US Secretary of State John Kerry's delusions continued as he arrived in Montreux, Switzerland to open the "Geneva II" talks on the ongoing conflict in Syria. Having successfully bullied UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon into rescinding the invitation previously...
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The US Wager on Moderate Islam in Syria an Utter Failure
by Dmitry Minin | Jan 22, 2014 | Featured Articles
On the eve of the international Middle East peace conference scheduled to take place January 22 in Geneva, the situation in Syria has again abruptly taken a turn for the worse. Various groups of Islamists have entered into a fierce armed conflict. Casualties on both...
Warfare, Welfare, and Wonder Woman — How Congress Spends Your Money
by Ron Paul | Jan 21, 2014 | Featured Articles
Supporters of warfare, welfare, and Wonder Woman cheered last week as Congress passed a one trillion dollar “omnibus” appropriation bill. This legislation funds the operations of government for the remainder of the fiscal year. Wonder Woman fans can cheer that buried...
Foreign Aid is a Real Joke
by Joseph Salerno | Jan 20, 2014 | Featured Articles
Jane Bussman is a British comedienne who moved to Los Angeles in the late 1990s. She wrote for a number of TV shows, including South Park, for a while. She then drifted into celebrity journalism interviewing the likes of Anna Nicole Smith, Britney Spears, and Aston...
American Fascism
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Jan 20, 2014 | Featured Articles
This talk was delivered at the 2014 Mises Circle in Houston, Texas.We know about the transformation of the American police, with their paramilitary equipment, their SWAT team raids, and incentive to terrorize people over drug offenses rather than pursue crimes against...
Obama’s NSA Speech: What Reform?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 18, 2014 | Featured Articles
Speaking from a set that could have been designed by Leni Riefenstahl, President Obama yesterday informed us that not only does our freedom depend on the work of spies, but the very birth of our republic was dependent on the same kind of surveillance network that so...
Breaking: Obama Declares NSA ‘Reforms’ While Dismissing Influence Of Snowden Leaks
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 18, 2014 | Featured Articles
I just listened to the NSA speech by President Obama and as expected there is precious little in terms of real change. For civil libertarians, it is a nothing burger served hot and with a sympathetic smile. It is much of the same. Another review board composed of...
You Can’t Opt Out: 10 NSA Myths Debunked
by Peter van Buren | Jan 17, 2014 | Featured Articles
The debate Edward Snowden envisioned when he revealed the extent of National Security Agency (NSA) spying on Americans has taken a bad turn. Instead of a careful examination of what the NSA does, the legality of its actions, what risks it takes for what gains, and how...
A Tipping Point For Liberty Against Leviathan
by Adam Dick | Jan 14, 2014 | Featured Articles
Continuing revelations of the extensive scope of the US government’s mass spying program, piled on top of decades of foreign intervention and liberty suppression at home, can lead Americans to question if they should give up their work for peace and liberty....
Who’s To Blame For More Violence Against Afghan Women?
by Bretigne Shaffer | Jan 14, 2014 | Featured Articles
The plight of Afghan women is in the news again. In December, Reuters warned that "(a)larm rises for Afghan women prisoners after Western troops leave," and Macleans published a plea from Afghan parliamentarian and women’s rights advocate Fawzia Koofi, for Western...
Is Obama Trying to Resolve or Prolong the Conflict in Syria?
by Going to Tehran | Jan 13, 2014 | Featured Articles
Suppose a great power declares that it supports a peace process aimed at finding a political solution to a terrible, ongoing conflict. Then suppose that this great power makes such declarations after it has already proclaimed its strong interest in the defeat of one...
Congress Defers to President On NSA Reform
by Ron Paul | Jan 12, 2014 | Featured Articles
Congress’s decline from the Founders’ vision as “first among equals” in government to an echo chamber of the unitary executive, has been a slow but steady process. In the process we have seen a steady stream of unconstitutional wars and civil liberties abuses at home....
Al-Qaeda is Everywhere!
by Eric Margolis | Jan 11, 2014 | Featured Articles
How did al-Qaeda, a tiny anti-Communist group in Afghanistan that had no more than 200 active members in 2001 become a supposed worldwide threat? How can al-Qaeda be all over the Mideast, North Africa, and now much of black Africa? This after the US spent over $1...
In Defense of Dennis Rodman
by Robert Wenzel | Jan 10, 2014 | Featured Articles
Dennis Rodman is one strange dude. I once visited a club he had in Chicago, during the days of the Michael Jordan led Chicago Bulls championship years. The crowd was the strangest crowd I have ever seen in my life. It looked like a convention of a secret transvestite...
Morality versus the National Security State
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 10, 2014 | Featured Articles
One of the horrible consequences of the national-security state apparatus that was grafted onto America’s governmental system is how it has oftentimes placed Americans in the position of choosing between morality and obedience to the law. Just this week, we have been...
Peace is the Enemy of Empire
by Chris Rossini | Jan 9, 2014 | Featured Articles
Hardly a day can go by without calls for the U.S. to militarily “do something” in some foreign land. Whether it be Egypt, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Syria, etc…it’s a never ending carousel. And let’s not forget that if there’s ever a lull, some North Korean alarm will always...
The Reactionary Essence of the Syrian Insurgency
by Phil Greaves | Jan 7, 2014 | Featured Articles
Western corporate media, its Oil and Gas counterparts (GCC), and the various acolytes and paid-propagandists in the “tailored analysis” industry, are once again attempting to bolster and rebrand the public image of the fundamentalist rebels in Syria. In the space of a...
Life in the Electronic Concentration Camp: The Many Ways That You’re Being Tracked, Catalogued and Controlled
by John W. Whitehead | Jan 6, 2014 | Featured Articles
“[A security camera] doesn’t respond to complaint, threats, or insults. Instead, it just watches you in a forbidding manner. Today, the surveillance state is so deeply enmeshed in our data devices that we don’t even scream back because technology companies have...
Iran, the United States, and the Middle East in 2014
by flynt leverett and hillary mann leverett | Jan 6, 2014 | Featured Articles
The year 2013 was, for many reasons, an important year for the Islamic Republic of Iran, for U.S.-Iranian relations, and for the Middle East more generally. Looking back, one thing which strikes us as especially important is that, during 2013, the failures of U.S....
Iraq: The ‘Liberation’ Neocons Would Rather Forget
by Ron Paul | Jan 5, 2014 | Featured Articles
Remember Fallujah? Shortly after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the US military fired on unarmed protestors, killing as many as 20 and wounding dozens. In retaliation, local Iraqis attacked a convoy of US military contractors, killing four. The US then launched a full...
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