Whenever I read comments by politicians defending the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Predator and Reaper program – aka drones – I wish I could ask them a few questions. I'd start with: "How many women and children have you seen incinerated by a Hellfire missile?" And: "How...
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Life in the Emerging American Police State: What’s in Store for Our Freedoms in 2014?
by John W. Whitehead | Dec 31, 2013 | Featured Articles
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”—George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Vol. 1 In Harold Ramis’ classic 1993 comedy Groundhog Day, TV weatherman Phil Connors (played by Bill Murray) is forced to live the same day over and over again...
'NSA Has Become a Four-Letter Word in US'
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 29, 2013 | Featured Articles
The NSA “has become a four-letter word in the US” and Americans are irritated, executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, Daniel McAdams, told RT while commenting on a ruling which states that the agency's spying is legal. RT: The hackers'...
Vitali Klitschko's American Coaches
by Alexander Savchenko | Dec 28, 2013 | Featured Articles
It has become the custom in independent Ukraine that there is not a single government ministry or agency and not a single political party in parliament besides the communists, where “quiet Americans”, or British, or Germans, do not stand by side to tell the Ukrainian...
Ron Paul Rewind: Who Warned Us About Sudan?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 27, 2013 | Featured Articles
The new state of South Sudan, another product of US interventionism, is falling apart. President Obama is sending in the US Marines. As the US frenzy to "protect" southern Sudan pervaded the early 2000s, with the eventual US-sponsored creation of a South Sudan client...
Turkey’s Role in Syria’s Unfolding Crisis
by Dr. Can Erimtan | Dec 27, 2013 | Featured Articles
Under Prime Minister Erdogan, Turkey became directly involved in the Syrian crisis as his support for the Muslim Brotherhood brought an ideological context to Turkey’s hostile stance against Assad’s government. At the beginning of 2011, continuing protests against...
Saudi Anger Has Many Faces
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Dec 27, 2013 | Featured Articles
During the past fortnight, Saudi Arabia raised the bar by several notches in its rhetoric to express fury over US regional policies in the Middle East, especially over Syria and Iran. The rhetoric reached a high pitch last week with two key figures in the Saudi regime...
We're The Good Guys
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 26, 2013 | Featured Articles
My Christmas holiday frequently includes a series of reunions with other former CIA people, often grouped by the overseas stations that we served in. This year the Istanbul gathering preceded Spain and the Rome Station ca. 1980 soon followed. Some of the retirees are...
NSA Task Force Member Says Program Should Be Expanded Not Limited
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 23, 2013 | Featured Articles
Last week, I wrote about the dangers of tasks forces bearing gifts for civil libertarians and noted how Obama stacked the task force on NSA surveillance with hawks to guarantee the preservation of the program. One of those was former Acting CIA Director Michael Morell...
Ron Paul Rewind: North Korea?
by Chris Rossini | Dec 23, 2013 | Featured Articles
When North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, ordered the arrest and execution of his uncle, the status quo in the country was strongly shaken. As can be expected, the American chattering class is attempting to come up with an angle for more U.S. troublemaking. Here is Dr....
Progress Toward Peace in 2013, But Dark Clouds Remain
by Ron Paul | Dec 22, 2013 | Featured Articles
It is the time of year we feel a sense of joy and optimism. We are preparing for the holidays and looking to spend time with our families and friends. This year as we look back we see several developments that leave us feeling optimistic. A US attack on Syria was...
Washington Acts Like Government-in-Exile For Ukraine
by Finian Cunningham | Dec 21, 2013 | Featured Articles
Americans may be deluded with “God-given exceptionalism”, self-congratulating propaganda known euphemistically as independent journalism and news, and a massive brainwashing diet of syrupy entertainment that reinforces the vacuous vanity of supposed American values –...
Syria Conflict: You Can’t Make Sound Policy by Disregarding Reality
by harley | Dec 19, 2013 | Featured Articles
The U.S. posture toward the conflict in Syria exemplifies some of the worst aspects of America’s Middle East policy. In recent years, the limits on America’s ability to shape important outcomes in the region unilaterally have been dramatically underscored by...
A Christmas To-Do List for a Better World
by John W. Whitehead | Dec 19, 2013 | Featured Articles
The Christmas hope for peace and good will toward all men can no longer be dismissed as a kind of pious dream of some utopian. If we don’t have good will toward men in this world, we will destroy ourselves by the misuse of our own instruments and our own power. Wisdom...
Washington Has Discredited America
by Paul Craig Roberts | Dec 19, 2013 | Featured Articles
Years ago when I described the George W. Bush regime as a police state, right-wing eyebrows were raised. When I described the Obama regime as an even worse police state, liberals rolled their eyes. Alas! Now I am no longer controversial. Everybody says it. According...
Sen. McCain, Interventionism's ‘Energizer Bunny’
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 17, 2013 | Featured Articles
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...
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,...
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