When Ukrainian army officers came to the Ukrainian village of Velikaya Znamenka to tell the men to prepare to be drafted, they weren’t prepared for what happened next. As the commanding officer was speaking, a woman seized the microphone and proceeded to tell him off:...
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Were the Saudis Behind 9/11?
by Eric Margolis | Feb 8, 2015 | Featured Articles
Claims that Saudi Arabia was behind the 9/11 attacks on America have been circulating since 2001. The Saudis have denied all such claims even though 15 of the 19 aircraft hijackers were Saudi citizens. This week, allegations of Saudi involvement reignited as one of...
Vaccine Controversy Shows Why We Need Markets, Not Mandates
by Ron Paul | Feb 8, 2015 | Featured Articles
If I were still a practicing ob-gyn and one of my patients said she was not going to vaccinate her child, I might try to persuade her to change her mind. But, if I were unsuccessful, I would respect her decision. I certainly would not lobby the government to pass a...
Greece: The Problem with Playing Hardball
by Paul-Martin Foss | Feb 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
Greece and the European Central Bank are currently at loggerheads. The new Greek government wants to lighten its debt burden but the ECB won’t give the Greeks everything they want. Only two weeks into Syriza’s governance of Greece, the ECB has decided to play...
Supreme Court Rules in Favor of TSA Whistleblower Robert MacLean
by Peter van Buren | Feb 6, 2015 | Featured Articles
Whistleblower laws exist because government officials do not always act in the nation’s best interests. The Obama administration, in its war on whistleblowers, just lost a major battle. Major in its venue — the Supreme Court — and major in its implications for future...
No Doubt: US Taxpayers Will be Robbed to Arm Poroshenko
by Ron Paul | Feb 4, 2015 | Featured Articles
President Petro Poroshenko, who the US, along with the Europeans and NATO, helped place in power after last year’s coup, has declared that he has “no doubt” America's taxpayers will provide the lethal weapons he desires to fight the separatists in eastern Ukraine. I...
America’s James Bond Complex
by Sheldon Richman | Feb 4, 2015 | Featured Articles
Today, American politicians of both major parties — conservatives, “moderates,” and so-called liberals alike — insist that the United States is an “exceptional,” even “indispensable” nation. In practice, this means that for the United States alone the rules are...
History In the Balance: Why Greece Must Repudiate Its ‘Banker Bailout’ Debts And Exit The Euro
by David Stockman | Feb 3, 2015 | Featured Articles
Now and again history reaches an inflection point. Statesman and mere politicians, as the case may be, find themselves confronted with fraught circumstances and stark choices. February 2015 is one such moment. For its part, Greece stands at a fork in the road. Syriza...
Netanyahu’s Speech and the Politics of Iran Policy
by Gareth Porter | Feb 2, 2015 | Featured Articles
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu’s acceptance of an invitation to speak to the US Congress on 3 March, two weeks before the Israeli election and without any consultation with the White House, is aimed at advancing both Netanyahu’s re-election and the...
Mini-Maidan Picks Up Steam in Budapest
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 2, 2015 | Featured Articles
Hungarians are supposed to be good at math. After all, the father of the hydrogen bomb, the inventor of the Rubik's Cube, and a whole lot of really brilliant mathematicians are all Hungarian. Indeed mathematics and the arts derived from it are seemingly endemic to the...
The Failed ‘Yemen Model’
by Ron Paul | Feb 2, 2015 | Featured Articles
Last September President Obama cited his drone program in Yemen as a successful model of US anti-terrorism strategy. He said that he would employ the Yemen model in his effort to “degrade and ultimately destroy” ISIS in Iraq and Syria. But just a week ago, the...
March to Folly in Ukraine
by Eric Margolis | Jan 31, 2015 | Featured Articles
The United States has just made an exceptionally dangerous, even reckless decision over Ukraine. Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who ended the Cold War, warns it may lead to a nuclear confrontation with Russia. Rule number one of geopolitics: nuclear-armed powers...
Surrendering Liberty: America’s Fatal Freedom Apathy
by James Bovard | Jan 29, 2015 | Featured Articles
According to our civic folklore, Americans are more devoted to freedom than any other nationality on earth. But it is increasingly appears that this dogma is a relic of bygone times. A Gallup poll last July asked a thousand Americans: “Are you satisfied or...
‘Two Percent Inflation’ and The Fed’s Current Mandate
by Ron Paul | Jan 28, 2015 | Featured Articles
Over the last 100 years the Fed has had many mandates and policy changes in its pursuit of becoming the chief central economic planner for the United States. Not only has it pursued this utopian dream of planning the US economy and financing every boondoggle...
New Russia ‘Spy’ Scandal: US Foreign Policy Goes Retro
by Justin Raimondo | Jan 28, 2015 | Featured Articles
Progressives have saddled themselves with a theory of history that sees the "march of progress" as an ever upwardly-bound journey to political perfection: thus the appellation "progressive," as in "things are getting progressively better." Yet history – real history,...
After The ‘Syriza Shock’ – Now Comes The Hard Choice Of Escape Or Merely Re-setting The Terms of Greece’s EU Servitude
by David Stockman | Jan 26, 2015 | Featured Articles
We can heartily praise Alexis Tsirpras for calling bull on the destructive puzzle palace economics thrust on his country by the hypocrites and liars who rule from Brussels. And his finance minister designate, economist Yanis Varoufakis, is surely on the right track...
Education is Too Important Not to Leave to the Marketplace
by Ron Paul | Jan 25, 2015 | Featured Articles
This week, events around the country will highlight the importance of parental control of education as part of National School Choice Week. This year’s events should attract more attention than prior years because of the growing rebellion against centralized education...
Adios Cuba!
by Eric Margolis | Jan 25, 2015 | Featured Articles
It’s taken over half a century for the US to finally figure out how to neutralize pesky Communist Cuba. Invasions, air raids, crushing sanctions, attempts to murder the Castro leadership by exploding cigars and poisons, diplomatic isolation, poisoning crops – all...
Beware a New Cold War
by Charles Knight | Jan 23, 2015 | Featured Articles
The notion of a New Cold War with Russia first arrived in 2008 with the publication of Edward Lucas' book The New Cold War: The Future of Russia and the Threat to the West. It received some attention at the time, but the cold war construct in its title gained little...
A Second Even More Unjustifiable Episode of Government Collection of Phone Records
by Ivan Eland | Jan 23, 2015 | Featured Articles
In the rush to sensationalize the Paris terrorist attacks and minimize all other news (for example, even more horrendous terrorist attacks in Nigeria), the American media has conveniently overlooked one major ill effect of the public hysteria it is helping to foment....
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