“I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in — and the West in general — into an unbearable hell and a choking life.”—Osama bin Laden (October 2001), as reported by CNN What a strange and harrowing...
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Can the Media Survive Without Half of the Population? A New Poll Raises Questions About the New Media
by Jonathan Turley | Sep 8, 2021 | Featured Articles
We have often discussed the increasing bias and advocacy in major media in the United States. While cable networks have long catered to political audiences on the left or right, mainstream newspapers and networks now openly frame news to fit a political narrative....
Why Have Embassies?
by Philip Giraldi | Sep 8, 2021 | Featured Articles
President Joe Biden’s departure from Afghanistan was the right thing to do even if it was handled disastrously. And he now has the opportunity to do some other “right things” that are in some ways related to the recently concluded fiasco in Central Asia in that the...
The Terrible Economic Ignorance behind Covid Tradeoffs: My Speech to the Ron Paul Institute
by Jeff Deist | Sep 8, 2021 | Featured Articles
Some of you may know the name Alex Berenson, the former New York Times journalist who comes from a left-liberal background. He has been absolutely fearless and tireless on Twitter over the past eighteen months, documenting the overreach and folly of covid policy—and...
Remember When Conservatives ‘Canceled’ Anyone against the War on Terror? I Do.
by James Bovard | Sep 7, 2021 | Featured Articles
Life in American changed twenty years ago after the 9/11 attacks. Many Americans became enraged at anyone who did not swear allegiance to President George W. Bush’s antiterrorism crusade. Anyone who denied “they hate us for our freedoms” automatically became an enemy...
Authoritarianism Pandemic is the Real Threat
by Ron Paul | Sep 6, 2021 | Featured Articles
Cook County, Illinois, Judge James Shapiro reached a new low in covid tyranny by forbidding Rebecca Firlit from seeing her 11-year-old son until she receives a covid vaccine. Judge Shapiro is not alone in abusing judicial power to force individuals to get vaccinated....
The Totalitarian Roots of Vaccine Mandates
by Barry Brownstein | Sep 6, 2021 | Featured Articles
Over the course of the pandemic, principles of what a free society means are being redefined by collectivists.Consider this essay, Don’t COVID Vaccine Mandates Actually Promote Freedom? Medical ethicists Kyle Ferguson and Arthur Caplan argue, “Those who oppose...
‘Over-the-horizon’ is just the newest buzz phrase for American incompetence – as proven by recent drone strikes in Afghanistan
by Scott Ritter | Sep 2, 2021 | Featured Articles
Following the Kabul airport attack, the US military conducted two “over-the-horizon” air strikes against suspected ISIS-K targets. The results inspire zero confidence in the efficacy of this approach toward counterterrorism.The August 26 suicide bombing outside Hamid...
Did the US Support the Growth of ISIS-K?
by Alexander Rubinstein | Sep 1, 2021 | Featured Articles
The list of governments, former government officials, and organizations in the region that have accused the US of supporting ISIS-K is expansive and includes the Russian government, the Iranian government, Syrian government media, Hezbollah, an Iraqi state-sponsored...
Bring All the Troops Home: Stop Policing the Globe and Put an End to Endless Wars
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Sep 1, 2021 | Featured Articles
It’s time to bring all our troops home. Bring them home from Somalia, Iraq and Syria. Bring them home from Germany, South Korea and Japan. Bring them home from Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Oman. Bring them home from Niger, Chad and Mali. Bring them home from Turkey, the...
Transitioning from Vaccine Passports to Everything Passports
by Adam Dick | Aug 31, 2021 | Featured Articles
Israel has gone further quicker than most governments in pushing people to take experimental coronavirus vaccines and imposing vaccine passports as a requirement for people to go about their daily activities. Last week, Israel Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz announced...
Say No To Vaccine Passports
by Helen Andrews | Aug 30, 2021 | Featured Articles
On August 10, former White House coronavirus task force senior advisor Andy Slavitt tweeted something snarky, as is his habit: “If people who go out and buy fake vaccine cards get COVID, do they expect someone to put them on a real ventilator?” One of his Twitter...
Twitter Permanently Bans Former NYT Journalist Alex Berenson
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 30, 2021 | Featured Articles
We previously discussed how Twitter’s growing censorship program has targeted former New York Times journalist and author Alex Berenson who is an outspoken critic of the government’s science and response to the pandemic. Berenson was previously suspended for merely...
Afghanistan: A Tragically Stupid War Comes to a Tragic End
by Ron Paul | Aug 30, 2021 | Featured Articles
Sunday’s news reports that the Biden Administration mistakenly killed nine members of one Afghan family, including six children, in “retaliation” for last week’s suicide attack which killed 13 US servicemembers, is a sad and sick epitaph on the 20 year Afghanistan...
The Media’s Addiction to Covid-19 ‘Fear Porn’ is Perpetuating an Ever-Worsening Cycle of Societal Damage Across the World
by Eva Bartlett | Aug 28, 2021 | Featured Articles
Over the past year and a half, hysterical media reporting on matters Covid-19 has reduced some people to a fearful state of unquestioning compliance – including a great number of otherwise critically-thinking journalists. With screaming headlines in bold and large...
The US Government vs. the United States
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 28, 2021 | Featured Articles
Advocates of empire and interventionism are saying that even given the debacle in Afghanistan, America should not “retreat” from the world. Even though our nation has lost “credibility” in the world, they say, it is imperative that the United States continue to...
Natural Immunity for the Win
by Alex Berenson | Aug 28, 2021 | Featured Articles
The question I get more than any other: "I had Covid. I had an antibody test to prove it. Am I protected (and do I need to get the vaccine)?" Let me start with the usual disclaimer: THIS IS NOT MEDICAL ADVICE. I AM NOT A PHYSICIAN. But the answer is now increasingly...
Here Come the Terrorists. Again
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 27, 2021 | Featured Articles
President Joe Biden is being praised in some circles because he finally ended the war in Afghanistan that in all likelihood should never have begun. President George W. Bush initiated the conflict on a series of lies about 9/11 and the Taliban role in that attack and...
‘Who Watches the Watchmen?’ Infowars Case Raises Difficult Question For Both The Biden Administration and The Media
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 27, 2021 | Featured Articles
“Who watches the watchmen”? That question from a federal judge this week came in a confrontation with the Justice Department over its targeting or charging journalists. At issue is the prosecution of a controversial host of a far-right website called Infowars. Owen...
Absolute Power Is No Covid Safety Net
by James Bovard | Aug 27, 2021 | Featured Articles
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, lockdown champions have perennially invoked “science and data” to sanctify any mandate politicians impose. Hard facts have recently shown that neither vaccines nor face masks provide surefire protection against the virus. But...
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