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...
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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...
Turning Americans into Snitches for the Police State: ‘See Something, Say Something’ and Community Policing
by John W. Whitehead | Sep 23, 2014 | Featured Articles
“There were relatively few secret police, and most were just processing the information coming in. I had found a shocking fact. It wasn’t the secret police who were doing this wide-scale surveillance and hiding on every street corner. It was the ordinary German people...
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...
NATO vs. ISIS?
by Eric Margolis | Sep 21, 2014 | Featured Articles
NATO has struck in Iraq. Or, more precisely, two French Rafale warplanes bombed a storage depot in northern Iraq believed to be used by ISIS. Washington cheered the French attack as the first wave of NATO military operations against the new enemy du jour, ISIS or the...
Congress Votes for More War in the Middle East
by Ron Paul | Sep 21, 2014 | Featured Articles
Last week, the House and Senate voted to rubber stamp President Obama’s war plans for the Middle East. Both bodies, on a bipartisan basis, authorized the US to begin openly training and arming the rebels who have been fighting for three years to overthrow the Assad...
The Disastrous Myth of Airpower Victory
by Franklin C. Spinney | Sep 20, 2014 | Featured Articles
President Obama’s strategy to “degrade and ultimately destroy” ISIS depends crucially on precision bombing by drones and airplanes. The heavy lifting on the ground is supposed to be accomplished by our "allies" in Iraq and the Syrian opposition, but as any reader of...
Anarchy in Washington: Is Anybody in Charge?
by Justin Raimondo | Sep 19, 2014 | Featured Articles
Pentagon chief contradicts Obama on ground troops – Obama contradicts him back The President pledges "no combat troops" in Iraq. The head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, says he may recommend combat ground troops in the battle against ISIS. The...
The Tower Of Babel Comes To Paris: The Folly Of Obama’s War On ISIS
by David Stockman | Sep 18, 2014 | Featured Articles
US imperialism was once a fearsome force—mainly for ill. Under the latter heading, Washington’s savage destruction of Vietnam four decades ago comes readily to mind. But now the American Imperium has become just a gong show on the Potomac—even as its weapons have...
Poroshenko in Washington: A Marriage Made in Heaven?
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 17, 2014 | Featured Articles
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s visit to Washington tomorrow (Thursdsay) is the consummation of a marriage made back in February, when the Obama administration ripped up a compromise agreement between elected president Yanukovich and the rebels who were seeking...
8 Reasons Why Congress Should Vote No on Training and Funding Syrian Rebels
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Sep 17, 2014 | Featured Articles
Today Congress will vote on the McKeon Amendment, a piece of legislation most Americans haven't heard of. But the consequences of the vote today are grave: funding Syrian "rebels" will precipitate a new and wider war in the Middle East. Here are eight reasons why...
Ron Paul: War on ISIS is Foolish Continuation of 24 Years of US War in Middle East
by Adam Dick | Sep 17, 2014 | Featured Articles
Ron Paul, speaking Monday with Erin Ade on RT, explained that it is “foolish” for the United States to wage war on ISIS in Iraq and Syria, noting that the new war is a continuation of 24 years of foolish US war in the Middle East. Instead of extending the war another...
An Unbearable and Choking Hell: The Loss of Our Freedoms in the Wake of 9/11
by John W. Whitehead | Sep 16, 2014 | Featured Articles
“I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in — and the West in general — into an unbearable hell and a choking life.”—Osama bin Laden (October 2001), as reported by CNN What a strange and harrowing...
Under Cover of Ceasefire, NATO-Armed Kiev Poised to Attack
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 16, 2014 | Featured Articles
Just over ten days ago, as the pro-independence forces in east Ukraine were on the march with significant gains on the battlefield, a ceasefire was signed in Minsk, Belarus. According to the terms of the ceasefire, the pro-independence fighters were to lay down their...
Washington’s War Against Russia
by Paul Craig Roberts | Sep 15, 2014 | Featured Articles
The new sanctions against Russia announced by Washington and Europe do not make sense as merely economic measures. I would be surprised if Russian oil and military industries were dependent on European capital markets in a meaningful way. Such a dependence would...
Are You Going to LPAC?
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 15, 2014 | Featured Articles
The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity will be flying the peace flag at the Liberty Political Action Conference again this year. If you are interested in Ron Paul, his post-Congress mission to promote peace and prosperity, and the Institute he created, please...
Will The Swiss Vote to Get Their Gold Back?
by Ron Paul | Sep 14, 2014 | Featured Articles
On November 30th, voters in Switzerland will head to the polls to vote in a referendum on gold. On the ballot is a measure to prohibit the Swiss National Bank (SNB) from further gold sales, to repatriate Swiss-owned gold to Switzerland, and to mandate that gold make...
Neocons Revive Syria ‘Regime Change’ Plan
by Robert Parry | Sep 13, 2014 | Featured Articles
Official Washington’s ever-influential neoconservatives and their “liberal interventionist” allies see President Barack Obama’s decision to extend U.S. airstrikes against Islamic State terrorists into Syria as a new chance to achieve the long-treasured neocon goal of...
Obama’s ISIL Speech: Five Lies, Four Truths, and a Potential War Crime
by Justin Pavoni | Sep 12, 2014 | Featured Articles
Five Truths Truth #1: “We have not yet detected specific plotting against our homeland.” This is an extremely important admission to understand. If there is no specific plot against America then America must by definition be acting pre-emptively to wage war on the...
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