For decades Washington has adhered to the ‘One China’ policy. And that included Taiwan. For better or worse it has kept the peace in the region. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taipei puts this in question. Is the Biden administration needlessly and recklessly...
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Most of the 'Fact-Checking' Organizations Facebook Uses in Ukraine Are Directly Funded by Washington
by Alan MacLeod | Aug 4, 2022 | Featured Articles
Most of the fact-checking organizations Facebook has partnered with to monitor and regulate information about Ukraine are directly funded by the US government, either through the US Embassy or via the notorious National Endowment for Democracy (NED). In light of...
Did the FBI Swing the 2020 Election?
by James Bovard | Aug 3, 2022 | Featured Articles
Joe Biden won the 2020 election as a result of 43,000 votes in three states. The election was far closer than the media has usually admitted. There were plenty of dubious factors that could have tipped the scales for a Biden victory, including machinations by the...
Nancy Pelosi’s Utterly Reckless Election-Season Gambit
by David Stockman | Aug 3, 2022 | Featured Articles
We don’t know how it could have been any clearer than this warning from Chicom mouthpiece and ultra-hawk, Hu Xijin. Prior to America’s other senile leader putting herself in harms’ way by touching down in Taiwan today, Xijin let loose a volley of histrionics that left...
Washington Is Making the Same Blunder Regarding Taiwan That It Did in Ukraine
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Aug 2, 2022 | Featured Articles
Tensions between the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are rising sharply over the Taiwan issue. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s stated intention to include a stop in Taipei to meet with Taiwanese officials during her forthcoming trip to East Asia is...
Policing the World Is a Full-Time Job
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 2, 2022 | Featured Articles
Every leader and top official now in power in the so-called Western World seems to have forgotten that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was founded in 1949 as an alliance that was ostensibly defensive in nature, intended to counter the expansion of Soviet...

Inflation Reduction Act: Another DC Lie
by Ron Paul | Aug 1, 2022 | Featured Articles
The Affordable Care Act, No Child Left Behind, and the USA PATRIOT Act received new competition for the title of Most Inappropriately Named Bill when Senate Democrats unveiled the Inflation Reduction Act. This bill will not only increase inflation, it will also...
The Phoniest, Most PR-Intensive War Of All Time
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jul 30, 2022 | Featured Articles
The president and first lady of Ukraine have posed for a romantic photoshoot with Vogue magazine, wherein President Volodymyr Zelensky waxes poetical about his love for his darling wife.Now, I know what you're thinking: how is Zelensky making time for a Vogue...
Lavrov is on Blinken’s List of People to Call
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jul 30, 2022 | Featured Articles
The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a press availability at the State Department on Wednesday made the dramatic announcement that he intends to speak to his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov “in the coming days … for the first time since the war began” in...
The Genetic Panopticon: We’re All Suspects in a DNA Lineup, Waiting to be Matched with a Crime
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Jul 28, 2022 | Featured Articles
“Perhaps the construction of such a genetic panopticon is wise. But I doubt that the proud men who wrote the charter of our liberties would have been so eager to open their mouths for royal inspection.”—Justice Antonin Scalia Be warned: the DNA detectives are on the...
Grassley: Whistleblowers Report That DOJ Downplayed Hunter Biden Evidence in 2020
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 28, 2022 | Featured Articles
My recent column explored whether time is running out for Hunter Biden. The answer may be “no” if Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is right about what whistleblowers are telling him about the investigation. CBS is reporting that “highly credible” whistleblowers informed...
The All-American Lie Factory
by Philip Giraldi | Jul 27, 2022 | Featured Articles
This article is derived from a speech I delivered at the July 23rd Peace and Freedom Rally in Kingston New York.There are some things that I believe to be true about the anarchy that purports to be US foreign policy. First, and most important, I do not believe that...
Ukraine is Losing the War, and So is Europe
by Oscar Silva-Valladares | Jul 27, 2022 | Featured Articles
Beyond the damage in Ukraine, the war also has significant casualties in the rest of Europe as the continent is losing its most competitive energy supplies, compromising the region’s manufacturing edge and accelerating an inflation wave that through higher energy...

Ugly Covid Lies
by Ron Paul | Jul 25, 2022 | Featured Articles
After two years of unprecedented government tyranny in the name of fighting a virus, the prime instigators of this infamy are walking free, writing books, and openly pretending they never said the things they clearly said over and over.Take Trump’s White House Covid...
Ukraine Grain Deal is a Feel-Good Event. But Road to Peace is Long and Winding
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jul 25, 2022 | Featured Articles
The agreements signed in Istanbul on Friday regarding the export of grain out of Ukraine and Russia catch the headlines as a major development from the angle of global food security, which it surely is. Between around 22 million tonnes of grain from last year’s...
Congressional Delegation in Kyiv Wants US Military Advisors Sent to Ukraine
by Dave DeCamp | Jul 25, 2022 | Featured Articles
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers visited Kyiv on Saturday, and two members of the delegation told Fox News that they support the idea of the Pentagon sending military advisors to Ukraine, which would significantly escalate US involvement in the war. After meeting...
White House Approves 16th Weapons Transfer to Ukraine, Total Security Aid Now Over $8 Billion
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 23, 2022 | Featured Articles
The White House announced a $270 million weapons package Kiev on Friday. The latest transfer will send four additional High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS and drones to Ukraine.The additional four HIMARS brings the total number the US has committed to...
The Great Game of Politics is Not What You Think
by Tom Luongo | Jul 23, 2022 | Featured Articles
It's tempting to think of geopolitics as a chess game - a game of strategy and goal achievement invented by the Iranians and perfected by the Russians, says Tom Loungo at the Ron Paul Institute's Houston Conference. However, this model is not adequate as it distills...
The Truth About Madison and Slavery
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 22, 2022 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in the Washington Times responding to the controversy over changes at the home of James Madison. While I have not been to Montpelier since the reported changes, I wanted to respond to the condemnation of Madison as “an enslaver.” He was indeed an...
Digital Authoritarianism: AI Surveillance Signals the Death of Privacy
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Jul 21, 2022 | Featured Articles
Nothing is private. We teeter on the cusp of a cultural, technological and societal revolution the likes of which have never been seen before. While the political Left and Right continue to make abortion the face of the debate over the right to privacy in America, the...
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