By the middle of last decade, the storm clouds were building over the neocons: their “regime change” in Iraq was a disaster; President George W. Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech was a running joke; news articles were appearing about their “dark side” behavior in...
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Against Ukraine War? Obama May Seize Your Assets
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 14, 2014 | Featured Articles
Do you, like 56 percent of the US population, believe that the US should "not get too involved" in the Ukraine situation? Do you think that the US administration putting us on a war footing with Russia is a bad idea? Are you concerned that the new, US-backed leaders...
The Failure of German Leadership on Ukraine
by Paul Craig Roberts | Mar 14, 2014 | Featured Articles
Washington, enabled by its compliant but stupid NATO puppets, is pushing the Ukrainian situation closer to war. German Chancellor Merkel has failed her country, Europe, and world peace. Germany is the strength of the EU and NATO. Had Merkel said “No” to sanctions on...
Absolute Perversion of the Law in US Drone Killings
by Adam Dick | Mar 13, 2014 | Featured Articles
We see in the United States government’s “targeted killings” program carried out by drones and other means a perversion of the law so extreme that it brings to mind the introductory paragraph of Frederic Bastiat’s classic book The Law: The law perverted! The law —...
Russia Annexing Crimea is the Cost of US/EU intervention in Ukraine
by Michael Scheuer | Mar 13, 2014 | Featured Articles
One wonders how deep a hole the United States and the EU are going to dig for themselves in Ukraine. It was, of course, U.S. and EU leaders — and their media acolytes — who caused the problem we face today by intervening on behalf of self-styled “democrats” in Kiev...
Lights, Camera, Arrested: Americans Are Being Thrown in Jail for Filming Police
by John W. Whitehead | Mar 11, 2014 | Featured Articles
“I thought I had freedom of speech here,” the man said to the police officer. “You don’t. You just lost it,” the officer replied. Once again, the U.S. government is attempting to police the world when it should be policing its own law enforcement agencies. We’ve got a...
Pledging American Lives in the Defense of NATO
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 10, 2014 | Featured Articles
Notwithstanding its recent decision to lift its debt ceiling once again to enable it to add to its ever-growing mountain of debt, the US government has now issued a new pledge, this one being as a guarantor of a $1 billion loan to the new government of Ukraine....
‘Vlad the Bad’ Moves His Chess Pieces
by Eric Margolis | Mar 9, 2014 | Featured Articles
Soviet leader Josef Stalin used to shrug off critics by his favorite Central Asian saying: “The dogs bark; the caravan moves on.” Russia’s hard-eyed president, Vladimir Putin, is following the same strategy over Ukraine and Crimea. Putin swiftly moved his knight into...
Gen. Dempsey Pushes Back Against War Fever
by Harper | Mar 9, 2014 | Featured Articles
General Martin Dempsey, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gave a lengthy interview to Judy Woodruff on Friday night's PBS News Hour and delivered a carefully balanced picture of how the U.S. military is managing the unfolding Ukraine crisis, both reassuring...
Forgetting His Own History: William Hague Once Understood a Black Sea Crisis
by Mark Almond | Mar 8, 2014 | Featured Articles
All the assumptions on which… this policy [was] based turned out to be wrong…. British domestic opinion would prove hard to persuade that seeking the return… of a fortress on the Black Sea merited the risk of a war with Russia. -UK Foreign Secretary William Hague on...
Ukraine and The US National Security State
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 6, 2014 | Featured Articles
At the end of the Cold War, the American people had a grand opportunity, one that entailed the dismantling of the national-security state apparatus that had been grafted onto our governmental system after the end of World War II. It would have made sense, given that...
Regime Change Blueprint: The NED At Work
by Richard Sale | Mar 6, 2014 | Featured Articles
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a Washington D.C-based quasi-governmental organization funded by the U.S. which boasts that it is "supporting freedom around the world."[1] Alan Weinstein, one of the founders of the NED, explained in 1991: A lot of what...
Ukraine: Ron Paul Could be America’s Solzhenitsyn
by Bernie Quigley | Mar 5, 2014 | Featured Articles
Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of State George Shultz appeared on Fox News's "Your World with Neil Cavuto" last week and was asked about the rising security situation. He answered with a long pause: “Ronald Reagan ...” he said, and it just hung there, for a provocative...
Russia Reminds Us of Us
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 4, 2014 | Featured Articles
US officials and the mainstream press are aflame with outrage and indignation over Russia’s invasion of Crimea. If only they would feel the same degree of outrage and indignation over what the US national security state, which was grafted onto our governmental system...
Bombshell: Ukraine President Requested Russian Assistance
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 3, 2014 | Featured Articles
Today in an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, Russian Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin dropped a bombshell: President Viktor Yanukovich had sent a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin requesting Russian military assistance to restore law and order...
Free Speech, RIP: A Relic of the American Past
by John W. Whitehead | Mar 3, 2014 | Featured Articles
“The First Amendment was intended to secure something more than an exercise in futility.”—Justice John Paul Stevens, dissenting in Minnesota Board for Community Colleges v. Knight (1984) Living in a representative republic means that each person has the right to take...
Hagel’s ‘Defense Cuts’ Are Smoke And Mirrors
by Ron Paul | Mar 2, 2014 | Featured Articles
Last week Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel proposed an additional 40,000 reduction in active duty US Army personnel, down to 450,000 soldiers. As US troops are being withdrawn from the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, it might make sense to reduce not only the active...
The Crimea Will Soon Be Back in Russia
by Col. W. Patrick Lang | Mar 1, 2014 | Featured Articles
It is becoming clear that the Nuland/neocon/NED campaign against Russia in Ukraine was probably a covert action intended to punish Russia for not supporting US/Israeli/Saudi and Turkish policy in Syria and to some extent with regard to Iran. I have no specific...
Obama Draws Red Lines As World Lurches Toward War
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 28, 2014 | Featured Articles
President Obama delivered a brief press statement today in which he stated that rumors about Russian military activity in Crimea were "deeply disturbing" to the United States. He then drew dangerous red lines that threaten a serious international military conflict....
Leave Ukraine Alone!
by Ron Paul | Feb 23, 2014 | Featured Articles
Last week Ukraine saw its worst violence since the break-up of the Soviet Union over 20 years ago. Protesters occupying the main square in the capitol city, Kiev, clashed with police leaving many protesters and police dead and many more wounded. It is an ongoing...
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