House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair, Ed Royce (R-CA)President Obama made good today on his promise to sign the Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014, which had passed Congress last week. Dubbed by former Rep. Dennis Kucinich the bill that "reignited the Cold War while...
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Torture and the Destruction of the Human Being Shaker Aamer by the United States
by Peter van Buren | Dec 18, 2014 | Featured Articles
click photo to enlargeThe Bush and Obama administrations have gone to extraordinary lengths to hide America’s archipelago of secret prisons and systems of torture. For all the empty talk of “transparency” being high-fived around following the Senate Report, they at...
For Truly Better Relations with Cuba, Open the Door and Get Out of the Way!
by Ron Paul | Dec 18, 2014 | Featured Articles
President Obama today took a bold and surprising step toward ending the futile 50 year US embargo of Cuba. The president announced he would begin normalizing relations, including upgrading the diplomatic mission in Havana to embassy status. The president also said he...
The Cold War Has Never Ended for the CIA
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Dec 17, 2014 | Featured Articles
(Note: Today's announced swap of three members of the "Cuba 5" for jailed US operative Alan Gross, who is mentioned in the below article, makes this article all the more relevant and prescient. Strong forces in the US -- including in the CIA -- will continue to...
Three Members of Congress Just Reignited the Cold War While No One Was Looking
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Dec 16, 2014 | Featured Articles
House passes Russia sanctions bill in one second. Click to enlarge. Photo via Truthdig.Late Thursday night, the House of Representatives unanimously passed a far-reaching Russia sanctions bill, a hydra-headed incubator of poisonous conflict. The second provocative...
BBC US Editor Parrots CIA, Republican Talking Points on Senate Torture Report
by Rupert Stone | Dec 16, 2014 | Featured Articles
The BBC is supposed to be an "impartial", "honest" and "independent" news outlet, but today its US Editor, Jon Sopel, showed very clearly whose side he is on. In a short post, "A whiff of hypocrisy about CIA report?", he regurgitates some staple Republican...
After Ukraine: Are the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary Veering Off The NATO/EU Reservation?
by Christine Stone | Dec 15, 2014 | Featured Articles
Prague "red card" protest, Nov. 2014.Despite the firmness shown by the EU’sbiggest players when it comes to sanctioning Putin’s Russia, lower down the pecking order some member states are not happy. Unlike the most craven and obedient puppets — the Baltic States and...
All I Want for Christmas is a (Real) Government Shutdown
by Ron Paul | Dec 14, 2014 | Featured Articles
The political class breathed a sigh of relief Saturday when the US Senate averted a government shutdown by passing the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill. This year’s omnibus resembles omnibuses of Christmas past in that it was drafted in secret, was full of special...
Eric Garner, the Torture Report, and Authoritarian Psychology
by Todd E. Pierce | Dec 12, 2014 | Featured Articles
What do the NYPD arresting officers of Eric Garner, the CIA officials responsible for the crimes detailed in the Torture Report and US foreign policy officials all have in common? They are all agents of institutions that have adopted an “authoritarian psychology.” So...
Torture and the Myth of Never Again: The Persecution of John Kiriakou
by Peter van Buren | Dec 11, 2014 | Featured Articles
In a Galaxy Far, Far Away The United States sanctioned acts of torture by the Central Intelligence Agency and others. The acts took place in secret prisons (“black sites”) against persons detained indefinitely without trial. They were described in detail and...
Do They Really Oppose Torture?
by Ron Paul | Dec 11, 2014 | Featured Articles
The Senate Intelligence Committee released its long-awaited report on CIA torture of detainees and the reaction has been strong. While some still maintain that torture is justified, the emerging details of the program have left most of the country disgusted and...
US Foreign Policy: Into the Heart of Darkness
by Franklin C. Spinney | Dec 10, 2014 | Featured Articles
The United States is careening toward an unnecessary new cold war with Russia. Cold War II may be even more dangerous than the first Cold War, because the constitutional checks and balances and the attention span of the people regulating the US government’s behavior...
‘A Litany of Federal Crimes’ – Judge Napolitano on the CIA Torture Report
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 9, 2014 | Featured Articles
"The most compelling, detailed documented report of government intentional infliction of pain on non-combatants ever produced in American history since the time of the Civil War." That is how RPI Advisory Board Member Judge Andrew Napolitano reacted to today's release...
Washington’s Frozen War Against Russia
by Diana Johnstone | Dec 9, 2014 | Featured Articles
For over a year, the United States has played out a scenario designed to (1) reassert US control over Europe by blocking EU trade with Russia, (2) bankrupt Russia, and (3) get rid of Vladimir Putin and replace him with an American puppet, like the late drunk, Boris...
The Long Arm of US Law
by Paul-Martin Foss | Dec 8, 2014 | Featured Articles
In a perfect illustration of just how ridiculous the US government’s tax policies are, Mayor of London Boris Johnson is being pursued by the IRS for capital gains taxes he owes for selling his residence in London. Apparently Mr. Johnson was born in New York and,...
Our Enemies, the Presidents
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Dec 8, 2014 | Featured Articles
Two summers ago Judge Andrew Napolitano joined the faculty of Mises University, the Mises Institute’s summer program for students. He was interested in teaching a nine-session special seminar to a select group of attendees. Students didn’t know what the format would...
House Chooses New Cold War With Russia
by Ron Paul | Dec 7, 2014 | Featured Articles
Last week the US House voted overwhelmingly in favor of an anti-Russia resolution so full of war propaganda that it rivals the rhetoric from the chilliest era of the Cold War. Ironically, much of the bill condemns Russia for doing exactly what the US government has...
Ukraine’s Made-in-USA Finance Minister
by Robert Parry | Dec 6, 2014 | Featured Articles
Ukraine’s new Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko, a former US State Department officer who was granted Ukrainian citizenship only this week, headed a US government-funded investment project for Ukraine that involved substantial insider dealings, including $1...
Ron Paul: Anti-Russia Bill Passed by Congress ‘Part of the War Propaganda Machine’
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 6, 2014 | Featured Articles
Republicans and Democrats have the same foreign policy. One may be a little more aggressive than the other, but they all support intervention. So said RPI chairman Ron Paul when asked today how so many from both parties could support the recent bill passed in the US...
US Army Sends 100 Tanks To Eastern Europe To ‘Deter Russian Aggression’
by Tyler Durden | Dec 5, 2014 | Featured Articles
The ink on Barack Obama's Chuck Hagel termination letter hasn't dried yet but already the US president's new, and seemingly far more hawkish advisors, are having their warmongering presence felt. Case in point: the Eastern European theater of (Cold) war, where...
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