What was President Obama thinking? Last week's trip to Egypt by the neoconservative dynamic duo, Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, seemed like an improbably bad idea from the start. In the highly delicate situation inside Egypt, where the military is expected...
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Why Are We At War in Yemen?
by Ron Paul | Aug 11, 2013 | Featured Articles
Most Americans are probably unaware that over the past two weeks the US has launched at least eight drone attacks in Yemen, in which dozens have been killed. It is the largest US escalation of attacks on Yemen in more than a decade. The US claims that everyone killed...
How Ron Paul Changed My Heart and Mind on War
by Mike Marion | Aug 10, 2013 | Featured Articles
My wife and I were in the middle of a three-month cross-country road trip in the Fall of 2011. We had just driven for over three hours to a small community center in northwestern Iowa where I found myself shaking hands with a man who had transformed my thinking. I was...
Washington’s Drive For Hegemony Is A Drive To War
by Paul Craig Roberts | Aug 9, 2013 | Featured Articles
It was five years ago that the president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvilli, who was installed in power by the Washington supported “Rose Revolution,” launched a military invasion of South Ossetia, a break-away province under its own government. The Georgian attack...
Does Washington Post Purchase Create Spooky Conflict of Interest?
by Adam Dick | Aug 8, 2013 | Featured Articles
Everyone is talking about Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos's recent purchase of the Washington Post. Less noticed is the conflict of interest between his ownership of the Post and Amazon’s potentially significant profits from computing and data storage contracts with...
US Egypt Policy: Democracy Promotion?
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Aug 8, 2013 | Featured Articles
When the Obama administration announced on July 25 that it was free to violate U.S. law by continuing to finance the Egyptian military to the tune of $1.5 billion annually, even though it was responsible for overthrowing the democratically elected president of Egypt,...
Welcome to Post-Constitution America: The Weapons of War Come Home
by harley | Aug 7, 2013 | Featured Articles
On July 30, 1778, the Continental Congress created the first whistleblower protection law, stating “that it is the duty of all persons in the service of the United States to give the earliest information to Congress or other proper authority of any misconduct, frauds,...
The Ron Paul Channel Will Launch August 12th
by harley | Aug 7, 2013 | Featured Articles
Exciting news posted by Lew Rockwell:August 7, 2013 (Clute, Texas) – Today, former-Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul announced the Ron Paul Channel (www.RonPaulChannel.com) would launch the week of August 12, 2013, and new details about the Channel....
Are Police in America Now a Military, Occupying Force?
by John W. Whitehead | Aug 5, 2013 | Featured Articles
Despite the steady hue and cry by government agencies about the need for more police, more sophisticated weaponry, and the difficulties of preserving the peace and maintaining security in our modern age, the reality is far different. Indeed, violent crime in America...
President José Mujica Versus the United Nations
by Adam Dick | Aug 5, 2013 | Featured Articles
Uruguay's President José Mujica is standing up to United Nations bureaucrats at the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) who are chastising Uruguay for advancing legislation that will allow the legal growth, sale, and purchase of marijuana for medical and...
Why Won’t They Tell Us the Truth About NSA Spying?
by Ron Paul | Aug 4, 2013 | Featured Articles
In 2001, the Patriot Act opened the door to US government monitoring of Americans without a warrant. It was unconstitutional, but most in Congress over my strong objection were so determined to do something after the attacks of 9/11 that they did not seem to give it...
McCain Declares War on Russia
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 2, 2013 | Featured Articles
Fresh off of his flip-flop on aid to Egypt and his threats to vote for the left (neocon) interventionists in the Democratic Party should anyone remotely non-interventionist succeed in gaining the Republican nomination to be the next president, Senator John McCain is...
Rouhani’s Inauguration and the West’s Strategic Suicide
by harley | Aug 1, 2013 | Featured Articles
As Hassan Rouhani approaches his inauguration this weekend, there is self-referential optimism in Western policy circles about what his accession might portend. A substantial quorum in these circles sees Rouhani as perhaps someone with whom the West—to recall...
Time to Abolish the DHS?
by Kelley B. Vlahos | Aug 1, 2013 | Featured Articles
photo: Steve RhodesTo the glee of her critics, Janet Napolitano, the longest-serving secretary at the Department of Homeland Security in its decade-long existence, has announced her resignation. No longer will Republicans have old Janet to kick around. As for the...
The American Surveillance State Is Here. Can It Be Evaded?
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 29, 2013 | Featured Articles
photo: TheeErin “If, as it seems, we are in the process of becoming a totalitarian society in which the state apparatus is all-powerful, the ethics most important for the survival of the true, free, human individual would be: cheat, lie, evade, fake it, be elsewhere,...
Japan Must Face Up To China
by Eric Margolis | Jul 28, 2013 | Featured Articles
photo: guccio@文房具社World War II has never really ended for Japan. Sixty-eight years after the battleship US “Missouri” sailed into Tokyo Bay to receive the surrender of the Japanese Empire, Japan still behaves like a meek, defeated nation rather than one of the world’s...
Kafka’s America: Secret Courts, Secret Laws, and Total Surveillance
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 24, 2013 | Featured Articles
photo: Tom Hilton “Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. Where was the judge he had never seen? Where was the High Court he had never reached? He raised his hands and spread out all his fingers. But the hands of one...
NRA vs Medical Associations: Guess Who Wants You in the Government Database?
by Adam Dick | Jul 23, 2013 | Featured Articles
photo: Orange County ArchivesA conflict may be emerging between the National Rifle Association (NRA) and several large national medical and mental health associations regarding the expansion of US and state government mental health databases. Medical Daily reported...
The Road to Nowhere: Kerry's Mideast Journey
by Eric Margolis | Jul 20, 2013 | Featured Articles
photo: World Economic ForumHere we go again, another round of Mideast peace talk kabuki. A process in which Washington, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization hold intense talks over holding talks, a ritual as stylized as the traditional Japanese dance. In...
Adam Kokesh and the Drugs and Guns Prosecution Trap
by Adam Dick | Jul 18, 2013 | Featured Articles
photo: DaveybotPodcast host Adam Kokesh appears to have joined the long list of victims of the US government's drugs and guns prosecution trap. After a US Park Police raid on his Virginia residence last week, media reported Monday that Kokesh was charged with...
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