The panic in the western world, since the attack in Paris, where approx. 130 were killed is quite over the top. Walking home Friday evening, at the corner of Montgomery and Second St., in San Francisco, I witnessed train passengers rushing out of the underground train...
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Standard Narrative on Syria Conflict Whitewashes US Role
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Nov 23, 2015 | Featured Articles
The standard mainstream narrative of the war in Syria is that President Bashar al-Assad’s opponents only took up arms after his regime cracked down brutally on peaceful protesters in March 2011. The New York Times, for example, in a piece this week on ISIS reminds...

Who Should Pay For the Syrian Refugees?
by Ron Paul | Nov 23, 2015 | Featured Articles
Last week the US House dealt a blow to President Obama’s plan to resettle 10,000 Syrians fleeing their war-torn homeland. On a vote of 289-137, including 47 Democrats, the House voted to require the FBI to closely vet any applicant from Syria and to guarantee that...
Michael Scheuer: US Foreign Policy is Leading ‘Directly to Fascism in America’
by Adam Dick | Nov 22, 2015 | Featured Articles
Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Osama bin Laden Unit Chief Michael Scheuer, interviewed by CNN’s Michael Smerconish regarding the path to take after the recent Paris Killings, advises that the current “half-way approach” that rejects both non-intervention and...
How Terror in Paris Calls for Revising US Syria Policy
by Gareth Porter | Nov 21, 2015 | Featured Articles
In the wake of the ISIS terrorist attack on Paris, President Barack Obama declared that his administration has the right strategy on ISIS and will “see it through”. But the administration is already shifting its policy to cooperate more closely with the Russians on...
Hillary Clinton’s Road to War
by Justin Raimondo | Nov 21, 2015 | Featured Articles
Hillary Clinton promised us a speech on what she’d do to destroy ISIS, but what she gave us was a speech detailing how she would destroy Syria – and drag the US down the road to another unwinnable war. What she essentially proposes is that we fight a three-sided...
Ron Paul: Foreign Intervention Will Motivate ‘A Lot More’ Blowback Like in Paris
by Adam Dick | Nov 21, 2015 | Featured Articles
Interviewed Thursday on Fox Business, Ron Paul predicted that there will be “a lot more” blowback along the lines of the killings in Paris last week if the US, France, and other nations do not cease their interventionist, militaristic foreign policies. In particular,...
US Special Forces in Combat: Nothing New for Iraq and Syria
by Peter van Buren | Nov 20, 2015 | Featured Articles
The United States recently unveiled a new approach in Iraq and Syria it insists is not new at all: Special Forces will be sent into direct combat. “The fact is that our strategy… hasn’t changed,” Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, said. “This is an...
The Most Important Question About ISIS That Nobody Is Asking
by Tyler Durden | Nov 19, 2015 | Featured Articles
photo: US militaryThe question of how the Islamic State funds its sprawling caliphate has been discussed in the past: we first broke down the primary driver of ISIS revenue well over a year ago, in September 2014, when we explained that "ISIS uses oil wealth to help...
Stopping ISIS: Follow the Money
by Peter van Buren | Nov 18, 2015 | Featured Articles
Wars are expensive. The recruitment and sustainment of fighters in the field, the ongoing purchases of weapons and munitions, as well as the myriad other costs of struggle, add up. So why isn’t the United States going after Islamic State’s funding sources as a way of...
Someone Wants War with Russia
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 17, 2015 | Featured Articles
Something very odd is going on in Washington. I recently attended and spoke at a conference in Washington on “realism and restraint” as a broad formula to reform US foreign policy. Most presentations reflected that agenda more-or-less but oddly one of the speakers...
Blowback — The Washington War Party’s Folly Comes Home To Roost
by David Stockman | Nov 17, 2015 | Featured Articles
Exactly 26 years ago last week, peace was breaking out in a manner that the world had not experienced since June 1914. The Berlin Wall—-the symbol of a century of state tyranny, grotesque mass warfare and the nuclear sword of Damocles hanging over the planet—-had come...

Paris and What Should Be Done
by Ron Paul | Nov 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
The horrific attacks in Paris on Friday have, predictably, led to much over-reaction and demands that we do more of the exact things that radicalize people and make them want to attack us. The French military wasted no time bombing Syria in retaliation for the...
Opting Out: A Small Step for Peace
by Justin Pavoni | Nov 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
Let’s discuss conscientious objection. For those who don’t know what it is, conscientious objection is a moral or religious opposition to war. It is essentially the refusal to participate on moral or religious grounds. So I am a conscientious objector. Interestingly...
The City of Light Falls Dark
by Eric Margolis | Nov 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
On Friday the 13th, Paris, the City of Light, was plunged into darkness and fear. At least eight young jihadists, allegedly from the so-called Islamic State group, attacked the national sports stadium, where President Francois Hollande was attending a soccer match...
Paris: You Don’t Want to Read This
by Peter van Buren | Nov 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
You don’t want to read this, and I take no pleasure in writing it, and no one really wants to hear it right now. But I believe it needs to be said. I join the world in grieving for the dead in Paris. I have grieved for the dead from 9/11 forward — the Australians who...
Paid Patriotism: The Artist Formerly Known as ‘Propaganda’
by Abigail Hall | Nov 13, 2015 | Featured Articles
Last week, Senators Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and John McCain (R-AZ) released a report revealing the Department of Defense paid professional sports teams to host “patriotic events.” Anyone who has ever attended a sporting event knows these well. Military personnel are...
How Ukraine’s Finance Chief Got Rich
by Robert Parry | Nov 12, 2015 | Featured Articles
Before becoming Ukraine’s Finance Minister last December, Natalie Jaresko collected $1.77 million in bonuses from a US-taxpayer-financed investment fund where her annual compensation was supposed to be limited to $150,000, according to financial documents filed with...
Thanking Iraq War Veterans For Their Service
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 11, 2015 | Featured Articles
I wonder what goes through the mind of an Iraq War veteran when someone says, “Thank you for your service.” I wonder if he ever asks himself, “What exactly am I being thanked for?” Consider what the Bush administration did to US soldiers on the eve of the US invasion...
The Deep State: The Unelected Shadow Government Is Here to Stay
by John W. Whitehead | Nov 10, 2015 | Featured Articles
“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government, owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.” ― Theodore Roosevelt America’s next president will inherit more than a bitterly divided nation teetering on the brink of...
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