If you’d have said a year ago that the US State Department, Google, and Al Jazeera had been collaborating in pursuance of regime change in Syria, chances are you’d have been casually dismissed as a "crank" and a ‘conspiracy theorist." Syria was a people’s uprising...
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Soros Disruption: American-Style
by Wayne Madsen | Mar 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
Eastern Europeans and Arabs are all-too-familiar with the political street hooliganism sponsored by global “provocateur” George Soros and his minions. Lately, middle-class Americans have had a taste of the type of violent protest provocations during the current US...

Beltway Conservative Budget Plans Are Big Spending and Anti-Liberty
by Ron Paul | Mar 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
According to a recent poll, 73 percent of all Americans oppose increases in federal spending. Since this anti-government spending sentiment is a major reason Republicans control the House and Senate, one would expect the Republican Congress to hold the line on, or...
The Kurdish Genie – A Case of Complexity Papered Over by Arrogance and Ignorance
by Franklin C. Spinney | Mar 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
One of the unintended consequences of the US invasions of Iraq in 1991 and 2003 -- and their aftermaths -- has been the unleashing of the Kurdish nationalist genie in the Middle East. Today, a de-facto Kurdish statelet exists in northeast Iraq, one is emerging in...
The Islamic State Is Pretext To Again Mug Libya
by Moon of Alabama | Mar 18, 2016 | Featured Articles
There are currently two governments in Libya. A "moderately Islamist" one in the west in Tripoli and one in the east in Tobruk. The eastern one is internationally recognized and "secular" but also supported by some Salafist groups. Both governments have their own...
The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention
by Graham E. Fuller | Mar 17, 2016 | Featured Articles
Rajan Menon’s new book, “The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention,” (Oxford) launches a timely argument against a dominant argument lying behind so much of modern American foreign policy—“humanitarian intervention” or “liberal interventionism.” We are, of course, well...
America Doesn’t Need a National-Security State
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
The American people are absolutely convinced that they need the US national-security establishment, namely, the military, the CIA, and the NSA. Without this totalitarian-like apparatus that was grafted onto America’s governmental system after World War II, it is...
America’s Gestapo: The FBI’s Reign of Terror
by John W. Whitehead | Mar 15, 2016 | Featured Articles
“We want no Gestapo or secret police. The FBI is tending in that direction. They are dabbling in sex-life scandals and plain blackmail. J. Edgar Hoover would give his right eye to take over, and all congressmen and senators are afraid of him.”—President Harry S....
The US Middle East Killing Racket
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 15, 2016 | Featured Articles
Consider the following two headlines during the past three weeks: “U.S. Strike Kills ‘150 al-Shabaab Terrorists’ in Somalia” (March 7, The Telegraph) “49 Killed in U.S. Airstrike Targeting Terrorists in Libya” (February 20, CNN) The reason for the Somalia killings? US...
Kerry Sought Missile Strikes to Force Syria’s Assad to Step Down
by Gareth Porter | Mar 14, 2016 | Featured Articles
Jeffrey Goldberg’s newly published book-length article on Barack Obama and the Middle East includes a major revelation that brings US Secretary of State John Kerry’s Syrian diplomacy into sharper focus: it reports that Kerry has sought on several occasions without...

Loretta Lynch and the Government War on Free Speech
by Ron Paul | Mar 13, 2016 | Featured Articles
During her appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, Attorney General Loretta Lynch admitted that she asked the FBI to examine whether the federal government should take legal action against so-called climate change deniers. Attorney General Lynch is...
The Queen of Chaos and the Threat of World War III
by Maidhc O Cathail | Mar 12, 2016 | Featured Articles
Maidhc Ó Cathail: In your latest book, you dub Hillary Clinton the “Queen of Chaos”. Can you explain why you chose this derogatory sobriquet to describe Hillary? Diana Johnstone: Libya, in a word. Hillary Clinton was so proud of her major role in instigating the war...
Food Farm Freedom: Mr. Salatin Goes to Washington
by Joel Salatin | Mar 12, 2016 | Featured Articles
The nonprofit Food Tank recently posed 10 questions on food policy to the presidential candidates in the 2016 race. Joel Salatin throws his hat in the ring and answers. This query just came across my desk and provides good food for thought. I thought just for fun I’d...
Alternative Germany Speaks Up
by Ian Blohm | Mar 11, 2016 | Featured Articles
The final results of the local elections in the central German state of Hesse last Sunday were a cold shower for the ruling coalition. The new opposition party Alternative for Germany (AfD) won seats in every municipal council in that state, receiving an unprecedented...
Clinton Declares That She Will Never Be Indicted And Insists That Her 'Predecessors Did The Same Thing' On Emails
by Jonathan Turley | Mar 10, 2016 | Featured Articles
I watched last night’s debate with great interest. I thought both Sanders and Clinton had some very strong moments. However, I tend to watch these debates for the legal issues and I was most struck by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s discussion of the email...
Washington Hubris on Full Display at London Foreign Policy Speech
by Tina Jennings | Mar 9, 2016 | Featured Articles
Any doubts that the US government views the nature of its relationship with the UK on foreign policy as one of subservience can be finally put to rest after the visit to London last week of Evelyn Farkas, former US Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine...
Smelling EU fear, Turkey Moves in for $6.6bn Kill
by Finian Cunningham | Mar 8, 2016 | Featured Articles
When the Ankara government carried out a brutal media crackdown at the weekend and then saw minimal Western protest as a result, President Erdogan knew he had the upper-hand – to leverage the refugee crisis. It seems more than strange that, only three days before a...
You Should Care About Apple, Your iPhone, and the FBI
by Peter van Buren | Mar 8, 2016 | Featured Articles
FBI Director James Comey Yep, you should care. Very much. Hang up the phone and listen. What This is All About The FBI wants Apple to help unlock an iPhone used by one of the attackers who killed 14 people in the December San Bernardino shooting. Specifically, the...
Hungarian Revolution: Orban Says ‘No!’ to Brussels Migration Plan
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 7, 2016 | Featured Articles
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has emerged as the leader of the pro-sovereignty opposition to the dictates of the EU's Brussels bureaucrats. When German Chancellor Angela Merkel swung open Germany's doors to hundreds of thousands of migrants (mostly from places...
Just Shut Up and Vote: The Futility of Representative Government in an Age of Robber Barons
by John W. Whitehead | Mar 7, 2016 | Featured Articles
Despite the fact that we’ve been burned before, most Americans continue to allow themselves to be bamboozled into casting their votes for one candidate or another, believing that this time they mean what they say, this time they really care about the citizenry, this...
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