On Friday the 13th, Paris, the City of Light, was plunged into darkness and fear. At least eight young jihadists, allegedly from the so-called Islamic State group, attacked the national sports stadium, where President Francois Hollande was attending a soccer match...
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Opting Out: A Small Step for Peace
by Justin Pavoni | Nov 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
Let’s discuss conscientious objection. For those who don’t know what it is, conscientious objection is a moral or religious opposition to war. It is essentially the refusal to participate on moral or religious grounds. So I am a conscientious objector. Interestingly...
Paris: You Don’t Want to Read This
by Peter van Buren | Nov 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
You don’t want to read this, and I take no pleasure in writing it, and no one really wants to hear it right now. But I believe it needs to be said. I join the world in grieving for the dead in Paris. I have grieved for the dead from 9/11 forward — the Australians who...
Paid Patriotism: The Artist Formerly Known as ‘Propaganda’
by Abigail Hall | Nov 13, 2015 | Featured Articles
Last week, Senators Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and John McCain (R-AZ) released a report revealing the Department of Defense paid professional sports teams to host “patriotic events.” Anyone who has ever attended a sporting event knows these well. Military personnel are...
How Ukraine’s Finance Chief Got Rich
by Robert Parry | Nov 12, 2015 | Featured Articles
Before becoming Ukraine’s Finance Minister last December, Natalie Jaresko collected $1.77 million in bonuses from a US-taxpayer-financed investment fund where her annual compensation was supposed to be limited to $150,000, according to financial documents filed with...
Thanking Iraq War Veterans For Their Service
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 11, 2015 | Featured Articles
I wonder what goes through the mind of an Iraq War veteran when someone says, “Thank you for your service.” I wonder if he ever asks himself, “What exactly am I being thanked for?” Consider what the Bush administration did to US soldiers on the eve of the US invasion...
The Deep State: The Unelected Shadow Government Is Here to Stay
by John W. Whitehead | Nov 10, 2015 | Featured Articles
“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government, owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.” ― Theodore Roosevelt America’s next president will inherit more than a bitterly divided nation teetering on the brink of...
Missile Test Terrorism Over Los Angeles
by Dan Sanchez | Nov 10, 2015 | Featured Articles
“Wait, what the f*** is that?” Julien Solomita finally managed to spit that out after two minutes of dumbfounded silence, as he recorded an unidentified flying object from a rooftop parking lot in Van Nuys, California on Saturday night. He had been gathering footage...
A Warmonger’s Guide to Militarism and Imperialism
by Thomas DiLorenzo | Nov 9, 2015 | Featured Articles
When Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton was an undergraduate at Harvard he took time out to become a “Publius Fellow” at the “Straussian” neocon Pentagon propaganda mill known as the Claremont Institute in Claremont, California. After graduating he returned to Claremont...

Does the Bell Toll for the Fed?
by Ron Paul | Nov 9, 2015 | Featured Articles
Last week Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen hinted that the Federal Reserve Board will increase interest rates at the board’s December meeting. The positive jobs report that was released following Yellen’s remarks caused many observers to say that the Federal...
Reinventing Guns and Butter Politics for the 21st Century
by Franklin C. Spinney | Nov 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
The Center of American Progress (CAP) is a prominent Democratic "think tank" in the Hall of Mirrors that is Versailles on the Potomac. The CAP brands itself by saying it is "dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through progressive ideas and action." The...
TSA Trained Disney World in Goofy ‘Terrorist Detection’ Methods
by Peter van Buren | Nov 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
The same ridiculed and useless techniques used by the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) to not find terrorists at America’s airports are now being used at Orlando theme parks, including Disney World, Seaworld and Busch Gardens, to not find terrorists. (click...
US Air Force Blames Lack Of October ISIS Strikes On ‘Poor Weather’
by Tyler Durden | Nov 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
On September 30, a Russian general walked into the US embassy in Baghdad and told US diplomats that Moscow would commence air operations in Syria in “one hour.” It would be best, he said, if the US stayed out of the way. The general was affiliated with the newly...
The Sham Syrian Peace Conference
by Gareth Porter | Nov 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
I have always been enthusiastic in my support for peace negotiations, which have been neglected all too often in internal and international conflicts. But it is clear that the international conference on Syria that held its first meeting in Vienna on October 30 is a...
An Age of Innocence, in Retrospect
by Karen Kwiatkowski | Nov 6, 2015 | Featured Articles
Ahmed Chalabi, age 71, has died of a heart attack in Baghdad. As a close observer of his unique role in provoking the Iraq War – a foreign policy and strategic military disaster 12 years ago – I can’t help but look back on that time as an age of innocence. That may...
Who Downed Metrojet Flight 9268?
by Justin Raimondo | Nov 6, 2015 | Featured Articles
First they said the downing of Russian Metrojet Flight 9268 was most likely due to Russia’s “notorious” regional airlines, which supposedly are rickety and unreliable. The Egyptian government denied that terrorism is even a possibility, with Egyptian despot Abdel...
Gitmo Reflects Disdain For The Constitution
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 5, 2015 | Featured Articles
Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein has an op-ed in today’s New York Times entitled “Let’s Finally Close Guantanamo,” in which she points out what critics of the Guantanamo facility have been saying for years: It is a very effective tool that overseas terrorist...
CIA, Saudis To Give ‘Select’ Syrian Militants Weapons Capable Of Downing Commercial Airliners
by Tyler Durden | Nov 5, 2015 | Featured Articles
Wednesday brought a veritable smorgasbord of “new” information about the Russian passenger jet which fell out of the sky above the Sinai Peninsula last weekend. First there was an audio recording from ISIS’ Egyptian affiliate reiterating that they did indeed “down”...
Washington DC’s ‘Missing’ Memorial
by Abigail Hall | Nov 5, 2015 | Featured Articles
Washington, DC is home to a host of memorials. Walk in any direction for long and you’re bound to run into at least one of them. By far, the memorial that generates the strongest reaction from me is the Vietnam memorial. The name of all the US casualties are chiseled...
US Officials Outline ‘Secret’ Summer Operation To Stop Flow Of Dollars To ISIS
by Tyler Durden | Nov 3, 2015 | Featured Articles
Over the last five or so weeks, Washington has been in panic mode with regard to America’s “fight” against ISIS. Once the Russians arrived at Latakia and began to provide air cover for Iranian ground troops operating in Syria it was clear that the clock was ticking on...
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