Last year, public pressure played a big role in stopping US missile strikes on Syria. The biggest difference between then and now was that televisions weren't telling people that ISIS might be coming to their neighborhood to behead them. There were other, smaller...
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Washington Is Destroying The World
by Paul Craig Roberts | Oct 7, 2014 | Featured Articles
The aggressive and mindless stance that Washington’s warmongers have taken toward Russia and China have shattered the accomplishment of Reagan and Gorbachev. Reagan and Gorbachev ended the cold war and removed the threat of nuclear armageddon. Now the neocons, the US...
The Siege Of Kobani: Obama’s Syrian Fiasco In Motion
by David Stockman | Oct 6, 2014 | Featured Articles
Another humanitarian catastrophe may be just hours away at Kobani. The latter is the Syrian Kurdish town on the border with Turkey that is now surrounded by ISIS tanks and is being pounded day after day by ISIS heavy artillery. Already this lethal phalanx, which fuses...
The Real Status of Forces in Afghanistan and Iraq
by Ron Paul | Oct 5, 2014 | Featured Articles
After 13 years of war in Afghanistan – the longest in US history – the US government has achieved no victory. Afghanistan is in chaos and would collapse completely without regular infusions of US money. The war has been a failure, but Washington will not admit it....
Hong Kong Boiling — But Gently So Far
by Eric Margolis | Oct 4, 2014 | Featured Articles
Hong Kong is at a gentle boil. As of this writing, tens of thousands of students have been politely demonstrating, calling for the Beijing-appointed chief executive, C.Y. Leung, to resign and be replaced through free elections. Politics don’t often divert Hong Kong’s...
War, The Fed, and More Wars: Ron Paul’s LPAC 2014 Speech!
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 3, 2014 | Featured Articles
Ron Paul delivered a barn burner of a keynote speech at this year's LPAC conference. It was an hour long tour-de-force on fiat currency, attacks on civil liberties, the Federal Reserve, war -- and most importantly how all of these fit together and deprive us of our...
America’s Never-Ending War in the Middle East
by flynt leverett and hillary mann leverett | Oct 1, 2014 | Featured Articles
While President Obama continues—at least for now—to resist redeploying large numbers of U.S. soldiers to fight the Islamic State on the ground, the military components of the anti-Islamic State strategy he has laid out effectively recommit the United States to its...
There is Much to Fear
by Peter van Buren | Sep 30, 2014 | Featured Articles
One of the exceptional things about Post-Constitutional America is how instead of using the traditional tools of an autocracy — secret police, torture, mass round ups — the majority of Americans have given up their rights willfully, voluntarily, almost gleefully. The...
Obama Invented Fake ‘Threat’ to Launch War on Syria
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 29, 2014 | Featured Articles
It has become abundantly clear, thanks especially to excellent reporting and analysis by Glenn Greenwald and Justin Raimondo, that the "Khorasan Group" threat used as the pretext for the US bombing of Syria was totally fabricated by the US government. The purpose was...
Scottish Referendum Gives Reasons to be Hopeful
by Ron Paul | Sep 28, 2014 | Featured Articles
Even though it ultimately failed at the ballot box, the recent campaign for Scottish independence should cheer supporters of the numerous secession movements springing up around the globe. In the weeks leading up to the referendum, it appeared that the people of...
Western-Backed Kiev Regime Burying the Truth About Its Atrocities?
by Finian Cunningham | Sep 27, 2014 | Featured Articles
OSCE photographs mass-graves discovered in Ukraine last week. The grim discovery of mass graves in southeastern Ukraine this week implicates the Kiev regime in further war crimes. At least three such burial sites have been uncovered in recent days since the withdrawal...
Ron Paul: Obama Has Started ‘Immoral and Illegal’ War in Iraq and Syria
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 27, 2014 | Featured Articles
Obama's new wars in Iraq and Syria are totally immoral as well as illegal under US and international law, RPI Chairman Ron Paul told RT's Abby Martin yesterday. The idea that US force will solve the problem is also mistaken, he said. "US action will increase the...
Syria/Iraq/Afghanistan: As Bad As a Crime, a Blunder
by Eric Margolis | Sep 27, 2014 | Featured Articles
Having nearly provoked war over Ukraine with nuclear-armed Russia, the Obama administration has now launched a full-scale crusade in Iraq and Syria against the evil Saracens of ISIS. America’s aerial might, including B-1 heavy bombers, is plastering ISIS miscreants....
The Airwaves Are Still Heaving With Spin Two Days After US Airstrikes Against Syria
by Sharmine Narwani | Sep 26, 2014 | Featured Articles
Undoubtedly the attacks were timed to occur on the eve of the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations, so “Coalition” partners could cluster behind the decision to bomb a sovereign state, uninvited. The irony, of course, is that they are doing so at...
Gateway Policies: ISIS, Obama and US Financial Boots-on-the-Ground
by Nomi Prins | Sep 26, 2014 | Featured Articles
President Obama’s neo-Cold War is not about ideology or respect for borders. It is about money and global power. The current battle over control of gateway nations - strategic locations in which private firms can establish the equivalent of financial...
Is Obama Misleading the World to War? Depends How You Define ‘Misleading’
by Trevor Timm | Sep 26, 2014 | Featured Articles
Want to decipher what the US military is really doing in Iraq and Syria, or figure out whether its regional war against the Islamic State (Isis) is legal? Good luck. The Obama administration’s secret efforts to redefine the ordinary meaning of key legal terms and...
Welcome To Barack Obama’s Syrian Gong Show
by David Stockman | Sep 25, 2014 | Featured Articles
Folks, this war is only three days old and its already a gong show. Its become at least a four-front affair — with Obama’s “broad” coalition amounting to little more than a few stealth Arab nations renting back to Washington the equipment and American trained pilots...
The Real Reason We Are Bombing Syria
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Sep 24, 2014 | Featured Articles
The administration's response to the conjunction of this weekend's People's Climate March and the International Day of Peace? 1) Bomb Syria the following day, to wrest control of the oil from ISIS which gained its foothold directly in the region through the US, Saudi...
Apocalypse Now, Iraq Edition
by Peter van Buren | Sep 23, 2014 | Featured Articles
I wanted to offer a wry chuckle before we headed into the heavy stuff about Iraq, so I tried to start this article with a suitably ironic formulation. You know, a déjà-vu-all-over-again kinda thing. I even thought about telling you how, in 2011, I contacted a noted...
Breaking: US Attacks Syria!
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 23, 2014 | Featured Articles
The Obama Administration has initiated a bomb and land-based missile attack against Syrian territory without permission from the Syrian government, without a request for assistance from the Syrian government, and without a UN Security Council resolution. This is an...
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