
by Gareth Porter | Jun 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
The memorandum by 51 State Department officials calling for US military intervention in Syria last week has been treated in news media coverage as a case of dissent from existing Syria policy by individual officials involved in Syria policy. But the memo has all the...
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