No sooner than the United Nations chemical weapons inspectors arrived in Damascus – within 72 hours, in fact – the Syrian opposition figures based in Istanbul, Turkey, have claimed that up to 1400 people have been killed in chemical weapons attacks by the government...
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The NSA: ‘The Abyss from Which There Is No Return'
by John W. Whitehead | Aug 20, 2013 | Featured Articles
“The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no...
Should You Be Able to Buy Food Directly From Farmers? The Government Doesn’t Think So
by David E. Gumpert | Aug 18, 2013 | Featured Articles
This would seem to embody the USDA’s advisory, “Know your farmer, know your food,” right? Not exactly. For the USDA and its sister food regulator, the FDA, there’s a problem: many of the farmers are distributing the food via private contracts like herd shares and...
Why The 2,776 NSA Violations Are No Big Deal
by Ron Paul | Aug 18, 2013 | Featured Articles
Thanks to more documents leaked by Edward Snowden, this time to the Washington Post, we learned last week that a secret May 2012 internal audit by the NSA revealed 2,776 incidents of “unauthorized” collection of information on American citizens over the previous 12...
Storm on the Nile
by Eric Margolis | Aug 17, 2013 | Featured Articles
Egypt’s US-financed armed forces have gone to war against Egypt’s people. Arab spring has become Arab winter.So far, army and security police have scored brilliant battlefield victories against unarmed men, women and children, killing and wounding thousands who were...
Egypt's Junta Has Nothing to Lose
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 16, 2013 | Featured Articles
The appointment of Robert Ford as the new American ambassador to Egypt was indeed an ominous sign that the Obama administration expected civil war conditions to arise in Egypt. Ford’s forte during his hugely successful “diplomatic’ assignment in Baghdad in the middle...
McCain and Graham's Strange Egyptian Adventure
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 12, 2013 | Featured Articles
What was President Obama thinking? Last week's trip to Egypt by the neoconservative dynamic duo, Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, seemed like an improbably bad idea from the start. In the highly delicate situation inside Egypt, where the military is expected...
Why Are We At War in Yemen?
by Ron Paul | Aug 11, 2013 | Featured Articles
Most Americans are probably unaware that over the past two weeks the US has launched at least eight drone attacks in Yemen, in which dozens have been killed. It is the largest US escalation of attacks on Yemen in more than a decade. The US claims that everyone killed...
How Ron Paul Changed My Heart and Mind on War
by Mike Marion | Aug 10, 2013 | Featured Articles
My wife and I were in the middle of a three-month cross-country road trip in the Fall of 2011. We had just driven for over three hours to a small community center in northwestern Iowa where I found myself shaking hands with a man who had transformed my thinking. I was...
Washington’s Drive For Hegemony Is A Drive To War
by Paul Craig Roberts | Aug 9, 2013 | Featured Articles
It was five years ago that the president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvilli, who was installed in power by the Washington supported “Rose Revolution,” launched a military invasion of South Ossetia, a break-away province under its own government. The Georgian attack...
Does Washington Post Purchase Create Spooky Conflict of Interest?
by Adam Dick | Aug 8, 2013 | Featured Articles
Everyone is talking about Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos's recent purchase of the Washington Post. Less noticed is the conflict of interest between his ownership of the Post and Amazon’s potentially significant profits from computing and data storage contracts with...
US Egypt Policy: Democracy Promotion?
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Aug 8, 2013 | Featured Articles
When the Obama administration announced on July 25 that it was free to violate U.S. law by continuing to finance the Egyptian military to the tune of $1.5 billion annually, even though it was responsible for overthrowing the democratically elected president of Egypt,...
Welcome to Post-Constitution America: The Weapons of War Come Home
by harley | Aug 7, 2013 | Featured Articles
On July 30, 1778, the Continental Congress created the first whistleblower protection law, stating “that it is the duty of all persons in the service of the United States to give the earliest information to Congress or other proper authority of any misconduct, frauds,...
The Ron Paul Channel Will Launch August 12th
by harley | Aug 7, 2013 | Featured Articles
Exciting news posted by Lew Rockwell:August 7, 2013 (Clute, Texas) – Today, former-Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul announced the Ron Paul Channel (www.RonPaulChannel.com) would launch the week of August 12, 2013, and new details about the Channel....
Are Police in America Now a Military, Occupying Force?
by John W. Whitehead | Aug 5, 2013 | Featured Articles
Despite the steady hue and cry by government agencies about the need for more police, more sophisticated weaponry, and the difficulties of preserving the peace and maintaining security in our modern age, the reality is far different. Indeed, violent crime in America...
President José Mujica Versus the United Nations
by Adam Dick | Aug 5, 2013 | Featured Articles
Uruguay's President José Mujica is standing up to United Nations bureaucrats at the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) who are chastising Uruguay for advancing legislation that will allow the legal growth, sale, and purchase of marijuana for medical and...
Why Won’t They Tell Us the Truth About NSA Spying?
by Ron Paul | Aug 4, 2013 | Featured Articles
In 2001, the Patriot Act opened the door to US government monitoring of Americans without a warrant. It was unconstitutional, but most in Congress over my strong objection were so determined to do something after the attacks of 9/11 that they did not seem to give it...
McCain Declares War on Russia
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 2, 2013 | Featured Articles
Fresh off of his flip-flop on aid to Egypt and his threats to vote for the left (neocon) interventionists in the Democratic Party should anyone remotely non-interventionist succeed in gaining the Republican nomination to be the next president, Senator John McCain is...
Rouhani’s Inauguration and the West’s Strategic Suicide
by harley | Aug 1, 2013 | Featured Articles
As Hassan Rouhani approaches his inauguration this weekend, there is self-referential optimism in Western policy circles about what his accession might portend. A substantial quorum in these circles sees Rouhani as perhaps someone with whom the West—to recall...
Time to Abolish the DHS?
by Kelley B. Vlahos | Aug 1, 2013 | Featured Articles
photo: Steve RhodesTo the glee of her critics, Janet Napolitano, the longest-serving secretary at the Department of Homeland Security in its decade-long existence, has announced her resignation. No longer will Republicans have old Janet to kick around. As for the...
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