In the many strategies proposed to defeat the Islamic State (IS) by presidential candidates, policymakers, and media pundits alike across the American political spectrum, one common element stands out: someone else should really do it. The United States will send in...
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Washington’s ‘Plan B’ in Syria: Renewed Military Intervention to Oust Assad?
by Finian Cunningham | Dec 17, 2015 | Featured Articles
US top diplomat John Kerry appeared to offer cooperation during lengthy talks in Moscow this week with President Vladimir Putin. Kerry said that US policy was not trying to isolate Russia, neither was it seeking regime change in Syria. Rhetoric aside, Kerry’s...
How US and EU Manipulate Public Consciousness: Montenegro
by Ion Todescu | Dec 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
I’ve been working on this post for a long time, meticulously collecting scraps of information piece by piece to give you a comprehensive picture. It is well known that the US employs a sophisticated network of non-governmental organizations to manipulate public...
‘Washington Has Gone From “Regime Change” to “Political Transition” in Syria, But We are Not Stupid’
by RT | Dec 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
It is a good sign that John Kerry visited Moscow and had high-level meetings, but we must remember that US foreign policy will not change on a dime, said Daniel McAdams, Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. RT: Washington appears to...
How US and EU Manipulate Public Consciousness: Montenegro
by Ion Todescu | Dec 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
I’ve been working on this post for a long time, meticulously collecting scraps of information piece by piece to give you a comprehensive picture. It is well known that the US employs a sophisticated network of non-governmental organizations to manipulate public...
Turkey’s Dangerous Game
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
Turkey borders several Middle Eastern countries that are either unstable or potentially hostile to it, sometimes both simultaneously. With a modern military of more than 600,000 underwritten by NATO membership it is regional superpower whose ability to dominate the...
Ron Paul Rewind: Smacking Down Militarism and Liberty Abuses in 2011 CNN Debate
by Adam Dick | Dec 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
Tonight, Republican presidential candidates will participate in a CNN debate moderated by Wolf Blitzer. On November 22, 2011, Ron Paul, in another Blitzer-moderated CNN presidential debate, boldly proposed ending US militarism abroad and liberty abuses at home. Paul...
What Truly Conservative Foreign Policy Looks Like
by Stephen Kinzer | Dec 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
American foreign policy is based on deep convictions. Those who shape it believe the United States is the indispensable nation that must lead the world; this leadership requires toughness; and toughness is best shown by threatening or using force. Beneath these...

If You Want Security, Pursue Liberty
by Ron Paul | Dec 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
Judging by his prime-time speech last week, the final year of Barack Obama’s presidency will be marked by increased militarism abroad and authoritarianism at home. The centerpiece of the president’s speech was his demand for a new law forbidding anyone on the federal...
Israel’s al-Qaeda Rescue Program
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 12, 2015 | Featured Articles
While the US government continues to face -- and vigorously deny -- charges that it secretly helps ISIS and other extremists in Syria to keep alive Obama's regime-change policy for Assad, Washington's closest ally in the region makes little pretense that it is at war...
The Second Cold War
by Steffen A. Wöll | Dec 11, 2015 | Featured Articles
In the light of the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, there has been much talk about the clouding of US-Russian relations. Some voices in the Internet’s alternative media sections have conjured the possibility that these conflicts might lead to a new major war, while...
What ISIS Really Has in Mind
by Eric Margolis | Dec 11, 2015 | Featured Articles
Recent attacks by ISIS sympathizers in Paris, London and San Bernardino, California, are not random acts of mindless violence and gory atrocities. Far from it, they are part of a well-developed strategy by the Islamic State, or ISIS, to draw the western powers into a...
From Crisis Comes Leviathan
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Dec 10, 2015 | Featured Articles
Lovers of big government love crises because crises are the sure-fire way to get big government. It is during crises that many people go into a fright-filled panic, demanding that government assume extraordinary powers to keep them safe. Government officials, of...
Trump Didn’t Vote to Kill One Million Muslims in Iraq, Hillary Did
by David Swanson | Dec 9, 2015 | Featured Articles
Thanks to Glenn Greenwald for pointing out that the US media is acting as though Donald Trump just invented bigotry this week (one of those ugly details I'm happy to miss by never watching television). But not only is explicit bigotry toward Muslims not new, implicit...
Don’t Believe the Hype About Gun Shootings in the US
by Adam Dick | Dec 9, 2015 | Featured Articles
Since the San Bernardino killings last week, many statements of politicians and stories in the media are painting a picture of “gun violence” in America that, on a closer look, appears to be far from reality. These are some of the messages we hear in constant...
Trump Didn’t Vote to Kill One Million Muslims in Iraq, Hillary Did
by David Swanson | Dec 9, 2015 | Featured Articles
Thanks to Glenn Greenwald for pointing out that the US media is acting as though Donald Trump just invented bigotry this week (one of those ugly details I'm happy to miss by never watching television). But not only is explicit bigotry toward Muslims not new, implicit...
Saudis Bomb Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Yemen
by Peter van Buren | Dec 8, 2015 | Featured Articles
Just like their Sugar Daddy America bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan “by accident,” the Saudis bombed for the second time this year a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Yemen. But it’s OK — just like the U.S., the Saudis will conduct...
Up From Imperialism: How to End the Terrorist Threat and Return to Normalcy
by Justin Raimondo | Dec 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
The San Bernardino massacre, in which a seemingly harmless county worker and his wife murdered 14 people in cold blood and wounded 21 others, marks a new phase in the cycle of war and repression that characterizes the post-9/11 era. The authorities recognize this, and...

Will the IRS Take Your Passport?
by Ron Paul | Dec 6, 2015 | Featured Articles
A little-noticed provision in the highway funding bill Congress passed this week threatens a right most Americans take for granted: the right to travel abroad. The provision in question gives the Internal Revenue Service the authority to revoke the passport of anyone...
‘No Gun for You!’: Obama’s ‘Soup Nazi’ Gun Control Proposal
by Adam Dick | Dec 6, 2015 | Featured Articles
The Soup Nazi character in the Seinfeld television show sells, at his take-out restaurant, soup that some people consider the best in New York City. But, there is a catch. Customers placing their orders at the restaurant’s counter are in fear that one mistake in...
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