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...
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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...
‘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...
Syria’s Mother Agnes Mariam: In Her Own Words
by Sharmine Narwani | Dec 1, 2013 | Featured Articles
American national security journalist Jeremy Scahill and leftist British columnist Owen Jones announced recently that they would not share a platform with a Palestinian-Lebanese nun at the Stop The War Coalition’s November 30 UK conference. Neither Scahill nor Jones...
Iran Gets Short End Of The Nuclear Deal
by Eric Margolis | Nov 30, 2013 | Featured Articles
After all the gnashing of teeth, beating of breasts and tearing of hair coming from Israel and its American supporters, you’d think last week’s nuclear deal in Geneva has opened the way for Iran to become a mighty nuclear weapons power. Nonsense. Coolly examined,...
The National-Security State’s Dangerous China Taunt
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 28, 2013 | Featured Articles
It didn’t take long for the U.S. national-security state’s “pivot” toward Asia, after its disastrous 12-year foray into the Middle East, to produce a new crisis for Americans. In response to China’s decision to implement a new air zone involving a long territorial...
Ukraine Refused to Sign EU's ‘Suicide Note’
by John Laughland | Nov 28, 2013 | Featured Articles
This is an excerpt from RPI Academic Advisor John Laughland's recent RT interview. -ed.Joining an old European geopolitical and ideological project would have been catastrophic for the Ukrainian economy, political expert John Laughland told RT, noting that it was...
The Globalization of NATO: Military Doctrine of Global Warfare
by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | Nov 26, 2013 | Featured Articles
The world is enveloped in a blanket of perpetual conflict. Invasions, occupation, illicit sanctions, and regime change have become currencies and orders of the day. One organization – the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) – is repeatedly, and very...
US Dead-Enders Still Dream of Color Revolutions
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 26, 2013 | Featured Articles
The Washington Post's Deputy Editorial Editor Jackson Diehl, is the last of those who still worship at the altar of Georgia's washed up Rose Revolution and its US-funded architect, former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. Diehl carries water for the Washington...
What We Should Not Be Thankful for This Thanksgiving
by John W. Whitehead | Nov 26, 2013 | Featured Articles
“Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy...
America's Little Spy Helpers Down Under Create an Uproar
by Eric Margolis | Nov 25, 2013 | Featured Articles
JAKARTA, INDONESIA – Indonesians are usually an easy-going, amiable people. But this week, they are boiling with anger and a sense of betrayal after revelations that Australia’s Signals Directorate had been tapping the phones of senior Indonesian government officials,...
Can Karzai Save Us?
by Ron Paul | Nov 24, 2013 | Featured Articles
After a year of talks over the post-2014 US military presence in Afghanistan, the US administration announced last week that a new agreement had finally been reached. Under the deal worked out with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the US would keep thousands of troops...
Terrorism and the Bill of Rights
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 22, 2013 | Featured Articles
In the aftermath of the Boston bombings last spring, GOP Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham and others called on Barack Obama to treat the surviving suspect in the bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, as an “enemy combatant” rather than as a criminal defendant. The episode...
P5+1 Talks With Iran Headed For Failure?
by harley | Nov 22, 2013 | Featured Articles
Yesterday, while taping a discussion of the latest round of P5+1 nuclear talks with Iran on Russia Today’s CrossTalk that was broadcast today (see here or, on You Tube, here), Flynt said: I hope I’m wrong, but I’m not particularly optimistic about a deal being...
Free Speech Repressing Bureaucrat Threatens Alex Jones and Hundreds at Dallas Gathering
by Adam Dick | Nov 22, 2013 | Featured Articles
Wednesday night in front of the headquarters of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas I witnessed bureaucratic tyranny in action. There a mild-mannered and soft-spoken representative of the Dallas police threatened talk show host Alex Jones and over 200 people with $500...
Veterans Day and Foreign Interventionism
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 19, 2013 | Featured Articles
Commemorating Veterans Day, people honored Americans who have served in the U.S. military, especially those who have fought and died in America’s foreign wars. In doing so, however, it’s easy to forget the fact that what the soldiers fought for and died for in those...
Drones, Tanks, and Grenade Launchers: Coming Soon to a Police Department Near You
by John W. Whitehead | Nov 18, 2013 | Featured Articles
“The argument for up-armoring is always based on the least likely of terrorist scenarios. Anyone can get a gun and shoot up stuff. No amount of SWAT equipment can stop that.”—Mark Randol, former terrorism expert with the Congressional Research Service Why does a...
Understanding Media Propaganda About Recent Talks Over Iran’s Nuclear Program
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Nov 17, 2013 | Featured Articles
There are a couple points worth noting about recent reporting on the recent talks between the U.S. and its Western allies and Iran over its nuclear program. 1) The first is that the media effectively accepts the U.S. government’s framework that Iran’s rights derive...
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