The debate over U.S. foreign aid is a distraction. That’s not to say that the amount of taxpayer money flowing to foreign countries in the form of military and economic assistance is insignificant. Even at less than 1% of the federal budget, the United...
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Welfare for the Rich
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 14, 2024 | Featured Articles
(This article first appeared as an exclusive update to RPI subscribers. Subscribe for free here.) Why does the US military budget keep skyrocketing? The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2024 passed in December came in at a whopping $841.1 billion, and...
The World’s Gyre
by Alastair Crooke | Feb 13, 2024 | Featured Articles
The US is edging closer to war with Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces, a state security agency composed of armed groups, some of which are close to Iran, but which for the main are Iraqi nationalists. The US carried out a drone strike in Baghdad, Wednesday that...
Tucker Slayed the Mainstream Media Dragon
by Ron Paul | Feb 12, 2024 | Featured Articles
There has been much written and said about Tucker Carlson’s interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week. As of this writing the video on Twitter alone has been viewed nearly 200 million times, making it likely the most-viewed news event in history. Many...
‘That is Not the Judgment of the Press’: The White House Calls the Media to Heel With Disinformation Campaign
by Jonathan Turley | Feb 10, 2024 | Featured Articles
“That is not the judgment of the press.” Those words from President Joe Biden were a telling moment after a reporter noted that there is widespread concern that he is mentally diminished. Biden’s cranky response was overshadowed by his confusion on other points during...
The real propagandists are those who dismiss Tucker Carlson’s Putin interview
by Rachel Marsden | Feb 10, 2024 | Featured Articles
American establishment media spent the days in the run-up to Tucker Carlson’s interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin pre-judging it as propaganda, and soliciting the opinions of establishment figures, like former US secretary of state, first lady,...
The Greatest Trick Big Brother Ever Pulled
by Daniel Nuccio | Feb 9, 2024 | Featured Articles
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist” is a quote generally attributed to Charles Baudelaire – or possibly Keyser Söze depending on who you ask on the internet. Something similar can be said about Big Brother. When you...
Carlson Interview With Putin Could Topple Western Elites, End Ukraine War
by Martin Jay | Feb 8, 2024 | Featured Articles
In the seventies, when the cold war was at its peak, Donald Rumsfeld was convinced that the Atlantic Ocean, off the U.S. coast, was teaming with Russian submarines. The U.S. navy couldn’t detect them because, he was convinced, the Soviets had a new ‘acoustic...
Taking Free Speech Seriously
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Feb 8, 2024 | Featured Articles
Can the government prevent Big Tech from censoring political and cultural voices on their platforms? Can the government regulate these platforms to compel speech the government wants to hear and to prevent speech it believes may harm innocents? If you believe -- as I...
2024 Is the New 1984: Big Brother and the Rise of the Security Industrial Complex
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Feb 7, 2024 | Featured Articles
2024 is the new 1984. Forty years past the time that George Orwell envisioned the stomping boot of Big Brother, the police state is about to pass off the baton to the surveillance state. Fueled by a melding of government and corporate power—the rise of the security...
US Sanctions Bring Russian Air Travelers Closer to Death
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 7, 2024 | Featured Articles
US officials were undoubtedly disappointed over the recent emergency landing of a Russian civilian airliner on a farm in southern Russia. Experiencing a hydraulics problem that was causing the plane to rapidly lose fuel, the pilots were not able to make it to the...
Why Burn Books When You Can Bury Them? The White House Pressured Amazon to Target Dissenting Books
by Jonathan Turley | Feb 7, 2024 | Featured Articles
The House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on Monday revealed yet another facet of the Biden Administration’s sprawling censorship system that targeted dissenting books. It appears that, as with social media...
The Three Strands to the ‘Swarming of Biden’
by Alastair Crooke | Feb 6, 2024 | Featured Articles
“The Iranians have a strategy, and we don’t,” a former senior U.S. Defence Department official told Al-Monitor: “We’re getting bogged down in tactical weeds – of whom to target and how – and nobody’s thinking strategically.” The former Indian diplomat MK...
In The Middle East The US Has Reached The End Of Its Abilities
by Moon of Alabama | Feb 6, 2024 | Featured Articles
The Biden administration is trying everything to better the situation for the Israeli government except by withdrawing its financial and munition support which are the only two measures that could bring Israel to its senses. There are now several small wars in the...
Nuland leaves sense of foreboding in Kiev
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Feb 5, 2024 | Featured Articles
The commencement of political upheavals in world affairs sometimes lies with a seemingly obscure event. This is not to say that the shooting down of a Russian Ilyushin-76 military transport plane carrying dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war over the territory of...
Dr. Fauci Helped Homeschooling Grow
by Ron Paul | Feb 5, 2024 | Featured Articles
A rare instance of an unexpected consequence of a bad policy advancing liberty is the growth in private schools enrollment and homeschooling that occurred as a result of the covid lockdowns. An October 2023 study by Eloise Burtis and Sofoklis Goulas of the Brookings...
Ending The US Presence In Middle East
by Moon of Alabama | Feb 3, 2024 | Featured Articles
The Biden administration, in its utter stupidity, is launching a(nother) full fledged war throughout the Middle East. U.S. launches retaliatory strikes after deadly attack on Jordan base - Washington Post - Feb 3, 2024The operation, targeting numerous...
Biden Says The US ‘Does Not Seek Conflict In The Middle East’ While Actively Dropping Bombs There
by Caitlin Johnstone | Feb 3, 2024 | Featured Articles
The Biden administration has begun its latest bombing campaign in the middle east, reportedly dropping over 125 munitions on more than 85 Iranian and Shia militia targets in Iraq and Syria on Friday. The mainstream press have been falling all over...
The Tragic Self-Destruction of an Enraged Israel
by Alastair Crooke | Feb 2, 2024 | Featured Articles
Israel is boxed-in, as is becoming very evident to many Israelis. One Israeli correspondent (formerly a Cabinet Secretary) illustrates its nature: “The meaning of the 7th October default is not only the loss of lives … but mainly the potential transformation...
The Feds Are Buying Our Emails!
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Feb 1, 2024 | Featured Articles
“The Framers ... conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone -- the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men.” -- Justice Louis Brandeis (1856-1941) While we are all consumed with Joe Biden’s bumblings and Donald...
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