The Washington Post has been under fire for its publication of an article entitled, âRussian propaganda effort helped spread âfake newsâ during election, experts say.â The article by Craig Timberg relied on a controversial website called PropOrNot, which published...
Having disappeared from the public scene for almost a month (with the occasional backwood spotting thrown in for dramatic effect), today Hillary Clinton reemerged from a self-imposed social quarantine, and in a exquisitely choreographed Podesta special, addressed the...
Two seemingly unrelated stories in the New York Times yesterday serve as potent reminders of the deadly and disastrous consequences of US interventionism in the Middle East. The stories involve Iran and Libya.Referring to Donald Trumpâs campaign vow to tear up the...
The problems many are now predicting under the Trump administration did not start on November 8. The near-unrestrained executive power claimed by the Obama administration will be transferred to the president-elect. Hereâs what that means. Torture Obama did not...
The summary report on an investigation into US and allied air strikes on Syrian government troops has revealed irregularities in decision-making consistent with a deliberate targeting of Syrian forces. The report, released by US Central Command on 29 November, shows...
PropOrNot is the outfit that produced âThe Listâ of 200 âRussian propaganda outlets.â The strange thing is that their published materials do not identify and prove a single vital case of Russian propaganda that actually had a vital effect on a matter of vital foreign...
President-elect Donald Trump told a Cincinnati audience this week that he intends to make some big changes in US foreign policy. During his âthank youâ tour in the midwest, Trump had this to say: We will pursue a new foreign policy that finally learns from the...
The US House passed the Intelligence Authorization Bill for 2017 earlier this week, with a provision requiring the White House to establish a special task force to counter what it deemed to be Russian "active measures" to undermine the US political system. Though...
The Obama administration has decided to stretch the 15-year old congressional authorization for war against the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks, or those harboring them, to include an illegal war against a group in Somaliaâal-Shababâthat wasnât even in existence at...
President-elect Donald Trump vows to either tear up or rewrite the recent international nuclear deal with Iran, calling it "disastrous," and "the worst deal ever negotiated by Washington."Iran, which has closed important nuclear facilities, shut down half its...
Those who keep hoping that gun control will protect them from terrorist retaliation for U.S. interventionism in the Middle East had their hopes dashed last week at Ohio State University. Thatâs because the lack of a gun didnât stop Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a Somali-born...
Photo credit: Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.The latest entrant into the NATO alliance, Montenegro, underscores both the absurdity of this archaic cold war relic and the dangers it poses to the United States.Yes, Montenegro is a real country, kind...
The mainstream media and politicians peddling the line that there is a network of "fake news" sites spreading Russian disinformation and propaganda is just scapegoating to divert attention from the far worse job they have done objectively reporting the truth, Ron Paul...
President-elect Donald Trumpâs message for the nationâs senior military leadership is ambiguously unambiguous. Here is he on 60 Minutes just days after winning the election. Trump: âWe have some great generals. We have great generals.â Lesley Stahl: âYou said you knew...
One of the most discouraging aspects of the filling out of the Donald Trump cabinet is the array of Iran haters that seem to be lining up in the foreign policy and national security areas. Trump has been personally advocating sensible policies relating to Russia and...
With the passing of former Cuban president Fidel Castro over the weekend, the decades-long U.S. war waged against him finally comes to an end, even if the decades-long embargo against the Cuban people continues.Castro was one of the most tyrannical dictators in the...
The âwar on terrorâ has simultaneously been a war on truth. For fifteen yearsâfrom 9/11 to Saddam Husseinâs âweapons of mass destructionâ and âal Qaeda connections,â âIranian nukes,â âAssadâs use of chemical weapons,â endless lies about Gadaffi, âRussian invasion of...
Former Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher recently gave a speech identifying the Federal Reserveâs easy money/low interest rate policies as a source of the public anger that propelled Donald Trump into the White House. Mr. Fisher is certainly correct...
Sixty years ago, I was home after school, sitting in our living room on New Yorkâs Central Park West, reading a history of Rome and listening to Dvorakâs splendid cello concerto when the announcer on WQXR broke in to announced, âIsraeli armored forces are thrusting...
With its status as the Beltway newspaper of record, with its budget of some half a billion dollars, with its 750 or so employees, what a surprise that the Washington Post feels threatened by a tiny truth-telling think tank like the Ron Paul Institute. But obviously...
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