This is the 70th anniversary of the UN. It is not clear how much good the UN has done. Some UN Blue Hemet peacekeeping operations had limited success. But mainly Washington has used the UN for war, such as the Korean War and Washington’s Cold War against the Soviet...
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Deserting Libya: The Rhetoric of British Foreign Policy
by John S. Warren | Sep 29, 2015 | Featured Articles
If you care to read the British Government’s official advice to potential or actual visitors to Libya, which as at 26th September, 2015 is “Still Current”; you will find the following bleak message: Latest update: Summary – intense fighting continues in Benghazi,...
‘Minority Report’ Is 40 Years Ahead of Schedule: The Fictional World Has Become Reality
by John W. Whitehead | Sep 28, 2015 | Featured Articles
“The Internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows about us. The thrilling thing is, that will make us feel we’re part of the medium. The scary...

Congress and the Fed Refuse to Learn From Their Mistakes
by Ron Paul | Sep 27, 2015 | Featured Articles
This month marks the seventh anniversary of the bursting of the housing bubble and the subsequent economic meltdown. The mood in Congress following the meltdown resembled the panicked atmosphere that followed the September 11th attacks. As was the case after September...
The Harsh Lessons of History: Faux Reports of Progress Against IS
by Peter van Buren | Sep 25, 2015 | Featured Articles
Allegations that American military analysts may have “cooked the books” to skew intelligence assessments about the campaign against Islamic State (IS), providing a more optimistic account of progress, are a sign of bad things to come. Bad intel leads to bad decisions....
The Rape of Afghanistan
by Justin Raimondo | Sep 23, 2015 | Featured Articles
The rape of young boys in Afghanistan by our “allies” is getting a lot of press attention these days, provoked by the revelation that US military personnel who tried to stop it are being disciplined for interfering. Two US officers apparently beat up one of our pet...
Iran’s Parchin Nuclear Myth Begins to Unravel
by Gareth Porter | Sep 23, 2015 | Featured Articles
For well over three years, heavy doses of propaganda have created a myth about a purported steel cylinder for testing explosives located on a site at Iran’s Parchin military testing reservation. Iran was refusing to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)...
Foreign Policy by Intimidation: GOP Candidates Show How It’s Done
by Philip Giraldi | Sep 22, 2015 | Featured Articles
The media are anointing former Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Carly Fiorina as the winner of last Wednesday’s second Republican presidential-aspirant debate. They are saying that she was the best prepared and most convincing speaker, and, indeed, maybe she was. But...
Putin’s Consistency on Syria has Washington Fuming
by Danielle Ryan | Sep 20, 2015 | Featured Articles
It is increasingly difficult to watch the most recent coverage of the Syrian war and not be struck by how utterly illogical and convoluted it has become. But look through the media spin and it’s clear: the Russian leader's steady moves in Syria are perplexing the US....

Blame America? No, Blame Neocons!
by Ron Paul | Sep 20, 2015 | Featured Articles
Is the current refugee crisis gripping the European Union “all America’s fault”? That is how my critique of US foreign policy was characterized in a recent interview on the Fox Business Channel. I do not blame the host for making this claim, but I think it is...
Was Ahmed Mohamed’s Arrest Really All About Religion and Race?
by Adam Dick | Sep 19, 2015 | Featured Articles
Many people are framing the arrest of student Ahmed Mohamed at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas on Monday in terms of Mohamed’s race and religion. The argument goes that a white and non-Muslim student would not have been arrested as was Mohamed for bringing to...
Washington Wants ‘Regime Change’ in Ecuador
by Timothy Alexander Guzman | Sep 18, 2015 | Featured Articles
“The United States does not lack institutions that continue to conspire, and that’s why I am using this gathering to announce that we have decided to expel USAID from Bolivia” -Bolivian President Evo Morales Washington wants Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa removed...
The Russians are Coming!
by Eric Margolis | Sep 18, 2015 | Featured Articles
The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!” So echoed the cry this week from the Pentagon, the US media and Republican candidates for president. How silly. It seems the Russians have sent six tanks to Syria, some medium artillery and a bunch of military...
Russia Exposes US Hidden Agenda in Syria
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Sep 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
The Syrian refugee problem was maturing slowly steadily and would have provided the perfect pretext for a US-led ‘humanitarian intervention’ in that country. But Russia is there first and the best-laid American plan may have gone awry. The US Middle East policies have...
Public School Students Are the New Inmates in the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead | Sep 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
“Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning. From metal detectors to drug tests, from...
How to End the Refugee Flood
by Eric Margolis | Sep 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
Remember when America erupted in fury over France’s refusal to support the US invasion of Iraq in 2003? President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Dominque de Villepin warned that George Bush’s unprovoked aggression against Iraq would destabilize the Mideast and...
Madness of Blockading Syria’s Regime
by Robert Parry | Sep 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
Does the US government want the Islamic State and/or its fellow-travelers in Al Qaeda to take over Syria? As far as the State Department is concerned, that seems to be a risk worth taking as it moves to cut off Russia’s supply pipeline to the Syrian government of...

Congress Fiddles While the Economy Burns
by Ron Paul | Sep 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
Reports that the official unemployment rate has fallen to 5.1 percent may appear to vindicate the policies of easy money, corporate bailouts, and increased government spending. However, even the mainstream media has acknowledged that the official numbers understate...
America’s Police State is Rooted in Four Federal Wars
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Sep 11, 2015 | Featured Articles
Consider the impact on the civil liberties of the American people of four of the non-stop wars that the U.S. government has been waging for a very long time: the war on drugs, the war on terrorism, the war on immigrants, and the war on wealth. These four wars have...
Why The US and Iran Aren’t Cooperating Against ISIS
by Gareth Porter | Sep 9, 2015 | Featured Articles
By the logic of geopolitics, the United States and Iran ought to be cooperating to contain and weaken the Islamic State (IS). Both countries have declared that the group is a very serious threat to their own security and to the security of the entire Middle East....
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