The US effort to train and equip Syrian freedom fighters battling to bring democracy to Damascus and usurp a brutal dictator has been a smashing success (count the instances of sarcasm there). Take ISIS for example. The Pentagon knew that the opposition groups the...
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Things Are Getting Scary: Global Police, Precrime and the War on Domestic ‘Extremists’
by John W. Whitehead | Oct 20, 2015 | Featured Articles
Are you afraid that the government is plotting to confiscate your firearms? Do you believe the economy is about to collapse and the government will soon declare martial law? Do you display an unusual number of political and/or ideological bumper stickers on your car?...
Want to Understand Syria?
by A.J. Schmeltzer | Oct 18, 2015 | Featured Articles
Seven Important Points:1) While Hafez Al-Assad was indisputably in power, his son was not groomed for succession, and was basically parachuted out of his London Ophthalmologist practice into Damascus. There he immediately became a puppet of the Alawite Mukhabarak...
CNN Anchor Demands Americans ‘Stop Swooning Over Putin’
by Tyler Durden | Oct 18, 2015 | Featured Articles
We’ll just put this bluntly: when you, as a country, do something incredibly stupid from a foreign policy perspective, you open the door for your global critics and adversaries to i) call you out on it publicly, and ii) use your gross incompetence and general...

Debt Ceiling Debate: Don’t Mention Warfare/Welfare State!
by Ron Paul | Oct 18, 2015 | Featured Articles
The US Treasury’s recent announcement that the government will reach the debt ceiling on November 3 means Congress will soon be debating raising the government’s borrowing limit again. Any delay in, or opposition to, raising the debt ceiling will inevitably be met...
Turkey: Slow-Motion Crash
by Eric Margolis | Oct 17, 2015 | Featured Articles
Turkey, once a pillar of Mideast stability, looks increasingly like a slow-motion truck crash. What makes this crisis so tragic is that not very long ago Turkey was entering a new age of social harmony and economic development. Today, both are up in smoke as this...
Is Hillary Clinton Above the Law?
by Justin Raimondo | Oct 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
What did we learn from the Democratic presidential debates? We learned that Hillary Clinton hates Edward Snowden, loves the Patriot Act, and considers “the Iranians” among her biggest enemies. In short, we learned that she may very well be Lindsey Graham in drag. And...
Obama Won’t Admit the Real Targets of Russian Airstrikes
by Gareth Porter | Oct 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
The US response to Russia’s new Syrian military campaign in support of the Assad regime has struck a pose of moral superiority by arguing that the Russians have not been targeting the Islamic State but rather the non-ISIS Syrian opposition to the Assad regime. That US...
ISIS In ‘Retreat’ As Russia Destroys 32 Targets While Putin Trolls Obama As ‘Weak With No Strategy’
by Tyler Durden | Oct 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
Perhaps the most amusing thing about Russia’s intervention in Syria is the degree to which it made the world wake up and question the West’s “anti-ISIS” strategy. While everyone has been quick to characterize Moscow’s actions as the latest and perhaps greatest example...
How Can Anyone Still Be An Interventionist?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Oct 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
Given the ongoing disasters in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Libya, and the rest of the Middle East, how can anyone in his right mind still be an interventionist? Look at Iraq. The US invasion and multi-year occupation of that country was supposed to bring a...
The New McCarthyism
by Justin Raimondo | Oct 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
Cold War II is upon us. Once again, to write the phrase “the Kremlin” is to evoke images of an Oriental despotism both ominous and inscrutable, only slightly less sinister than the Dark Tower. Russia, once thought to have been liberated from its Soviet chains, is now...
The “A” Word That Terrifies Washington
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter has declared that there will be a thorough investigation of the recent US destruction of a hospital in Afghanistan that killed 22, including 12 of the medical staff, with more than thirty still missing in the rubble. The hospital,...

Politicians Exploit School Shooting While Ignoring Bombing Victims
by Ron Paul | Oct 12, 2015 | Featured Articles
Following the recent Oregon school shooting, many politicians rushed to the microphones to call for new gun control laws. President Obama even called on gun control supporters to “politicize” the shooting, while some members of Congress worked to establish a special...
Two Minutes of Hate For Belarus
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 11, 2015 | Featured Articles
With Belarusian president Aleksander Lukashenko elected to a fifth term in office on Sunday, the ritual western hate-fest against the former Soviet Republic shifts into high gear. The regular march of western journalists to Minsk to report on "Europe's last...
A Decisive Shift In The Power Balance Has Occurred
by Paul Craig Roberts | Oct 11, 2015 | Featured Articles
The world is beginning to realize that a sea-change in world affairs occurred on September 28 when President Putin of Russia stated in his UN speech that Russia can no longer tolerate Washington’s vicious, stupid, and failed policies that have unleashed chaos, which...
The Mystery of ISIS’ Toyota Army Solved
by Tony Cartalucci | Oct 9, 2015 | Featured Articles
The US Treasury has recently opened an inquiry about the so-called “Islamic State’s” (ISIS/ISIL) use of large numbers of brand-new Toyota trucks. The issue has arisen in the wake of Russia’s air operations over Syria and growing global suspicion that the US itself has...
The Impulsiveness of US Power
by Paul Craig Roberts | Oct 8, 2015 | Featured Articles
Washington’s impulsive use of power is a danger to America and to the world. Arrogant Washington politicians and crazed neoconservatives are screaming that the US must shoot down Russian aircraft that are operating against the US-supplied forces that have brought...
This Has Become Routine
by Paul Craig Roberts | Oct 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
In his comment on the mass shootings at the Oregon community college, President Obama said: “This has become routine.” So have police shootings of unarmed and unresisting Americans. So have numerous other undesirable and deplorable happenings, such as the foreclosure...
Ron Paul on Fox Business: ‘No Reason in the World for us to Be Involved in Syria’
by Adam Dick | Oct 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
Interviewed Tuesday on Fox Business, three-time presidential candidate Ron Paul rejected the ongoing United States intervention in Syria, stating emphatically that he sees “no reason in the world for us to be involved in Syria.” Referring to the US government’s...
Syria Intervention is a Mistake: US Can’t Run Entire Middle East
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Oct 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
The same people that got us into a very unnecessary war in Iraq are now clamoring for military action in Syria. These same people that have opposed us getting out of Afghanistan, even though our troops have been there more than three times longer than World War II,...
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