Iraq is in turmoil — with ISIS controlling large areas of the country — but the truth is that it's been in turmoil since the illegal 2003 invasion. 2013 was Iraq's bloodiest year since 2008, but as I wrote here members of the elite political class and warmongers in...
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Obama’s Self-Made Foreign Policy Problem
by Moon of Alabama | Jun 27, 2014 | Featured Articles
The Obama Administration is talking too much.Kerry went to Egypt, delivered money and weapons, and was shown the finger over his human rights laments. Kerry went to Iraq, delivered some military support, and demanded a "unity government." Maliki's government already...
Ron Paul, the CIA, and Dr. Zhivago
by Adam Dick | Jun 27, 2014 | Featured Articles
It is no secret that Boris Pasternak’s 1957 novel Dr. Zhivago influenced RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul. Indeed, Dr. Zhivago and Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged are the only two works of fiction included in the list of 48 books at the end of Paul’s The Revolution: A...
Federal Court Rules Government’s No-Fly List Is Unconstitutional
by Jonathan Turley | Jun 25, 2014 | Featured Articles
There is a major decision out of Oregon where U.S. District Judge Anna Brown has ruled that the government’s no-fly list is unconstitutional since there is no meaningful way to contest inclusion of the list barring you from commercial flights. Brown issued a 65 page...
The US Supreme Court Is Marching in Lockstep with the Police State
by John W. Whitehead | Jun 24, 2014 | Featured Articles
“[I]f the individual is no longer to be sovereign, if the police can pick him up whenever they do not like the cut of his jib, if they can ‘seize’ and ‘search’ him in their discretion, we enter a new regime. The decision to enter it should be made only after a full...
Opt-Out of Common Core, Opt-In to The Ron Paul Curriculum
by Ron Paul | Jun 22, 2014 | Featured Articles
Oklahoma recently took action to protect the state’s children from the federal education bureaucracy by withdrawing from Common Core. Common Core is the latest attempt to bribe states, with money taken from the American people, into adopting a curriculum developed by...
The Orwellian Daily Mail
by Centre for the Study of Interventionism | Jun 20, 2014 | Featured Articles
Many people have an instinctive feeling that the mainstream media do not tell them the whole story.But few people realise quite to what extent the media are manipulated to send out a particular political message. This problem is especially acute with foreign stories...
The Blair Peace Project: Serial Warmonger’s Call For New Iraq War Will Have Opposite Effect
by Neil Clark | Jun 18, 2014 | Featured Articles
Being a warmongering neocon, and in particular being a warmongering neocon called Tony Blair, means never having to accept responsibility for the consequences of your actions. What it does mean is shifting the blame on to others and trying to rewrite history. You...
Iraq: Will the Neocons Get Away With It Again?
by Justin Raimondo | Jun 18, 2014 | Featured Articles
The "BS" in CBS is well-earned by this CBS News story speculating on the alleged near certainty of a terrorist attack launched by ISIS – the Islamist group now rampaging across Iraq – against the continental US. Headlined "Will ISIS Plan a 9/11-style Terror Plot...
Has the Dept. of Homeland Security Become America’s Standing Army?
by John W. Whitehead | Jun 17, 2014 | Featured Articles
“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”—James Madison “Here [in New Mexico], we are moving more toward a national police force. Homeland Security is involved with a lot of little things around town....
How to Evolve an Exit Strategy From America’s Foreign Policy Shambles — The Polk Report
by Franklin C. Spinney | Jun 17, 2014 | Featured Articles
Introduction by Franklin C. SpinneyAttached beneath my introductory comment is an essay by the American historian William R. Polk. His subject is the American predilection for non-learning in foreign policy. My comment is intended to set the stage by summarizing the...
America’s Middle East Delusions
by Going to Tehran | Jun 16, 2014 | Featured Articles
The explosive ascendance of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) underscores the thoroughgoing failure of America’s political class to devise an effective and sustainable strategy for the United States after 9/11. The failure cuts across Democratic and...
Stop Calling the Iraq War a ‘Mistake’
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Jun 16, 2014 | Featured Articles
As Iraq descends into chaos again, more than a decade after "Mission Accomplished," media commentators and politicians have mostly agreed upon calling the war a "mistake." But the "mistake" rhetoric is the language of denial, not contrition: it minimizes the Iraq...
Haven’t We Already Done Enough Damage in Iraq?
by Ron Paul | Jun 15, 2014 | Featured Articles
In 2006, I invited the late General Bill Odom to address my Thursday Congressional luncheon group. Gen. Odom, a former NSA director, called the Iraq war “the greatest strategic disaster in American history," and told the surprised audience that he could not understand...
Iraq Blows Wide Open
by Eric Margolis | Jun 14, 2014 | Featured Articles
The late Saddam Hussein was certainly right when he predicted that America’s invasion of Iraq would become “the Mother of All Battles.” Eleven years later, it continues. This week saw the collapse of two divisions of Iraq’s government army, a full 30,000 men running...
Don’t Compound the Damage Already Done in Iraq by Doubling Down in Syria
by Going to Tehran | Jun 13, 2014 | Featured Articles
The debate over America’s Middle East policy has reached a new level of surreality. In the wake of President Obama’s West Point commencement address last month — in which he pledged to “ramp up” U.S. support for Syrian rebels seeking to overthrow President Bashar...
Once Again Into The Breach: U.S. Shipping More Weapons and Preparing More Military Aid To Iraq
by Jonathan Turley | Jun 13, 2014 | Featured Articles
The United States is mulling further intervention in Iraq as the government forces flee Al Qaeda-linked insurgents and the country appears teetering on chaos. While the Administration is not ready to commit boots not the grounds, we may be moving toward a further...
Ron Paul Rewind: ‘Do Not Attack Iraq!’ (2002)
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 13, 2014 | Featured Articles
On the eve of President Bush's war on Iraq, as the House debated the authorization for the use of force that it ultimately gave the president, then-Rep. Ron Paul stood up to oppose the coming war from every possible angle. The process was wrong; the precedent set by...
Ground Hog Day in the Drug War
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 13, 2014 | Featured Articles
A news article this week entitled “South Laredo Trafficking Group Indicted” caught my attention. That’s because Laredo is my hometown. I spent 26 years there, including 8 years practicing law, most of which was in partnership with my father. That newspaper article is...
Critiquing America’s Brain-Dead Foreign Policy ‘Debate’
by Going to Tehran | Jun 11, 2014 | Featured Articles
Yesterday, Harvard’s Steve Walt posted an amusingly sharp piece on what’s wrong with America’s so-called foreign policy “debate.” Steve’s piece, titled “Take 2 Ambien and Call Me When It’s Over: I’d Rather Spoon My Own Eye Out Than Sit Through This Year’s...
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