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US Intel Stands Pat on MH-17 Shoot-down
by Robert Parry | Mar 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
Despite the high stakes involved in the confrontation between nuclear-armed Russia and the United States over Ukraine, the US intelligence community has not updated its assessment on a critical turning point of the crisis – the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines...
Iran Fighting ISIS – Is it Really a Problem?
by Ron Paul | Mar 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
As Iran continues to take an active role in helping Iraq fight ISIS, many US neocons are upset that the US military is not over there on the ground doing the fighting. They want Americans to believe that only another US invasion of Iraq – and of Syria as well – can...
CNN is Beating the Drums of War
by Paul Craig Roberts | Mar 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
President George W. Bush’s national security advisor, Condi Rice, warned Americans that Saddam Hussein’s (nonexistent) weapons of mass destruction could result in a mushroom cloud going up over an American city. No such threat existed. But today a very real threat...
A Green Light for the American Empire
by Ron Paul | Mar 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
The American Empire has been long in the making. A green light was given in 1990 to finalize that goal. Dramatic events occurred that year that allowed the promoters of the American Empire to cheer. It also ushered in the current 25-year war to solidify the power...
Get Out Peacefully: The Libertarian Principle of Secession
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Mar 13, 2015 | Featured Articles
For a century and a half, the idea of secession has been systematically demonized among the American public. The government’s schools spin fairy tales about the “indivisible Union” and the wise statesmen who fought to preserve it. Decentralization is portrayed as...
Obama’s Venezuelan Dictatorship
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 11, 2015 | Featured Articles
Ever since the advent of the Cold War, US officials have told us that it was necessary for the United States to adopt the totalitarian structure known as the national-security state in order to combat communist totalitarianism. We are now witnessing a similar...
The Intellectual as Servant of the State
by Andrew Bacevich | Mar 11, 2015 | Featured Articles
Policy intellectuals — eggheads presuming to instruct the mere mortals who actually run for office — are a blight on the republic. Like some invasive species, they infest present-day Washington, where their presence strangles common sense and has brought to the verge...
Ron Paul Rewind: Iran Sanctions Are ‘One More Step to Another War We Don’t Need’
by Adam Dick | Mar 10, 2015 | Featured Articles
A week after a joint session of the United States Congress gave repeated standing ovations to Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he scaremongered Americans regarding Iran and as legislation to impose yet more sanctions on Iran is being pushed in the Congress,...
Azerbaijan Should be Very Afraid of Nuland
by Andrew Korybko | Mar 10, 2015 | Featured Articles
The US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Victoria Nuland, visited Baku on 16 February as part of her trip to the Caucasus, which also saw her paying stops in Georgia and Armenia. While Azerbaijan has had positive relations with the US...
How DNA Is Turning Us Into a Nation of Suspects
by John W. Whitehead | Mar 9, 2015 | Featured Articles
“The year is 2025. The population is 325 million, and the FBI has the DNA profiles of all of them. Unlike fingerprints, these profiles reveal vital medical information. The universal database arrived surreptitiously. First, the Department of Defense's repository of...
Don’t Be Fooled by the Federal Reserve’s Anti-Audit Propaganda
by Ron Paul | Mar 8, 2015 | Featured Articles
In recent weeks, the Federal Reserve and its apologists in Congress and the media have launched numerous attacks on the Audit the Fed legislation. These attacks amount to nothing more than distortions about the effects and intent of the audit bill. Fed apologists...
The Future of Mosul is Kobane
by Peter van Buren | Mar 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
It was necessary to destroy the Syrian town of Kobane (above) in order to save it from ISIS. The rubble and ruin of what was once a place more than 200,000 people lived is now free. Want to know the future of Mosul? Look to Kobane. Destroying Kobane Kobane once...
The Long History of Israel Gaming the ‘Iranian Threat’
by Gareth Porter | Mar 6, 2015 | Featured Articles
Western news media has feasted on Prime Minister Netanyahu’s talk and the reactions to it as a rare political spectacle rich in personalities in conflict. But the real story of Netanyahu’s speech is that he is continuing a long tradition in Israeli politics of...
‘Nuland Ensconced in Neocon Camp Who Believes in Noble Lie’
by RT | Mar 5, 2015 | Featured Articles
RPI Director Daniel McAdams is interviewed on RT. Transcript below; video here.Victoria Nuland’s anti-Russian rhetoric comes from the neocon camp of US politics, seeking to stir the Ukraine crisis, thrilled by the prospect of defense industry expansion and more arms...
America Must Reject Netanyahu’s War Cry on Iran
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 4, 2015 | Featured Articles
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to Washington this week to prepare the American people for war against Iran. Backed by American neoconservatives, the Israel lobby, and assorted other war hawks, Netanyahu insists that Iran intends to build a nuclear...
Private Police: Mercenaries for the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead | Mar 3, 2015 | Featured Articles
Corporate America is using police forces as their mercenaries.” —Ray Lewis, Retired Philadelphia Police Captain It’s one thing to know and exercise your rights when a police officer pulls you over, but what rights do you have when a private cop—entrusted with all of...
Department of Homeland Security: What is it Good For?
by Ron Paul | Mar 1, 2015 | Featured Articles
Late Friday night, Congress passed legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security for one week. This vote followed weeks of debate over efforts to attach a prohibition on funding President Obama’s executive order granting amnesty to certain illegal immigrants...
Liberty in Search of Protector – Interview With Vaclav Klaus
by Global Gold | Feb 28, 2015 | Featured Articles
Please see below excerpts from a Global Gold interview with former Czech President and Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus. To read the entire interview, please click here. -ed.Liberty is a fundamental human right; it is the cornerstone of our existence. But liberty is under...
State Department Gives 87 Percent of Afghan Funds to Only Five Recipients
by Peter van Buren | Feb 27, 2015 | Featured Articles
The Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR) issued a scathing report showing the Department of State gave a staggering 87 percent of all Afghan reconstruction funds to only five recipients. In fact, 69 percent of all taxpayer money spent went to...
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