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...
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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...
German Spy Chief Says ISIS Operatives Have Infiltrated Europe Disguised As Refugees
by Tyler Durden | Feb 5, 2016 | Featured Articles
"We are in a serious situation and there is a high risk that there could be an attack. But the security agencies, the intelligence services and the police authorities are very alert and our goal is to minimize the risk as best we can.” That’s from Hans-Georg Maassen...
The Washington Post’s Interventionist Mindset
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 5, 2016 | Featured Articles
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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