Currently the United States is assisting Ukraine against Russia by providing some non-lethal military equipment as well as limited training for Kiev’s army. It has balked at getting more involved in the conflict, rightly so. With that in mind, I had a meeting with a...
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More Evidence of Israel’s Dirty Role in the Syrian Proxy War
by Steven MacMillan | May 19, 2015 | Featured Articles
Video footage surfaced last week showing the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) treating a wounded anti-Assad Syrian rebel, following a UN report at the end of last year which found that the IDF and the Syrian rebels (including ISIS) were in regular contact. The Times of...

New Military Spending Bill Expands Empire But Forbids Debate on War
by Ron Paul | May 17, 2015 | Featured Articles
On Friday the House passed a massive National Defense Authorization for 2016 that will guarantee US involvement in more wars and overseas interventions for years to come. The Republican majority resorted to trickery to evade the meager spending limitations imposed by...
Garland’s Lesson? Democrats, Republicans, and Neocons Bring The Jihad to America
by Michael Scheuer | May 17, 2015 | Featured Articles
Pamela GellerSince 9/11, Americans have been treated to an ongoing tutorial by the self-professed best-and brightest from America’s universities, media, Christian clergy, and national government explaining how American Muslims become radicalized into Islamist...
US Drone Program ‘Should’ve Never Started’ – Ron Paul
by RT | May 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
The US government is undermining Americans’ rights at home through surveillance, and its drone program “should’ve been shut down a long time ago,” former Texas Congressman Ron Paul told RT. He also criticized the prospect of another Clinton-Bush election. Speaking on...
Love, Visas, and Marriage in Post-Constitutional America
by Peter van Buren | May 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
The government can block your foreign husband or wife from living with you in America, based on secret information you can’t see or contest. Like with the No-Fly list, in post-Constitutional America the walls are built of secret databases. Taking Visas to the Supreme...
FBI Monitored Peaceful Demos in Baltimore with High-Tech Surveillance
by Peter van Buren | May 13, 2015 | Featured Articles
The FBI surveilled peaceful protests in Baltimore following the police killing of Freddie Gray, protest acts protected by the First Amendment, from the air, using high-tech monitoring aircraft. The surveillance aircraft can be equipped with infrared and other...
‘We the People’ Need to Circle the Wagons: The Government Is on the Warpath
by John W. Whitehead | May 13, 2015 | Featured Articles
“The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn’t. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.” ― Mark Twain How many Americans...

NSA Spying Ruled Illegal, But Will Congress Save the Program Anyway?
by Ron Paul | May 11, 2015 | Featured Articles
This week the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the NSA’s metadata collection program was not authorized in US law. The PATRIOT Act, under which the program began, was too vague, the court found. But the truth is the Act was intended to be vague so that the...
Pinpoint Drone Attacks? There’s No Such Thing!
by Michael S. Rozeff | May 10, 2015 | Featured Articles
The effectiveness of U.S. drone attacks in killing their targets vs. missing their targets and killing innocent human beings is analyzed in fine detail in this report. It looks at multiple attempts to kill a given person. For example, there were 3 U.S. drone attacks...
The Real Victor of World War II in Europe
by Eric Margolis | May 9, 2015 | Featured Articles
It was churlish for western leaders to boycott this week’s Victory Parade in Moscow that commemorated the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany 70 years ago. Historic events are facts that should not be manipulated according to the latest political fashions. Being...
State Department Won’t Review Clinton Ethics
by Peter van Buren | May 9, 2015 | Featured Articles
When Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State in 2009, the Obama White House required her to sign an agreement promising to have her family’s charities, under the umbrella of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI; now known as the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton...
Are We A Nation of Wimps?
by Ron Paul | May 9, 2015 | Featured Articles
We now live in a society where safety and security are to be sought at all costs. The sacrifice of liberty is not a concern for most Americans today. This is not something new and it has been characteristic of most people throughout history but it has gotten...
The Cold War Against Cuba Changed Us
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
During the 1950s and 1960s, the CIA made multiple attempts to assassinate Cuba’s ruler, Fidel Castro. Let’s assume that the CIA had succeeded and that Castro had been shot dead on the streets of Havana. It’s not difficult to imagine what US national-security state...
The Choice Before Europe
by Paul Craig Roberts | May 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
Washington continues to drive Europe toward one or the other of the two most likely outcomes of the orchestrated conflict with Russia. Either Europe or some European Union member government will break from Washington over the issue of Russian sanctions, thereby...
In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much
by John W. Whitehead | May 6, 2015 | Featured Articles
Police officers are more likely to be struck by lightning than be held financially accountable for their actions.—Law professor Joanna C. Schwartz (paraphrased) “In a democratic society,” observed Oakland police chief Sean Whent, “people have a say in how they are...
The Media Misses The Point on ‘Proxy War’
by Gareth Porter | May 5, 2015 | Featured Articles
The term “proxy war” has experienced a new popularity in stories on the Middle East. Various news sources began using the term to describe the conflict in Yemen immediately, as if on cue, after Saudi Arabia launched its bombing campaign against Houthi targets in Yemen...
The Neoconservatives: Tyranny’s Fifth Column
by Nelson Hultberg | May 5, 2015 | Featured Articles
The term, “Fifth Column,” came into popular use in the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s and thereafter as socialism and fascism were sweeping into conflict to take over the nations of the West. It means a group of guerrillas, activists, intellectuals, etc. who work to...
Washington Post Blames Obama for Syrian Mess
by Robert Parry | May 4, 2015 | Featured Articles
For the past two decades, American neocons and Israeli hard-liners have targeted Syria for “regime change,” a dream that may be finally coming true, albeit with the nightmarish ending of Al-Qaeda or maybe the Islamic State emerging as the likely winners. Such an...

USA FREEDOM Act: Just Another Word for Lost Liberty
by Ron Paul | May 3, 2015 | Featured Articles
Apologists for the National Security Agency (NSA) point to the arrest of David Coleman Headley as an example of how warrantless mass surveillance is necessary to catch terrorists. Headley played a major role in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack that killed 166 people....
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