If there are US-backed groups anywhere seeking the overthrow of their government, you will find John McCain in their midst. He is the Energizer Bunny of interventionism. Fresh off his trip to Libya, where he was granted an award by the military on the same day the...
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Is NATO's Trojan Horse Riding Toward the 'Ukraine Spring'?
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Dec 16, 2013 | Featured Articles
Ukrainian citizens have rallied in the bitter cold at Independence Square in Kiev to demand a better economic future and to protest President Viktor Yanukovych's failure to sign an economic agreement with the EU. But while the draft of the EU "Association Agreement"...
Breaking: Federal Court Declares NSA Program Unconstitutional
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 16, 2013 | Featured Articles
U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon has handed down a blockbuster decision this afternoon finding that the massive National Security Agency surveillance program is unconstitutional – a view shared by many constitutional scholars including myself. The decision is...
Washington Drives the World Toward War
by Paul Craig Roberts | Dec 15, 2013 | Featured Articles
Washington has had the US at war for 12 years: Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, and almost Syria, which could still happen, with Iran waiting in the wings. These wars have been expensive in terms of money, prestige, and deaths and injuries of both...
Is The US Waking Up To The Insanity of its Syria Policy?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 14, 2013 | Featured Articles
Former CIA Director, Gen. Michael Hayden, told a Jamestown Foundation conference this week that among the three outcomes he sees possible for the ongoing Syrian war he now believes that a victory by the Syrian government might be the "best option." Option one,...
Kiev Protests: Another CIA-Coordinated Color Revolution In Progress
by Michael Thomas | Dec 13, 2013 | Featured Articles
Who could argue that the moves and maneuvers taking place on the Ukraine geo-political chessboard are as surreal as they get? The events occurring in Kiev are so transparent as to motive and purpose that one wonders if the CIA has all but abandoned their cloak and...
Congress Scares The People
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 13, 2013 | Featured Articles
Terrorism has become as all-American as apple pie. It is ingrained in our civic DNA, it fills our newspapers and is the backstory for every foreign policy discussion on talk radio and television. One might reasonably expect that American mothers might now cajole their...
Sinister Fruits of The West's Alliance with Jihad Warriors in Syria
by Dmitry Minin | Dec 13, 2013 | Featured Articles
After suffering one military defeat after another, the Syrian radical opposition, backed by the support of the West and the monarchies of the Persian Gulf, are increasingly retaliating cruelly against the civilian population. The jihadists seize towns and cultural and...
Ron Paul Rewind: Ignore The Calls For Sacrifice…Cut The Empire!
by Chris Rossini | Dec 12, 2013 | Featured Articles
On December 12, 2007, six years ago today, Dr. Paul was a participant at the Iowa Republican Presidential debate. He was asked the following questions: 1) “What sacrifices would you ask Americans to make for debt reduction?” 2) “Realistically, what do you believe you...
What We Missed in the Hunger Games
by Ellen Finnigan | Dec 11, 2013 | Featured Articles
One of the first critics to miss the point was Laura Miller. Writing in The New Yorker in 2010, she claimed that “dystopian fiction exists to warn us about the dangers of some current trend,” and she went on to interpret The Hunger Games as “a fever-dream allegory of...
'Parade of Losers': EU Delegation to Kiev Threatens Democracy
by Mark Almond | Dec 11, 2013 | Featured Articles
Far from promoting EU values and democracy the European delegation to Ukraine threatens democratic process, Professor Mark Almond told RT in his extensive analysis of the events in Kiev. RT: The German chancellor and the French foreign minister say they want to meet...
Ron Paul Rewind: Are the Palestinians An Invented People?
by harley | Dec 10, 2013 | Featured Articles
Welcome to a new series on RPI called “Ron Paul Rewind”! Dr. Paul has a long and rich history of battling every form of U.S. government militarism -- whether it is focused abroad or against American citizens. As much as the interventionists and neoconservatives would...
Hobby Lobby Case is About Rights, Not Contraceptives
by Ron Paul | Dec 8, 2013 | Featured Articles
One of the most important cases the US Supreme Court will consider this term is Hobby Lobby’s lawsuit challenging the Obamacare mandate that employer-provided health care plans must cover abortion and contraceptives. Hobby Lobby, a corporation owned and managed by a...
The Phony Pullout From Afghanistan
by Eric Margolis | Dec 7, 2013 | Featured Articles
Those wondering what lies in store for Afghanistan need only look at the way the British Empire ruled Iraq in the 1920’s. As Shakespeare wrote, “what is past is prologue.” Imperial Britain created the state of Iraq after World War I to secure Mesopotamia’s vast oil...
Israel Aims to Sabotage the Geneva Agreement with Iran
by Dmitry Minin | Dec 7, 2013 | Featured Articles
Israel is stepping up its efforts to sabotage the agreements reached in Geneva on the issue of Iran's nuclear program. On December 1 the head of the Israeli military intelligence agency AMAN, Amos Yadlin, and former CIA director Michael Hayden simultaneously and in...
We Are All Non-Interventionists Now!
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 5, 2013 | Featured Articles
We are witnessing the triumph of Ron Paulism in the United States. The corporate media will avoid reporting it. They try their best to ignore Ron Paul's 30 plus year intellectual march through our institutions.But the facts in Pew Research's 50 year survey of US views...
Welcome To The Memory Hole
by harley | Dec 5, 2013 | Featured Articles
What if Edward Snowden was made to disappear? No, I’m not suggesting some future CIA rendition effort or a who-killed-Snowden conspiracy theory of a disappearance, but a more ominous kind. What if everything a whistleblower had ever exposed could simply be made to go...
‘Despite Rumors of a Coup, Another Orange Revolution in Ukraine is Unlikely'
by John Laughland | Dec 4, 2013 | Featured Articles
Pro-western forces in Ukraine will find it hard to provoke a new revolution, particularly as a potential EU trade agreement would not affect the constitution, John Laughland, director of studies at the Institute of Democracy and Cooperation, told RT. RT: The Ukrainian...
The Unwelcome Return of Navi Pillay
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 3, 2013 | Featured Articles
You could very well say that Navi Pillay was more than anyone else the person responsible for NATO’s disastrous invasion of Libya. As UN Human Rights Commissioner she chaired that fateful meeting in February, 2011 where Libyan NGO leader Soliman Bouchuiguir was...
You Cannot Negotiate With Iran?
by Ron Paul | Dec 1, 2013 | Featured Articles
You cannot negotiate with Iran. That is what they told us for years. The Iranian leadership is too fanatical, they are not rational actors, they are “not like us.” One US official even recently said that deception is part of the Iranian DNA. But just over a week ago...
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