“When Money Dies” is the title of a 1975 book by Adam Fergusson, in which he describes the downfall of the Reichsmark in Weimar Germany. A fascinating look at that period of history, one can glean quite a few useful pieces of advice on how to survive a currency...
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Pentagon Concludes America Not Safe Unless It Conquers The World
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jul 10, 2015 | Featured Articles
The Pentagon has released its “National Military Strategy of the United States of America 2015” in June, 2015. The document announces a shift in focus from terrorists to “state actors” that “are challenging international norms.” It is important to understand what...
Obama Fails to Make the Strategic Case for an Iran Nuclear Deal
by Going to Tehran | Jul 8, 2015 | Featured Articles
The Iran nuclear talks may be getting close to some sort of conclusion in Vienna, but American political and policy elites remain, to an appallingly large extent, clueless as to what is really at stake in the negotiations. And, while the headline from a recent NBC...
Government Warmongering Criminals: Where Are They Now?
by Philip Giraldi | Jul 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
The United States already has by far the per capita largest prison population of any developed country but I am probably one of the few Americans who on this Independence Day would like to see a lot more people in prison, mostly drawn from politicians and senior...
Jade Helm, Terrorist Attacks, Surveillance, and Other Fairy Tales for a Gullible Nation
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 6, 2015 | Featured Articles
“Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.” ― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly Once upon a time, there was a nation of people who believed everything they were told by their government. When terrorists attacked the country, and government officials...

For Normal Relations With Cuba, End US Interventionism
by Ron Paul | Jul 6, 2015 | Featured Articles
Last week we saw an encouraging sign that the 50 year cold war between the US and Cuba was finally coming to an end. President Obama announced on Wednesday that the US and Cuba would restore full diplomatic relations and that embassies could be re-opened in each...
ISIS Makes the British Lion a De-Clawed and Shabby Cat
by Michael Scheuer | Jul 4, 2015 | Featured Articles
The recent and rapid successes of the Islamic State (IS) in seizing Palmyra in Syria and Ramadi in Iraq, together with its three successful same-day strikes on 26 June 2015 in Kuwait, France, and Tunisia seem to have left British Prime Minister David Cameron rather...
Greek Crisis Awaits Other NATO Partners
by Finian Cunningham | Jul 3, 2015 | Featured Articles
One notable consequence of the Ukraine conflict and the ongoing confrontational stand-off between the West and Russia is the dramatic surge in military spending among several European countries. However, this unprecedented militarization of economies across Europe...
What It Really Takes For a US-Iran Deal
by Pepe Escobar | Jul 3, 2015 | Featured Articles
Forget the mad spinning. Here it is, in a nutshell, what it really takes for Iran and the P5+1 to clinch a game-changing nuclear deal before the new July 7 deadline. Iran and the P5+1 agreed in Lausanne on a “comprehensive plan of action,” taking into account delicate...
Greece Shows Why Banks & Governments Hate Cash: Bank Runs
by Paul-Martin Foss | Jul 1, 2015 | Featured Articles
The photos from Greece showing long lines at ATMs are astonishing. Even after the deposit outflows from Greek banks over the past weeks, there are still large numbers of people who are trying to get their money out of the banking system. With the banks closed, ATMs...
Clean Break to Dirty Wars
by Dan Sanchez | Jul 1, 2015 | Featured Articles
To understand today’s crises in Iraq, Syria, and Iran, one must grasp their shared Lebanese connection. This assertion may seem odd. After all, what’s the big deal about Lebanon? That little country hasn’t had top headlines since Israel deigned to bomb and invade it...
Electric Yerevan and Lessons on the Color-Spring Tactic
by Joaquin Flores | Jun 29, 2015 | Featured Articles
The Electric Yerevan protest provides us with an excellent opportunity to review some of the basic underlying mechanics and psychology of the Color-Spring tactic. It is important to share these publicly, for it is indeed probable that the Color-Spring tactic will be...
The Emergence of Orwellian Newspeak and the Death of Free Speech
by John W. Whitehead | Jun 29, 2015 | Featured Articles
“If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those...

Obamacare’s Best Allies: The Courts and the Republicans
by Ron Paul | Jun 28, 2015 | Featured Articles
By ruling for the government in the case of King v. Burwell, the Supreme Court once again tied itself into rhetorical and logical knots to defend Obamacare. In King, the court disregarded Obamacare’s clear language regarding eligibility for federal health care...
NATO Hypes Russia Threat While NATO Members Reduce Military Spending
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 27, 2015 | Featured Articles
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, a former prime minister of Norway, took the podium during last week's meeting of NATO defense ministers to hype the Russian threat to NATO while downplaying recent NATO military moves on Russia's border.While criticizing "a...
The National Security State’s Crisis Racket
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 26, 2015 | Featured Articles
Imagine that Russia announced that it was reconstituting the Warsaw Pact and that Cuba, Venezuela, Chile, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Grenada, and Bolivia had signed on as members. Imagine also that Russia fomented a regime-change operation in Mexico that succeeded in...
Five Things That Won’t Work in Iraq
by Peter van Buren | Jun 25, 2015 | Featured Articles
In one form or another, the US has been at war with Iraq since 1990, including a sort-of invasion in 1991 and a full-scale one in 2003. During that quarter-century, Washington imposed several changes of government, spent trillions of dollars, and was involved in the...
If You Want to Get Rid of ‘Racist Flags,’ How About Starting with the American Flag?
by Adam Dick | Jun 24, 2015 | Featured Articles
It looks like open season has been declared on the battle flag of Army of Northern Virginia, which is commonly referred to as the Confederate battle flag. But, if you are looking for a flag to ban as racist, you might as well start with the American flag. After all,...
Keeping Government Bureaucrats Off the Backs of the Citizenry: The Supreme Court Responds
by John W. Whitehead | Jun 22, 2015 | Featured Articles
“No man in the wrong can stand up against a fellow that’s in the right and keeps on a-comin’.”—Texas Rangers In one swoop, on June 22, 2015, a divided US Supreme Court handed down three consecutive rulings affirming the right of raisin farmers, hotel owners and prison...
Echoes of Vietnam, or Between Iraq and a Hard Place
by Peter van Buren | Jun 22, 2015 | Featured Articles
Words seem to mean different things in the Middle East. “Training” is a new term for escalation, and “Iraq” seems more and more like the Arabic word for Vietnam. But the terms “slippery slope” and “quagmire” still mean what they have always meant. In 2011, making good...
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