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...
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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...

Will Seizure of Russian Assets Hasten Dollar Decline?
by Ron Paul | Jun 22, 2015 | Featured Articles
While much of the world focused last week on whether or not the Federal Reserve was going to raise interest rates, or whether the Greek debt crisis would bring Europe to a crisis, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague awarded a $50 billion judgment to...
If Greece Defaults, Will the Fed Bailout Europe?
by Paul-Martin Foss | Jun 20, 2015 | Featured Articles
The Greek crisis is dominating headlines this week, and promises to be the most important economic and financial topic of conversation through the weekend and into Monday. Neither the Greek government nor the European Central Bank (ECB) seem to be prepared to give an...
Why The US Military Opposed New Combat Roles in Iraq
by Gareth Porter | Jun 20, 2015 | Featured Articles
The story published in the Washington Post on 13 June shows how the US military service chiefs - who make decisions on war policy in light of their own institutional interests - prefer an inconclusive war with ISIS and existing constraints on US involvement, to one...
Road Pirates: Assemble! ‘Desert Snow’ is Coming to Idaho
by William Norman Grigg | Jun 19, 2015 | Featured Articles
It isn’t often that honest people receive detailed intelligence about a planned gathering of violent men who steal for a living and kill with impunity. An event of that kind will occur from August 10-12th here in Idaho. In fact, I can provide the specific address of...
Policing and Defending Then and Now
by Philip Giraldi | Jun 17, 2015 | Featured Articles
Inevitably the debate over issues that relate to both national security and domestic law enforcement often become mired down in wrangling over legal or constitutional niceties, which the public has difficulty in following as it fixates instead on the latest twist in...
Samantha Power: Liberal War Hawk
by Robert Parry | Jun 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
Propaganda and genocide almost always go hand in hand, with the would-be aggressor stirring up resentment often by assuming the pose of a victim simply acting in self-defense and then righteously inflicting violence on the targeted group. US Ambassador to the United...
Dangers of a Declining Global Power
by Graham E. Fuller | Jun 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
Much has been written about the dangers and challenges posed by China as a rising global power. Indeed, historians speak of generic tensions between rising powers and status quo powers that have often led to war. But instability takes at least two players to create...
Recent Syrian Rebel Gains Result From US Support Of Extremists
by Steven Chovanec | Jun 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
The rebel opposition in Syria has in recent months made a series of gains against the Syrian army, most notably in Idlib, Palmyra, and Ramadi in Iraq. However, given that from the very beginning the opposition had taken “a clear sectarian direction” and has been...

Death Penalty: The Ultimate Corrupt, Big Government Program
by Ron Paul | Jun 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
Nebraska’s legislature recently made headlines when it ended the state’s death penalty. Many found it odd that a conservatives-dominated legislature would support ending capital punishment, since conservative politicians have traditionally supported the death penalty....
Soros – An American Oligarch‘s Dirty Tale of Corruption
by F. William Engdahl | Jun 13, 2015 | Featured Articles
Rarely does the world get a true look inside the corrupt world of Western oligarchs and the brazen manipulations they use to enhance their fortunes at the expense of the public good. The following comes from correspondence of the Hungarian-born billionaire, now...
The Prosecution of Dennis Hastert and the Government’s War on Cash
by Adam Dick | Jun 13, 2015 | Featured Articles
Back on March 31, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced what many media reports heralded as a big rollback in the use of structuring allegations to justify seizing assets from individuals. Yet, here we are less than three months later with the DOJ prosecuting...
US Planning to Send 450 More Military Personnel to Iraq
by Peter van Buren | Jun 11, 2015 | Featured Articles
When at first you don’t succeed, fail, fail again. And with that, we woke up Wednesday to see the Obama administration ready to announce a change of course in Iraq, one that is very much a back to the future kind of event. Following about a year of not defeating,...
Saudi Arabia’s Yemen Offensive, Iran’s ‘Proxy’ Strategy, and the Middle East’s New ‘Cold War’
by Going to Tehran | Jun 11, 2015 | Featured Articles
Riyadh’s war in Yemen marks a dramatic escalation in its efforts to roll back Iran’s rising influence in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia portrays its Yemen campaign simply as a battle of “good” Arabs and Sunnis supporting Yemen’s legitimate government against “evil”...
Cold War II to McCarthyism II
by Robert Parry | Jun 9, 2015 | Featured Articles
Perhaps it’s no surprise that the US government’s plunge into Cold War II would bring back the one-sided propaganda themes that dominated Cold War I, but it’s still unsettling to see how quickly the major US news media has returned to the old ways, especially the New...
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