“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...
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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....
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...
‘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...
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....
EU Writes Ukraine’s Eulogy
by Peter Lavelle | Feb 23, 2014 | Featured Articles
The EU's so-called "crisis plan" for Ukraine is itself a recipe for catastrophe. It is a brokered plan by the wrong people, under extreme (western) outside pressure, and on behalf of a small group of backward looking and dangerous ideologues. The plan essentially...
In Ukraine, EU and US Interventionists Nearing the Civil War They Caused
by Michael Scheuer | Feb 23, 2014 | Featured Articles
“The pretext of propagating liberty can make no difference. Every nation has a right to carve out its own happiness in its own way, and it is the height of presumption in another to attempt to fashion its political creed.” -Alex. Hamilton to George Washington, 2 May...
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...
A No-Fly Zone is an Act of War
by Col. W. Patrick Lang | Feb 22, 2014 | Featured Articles
(click to enlarge)Failure of the US policy of regime change in Syria is leding once again to the contemplation of "options." One of those that is much discussed is that of a no-fly zone covering all of Syria. Let's be clear as to what would be involved in that option:...
Ukraine: It’s Not About Europe vs Russia
by John Laughland | Feb 21, 2014 | Featured Articles
To discuss the Ukrainian crisis in terms of a choice between Europe and Russia is misleading for several reasons. First, the European issue has been ruthlessly exploited by the Ukrainian opposition and its Western backers as an excuse for overthrowing the government...
Invasions of the Mind Snatchers
by Nebojsa Malic | Feb 19, 2014 | Featured Articles
Many empires have risen and fallen over the course of recorded history. All were created by force. Yet all have tried to legitimize that force, by passing laws and seeking to establish some sort of order that would outlive their military supremacy. Some have been more...
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