If you have ever yearned for a perfect example of the interventionist mindset that undergirds the mainstream media, the Washington Post provided it last Sunday in an editorial entitled “Failure in Cuba.” The editorial could have easily been written by any member of US...
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Your Perception Is Worth Big Bucks To The Military-Industrial Complex
by Chris Rossini | Feb 5, 2016 | Featured Articles
We all know how Hollywood and the crony media likes to portray the US military. It's almost always presented as this well-oiled machine, good looking people, white teeth, well-spoken, the whole nine yards. Hardly will you see how trillions of taxpayers dollars go up...
Delusions on Syria Prevail in Official Washington
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 2, 2016 | Featured Articles
Tulsi Gabbard is one brave Congresswoman. She has challenged her party and the president saying that it’s time for Washington to halt its “illegal, counter-productive war to overthrow the Syrian government of Assad. I don’t think Assad should be removed. If Assad is...
Remember Kosovo?
by Justin Raimondo | Feb 1, 2016 | Featured Articles
In Pristina, the capital of the make-believe country of Kosovo, there is a street named after Bill Clinton, and a statue of Bill – done in the Socialist Realist style – towers over the main square. They also named a boulevard after George W. Bush, perhaps to hedge...

Is Congress Declaring War on ISIS…or on You?
by Ron Paul | Jan 31, 2016 | Featured Articles
Passage of Senator Mitch McConnell’s authorization for war against ISIS will not only lead to perpetual US wars across the globe, it will also endanger our civil and economic liberties. The measure allows the president to place troops anywhere he determines ISIS is...
State Department: 22 Emails Will Not Be Released As “Top Secret”
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 31, 2016 | Featured Articles
The email scandal deepened for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday with the announcement that the State Department will not release 22 emails because they contain “top secret” information, the highest level of government classification. The latest...
Ron Paul: Congress is AWOL on US Wars
by Adam Dick | Jan 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
Interviewed Thursday on the Alex Jones Show, Ron Paul lamented that, despite the Founders having “worked so hard to allow [war] powers to be put into the hands of the body that is supposed to be closest to the people,” the Congress today “is absent, AWOL,” because...
American Take on the Freedom of the Press
by Martin Berger | Jan 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
In the “free and democratic system” being pushed upon all other states in the world by the United States and its Western allies, journalists are increasingly unhappy about the repressions they’ve been facing over the last decade, along with constant surveillance and...
Why Adolf Eichmann’s Final Message Remains so Profoundly Unsettling
by Giles Fraser | Jan 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
Had it not been for an unguarded conversation between Adolf Eichmann’s son and the Argentinian girl he was dating, the chances are that the shabby “Ricardo Klement” would have lived out his days in obscurity a few miles north of Buenos Aires. Unlike Josef Mengele, the...
Six Years and $17 Billion Wasted in Afghanistan
by Peter van Buren | Jan 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
What did you get for Christmas these last six years? The U.S. government was nice enough to gift our loyal friends the Afghans $17 billion of your tax money, and, in the true spirit of giving, asked nothing in return for itself. What that means in actual dollars and...
The Continuing Demonization Of Cash
by Paul-Martin Foss | Jan 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
The insidious nature of the war on cash derives not just from the hurdles governments place in the way of those who use cash, but also from the from the aura of suspicion that has begun to pervade private cash transactions. In a normal market economy, businesses would...
Presidential Crimes Then And Now
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jan 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
Not much remains of the once vibrant American left-wing. Among the brainwashed remnants there is such a hatred of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan that the commitment of these two presidents to ending dangerous military rivalries is unrecognized. Whenever I write about...
Saudi Arabia Is Killing Civilians with US Bombs
by Marjorie Cohn | Jan 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
Saudi Arabia has engaged in war crimes, and the United States is aiding and abetting them by providing the Saudis with military assistance. In September 2015, Saudi aircraft killed 135 wedding celebrants in Yemen. The air strikes have killed 2,800 civilians, including...
You Won’t Like It, But Here’s the Answer to ISIS
by Peter van Buren | Jan 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
How can we stop the Islamic State? Imagine yourself shaken awake, rushed off to a strategy meeting with your presidential candidate of choice, and told: “Come up with a plan for me to do something about ISIS!” What would you say? What Hasn’t Worked You’d need to start...
Here Come the Free Staters!
by Adam Dick | Jan 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
It looks like thousands — maybe tens of thousands — of libertarians will be moving to New Hampshire in the next few years. Via a vote in 2003, the Free State Project selected New Hampshire from among several low-population states as the state to target for a migration...

Congress is Writing the President a Blank Check for War
by Ron Paul | Jan 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
While the Washington snowstorm dominated news coverage this week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was operating behind the scenes to rush through the Senate what may be the most massive transfer of power from the Legislative to the Executive branch in our...
Pentagon Chief Says ‘Boots On The Ground’ Part Of ‘Accelerated’ Strategy For ISIS Fight
by Tyler Durden | Jan 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
US Defense Secretary Ash Carter is a man who knows that actions speak far louder than words. That’s why when Washington’s feud with China over the latter’s land reclamation efforts in the South China Sea reached a boiling point last year, Carter made a trip to the...
Hillary to Bernie: Stop Sounding Like Ron Paul on Iran!
by Adam Dick | Jan 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
Many people watching the Democratic presidential debate on Sunday likely considered United States Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) advocacy that the US “move as aggressively as we can to normalize relations with Iran" as a welcome call for replacing decades of US hostility...
Syria’s Moment: RPI’s Daniel McAdams on Crosstalk
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
With another round of talks in Geneva on the Syria crisis scheduled to take place in just days, the US and Russia still cannot agree on who should represent the opposition at the negotiating table. The US and Saudis have insisted that the political leader of the...
Democrats in ‘Group Think’ Land
by Robert Parry | Jan 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
A curious reality about Official Washington is that to have “credibility” you must accept the dominant “group thinks” whether they have any truth to them or not, a rule that applies to both the mainstream news media and the political world, even to people who deviate...
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