I have previously written of my pride as an alumnus of The University of Chicago in how the school has led the fight for free speech in higher education. It is also ranked as the number one free speech school in the country. The “Chicago statement” has become the...
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How Will the Blob React if Ukraine Faces Defeat?
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Dec 13, 2022 | Featured Articles
Given Ukraine’s surprisingly effective counteroffensive against Russian forces in the autumn of 2022, there has been an increasing focus among Western officials and their media allies about Russia’s probable response to an overall Ukrainian triumph in the war. There...

The Mother of all Economic Crises
by Ron Paul | Dec 12, 2022 | Featured Articles
Nouriel Roubini, a former advisor to the International Monetary Fund and member of President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisors, was one of the few “mainstream” economists to predict the collapse of the housing bubble. Now Roubini is warning that the staggering...
The Twitter Files: The Corporate Media Ignores The Biggest Story Of The Decade
by Tyler Durden | Dec 12, 2022 | Featured Articles
The biggest story of the past decade is not the covid pandemic, the January 6th protests, the war in Ukraine, the BLM riots, or even the stagflationary crisis in the US. Behind these major events is another story, one that connects them all together in a disturbing...
From Shadow Bans to Black Lists, Musk Forces a Free-Speech Reckoning for Politicians and Pundits
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 12, 2022 | Featured Articles
Below is a slightly augmented version of my column in the Hill on the latest release of the Twitter files, confirming long-denied use of shadow banning and other techniques to suppress conservative and dissenting viewpoints. Here is the column: “We don’t make...
Italy Distances from ‘Cancellation’ of Russia
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Dec 9, 2022 | Featured Articles
Noam Chomsky once wrote that the astronomical cost of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, estimated into trillions of dollars, is a major victory for Osama bin Laden, whose announced goal was to bankrupt America by drawing it into a trap. The Ukraine war too...
We Must Not Forget the US War on Afghanistan
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Dec 8, 2022 | Featured Articles
When the Pentagon used NATO to provoke Russia into invading Ukraine, it had to know that one of the great benefits to such an invasion would be that it would enrich US weapons manufacturers, who, of course, are an important, integral, and loyal part of America’s...
The Constitution Has Already Been Terminated
by John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead | Dec 7, 2022 | Featured Articles
If there is one point on which there should be no disagreement, it is this: for anyone to advocate terminating or suspending the Constitution is tantamount to a declaration of war against the founding principles of our representative government and the rule of law....
Americans Dumbed Down on Russia
by Ray McGovern | Dec 7, 2022 | Featured Articles
Five years ago today (Dec. 5th), Congress learned from sworn, horse’s-mouth testimony that there is no technical evidence that Russia (or anyone else) hacked the DNC emails showing how the DNC had stacked the deck against Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton’s rival for...
'Fool Me Once . . . ' Why the Public is Not Buying the Latest Media Campaign Against Twitter
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 7, 2022 | Featured Articles
Below is my column on the media response to the “Twitter Files,” including misleading narratives being repeated across various media platforms. The effort is to assure the public that there is “nothing to see here” but it may backfire. After Twitter employed one of...
Uniparty: Congress likely to deliver tens of billions more to Ukraine in coming days
by Jordan Schachtel | Dec 6, 2022 | Featured Articles
It’s a “done deal.” Congressional sources tell The Dossier that there is a strong enough appetite in Congress, given the unanimously pro-war Democratic voting bloc, and the significant amount of Republicans who support the perpetual funding of the Zelensky government...

The ‘Twitter Papers’ Reveal the Totalitarians Among Us
by Ron Paul | Dec 5, 2022 | Featured Articles
I admit to being skeptical of Elon Musk as a free speech hero. He has moved from one US government-subsidized business to another on his path to becoming the world’s richest person. But there is no denying that his release of the “Twitter Papers” this past weekend,...
Wrapping Up: What John Durham Learned
by Peter van Buren | Dec 5, 2022 | Featured Articles
As he wraps up his investigation with the prosecution of Igor Danchenko, we are left only with questions about what John Durham did not do. Best to start with what we learned. Durham established what FBI Director James Comey likely knew from near day one, that the...
Rep. Adam Smith Says Calls for Ukraine Aid Oversight are ‘Russian Propaganda’
by Dave DeCamp | Dec 5, 2022 | Featured Articles
Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), the head of the House Armed Services Committee, said Saturday that the growing calls for more oversight of the billions of dollars the US is spending on Ukraine are “part of Russian propaganda.” While the majority of Republicans strongly favor...
Hypocrites and Psychopaths: EU’s Russia War Crimes Tribunal
by Kurt Nimmo | Dec 3, 2022 | Featured Articles
On November 30, the European Commission, the executive of the European Union, proposed “options to Member States to make sure that Russia is held accountable for the atrocities and crimes committed during the war in Ukraine.” Ursula von der Leyen, president of the EU...
On Ukraine, NATO Doubles Down
by RT | Dec 3, 2022 | Featured Articles
Because of NATO’s insistence on expanding eastward, we have the current conflict in Ukraine. And Ukraine is quickly becoming a failed state and a humanitarian crisis. Nonetheless, NATO is undeterred. This alliance continues to be the biggest threat to pan-European...
George Orwell, Call Your Venezuelan Office
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Dec 2, 2022 | Featured Articles
It appears that the American people are being prepared for a change of mindsets. After many years of treating Venezuela as an enemy, opponent, adversary, competitor, and rival, it seems that US officials are now changing course and paving the way toward converting...
Oh Canada: Trudeau Denounces China for its Failure to Allow Protests Over Covid Policies
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 2, 2022 | Featured Articles
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau left many of us gobsmacked this week when he denounced China for its crackdown on protesters. Many of us denounced Trudeau for his authoritarian crackdown on truckers protesting Canada’s Covid policies. Trudeau used terrorist...
Washington’s Carthaginian Peace Collides With Reality
by Douglas Macgregor | Dec 1, 2022 | Featured Articles
The national political and military leaders who committed America to wars of choice in Vietnam, the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq, did so as a rule because they were convinced the fighting would be short and decisive. American presidents, presidential advisors, and...
Make Way for the Killer Robots: The Government Is Expanding Its Power to Kill
by John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead | Dec 1, 2022 | Featured Articles
“Crush! Kill! Destroy!”—The Robot, Lost in Space The purpose of a good government is to protect the lives and liberties of its people. Unfortunately, we have gone so far in the opposite direction from the ideals of a good government that it’s hard to see how this...
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