Hysterics at the Chinese balloon overflying the US – taken to volume 11 – through scrambling a hush-hush Raptor jet (F-22) to ‘pop’ it, and then bally-hooing the ‘pop’ as Raptor’s first ever ‘air-to-air kill’, may be a source for quiet derision around the world, yet...
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Attack of the Weather Balloons!
by Kurt Nimmo | Feb 14, 2023 | Featured Articles
On Saturday, President Biden sent a USG fighter aircraft to shoot down… something over the Yukon in Canada. This is the third such alleged shootdown. The second one is said to have occurred on Friday over Alaska, according to the stenographic media. It “reports” what...
War Certainly Is A Racket
by Iain Davis | Feb 14, 2023 | Featured Articles
In 1935, Major General Smedley Butler’s seminal book “War Is A Racket” warned of the dangers of the US military-industrial complex, more than 25 years before the outgoing US President Eisenhower implored the world to “guard against” the same thing. One of the most...
How We Can Stop the Coming War With Russia
by Ron Paul | Feb 13, 2023 | Featured Articles
Twenty years ago this spring the US government was finally successful in lying us into war with Iraq. Administration after administration had sanctioned and bombed and even invaded the country, but finally 20 years ago next month the Bush Administration unleashed...
Persistent Delusion Among the American and NATO Defense Establishment
by Larry C. Johnson | Feb 11, 2023 | Featured Articles
There are three recent articles I want to make sure you have read because they reveal the delusion that continues to afflict US military leaders, pundits and the establishment media. First up is US Army Gen. Christopher Cavoli, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe,...
Sy Hersh and The Way We Live Now
by Craig Murray | Feb 11, 2023 | Featured Articles
It is a clear indicator of the disappearance of freedom from our so-called western democracies, that Sy Hersh, arguably the greatest living journalist, cannot get this monumental revelation on the front of the Washington Post or New York Times, but has to self-publish...
Push-button digital tyranny: U.K. introduces 'Britcoin' CBDC project
by Jordan Schachtel | Feb 10, 2023 | Featured Articles
The U.K. government and the Central Bank of England have published a “consultation paper” that announced a coming digital pound called “Britcoin.” Britcoin, the current nickname for the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) project, is a product of the U.K.’s “CBDC...
The Best Speech I Never Gave
by Scott Ritter | Feb 10, 2023 | Featured Articles
[Note: I was going to speak at the Rage against the War Machine rally, scheduled for February 19 at the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, D.C. For personal reasons, I will no longer be speaking. In short, I have decided to take one for the team. I wish all participants...
The Biden Administration is Lying about the Chinese Balloon
by Larry C. Johnson | Feb 10, 2023 | Featured Articles
Now that the hysteria surrounding the Chinese “Spy” Balloon I am hoping that logic and reason will take over and we will realize that instead of a NORAD failure that jeopardized national security, the wayward balloon was seized as an opportunity by the Biden...
Biden’s Navy Sabotaged Nordstream Pipeline
by Kurt Nimmo | Feb 9, 2023 | Featured Articles
Last September, the unelected EU apparatchik Ursula von der Leyen alluded to Russian involvement in the destruction of the NordStream pipeline. The EU Commission boss did not come out and directly accuse Russia. However, her remarks added to previous accusations by...
'Free Speech for Whom?': Former Twitter Executive Makes Chilling Admission on the 'Nuanced' Standard Used For Censorship
by Jonathan Turley | Feb 9, 2023 | Featured Articles
Yesterday’s hearing of the House Oversight Committee featured three former Twitter executives who are at the center of the growing censorship scandal involving the company: Twitter’s former chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde, former deputy general counsel James Baker...
Setting the Record Straight; Stuff You Should Know About Ukraine
by Mike Whitney | Feb 8, 2023 | Featured Articles
On February 16, 2022, a full week before Putin sent combat troops into Ukraine, the Ukrainian Army began the heavy bombardment of the area (in east Ukraine) occupied by mainly ethnic Russians. Officials from the Observer Mission of the Organization for Security and...
They're Not Worried About 'Russian Influence', They're Worried About Dissent
by Caitlin Johnstone | Feb 6, 2023 | Featured Articles
Being labeled a Russian propagandist all day every day for criticizing US foreign policy is really weird, but one advantage it comes with is a useful perspective on what people have really been talking about all these years when they warn of the dangers of "Russian...
(Sales) Taxation is Theft
by Ron Paul | Feb 6, 2023 | Featured Articles
A group of House Republicans is supporting legislation that would replace federal income, payroll, estate, and gift taxes with a 30 percent national sales tax. The bill also eliminates the Internal Revenue Service, giving states the responsibility to collect the sales...
The Arsenal of Democracy Isn't
by William Schryver | Feb 6, 2023 | Featured Articles
As I originally wrote in my July 10, 2022 article Wunderwaffe Du Jour: “The US military is not built nor equipped for protracted high-intensity conflict. Nor can it supply a depleted proxy army with the means to prosecute a protracted high-intensity conflict.” The...
Smack-Down! Hungary Pushes Back Against Obnoxious US Ambassador
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 4, 2023 | Featured Articles
US Ambassador to Hungary David Pressman and his husband.Biden's Ambassador to Hungary, David Pressman, is a particularly odious specimen in a long line of obnoxious US residents of Szabadság tér since the end of Hungary's subjection to Soviet control in 1989. Before...
Communist Doomsday Balloon Nonsense
by Kurt Nimmo | Feb 4, 2023 | Featured Articles
It’s remarkable how easy it is to rile up the American public. The latest bit of theatrics centers around a “communist” balloon that is either a spy device or a weather balloon that has drifted off course. Either way, this thing isn’t some sort of major threat to...
What Does 'Unprovoked' Mean?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 3, 2023 | Featured Articles
Note the following sentence in a New York Times news story yesterday by Michael Schwirtz and Anton Troianovski about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: “Mr. Putin’s attempt to put a veneer of nobility on an unprovoked invasion that has killed thousands of civilians and...
Jordan Peterson Sold Out to the War Party
by Joe Shanley | Feb 2, 2023 | Featured Articles
When Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson first burst onto the news cycle in 2016 he was seen by many as a principled iconoclast among the spineless intellectuals who was speaking out against an approaching toleration left. Protesting the gender identity rights bill...
Raging Bulls in Blue: The Deadly Toll of Warrior Policing on Steroids
by John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead | Feb 2, 2023 | Featured Articles
That the police officers charged with the beating death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols are Black is a distraction. Don’t be distracted. This latest instance of police brutality is not about racism in policing or black-on-black violence. The entire institution is corrupt....
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