Now and again history reaches an inflection point. Statesman and mere politicians, as the case may be, find themselves confronted with fraught circumstances and stark choices. February 2015 is one such moment. For its part, Greece stands at a fork in the road. Syriza...
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Netanyahu’s Speech and the Politics of Iran Policy
by Gareth Porter | Feb 2, 2015 | Featured Articles
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu’s acceptance of an invitation to speak to the US Congress on 3 March, two weeks before the Israeli election and without any consultation with the White House, is aimed at advancing both Netanyahu’s re-election and the...
Mini-Maidan Picks Up Steam in Budapest
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 2, 2015 | Featured Articles
Hungarians are supposed to be good at math. After all, the father of the hydrogen bomb, the inventor of the Rubik's Cube, and a whole lot of really brilliant mathematicians are all Hungarian. Indeed mathematics and the arts derived from it are seemingly endemic to the...

The Failed ‘Yemen Model’
by Ron Paul | Feb 2, 2015 | Featured Articles
Last September President Obama cited his drone program in Yemen as a successful model of US anti-terrorism strategy. He said that he would employ the Yemen model in his effort to “degrade and ultimately destroy” ISIS in Iraq and Syria. But just a week ago, the...
March to Folly in Ukraine
by Eric Margolis | Jan 31, 2015 | Featured Articles
The United States has just made an exceptionally dangerous, even reckless decision over Ukraine. Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who ended the Cold War, warns it may lead to a nuclear confrontation with Russia. Rule number one of geopolitics: nuclear-armed powers...
Surrendering Liberty: America’s Fatal Freedom Apathy
by James Bovard | Jan 29, 2015 | Featured Articles
According to our civic folklore, Americans are more devoted to freedom than any other nationality on earth. But it is increasingly appears that this dogma is a relic of bygone times. A Gallup poll last July asked a thousand Americans: “Are you satisfied or...
‘Two Percent Inflation’ and The Fed’s Current Mandate
by Ron Paul | Jan 28, 2015 | Featured Articles
Over the last 100 years the Fed has had many mandates and policy changes in its pursuit of becoming the chief central economic planner for the United States. Not only has it pursued this utopian dream of planning the US economy and financing every boondoggle...
New Russia ‘Spy’ Scandal: US Foreign Policy Goes Retro
by Justin Raimondo | Jan 28, 2015 | Featured Articles
Progressives have saddled themselves with a theory of history that sees the "march of progress" as an ever upwardly-bound journey to political perfection: thus the appellation "progressive," as in "things are getting progressively better." Yet history – real history,...
After The ‘Syriza Shock’ – Now Comes The Hard Choice Of Escape Or Merely Re-setting The Terms of Greece’s EU Servitude
by David Stockman | Jan 26, 2015 | Featured Articles
We can heartily praise Alexis Tsirpras for calling bull on the destructive puzzle palace economics thrust on his country by the hypocrites and liars who rule from Brussels. And his finance minister designate, economist Yanis Varoufakis, is surely on the right track...
Adios Cuba!
by Eric Margolis | Jan 25, 2015 | Featured Articles
It’s taken over half a century for the US to finally figure out how to neutralize pesky Communist Cuba. Invasions, air raids, crushing sanctions, attempts to murder the Castro leadership by exploding cigars and poisons, diplomatic isolation, poisoning crops – all...

Education is Too Important Not to Leave to the Marketplace
by Ron Paul | Jan 25, 2015 | Featured Articles
This week, events around the country will highlight the importance of parental control of education as part of National School Choice Week. This year’s events should attract more attention than prior years because of the growing rebellion against centralized education...
Beware a New Cold War
by Charles Knight | Jan 23, 2015 | Featured Articles
The notion of a New Cold War with Russia first arrived in 2008 with the publication of Edward Lucas' book The New Cold War: The Future of Russia and the Threat to the West. It received some attention at the time, but the cold war construct in its title gained little...
A Second Even More Unjustifiable Episode of Government Collection of Phone Records
by Ivan Eland | Jan 23, 2015 | Featured Articles
In the rush to sensationalize the Paris terrorist attacks and minimize all other news (for example, even more horrendous terrorist attacks in Nigeria), the American media has conveniently overlooked one major ill effect of the public hysteria it is helping to foment....
The Ambiguity of Charlie Hebdo: France Under the Influence
by Diana Johnstone | Jan 21, 2015 | Featured Articles
The Charlie Hebdo terrorist assassinations struck France at a moment when it has an unpopular government and a weak President, when factories are closing and jobs are being lost, when French economic policy is determined by Germany via the European Union and its...
The Danger of an MH-17 ‘Cold Case’
by Robert Parry | Jan 20, 2015 | Featured Articles
Now more than six months after the shoot-down of a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine, the refusal of the Obama administration to make public what intelligence evidence it has about who was responsible has created fertile ground for conspiracy theories to take root...
Why Should Charlie Hebdo Deaths Mean More Than Those in E.Ukraine?
by Nebojsa Malic | Jan 19, 2015 | Featured Articles
The Western public justly condemns the murders at Charlie Hebdo, but continues to behave as if Kiev's terror victims in Donetsk are “subhuman.” On January 7, masked terrorists massacred the staff of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo in downtown Paris, killing ten. Two...

If the Fed Has Nothing to Hide, It Has Nothing to Fear
by Ron Paul | Jan 19, 2015 | Featured Articles
Since the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913, the dollar has lost over 97 percent of its purchasing power, the US economy has been subjected to a series of painful Federal Reserve-created recessions and depressions, and government has grown to dangerous levels...
Fed Asset Seizures Rollback Less Than Advertised
by Adam Dick | Jan 18, 2015 | Featured Articles
While headlines in Yahoo News and Raw Story blare, respectively, “U.S. attorney general bans asset seizure by local police” and “No more asset seizure: Eric Holder bans controversial ‘war on drugs’ tactic,” the truth is that United States Attorney General Eric Holder...
Will New US Training Program Produce More ISIS Fighters in Syria?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 17, 2015 | Featured Articles
US involvement in Iraq War 3.0 was initially sold as a limited, humanitarian rescue operation to save members of a religious minority the administration claimed were threatened by ISIS's long march through northern Iraq. Who could object to rescuing a poor religious...
‘Do You Believe it Was a False Flag?’ Ron Paul on Paul Craig Roberts’ Controversial Article
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
RPI Chairman Ron Paul was on NewsMax's "Midpoint" program today to discuss how blowback should be considered a big factor in the recent attacks in Paris. French and US foreign policy has been very aggressive in the Middle East and the idea that there are no...
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