Secretary of State John Kerry insisted at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday that the agreement with Russia on a temporary halt in the war in Syria can only be carried out if Russia stops its airstrikes against what Kerry is now calling “legitimate opposition...
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NATO — America’s Misguided Instrument of Leadership
by Graham E. Fuller | Feb 17, 2016 | Featured Articles
On the world scene, America is a declining power. This decline is in part domestic and self-inflicted, reflecting a certain weariness and neglect of our social order. No amount of huffing and puffing from politicians will significantly change this decline. But the...
Federal Magistrate Orders Apple To Help FBI Hack Its Own Phones . . . Apple Refuses
by Jonathan Turley | Feb 17, 2016 | Featured Articles
Apple has decided to fight an unprecedented and highly controversial order by US Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym that the company has to assist the government in breaking into one of its encrypted phones. Apple says that it does not have the technology and does not want to...
Cold War Redux: Dishing it to the Russkies
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
One of the most astonishing news stories I have read of late appeared in Business Insider at the beginning of February entitled “'The Russians are going to have a cow’: the US’s message to Putin ‘is a really big deal.’” The article described how the Barack Obama...
Ron Paul Rewind: All US Supreme Court Justices are Good and Bad
by Adam Dick | Feb 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
With the death last week of United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, there is much discussion of whether Scalia was good or bad on the court and whether President Barack Obama and the next president will nominate good or bad people for the court. If you...
Turkey Flexes Muscle in Syria
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Feb 15, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Turkish army has continued for the second day the shelling of the positions of the Syrian Kurdish militia across the border, demanding that the latter withdraw from the territories they’ve gained lately in the northern Aleppo province, especially the strategic...
The Future of Banking: The Dangers of Electronic Currency
by Paul-Martin Foss | Feb 14, 2016 | Featured Articles
We live in a world in which more and more things happen electronically. It is now possible to buy all your clothes online, all your books, all your food, and have them all delivered to you. Online communication allows us to communicate with almost anyone on the...
Coming to Terms With Iraq
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 12, 2016 | Featured Articles
It seems that Iraq will continue to haunt the American people for the indefinite future. And it should. Including the Persian Gulf intervention, the 11 years of sanctions, the no-fly zones, the post-9/11 invasion and and occupation, and the post-occupation bombing,...
The Three Republican Stooges Who Would Draft Your Daughters
by Shane Kastler | Feb 11, 2016 | Featured Articles
We have a word in English to describe the act of taking someone against their will and forcing them to work for you. It's called slavery. One form of this, indeed the most heinous form of this, would be a military draft. Because this particular form of slavery...
Anatomy Of The Deep State: An Open Conspiracy
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 11, 2016 | Featured Articles
What is the "deep state"? Is it a secret national security apparatus that spies on us and operates "black sites" overseas? Some judicial star chamber ruling in secret? Well, partly. But as Mike Lofgren, author of "The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the...
Not-So-Convincing Anti-Second Amendment Arguments
by Adam Dick | Feb 10, 2016 | Featured Articles
Ken Womble has written convincingly regarding legal matters, including the desirability of prosecuting cops who lie about other cops’ killings. However, Womble, in a Monday Mimesis Law article, provides several not-so-convincing arguments for repealing the Second...
Will Geneva Talks Lead Right Back to Assad’s 2011 Reforms?
by Sharmine Narwani | Feb 10, 2016 | Featured Articles
Syrian peace talks have already stalled. The opposition refused to be in the same room as the government delegation, while the latter blamed opposition “preconditions” and the organizers’ inability to produce a “list of designated terrorists.” The UN’s special envoy...
Washington’s Libido for the Ugly
by Mike Lofgren | Feb 10, 2016 | Featured Articles
photo: mike lofgrenIn 1927, H.L. Mencken rode by train through the Pennsylvania coal country. The houses he saw along the way were so hideous, at least in his eyes, that he was moved to pen his famous essay, “The Libido for the Ugly.” Mencken was writing about towns...
FDA Wants to Jail Sam Girod for 48 Years, for Making Salves People Love
by David E. Gumpert | Feb 9, 2016 | Featured Articles
Sam Girod is a Kentucky farmer who runs a small business selling natural skin salves made from herbs such as chickweed, which seem to help relieve a host of skin conditions, including allergic rashes, psoriasis, poison oak and even skin cancers. If you look up...
Coincidence? Baltic Invasion Story Reappears as Pentagon Seeks to Quadruple Europe Spending
by Danielle Ryan | Feb 8, 2016 | Featured Articles
It seems that Putin is about to invade the Baltics. Again. With journalists and commentators distracted by Syria and Europe’s refugee crisis, Putin’s enduring desire to dash Westwards across the continent “recreating the Soviet Union” was seemingly put on the media’s...
An Exasperated John Kerry Throws In Towel On Syria: ‘What Do You Want Me To Do, Go To War With The Russians?!’
by Tyler Durden | Feb 8, 2016 | Featured Articles
“Russian and Syrian forces intensified their campaign on rebel-held areas around Aleppo that are still home to around 350,000 people and aid workers have said the city - Syria's largest before the war - could soon fall.” Can you spot what’s wrong with that quote, from...

Mandatory Depression Screening is A Depressing Thought
by Ron Paul | Feb 7, 2016 | Featured Articles
The United States Preventive Services Task Force recently recommended mandatory depression screening for all Americans. The task force wants to force health insurance companies to pay for the screening. Basic economics, as well as the Obamacare disaster, should have...
The Super Bowl Promotes War
by David Swanson | Feb 7, 2016 | Featured Articles
Super Bowl 50 will be the first National Football League championship to happen since it was reported that much of the pro-military hoopla at football games, the honoring of troops and glorifying of wars that most people had assumed was voluntary or part of a...
Giving Peace Very Little Chance
by Robert Parry | Feb 6, 2016 | Featured Articles
After nearly 15 years of Mideast war – with those conflicts growing ever grimmer – you might expect that peace would be a major topic of the 2016 presidential race. Instead, there has been a mix of warmongering bluster from most candidates and some confused mutterings...
Ron Paul Says Entering Presidential Race as Libertarian Party Candidate ‘Not in the Cards’
by Adam Dick | Feb 5, 2016 | Featured Articles
In a new Fox Business interview, host Kennedy asks Ron Paul the question many people have considered the last couple days: With Paul’s son Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) having dropped out of the presidential race this week, how about the senior Paul jump into the 2016...
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