“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” —John F. Kennedy Just in time for Memorial Day, we’re once again being treated to a generous serving of praise and grandstanding by...
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Kudos to Ecuador’s President Correa
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 22, 2014 | Featured Articles
Good for Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa for kicking USAID out of his country. If only every nation in the world would do that. While part of USAID’s activities ostensibly relate to helping “the poor,” that’s just a cover to disguise the real mission of the agency:...
The Sino-Russian Hydrocarbon Axis Grows Up
by Going to Tehran | May 22, 2014 | Featured Articles
Eight years ago, in the pages of The National Interest, Flynt Leverett and Pierre Noël identified a “new axis of oil”—a “shifting coalition of both energy exporting and energy importing states centered in ongoing Sino-Russian collaboration”—that was emerging as an...
Just Imagine… If Russia Had Toppled the Canadian Government
by Neil Clark | May 21, 2014 | Featured Articles
Just imagine if the democratically-elected government of Canada had been toppled in a Russian-financed coup, in which far-right extremists and neo-Nazis played a prominent role. That the new unelected 'government' in Ottawa cancelled the law giving the French language...
Militarist Bunkum: July 4 and the Lies of the Empire
by Paul Craig Roberts | May 19, 2014 | Featured Articles
Did you know that 85 to 90 percent of war’s casualties are non-combatant civilians? That is the conclusion reached by a nine-person research team in the June 2014 issue of the American Journal of Public Health. The deaths of soldiers who are fighting the war are a...
The Chicoms Are Coming! Reflections On The Folly Of The War On Vietnam And Its Progeny
by David Stockman | May 19, 2014 | Featured Articles
Vietnam riots: China ships to evacuate workersBack in the spring of 1968 I also got an invitation to evacuate. It was from Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, suggesting I evacuate my cushy life as a student in East Lansing, Michigan to join his crusade to stop the...
Tax Reform is Useless Without Spending Reform
by Ron Paul | May 18, 2014 | Featured Articles
Recently, Republican leaders in Congress unveiled a "tax reform" plan that they claimed would provide the American people with a simpler, fairer, and more efficient tax system. While this plan does lower some tax rates and contains some other changes that may make...
Why Won’t Kerry Leave Syria Alone?
by Daniel McAdams | May 16, 2014 | Featured Articles
US Secretary of State John Kerry seems to be on a personal mission to draw the US into an invasion of Syria. At the least, he remains determined to continue backing the rebellion against the Syrian government until the country is completely destroyed. Meeting...
No Nation Left Un-Invaded: Sen. McCain Would Put US Military Into Nigeria In ‘A New York Minute’
by David Stockman | May 14, 2014 | Featured Articles
Nigeria has been a failed state of corruption, outlawry, civil war and unspeakable violence and cruelty for decades. Literally millions have been starved, maimed and butchered owing to ethnic, tribal and religious clashes. And billions more have been stolen from the...
Killing Your Own People — a Brief Guide
by Peter Hitchens | May 13, 2014 | Featured Articles
Voters line up in east Ukraine, May 11, 2014 A few months ago we were being told by supporters of the Kiev putsch that President Viktor Yanukovich had “lost the mandate of heaven” by “killing his own people.” This emotive language avoided any discussion of two...
What Does The US Government Want in Ukraine?
by Ron Paul | May 11, 2014 | Featured Articles
From YouTubeIn several eastern Ukrainian towns over the past week, the military opened fire on its own citizens. Dozens may have been killed in the violence. Although the US government generally condemns a country’s use of military force against its own population,...
Ukraine Military Attacks Anti-Coup Civilians, US Silent
by Daniel McAdams | May 9, 2014 | Featured Articles
Mariupol todayAs most in the former USSR celebrated the 69th Victory Day over Nazi Germany today, the US-backed government in Kiev (which took power after the February coup) decided to launch one of its bloodiest military operations thus far, this time against the...
Syria: The Hidden Massacre
by Sharmine Narwani | May 8, 2014 | Featured Articles
The attack took place shortly after the first stirrings of trouble in the southern Syrian city of Daraa in March 2011. Several old Russian-made military trucks packed with Syrian security forces rolled onto a hard slope on a valley road between Daraa al-Mahata and...
To Understand Or Not to Understand Putin
by Diana Johnstone | May 8, 2014 | Featured Articles
In Germany these days, very many citizens object to the endless Russia-bashing of the NATO-oriented mainstream media. They may point out that the U.S.-backed regime change in Kiev, putting in power an ultra-right transitional government eager to join NATO, posed an...
Western Warmongering Based on Lies and Fabrication
by Finian Cunningham | May 7, 2014 | Featured Articles
Nearly a year ago American whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the global scale of US government spying. With an annual budget of over $50 billion, the National Security Agency has the technology and the highest political backing to tap into any phone call, email or...
Bravo, Rep. Walter Jones! Primary Win Sends Neocons Packing
by David Stockman | May 7, 2014 | Featured Articles
Rep. Walter Jones, 20-year Republican of North Carolina, is one of America’s most courageous and honest politicians—putting him in a company that is virtually non-existent inside the beltway. He originally was an enthusiastic supporter of the Iraq War, but then he...
Syria Election: Vote The Right Way — Or Else
by Neil Clark | May 6, 2014 | Featured Articles
It's a parody of democracy. It will damage the political process and hinder the prospects for peace. This is how Western leaders — their regional allies and also UN bigwigs — have dismissed the presidential elections in Syria set for June 3. It seems that despite...
The Devil’s Beltway Workshop: Why The Warfare State Must Be Dismantled
by David Stockman | May 5, 2014 | Featured Articles
Between the east and west of the Ukraine lies a historical highway, paved in unspeakable barbarism and blood. To the west it traverses the blood soaked black earth of the Ukrainian breadbasket where Stalin’s most heinous crime was committed–the savage liquidation of...
Another NYT ‘Sort of’ Retraction on Ukraine
by Robert Parry | May 5, 2014 | Featured Articles
(NY Times screen shot)The New York Times, which has asserted for weeks that the Russian government is behind the unrest in Ukraine’s east, finally sent some reporters to the region to dig up the proof, but all they found were eastern Ukrainians upset by the coup...
Why We’re No Longer Number One
by Ron Paul | May 4, 2014 | Featured Articles
Last week World Bank economists predicted that China would soon displace the United States as the world’s largest economy. The fact that this one-time economic basket case is now positioned to surpass the US is one more sign of the damage done to American prosperity...
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