The U.S., via the State Department, is spending considerable effort and money producing anti-ISIS videos and other media (actual example, above), the goal of which is to convince American and other would-be jihadis not to join ISIS. The efforts won’t work, almost...
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Ron Paul’s Take on the 2014 Midterm Elections
by Adam Dick | Nov 5, 2014 | Featured Articles
Former United States House of Representatives member and presidential candidate Ron Paul is not mincing words in presenting his take on the Tuesday midterm elections. Speaking with hosts Ben Swann and Erin Ade on RT, Paul argues that the US effectively has “a monopoly...
Washington-backed ‘Rebels’ Surrender US Arms to Al Qaeda in Syria
by Bill Van Auken | Nov 5, 2014 | Featured Articles
Washington’s strategy in its three-month-old war in Iraq and Syria appeared to suffer another humiliating blow over the weekend as one of the last remaining strongholds of US-backed “moderate rebels” in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib fell to the Nusra...
The FBI: America’s Secret Police
by John W. Whitehead | Nov 4, 2014 | Featured Articles
We want no Gestapo or secret police. The FBI is tending in that direction. They are dabbling in sex-life scandals and plain blackmail. J. Edgar Hoover would give his right eye to take over, and all congressmen and senators are afraid of him.—President Harry S. Truman...
US Destroying Syria’s Oil Infrastructure Under Guise of Fighting ISIS
by Maram Susli | Nov 3, 2014 | Featured Articles
The US is considering bombing pipelines in Syria, which it claims is in an attempt to cut off the huge profits being made by ISIS from captured oilfields. The Independent quotes Julieta Valls Noyes, the deputy assistant secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs...
More Guns Plus Less War Equals Real Security
by Ron Paul | Nov 2, 2014 | Featured Articles
Last week’s tragic shootings in Canada and Washington state are certain to lead to new calls for gun control. The media-generated fear over “lone wolf terrorists” will enable the gun control lobby to smear Second Amendment supporters as “pro-terrorist.” Marketing gun...
Afghanistan: None Dare Call it a Defeat
by Eric Margolis | Nov 1, 2014 | Featured Articles
“Lord of our far-flung battle-line, Beneath whose awful Hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine— Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget! Far-called, our navies melt away; On dune and headland sinks the fire: Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is...
In Ukraine, A Tale of Two Elections
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 1, 2014 | Featured Articles
The US government loves to “promote democracy” overseas, often at the barrel of a gun. Strangely enough, however, it often “deplores” actual elections being held in such places. Take Ukraine, for example. An election held last week by a group that forcibly seized...
US Post Office Spying on Americans Without Oversight
by Peter van Buren | Oct 31, 2014 | Featured Articles
The United States Postal Service disclosed it approved nearly 50,000 requests, called “mail covers,” last year alone from law enforcement to secretly monitor the snail mail of Americans. An audit shows the surveillance program is more extensive than widely known and...
The Iranian Nuclear Issue and Sino-Iranian Relations
by flynt leverett and hillary mann leverett | Oct 31, 2014 | Featured Articles
As the world waits to see if Iran and the P5+1 reach a final nuclear agreement by November 24, we remain relatively pessimistic about the prospects for such an outcome. Above all, we are pessimistic because closing a comprehensive nuclear accord will almost certainly...
The Cheney-Powell-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz Strategy: An Evaluation
by Michael S. Rozeff | Oct 30, 2014 | Featured Articles
The US never demobilized after the Cold War ended. It constructed new missions for its military. It adopted a new post-Cold War strategy but kept its military forces intact. Americans received no peace dividend. To the contrary, as the years have passed and America’s...
Obama’s Phony Foreign-Aid Reform
by James Bovard | Oct 29, 2014 | Featured Articles
Four years ago, President Obama promised in a United Nations speech to “change the way we do business” with foreign aid and “seek partners who want to build their own capacity to provide for their people.” A year earlier, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton complained...
Putin’s Complaint: Is Washington a Revisionist Power?
by Justin Raimondo | Oct 29, 2014 | Featured Articles
The idea that the United States must exercise "global leadership" is rationalized by our interventionists as a necessary perquisite for maintaining some type of "world order."Who will guard the sea lanes? Who will deter "aggression"? Who will defend the "rules"...
Time Mag to Ron Paul: Stop Telling The Truth!
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 28, 2014 | Featured Articles
Time Magazine is angry with Ron Paul. How dare he point out that the media has been over-reacting to the Ebola outbreak? How dare he mention that Canada's 13 years of bombing Muslim countries has irritated plenty of people on the receiving end of those bombs? How dare...
Don’t Let Lunatics Make Our Policies
by Eric Margolis | Oct 27, 2014 | Featured Articles
Things seemed crazy in the US and Canada last week, with a shooting on normally tranquil Parliament Hill in Ottawa and a grisly hatchet attack on two New York City policemen. Add in an American doctor who returned to the big city from Ebola-stricken West Africa and...
Once-Peaceful Canada Turns Militaristic; Blowback Follows
by Ron Paul | Oct 26, 2014 | Featured Articles
In 1968 the government of Canada decided to openly admit Americans seeking to avoid being drafted into the US war on Vietnam. Before, would-be immigrants were technically required to prove that they had been discharged from US military service. This move made it...
Anti-Assad Warmongers Drag in the Holocaust
by Maidhc O Cathail | Oct 25, 2014 | Featured Articles
“The irony is that the Nazi holocaust has now become the main ideological weapon for launching wars of aggression,” Norman Finkelstein tells Yoav Shamir in “Defamation,” the Israeli filmmaker’s award-winning 2009 documentary on how perceptions of anti-Semitism affect...
Fragile Fact-Checking: How The Media Fell in And Out of Love With The Sikorski ‘Revelations’
by Bryan MacDonald | Oct 23, 2014 | Featured Articles
What’s worse than a junior neocon? A junior neocon trying to make a name for himself. Ben Judah’s meteoric rise, aided by his staunch anti-Russian credentials in a climate of fear, has imploded as quickly as it began. As I learnt the hard way, when you are a young man...
Hollow Justice and Courts of Order in an Age of Government-Sanctioned Tyranny
by John W. Whitehead | Oct 22, 2014 | Featured Articles
“The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people.”—Justice William O. Douglas Justice in America makes less sense with each passing day. A Michigan couple that has been raising chickens in their backyard as a source...
The Cuban Embargo is an Attack on Both Cubans And Americans
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Oct 20, 2014 | Featured Articles
Sen. Robert MenendezIn its October 11 Sunday edition, the New York Times published an editorial calling for the lifting of the 45-year-old Cold War-era economic embargo against Cuba. The Times pointed out: Over the decades, it became clear to many American policy...
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