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...
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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...
Money Pit: Zelensky govt signals intent to default on tens of billions in foreign debts
by Jordan Schachtel | Jul 21, 2022 | Featured Articles
Western governments have allocated well over $100 billion to prop up Ukraine in its war against Russia, with countless billions more flooding into the country at an increasing pace. Yet as each day passes, it’s becoming more and more clear that all of the money...
McConnell’s ‘Wartime’ COVID Investments Come Home to Roost
by Daniel Horowitz | Jul 20, 2022 | Featured Articles
“Bidenflation” existed before he staggered into office on January 20, 2021. It was catalyzed when nearly every Republican supported the worst piece of legislation in American history on March 25, 2020, which set off a cascade of several other pieces of legislation...
The Language Vandals
by Jeff Deist | Jul 20, 2022 | Featured Articles
Language is a critical tool for communication among humans; we cry "watch out" when a speeding car hurtles toward a pedestrian. We also think of language as a cognitive tool for society at large, since all human learning is closely tied to how we learn and process...
Joe Biden’s Secret War in Ukraine
by Philip Giraldi | Jul 19, 2022 | Featured Articles
The White House keeps insisting that it will not directly involve American soldiers in the war in Ukraine, but it keeps taking steps that will inevitably lead to a large-scale open combat role for the US against Russia. Among the most recent moves to increase the...
Worshipping Dead Horses
by Douglas Macgregor | Jul 19, 2022 | Featured Articles
Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, known to history as Caligula, ruled as the Emperor of Rome from A.D. 37 to 41. For those who are unaware, Caligula, the great grandson of Rome’s first emperor, the brilliant Augustus Caesar, squandered the enormous wealth of the Roman...

Inflation Even Hurts the Penguins
by Ron Paul | Jul 18, 2022 | Featured Articles
A recent video shows penguins at a Japanese aquarium rejecting the cheap fish the aquarium has substituted for the higher quality fish the penguins are used to receiving. The reason the aquarium switched fish is because rampant inflation has made it impossible for the...
US Implies Ukraine Can Use HIMARS Against Russian Targets in Crimea
by Dave DeCamp | Jul 18, 2022 | Featured Articles
The State Department on Sunday implied that Ukrainian forces are allowed to use US-provided High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) against Russian targets in Crimea, which Russia has controlled since 2014.When the US first announced it was sending HIMARS to...
Dr. Birx Praises Herself While Revealing Ignorance, Treachery, and Deceit
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Jul 18, 2022 | Featured Articles
The December 2020 resignation of Dr. Deborah Birx, White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator under Trump, revealed predictable hypocrisy. Like so many other government officials around the world, she was caught violating her own stay-at-home order. Therefore she...
SCOTUS Properly Reined in the EPA: Will the IRS and SEC Be Next?
by William F. Shughart II | Jul 15, 2022 | Featured Articles
In the last of a series of landmark rulings issued at the end of its 2021–2022 term, the US Supreme Court held that federal executive branch agencies cannot take major regulatory initiatives without explicit congressional authorization. It was the right decision. The...
The Imaginary War
by Patrick Lawrence | Jul 15, 2022 | Featured Articles
What were the policy cliques, “the intelligence community” and the press that serves both going to do when the kind of war in Ukraine they talked incessantly about turned out to be imaginary, a Marvel Comics of a conflict with little grounding in reality? I have...
Is a US-Russia War Becoming Inevitable?
by Patrick J. Buchanan | Jul 15, 2022 | Featured Articles
At the NATO summit in Madrid, Finland was invited to join the alliance. What does this mean for Finland? If Russian President Vladimir Putin breaches the 830-mile Finnish border, the United States will rise to Helsinki's defense and fight Russia on Finland's side....
Western Media and Military Analysts Still Dazed and Confused About the War in Ukraine
by Larry C. Johnson | Jul 14, 2022 | Featured Articles
If you were holding out hope that the media and military analysts predicting the imminent collapse of Russia because of the failed invasion of Ukraine would get a grip on reality, think again. I take the New York Times as the leading indicator of the establishment...
The Empire Is Showing More And More Of Its True Face
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jul 14, 2022 | Featured Articles
Genocide walrus John Bolton outright admitted to planning foreign coups with the US government in conversation with CNN's Jake Tapper on Wednesday. That's coups, plural. While arguing that the Capitol riot on January 6th of last year was not an attempted coup but...
Jill Biden’s Taco Simile Brouhaha: Reality as Satire
by Adam Dick | Jul 14, 2022 | Featured Articles
Has peak “woke” arrived? The tale of United State First Lady Jill Biden reacting to criticism from an ethnic journalists organization by apologizing for using a simile involving tacos is the kind of humorous satiric story you might find in a Sinclair Lewis novel. It...
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