I find it very disquieting that so few among the West European and American commentators on the Ukraine crisis, private or public, seem concerned that the United States has started this affair, and that it is not inconceivable that it may end in a war. Worse yet,...
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US Sanctions on Russia May Sink the Dollar
by Ron Paul | Aug 10, 2014 | Featured Articles
The US government's decision to apply more sanctions on Russia is a grave mistake and will only escalate an already tense situation, ultimately harming the US economy itself. While the effect of sanctions on the dollar may not be appreciated in the short term, in the...
What if There’s a Real War in Ukraine?
by Eric Margolis | Aug 9, 2014 | Featured Articles
Russia and the West are at war – over fruits, veggies, pork, and bank loans. The cause is Ukraine, a vast emptiness formerly unknown to the western world, but now deemed a vital national security interest worthy of a risking a very scary war. Economic embargos such as...
Washington Opened The Gates Of Hell In Iraq: Now Come The Furies
by David Stockman | Aug 8, 2014 | Featured Articles
The late, great critic of the American Imperium, Chalmers Johnson, popularized the salient concept of “blowback”. That is, the notion that if you bomb, drone, invade, desecrate and slaughter—collaterally or otherwise— a people and their lands, they might find ways to...
Crushing Protests in Kiev: Neocons Never Liberate Twice
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 7, 2014 | Featured Articles
Western media has ignored it, but protesters have occupied the Maidan square in Kiev since last October. They were successful in overthrowing the elected president, Viktor Yanukovych, but they didn’t go home. They kept their tents, remained in occupied government...
US Government Still Trying for Cuba Regime Change
by Sheldon Richman | Aug 7, 2014 | Featured Articles
When I saw the headline about the U.S. government and Cuba in my newspaper the other day, I thought I’d awoken in 1961. It was a Twilight Zone moment for sure: “U.S. program aimed to stir dissent in Cuba.” I expected Rod Serling to welcome me to “another dimension.”...
Ron Paul Rewind: ‘Bombing Yugoslavia Cannot Be a Proud Moment’
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 6, 2014 | Featured Articles
As President Bill Clinton and his coterie of "experts" and media cheerleaders rejoiced in the first US "humanitarian" bombs on Yugoslavia, Rep. Ron Paul was singing a different tune."This cannot be a proud moment for America," he said on the US House Floor on March...
Bill Clinton’s Body-Snatchers: The Truth About the ‘Humanitarian’ War on Yugoslavia
by James Bovard | Aug 6, 2014 | Featured Articles
Former president Bill Clinton continues to be feted around the world as a progressive champion of human rights. But a European Union task force last week confirmed that the ruthless cabal he empowered by bombing Serbia in 1999 has committed atrocities including...
Flight 17 Shoot-Down Scenario Shifts: White House vs. Intelligence Community?
by Robert Parry | Aug 5, 2014 | Featured Articles
Contrary to the Obama administration’s public claims blaming eastern Ukrainian rebels and Russia for the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, some U.S. intelligence analysts have concluded that the rebels and Russia were likely not at fault and that it appears...
Ron Paul: Don’t Palestinians Have a Right to Defend Themselves Too?
by Adam Dick | Aug 5, 2014 | Featured Articles
Speaking on Voices of Liberty, RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul explains that, while he agrees with the often repeated in the media declaration that “Israel has a right to defend herself,” he wonders why more people in the media don’t voice support for Palestinians’...
Crimes Against Humanity in Gaza: Is it Really a ‘Buffer Zone’ – or a Bigger Plan?
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Aug 5, 2014 | Featured Articles
Late last week, the White House decried Israel’s attack on a UN school in Gaza as “totally unacceptable” and “totally indefensible”, then proceeded to approve $225m in funding for its Iron Dome. On Monday, the US state department went further, calling the airstrikes...
We’re All Criminals and Outlaws in the Eyes of the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead | Aug 4, 2014 | Featured Articles
“Never in the civilised world have so many been locked up for so little.”—“Rough Justice in America,” The Economist Why are we seeing such an uptick in Americans being arrested for such absurd “violations” as letting their kids play at a park unsupervised, collecting...
Ron Paul on C-SPAN, Ron Paul on Everything
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 4, 2014 | Featured Articles
Dr. Paul is on C-Span for three full hours, discussing his philosophy, Washington, the futility of compromise, the dysfunction of government, the horror of the Republicans and Democrats, the end of the US economy. He discusses his friendship with Dennis Kucinich and...
The State’s Worst Atrocity
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Aug 4, 2014 | Featured Articles
“The lamps are going out all over Europe,” Sir Edward Grey famously said on the eve of World War I. “We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.” It was 100 years ago this week that Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, setting in motion the unspeakable...
Why Won’t Obama Just Leave Ukraine Alone?
by Ron Paul | Aug 3, 2014 | Featured Articles
President Obama announced last week that he was imposing yet another round of sanctions on Russia, this time targeting financial, arms, and energy sectors. The European Union, as it has done each time, quickly followed suit. These sanctions will not produce the...
Political Purges Loom as Ukraine Falls Apart
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 2, 2014 | Featured Articles
The US-installed regime in Ukraine is collapsing, says RPI Academic Advisor John Laughland. The protests that eventually led to the overthrow of democratically-elected President Yanukovych were animated by demands that the power of the presidency be decreased and that...
‘We Tortured Some Folks’ — Obama Admits United States Committed Acts Violating Federal and International Law
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 1, 2014 | Featured Articles
Following the admission that the CIA hacked Senate computers and lied to Congress, President Obama today affirmed that it did indeed torture people. This admission (while belated) is an important recognition by the United States of what is obvious from a legal...
Not Talking to Vladimir Putin Signals Impotence, Not Strength
by Mark Almond | Aug 1, 2014 | Featured Articles
Understandable outrage at the terrible fate of the 298 innocent passengers on flight MH17 has led Western leaders to reach for their favourite way of coercing rogue states into better behaviour. Sanctions have been ramped up on Russia, targeting key personnel around...
CIA Admits Hacking Senate Computers After Months of Denials
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 1, 2014 | Featured Articles
In the same week as the State Department report endorsing findings that the CIA lied to Congress and brutalized suspects, the CIA is now admitting that its recent denials of hacking Senate computers was also false. Once again, however, there is not even a suggestion...
The Rise of the ‘Petro-yuan’ and the Slow Erosion of Dollar Hegemony
by Going to Tehran | Jul 31, 2014 | Featured Articles
For seventy years, one of the critical foundations of American power has been the dollar’s standing as the world’s most important currency. For the last forty years, a pillar of dollar primacy has been the greenback’s dominant role in international energy markets....
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