“The lamps are going out all over Europe,” Sir Edward Grey famously said on the eve of World War I. “We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.” It was 100 years ago this week that Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, setting in motion the unspeakable...
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Why Won’t Obama Just Leave Ukraine Alone?
by Ron Paul | Aug 3, 2014 | Featured Articles
President Obama announced last week that he was imposing yet another round of sanctions on Russia, this time targeting financial, arms, and energy sectors. The European Union, as it has done each time, quickly followed suit. These sanctions will not produce the...
Political Purges Loom as Ukraine Falls Apart
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 2, 2014 | Featured Articles
The US-installed regime in Ukraine is collapsing, says RPI Academic Advisor John Laughland. The protests that eventually led to the overthrow of democratically-elected President Yanukovych were animated by demands that the power of the presidency be decreased and that...
‘We Tortured Some Folks’ — Obama Admits United States Committed Acts Violating Federal and International Law
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 1, 2014 | Featured Articles
Following the admission that the CIA hacked Senate computers and lied to Congress, President Obama today affirmed that it did indeed torture people. This admission (while belated) is an important recognition by the United States of what is obvious from a legal...
Not Talking to Vladimir Putin Signals Impotence, Not Strength
by Mark Almond | Aug 1, 2014 | Featured Articles
Understandable outrage at the terrible fate of the 298 innocent passengers on flight MH17 has led Western leaders to reach for their favourite way of coercing rogue states into better behaviour. Sanctions have been ramped up on Russia, targeting key personnel around...
CIA Admits Hacking Senate Computers After Months of Denials
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 1, 2014 | Featured Articles
In the same week as the State Department report endorsing findings that the CIA lied to Congress and brutalized suspects, the CIA is now admitting that its recent denials of hacking Senate computers was also false. Once again, however, there is not even a suggestion...
The Rise of the ‘Petro-yuan’ and the Slow Erosion of Dollar Hegemony
by Going to Tehran | Jul 31, 2014 | Featured Articles
For seventy years, one of the critical foundations of American power has been the dollar’s standing as the world’s most important currency. For the last forty years, a pillar of dollar primacy has been the greenback’s dominant role in international energy markets....
Stop! Thief! Stop! — The Looting of Ukraine
by Anne Williamson | Jul 30, 2014 | Featured Articles
Kiev’s hastily assembled, post-coup coalitions couldn’t hold, and Ukrainian PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk threw in the towel last Thursday. On his way out, news stories said, the PM expressed his “disappointment with Ukrainian parliament’s decision to reject a bill that allows...
On Dominoes, WMDs And Putin’s ‘Aggression’: Imperial Washington Is Intoxicated By Another Big Lie
by David Stockman | Jul 29, 2014 | Featured Articles
Imperial Washington is truly running amuck in its insensible confrontation with Vladimir Putin. The round of new sanctions is a counter-productive joke. Apparently, more of Vlad’s posse will be put on double probation, thereby reducing demand for Harry Macklowe’s...
In Foreign Affairs, Not Doing Anything Is The Thing To Do
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 29, 2014 | Featured Articles
The heartbreaking violence in the Middle East, Ukraine, and elsewhere carries many messages, but here’s one Americans shouldn’t miss: The United States — no matter who the president is — cannot manage world conflict. The corollary is that when a president tries to...
The Absurd, Bureaucratic Hell That Is the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 28, 2014 | Featured Articles
“The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in...
End Torture, Shut Down the CIA!
by Ron Paul | Jul 27, 2014 | Featured Articles
Remember back in April, 2007, when then-CIA director George Tenet appeared on 60 Minutes, angrily telling the program host, “we don’t torture people”? Remember a few months later, in October, President George W. Bush saying, “this government does not torture people”?...
Israel’s 155mm Cure For ‘Terrorism’
by Eric Margolis | Jul 27, 2014 | Featured Articles
In 1956, Britain and France were convinced that Egypt’s charismatic nationalist leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser, was threatening what was left of their Mideast and African colonial empires. London branded Nasser, “Hitler on the Nile.” So the British and French governments...
Another ‘Saigon’: US Evacuates From Libya
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 26, 2014 | Featured Articles
One month ago today, President Obama was congratulating Libya on a "milestone" election -- even though the disintegration of the country after the 2011 US invasion was ongoing. Said Obama in June: I congratulate the Libyan people on the conclusion of the elections for...
What Does the U.S. Support When It Supports Israel?
by Michael S. Rozeff | Jul 26, 2014 | Featured Articles
According to the Congressional Budget Office, “Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II. To date, the United States has provided Israel $121 billion (current, or non-inflation-adjusted, dollars) in bilateral assistance....
‘Hard-Core Libertarian’ Austin Petersen’s Advice for ‘Soviet’ Ron Paul
by Adam Dick | Jul 25, 2014 | Featured Articles
Austin Petersen, who describes himself in the introduction to his Freedom Report Podcast as a “hard-core libertarian” who cares about “pure freedom,” is upset that Ron Paul wrote an editorial expressing skepticism regarding the US government’s and media’s line on the...
Ron Paul: ‘I Don’t Blame America, I Blame Neocons’
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 25, 2014 | Featured Articles
Facing a tough but respectful grilling on Fox Business's The Independents over his recent comments on Ukraine and the apparent downing of a Malaysia Air plane, Ron Paul argues that the US government wants to blame Russia for the shoot-down while providing no evidence...
Breedlove…or Strangelove?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 25, 2014 | Featured Articles
NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, Gen. Philip Breedlove, wants to light a torch under the rapidly reconstituting Cold War with Russia. According to the Times (UK), NATO's top military commander has plans to transform an old military base in Poland into a tip...
Ron Paul: What’s So Bad About a Split-Up Ukraine?
by RPI Staff | Jul 24, 2014 | Featured Articles
In an in-depth commentary about the recent Malaysian Airlines crash, Dr. Paul makes the point that no one in western media or government wants us to ponder: if eastern Ukraine wants to be closer to Russia and western Ukraine wants to be aligned with the EU, why can't...
9/11 Commission: 10th Anniversary of a Bootlicking National Disgrace
by James Bovard | Jul 23, 2014 | Featured Articles
Ten years ago, the 9/11 Commission released its report on the challenges to the nation. Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton, the chairman and vice chairman of the commission, have a platitude-laden piece this morning in USA Today: “The 'generational challenge' against terrorism...
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