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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The Kagans: Seeking War to the End of the World
by Robert Parry | Jul 23, 2015 | Featured Articles
If the neoconservatives have their way again, US ground troops will reoccupy Iraq, the US military will take out Syria’s secular government (likely helping Al Qaeda and the Islamic State take over), and the US Congress will not only kill the Iran nuclear deal but...
Sandra Bland is Everyman
by Adam Dick | Jul 23, 2015 | Featured Articles
Waller County District Attorney Elton Mathis is characterizing Sandra Bland — who died last week in a jail in the Texas county — as being “very combative” and “not a model person” during the traffic stop that led to her arrest and incarceration. His disparaging...
Obama Should Release MH-17 Intel
by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity | Jul 22, 2015 | Featured Articles
MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: Releasing an Intelligence Report on Shoot-Down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 It has been a year since the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine,...
The American Nightmare: The Tyranny of the Criminal Justice System
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 22, 2015 | Featured Articles
How can the life of such a man Be in the palm of some fool’s hand? To see him obviously framed Couldn’t help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land Where justice is a game.—Bob Dylan, “Hurricane” Justice in America is not all it’s cracked up to be. Just ask...
US Military Seeks Reasons To Prolong Afghanistan Occupation
by Moon of Alabama | Jul 20, 2015 | Featured Articles
When the US attacked Afghanistan the purpose was to remove the Taliban government which had given guest status to the al-Qaeda leadership. Only a few weeks later, that job was done. The alleged purpose of the occupation of Afghanistan then changed into hunting down...
Ron Paul at His Best
by Daniel R. Coats | Jul 20, 2015 | Featured Articles
This is the best book by Ron Paul that I have had the joy to read. It is an intimate look into the private thought life of Ron Paul as he grew up and lived in an age under the constant threat of war. He talks about his experiences growing up during World War II, how...

Iran Agreement Boosts Peace, Defeats Neocons
by Ron Paul | Jul 20, 2015 | Featured Articles
Last week’s successfully concluded Iran agreement is one of the two most important achievements of an otherwise pretty dismal Obama presidency. Along with the ongoing process of normalizing relations with Cuba, this move shows that diplomacy can produce peaceful,...
Praise To Barack Obama For Stiffing The War Party — Peace Is Finally Being Given A Chance
by David Stockman | Jul 18, 2015 | Featured Articles
I have rarely found anything President Obama has done to be praiseworthy, and believe his domestic policies of Keynesian borrow and spend and incessant statist intervention in capitalist enterprise to be especially deplorable. But finally he has stood up to the War...
US/Israeli/Saudi ‘Behavior’ Problems
by Robert Parry | Jul 17, 2015 | Featured Articles
There is a madness in how the mainstream US media presents the world to the American people, a delusional perspective that arguably creates an existential threat to humanity’s survival. We have seen this pattern in the biased depiction of the Ukraine crisis and now in...
Central Banking and War: Ron Paul’s ‘Swords Into Plowshares’ reviewed
by Paul-Martin Foss | Jul 17, 2015 | Featured Articles
It’s July 17th, which means that Ron Paul’s new book “Swords Into Plowshares” is finally available. And what a book it is. Only the hardest of hearts and most closed of minds could read Dr. Paul’s new book and fail to be convinced of the futility of war. But what...
New Law Says Web Sites Would Have to Inform Law Enforcement about Readers’ ‘Terrorist Activity’
by Peter van Buren | Jul 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
Social media sites such as Twitter and YouTube would be required to report “terrorist” videos and other content posted by users to federal authorities under legislation approved this past week by the Senate Intelligence Committee. The measure, contained in the 2016...
It’s Official: ISIS is No Threat to the US Homeland
by Patrick Bahzad | Jul 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing that took place earlier this week, Air Force nominee for Vice-chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Gen. Paul Selva, stated that the "Islamic State" was currently "no threat to the US homeland." Asked to prioritize the...
Freedom or the Slaughterhouse? The American Police State from A to Z
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
“Who needs direct repression when one can convince the chicken to walk freely into the slaughterhouse?”—Philosopher Slavoj Žižek Despite the best efforts of some to sound the alarm, the nation is being locked down into a militarized, mechanized, hypersensitive,...
‘EU Periphery Countries Taking Brunt of US/EU Interventionist Policies in Ukraine’
by RT | Jul 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
The EU and the US are the ones who created the chaos in Ukraine, said Daniel McAdams, of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. The countries on the EU periphery like Hungary have to take on the burden receiving thousands of refugees, he added. Ukraine's...
MH17: The Blaming Putin Game Goes On
by Philip Giraldi | Jul 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
Once upon a time CIA Stations overseas received what was referred to as an “Operating Directive” which prioritized intelligence targets for the upcoming year based on their importance vis-à-vis national security. Prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union, penetrating...

Greece Today, America Tomorrow?
by Ron Paul | Jul 13, 2015 | Featured Articles
The drama over Greece’s financial crisis continues to dominate the headlines. As this column is being written, a deal may have been reached providing Greece with yet another bailout if the Greek government adopts new “austerity” measures. The deal will allow all sides...
Destroying Syria to Make it Safe for American Values
by Eric Margolis | Jul 12, 2015 | Featured Articles
“The Turks have passed by here; all is in ruins and mourning. “ So wrote France’s great writer, Victor Hugo, of the horrors he had witnessed during the Balkan liberation wars of the 1880’s. If Hugo were alive today, he might well have used the same haunting lines to...
Do Flags Kill People?
by Butler Shaffer | Jul 11, 2015 | Featured Articles
No sooner had a sociopath carried out the murder of nine black people at a South Carolina church, than the voice of Boobus Americanus rose up, as one, to get to the cause of the slayings: the Confederate battle flag! The South Carolina legislature hurriedly passed a...
Demanding What You Can’t Get: Obama’s Gamble with the Iran Talks in Vienna
by Going to Tehran | Jul 11, 2015 | Featured Articles
As nuclear talks between the P5+1 and Iran in Vienna extend past yet another (largely US-imposed) deadline, the dysfunctionality of the Obama administration’s approach becomes increasingly apparent. Since April, when the parties announced a set of “parameters” for a...
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