I entered Virginia Military Institute as a freshman in 1968. By that time, the Vietnam War was in full swing. During the four years that I was at the school, VMI graduates were among the tens of thousands of US soldiers who were being killed or injured for nothing....
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Whether You Live in a Small Town or a Big City, the Government Is Still Out to Get You
by John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead | Jul 27, 2023 | Featured Articles
There’s a meme that circulated on social media a while back that perfectly sums up the polarized, manipulated mayhem, madness and tyranny that is life in the American police state today: If you catch 100 red fire ants as well as 100 large black ants, and put them in a...
Pew: Seventy Percent of Democrats and Democratic-Leaning Independents Support Speech Limits
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 27, 2023 | Featured Articles
I have previously written columns about the rising generation of censors in our country. After years of being told that free speech is harmful and dangerous, many young people are virtual speech phobics — demanding that opposing views be silenced as “triggering”...
Glimpses of an Endgame in Ukraine
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jul 26, 2023 | Featured Articles
The problem with the war in Ukraine is that it has been all smoke and mirrors. The Russian objectives of “demilitarisation” and “de-Nazification” of Ukraine wore a surreal look. The western narrative that the war is between Russia and Ukraine, where central issue is...
The White House Changes Long-Standing Position of President on Hunter Biden’s Foreign Deals
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 26, 2023 | Featured Articles
Starting with his campaign for the presidency and continuing until this week, President Joe Biden has maintained one clear and consistent position on his son’s influence peddling schemes. As a virtual mantra, Biden — and the White House staff — have categorically...
Who Can Give Security Guarantees To Ukraine?
by Moon of Alabama | Jul 26, 2023 | Featured Articles
A main question for Ukraine since it became an independent state was who or what could potentially guarantee its security. In the first years after 1991 the Ukrainian government thought that it could secure itself. It had inherited some Soviet nuclear weapons and it...
Intervene Only When It’s In 'Our National Interest'?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 25, 2023 | Featured Articles
One of the popular mantras for some conservatives and some libertarians when it comes to foreign interventionism is the following: “We should never intervene abroad except when it is in ‘our national interest.’” There is one great big problem, however, with that...
Counter-Revolution – ‘Do You Know What Time It Is?’
by Alastair Crooke | Jul 25, 2023 | Featured Articles
To be blunt, both the US and Europe have stalked brazenly into traps of their own making. Caught in the lies and deceit woven around a claimed inheritance of superior cultural DNA, (vouchsafing, it is said, almost certain victory), the West is awakening to a...
Your Kid’s School Went ‘Woke’? Consider Homeschool.
by Ron Paul | Jul 24, 2023 | Featured Articles
“Woke” culture has become so prominent in the American education system that it would not be surprising to learn that schools were replacing the once popular rhyme “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” with “sticks and stones may break my...
FBI Serves as a Conduit for Ukraine’s Censorship Campaign
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jul 24, 2023 | Featured Articles
The US government has long tolerated and excused Ukraine’s authoritarian behavior even as Washington and its NATO partners have lavished financial and military aid on Kyiv. Evidence has now emerged, though, that the US national security apparatus has actively assisted...
The Empire Knows It's Pouring Ukrainian Blood Into An Unwinnable Proxy War
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jul 24, 2023 | Featured Articles
In a new article titled “Ukraine’s Lack of Weaponry and Training Risks Stalemate in Fight With Russia,” The Wall Street Journal’s Daniel Michaels reports that western officials knew Ukrainian forces didn’t have the weapons and training necessary to succeed in their...
Storm Clouds Gathering in the Black Sea
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jul 22, 2023 | Featured Articles
The NATO Summit in Vilnius (July 11-12) signalled that there is absolutely no possibility of talks to settle the Ukraine war in a foreseeable future. The war will only intensify, as the US and its allies still hope to inflict a military defeat on Russia although that...
DC Uniparty kills House resolutions to end US emergency powers in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen
by Alexander Rubinstein | Jul 21, 2023 | Featured Articles
Led by Representative Paul Gosar, a handful of Republican members of Congress launched a protest against 41 nominal “national emergency” declarations, many of which are decades old. Rep. Gosar has argued the National Emergencies Act is “tyrannical,” granting 148...
Why NATO Was Obsessed With Ukraine and is Now in a Panic
by Larry C. Johnson | Jul 20, 2023 | Featured Articles
To answer the question in my title you need only look at two numbers — 1) Ukraine’s rank in terms of natural resources and 2) the size of Ukraine’s Army in February 2022. Since the end of World War II the West has viewed Ukraine as a critical piece on the global chess...
Friendly Fire: Dan Goldman Demolishes the Biden Defense in Whistleblower Hearing
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 20, 2023 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in the New York Post on one of the most damaging moments in yesterday’s hearing on the IRS whistleblowers alleging special treatment for Hunter Biden in their criminal investigation. What was most remarkable was not just the content but the cause of...
Mental Health Round-Ups: The Next Phase of the Government’s War on Thought Crimes
by John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead | Jul 20, 2023 | Featured Articles
Get ready for the next phase of the government’s war on thought crimes: mental health round-ups and involuntary detentions. Under the guise of public health and safety, the government could use mental health care as a pretext for targeting and locking up dissidents,...
A Bonfire of the Vanities
by Alastair Crooke | Jul 19, 2023 | Featured Articles
Hubris consists in believing that a contrived narrative can, in and of itself, bring victory. It is a fantasy that has swept through the West – most emphatically since the 17th century. Recently, the Daily Telegraph published a ridiculous nine minute video purporting...
The Ukraine War: A Stalemate?
by David Rehak | Jul 19, 2023 | Featured Articles
Quite some time ago, I wrote about the major winter/spring offensive which the Russians appeared to be preparing, according to satellite imagery and other indicators, with a massive build-up of forces in the north and south. But nothing much materialized from that....
Biden is Calling Up Military Reserves…Are Your Kids Next?
by Ron Paul | Jul 17, 2023 | Featured Articles
As a rule, US war reporting since Vietnam has been mostly mainstream media cheerleading the mission rather than digging beyond government war propaganda. After all, it was images of American boys coming home in body bags shown on the six o’clock news across America...
The Fact-Check Racket Finally Unravels
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Jul 17, 2023 | Featured Articles
Before the COVID lockdowns, social media companies had started contracting with new third-parties organizations called fact-checkers to assist in “content creation.” Getting a pass meant the post or story was amplified but getting dinged for inaccuracy meant that the...
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