The allegory is one in which a scorpion depends on the frog for its passage across a flooded river, by hitching a lift on the frog’s back. The frog distrusts the scorpion; but reluctantly agrees. During the crossing the scorpion fatally stings the frog swimming the...
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US Embarks on Proxy War Against Iran
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Nov 20, 2023 | Featured Articles
A massive US naval deployment in a wide arc of the so-called Greater Middle East is under way — stretching from Crete in the Eastern Mediterranean, into the Red Sea and the Bab el Mandeb and into the Gulf of Aden and all the way into the Gulf of Oman. This...
We Must Demand Justice for the January 6th Protestors!
by Ron Paul | Nov 20, 2023 | Featured Articles
New US House Speaker Mike Johnson struck a blow for liberty and justice last week when he finally authorized the release of all the tapes from the January 6, 2021 “insurrection.” We were told by no less than President Biden himself that this was the “worst attack on...
What Ever Happened to the Freedom of Speech?
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Nov 18, 2023 | Featured Articles
“Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech.” -- First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Here is a pop quiz: If the states ratified an amendment to the Constitution repealing the First Amendment, would we still enjoy the freedom of speech?...
Nikki Strangelove: ‘How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.’
by Bob Bishop | Nov 11, 2023 | Featured Articles
The movie “Dr. Strangelove,” a Cold War comedy satire, warns about the potential of a thermonuclear war. The film is still pertinent today with the renewed Cold War and political hacks lacking geopolitical understanding and strategic thinking. One of the most reckless...
‘Make a Desert and Call it Peace’ – Tacitus
by Eric Margolis | Nov 11, 2023 | Featured Articles
Paris – The great Voltaire wrote ‘show me whom you cannot criticize, and I will show you who rules you.’So true. Anyone who dares criticize Israel’s Biblical punishment of Palestinians in the Gaza outdoor prison is immediately subject to a storm of calumny and...
The Censorship ‘Switchboard’: A New Layer to the Biden Administration’s ‘Orwellian Ministry of Truth’
by Jonathan Turley | Nov 10, 2023 | Featured Articles
Free speech is in a free fall as millions embrace censorship as a political cause, including some now running for federal office on a pledge to silence others. One of the most alarming aspects of this period has been the emergence of a type of triumvirate of...
Unconstitutional Killings
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Nov 10, 2023 | Featured Articles
The Biden administration is killing people, openly in Ukraine and Gaza and secretly around the world. It has continued to use the killing machinery crafted by President George W. Bush, expanded by President Barack Obama and employed by President Donald Trump. These...
Arab-Iran Amity is a Geopolitical Reality
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Nov 9, 2023 | Featured Articles
The forthcoming first visit by Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi to Saudi Arabia on November 13 marks a milestone in the rapprochement between the two countries mediated by China in March. The relationship is fast acquiring a qualitatively new level of solidarity in the...
The Great Schism – Will It Be Quietly Ignored?
by Alastair Crooke | Nov 7, 2023 | Featured Articles
Dominique De Villepin, former Prime Minister of France, who famously led France’s opposition to the Iraq war, recently described the term “Occidentalism” (currently the prevalent sentiment in much of Europe) as being the notion that “the West, which for five centuries...

Don’t Worry, It’s Not Foreign Aid…It’s Corporate Welfare!
by Ron Paul | Nov 6, 2023 | Featured Articles
Faced with growing American frustration over more than $100 billion spent on a failed proxy war in Ukraine, President Biden’s handlers have hit on a gimmick to convince us that this foreign aid is actually an investment in our own economy! In his recent television...
The Ukraine Peace Talk Trial Balloon
by Moon of Alabama | Nov 6, 2023 | Featured Articles
A trial balloon has gone up on the NBCnews website. It is testing the public reaction to the upcoming US and NATO acknowledgment of their defeat in Ukraine: US, European officials broach topic of peace negotiations with Ukraine, sources say - NBCnews - Nov 03 2023...
Uncle Sam Doesn’t Have One Thin Dime for Joe Biden’s $106 Billion War Package
by David Stockman | Nov 4, 2023 | Featured Articles
When you are faced with an existential threat to your very national survival, this is what you do. You mobilize your economy for all-out struggle and impose heavy-duty “War Taxes” to pay for a dramatic build-up of military capabilities. For instance, between 1939 and...
Bibi Obliterates Memory Of Oct. 7 Martyrs; Creates New Martyrs In Gaza
by Ilana Mercer | Nov 3, 2023 | Featured Articles
It’s simple: If you know in advance that your actions will cause the death of thousands of civilians; attached to your criminal actions (actus reus) is a guilty mind (mens rea), which means malice aforethought, also known as intent, in Western jurisprudence and...
The Math of Murder
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Nov 3, 2023 | Featured Articles
Wounded Palestinians arrive to al-Shifa hospital, following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, central Gaza Strip, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. On Tuesday, October 31, 2023, the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bombed a Palestinian refugee camp with...
A Great Man in Moscow
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Nov 2, 2023 | Featured Articles
When the Trump administration obtained an indictment of Edward Snowden for violation of the Espionage Act of 1917, many of us who believe that the Fourth Amendment means what it says were deeply critical of the government, and we remain so today. Snowden is the former...
COVID Authoritarians Want Forgiveness – Here's Why They Don't Deserve It
by Tyler Durden | Nov 1, 2023 | Featured Articles
Do authoritarians deserve a chance to be treated with grace and forgiveness? The question is circulating regularly these days in the wake of the complete failure of covid pandemic response and the victory of the anti-mandate movement. The answer relies on a series of...
Authoritarians Drunk on Power: It’s Time to Recalibrate the Government
by John W. Whitehead | Nov 1, 2023 | Featured Articles
We have arrived at the dystopian future depicted in the 2005 film V for Vendetta, which is no future at all. Set in the year 2020, V for Vendetta (written and produced by the Wachowskis) provides an eerie glimpse into a parallel universe in which a...
How to Stop the War(s)
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Oct 31, 2023 | Featured Articles
If you are opposed to continued US involvement in wars which are percolating globally and which threaten to ensnare our country, jeopardize our troops and ruin our economy, please read this article. President Biden and Congress this week, in separate funding...

A Pro-Liberty Speaker
by Ron Paul | Oct 30, 2023 | Featured Articles
Louisiana Republican Mike Johnson has been chosen as the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, ending the three-week drama. Representative Johnson has a reputation as a fiscal and social conservative. He has at times opposed funding the Ukraine war, suggesting...
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