All war is a crime. There is no such thing as a “good war.” As the great Benjamin Franklin said, “there is no good war; and no bad peace.” We are now in the midst of the annual debate over the atomic bombing of Japan by the United States. Seventy years ago this week,...
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My Dreams Seek Revenge: Revisiting Hiroshima One More Time
by Peter van Buren | Aug 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
I’ve visited Hiroshima many times. There is a Japanese jail not far from the Hiroshima Peace Park, and in my guise as a diplomat working in Japan, one of my jobs was to visit Americans in jail, typically young men and women who’d smoked a little weed in drug-conscious...
Ron Paul Takes On The War Party
by Elisha Dorfsmith | Aug 6, 2015 | Featured Articles
“Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.” —Thomas Jefferson Many years ago Ron Paul published a collection of his speeches to Congress regarding foreign policy in a book titled A Foreign Policy Of Freedom. That book...
Power in the Service of Power
by Finian Cunningham | Aug 5, 2015 | Featured Articles
It’s been a bad month for the angst-ridden US ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power. Last week, she was “outraged” by Russia’s veto at the UN Security Council of an international criminal court into the downing of Malaysian airliner MH17 over eastern Ukraine. Three...
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and My Lai Were All War Crimes
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 4, 2015 | Featured Articles
On the 70th anniversary of the US government’s nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there are still people coming out in favor of the bombings. They’re saying that since the bombings shortened the war by bringing a quick surrender of Japan in World War II, the...
Assad’s ‘Barrel Bombs’…and Ours
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 4, 2015 | Featured Articles
In 2012, just a year after President Obama decided that "Assad must go," then-State Department Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland condemned the Syrian military's use of unguided explosives in its fight against the US-sponsored insurgency. These weapons, deemed "barrel...
Washington’s Fifth Columns Inside Russia and China
by Paul Craig Roberts | Aug 3, 2015 | Featured Articles
It took two decades for Russia and China to understand that “pro-democracy” and “human rights” organizations operating within their countries were subversive organizations funded by the US Department of State and a collection of private American foundations organized...

Politics Is Not the Path to Pro-Life Victory
by Ron Paul | Aug 2, 2015 | Featured Articles
During my time in Congress, I regularly introduced legislation forbidding organizations that perform abortions from receiving federal funding. The US Government should not force taxpayers to subsidize an activity they believe is murder. Thus, while I was horrified by...
Ron Paul, Champion of God’s Peace
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Aug 1, 2015 | Featured Articles
Ronald Reagan used to be called the Teflon president, on the grounds that no matter what gaffe or scandal engulfed him, it never stuck: he didn’t suffer in the polls. If Reagan was the Teflon president, the military is America’s Teflon institution. Even people who...
Dealing With The Cops
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 31, 2015 | Featured Articles
Everyone has to do some serious soul-searching when it comes to dealing with the cops. This is especially true for African-Americans, given that police departments seem to have attracted a disproportionate share of racial bigots to that line of work. But it’s also...
Monsters of Ukraine: Made in the USA
by Justin Raimondo | Jul 31, 2015 | Featured Articles
We’re in the summer doldrums of the news cycle, a perfect time for our government and the media – or do I repeat myself? – to drop certain inconvenient stories down the Memory Hole. My job, of course, is to retrieve them…. Remember Ukraine? I seem to recall blaring...
How Did the Turkish Peace Process Collapse?
by David Barchard | Jul 30, 2015 | Featured Articles
Turkey’s peace process with the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) began in the first three months of 2013, after nearly four decades of struggle in which an estimated 40,000 lives were lost. It ended, finally, when President Recep Tayyip Erdogan formally declared it dead...
Post-Constitutional America, Where Innocence is a Poor Defense
by Peter van Buren | Jul 30, 2015 | Featured Articles
Rahinah Ibrahim is a slight Malaysian woman who attended Stanford University on a US student visa, majoring in architecture. She was not a political person. Despite this, as part of a post-9/11 sweep directed against Muslims, she was investigated by the FBI. In 2004,...
Drivers, Beware: The Costly, Deadly Dangers of Traffic Stops in the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 30, 2015 | Featured Articles
“The Fourth Amendment was designed to stand between us and arbitrary governmental authority. For all practical purposes, that shield has been shattered, leaving our liberty and personal integrity subject to the whim of every cop on the beat, trooper on the highway and...
ISIS ‘Ally’ Turkey Seeks NATO Support As Two-Front ‘War’ Escalates
by Tyler Durden | Jul 29, 2015 | Featured Articles
NATO representatives met in Brussels on Tuesday after Turkey made a rare Article 4 request which compels treaty parties to convene in the event a member state is of the opinion that its "territorial integrity, political independence or security" is being threatened....

Do We Need to Bring Back Internment Camps?
by Ron Paul | Jul 27, 2015 | Featured Articles
Last week, Retired General Wesley Clark, who was NATO commander during the US bombing of Serbia, proposed that “disloyal Americans” be sent to internment camps for the “duration of the conflict.” Discussing the recent military base shootings in Chattanooga, TN, in...
Obama’s Line on The Iran Nuclear Deal: A Second False Narrative
by Gareth Porter | Jul 26, 2015 | Featured Articles
I’m glad that the United States and Iran reached an agreement in Vienna after nearly two years of negotiations and 35 years of enmity. A failure to do so under present political conditions would certainly have left a festering conflict with unpredictably bad...
Must We Really Know What Merkel is Having for Dinner?
by Eric Margolis | Jul 25, 2015 | Featured Articles
There’s been so much dramatic news these days – from Greece’s miseries to Iran, China from blowhard Donald Trump – that the shocking story of how America’s National Security Agency has been spying on German and French leadership has gone almost unnoticed. Last year,...
State Department and Intelligence Agencies Ask For Criminal Investigation in the Clinton Email Scandal
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 25, 2015 | Featured Articles
In a major development on the Clinton email scandal, the New York Times is reporting that the inspectors general for the State Department and the intelligence community have asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into whether Hillary Clinton...
Wesley Clark Calls for Internment Camps for ‘Radicalized’ Americans
by Peter van Buren | Jul 24, 2015 | Featured Articles
Retired general and former Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark on Friday called for World War II-style internment camps to be revived for “disloyal Americans.” In an interview on MSNBC in the wake of the mass shooting in Chattanooga, Clark said that during...
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