On the eve of Iran’s meeting in Rome on Friday, Iran’s Foreign Minister, Seyed Abbas Araghchi, summarized the situation quite succinctly… accept Iran’s offer to not build nuclear weapons or there is no deal. I do not think this is hyperbole or posturing. I believe it...
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Why Negotiations With Iran Are So Difficult
by George D. O’Neill, Jr. | May 23, 2025 | Featured Articles
American and other Western elites complain ad nauseam, decrying the Iranians’ intransigent, devious, aggressive, and unreliable behavior. They claim Iran will not make or keep an agreement. Never forget, however, that Iran is more than five millennia old with a...
Sic transit gloria mundi
by William Schryver | May 23, 2025 | Featured Articles
The inexorable decline of the American Empire has arrived at an Imperial Paradox. It must either fight a war and die, or not fight a war and yet still die. Here are the options: China Neither South Korea nor Japan want anything to do with a war against...
Iranian Diplomats Suspect Trump Using Talks as Instrument of Sabotage
by Max Blumenthal | May 22, 2025 | Featured Articles
With nuclear negotiations between the Trump administration and Iran’s Reformist government at a standstill, I held two separate, lengthy background conversations in Tehran this past week with a pair of seasoned Iranian diplomats with detailed knowledge of the talks in...
Government Attacks on Private Property
by Andrew P. Napolitano | May 22, 2025 | Featured Articles
A recent Supreme Court oral argument about the liability of the FBI for invading and terrorizing the wrong home has brought to mind the dark and dangerous history of law enforcement. The practice of British agents rummaging through the private possessions on the...
How America Is Being Made Great Again
by Paul Craig Roberts | May 21, 2025 | Featured Articles
Perhaps Putin should tell the Russian people and the Russian Army that his interest in resolving the conflict in Ukraine with peace negotiations lies in the possibility that the negotiations could be used to achieve a Great Power Agreement like what he and Lavrov...
Israeli Hatred For Children In Gaza Is Shocking
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | May 21, 2025 | Featured Articles
The hatred of some in Israel for the people of Gaza – even for little children – is just astounding. If they have even a tiny bit of belief in God, they should pray for forgiveness. Unfortunately, NPR reported last Thursday (May 15) on “deadly airstrikes, killing more...
Trump Calls Putin, the Game Remains the Same
by Larry C. Johnson | May 20, 2025 | Featured Articles
Donald Trump is refusing to follow the Zelensky/European script for trapping Russia. The leaders of the UK, France, Germany and Poland made a desperate effort to get Trump to demand to Russia accept an unconditional, 30-day ceasefire, or face a new round...
Disappearing People
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 20, 2025 | Featured Articles
One of the ways that brutal right-wing Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet would terrorize the Chilean people into patriotic submission to his authority was by disappearing people. This was different from simply torturing and executing them. He and his goons certainly...
The Magical Mystery Tour That Wasn’t
by Philip Giraldi | May 19, 2025 | Featured Articles
It has been an interesting few days with the United States renaming the Gulf of Mexico and Persian Gulf while also doubling down on spying directed against Greenland in expectations that it will be acquired as a US territory sometime soon. Meanwhile, some of us who...
Cutting Military Spending Would Make for a Big and Beautiful Bill
by Ron Paul | May 19, 2025 | Featured Articles
Last week, Moody’s Ratings lowered the United States credit rating. Fitch Ratings and S&P Global Ratings had already lowered the US rating. This new downgrade was driven by Congress’s failure to make any efforts to reduce the almost 37 trillion dollars national...
There Is Only One Way to Eradicate Mexico’s Drug Cartels
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 17, 2025 | Featured Articles
There is only one way to eradicate Mexico’s drug cartels and the massive violence that has come with them. That one way is drug legalization — that is, the end of the drug war by legalizing the possession, ingestion, and distribution of all drugs. There is no other...
‘For Posterity’s Sake’: Why the Biden-Hur Tapes is a Virtual Racketeering Indictment
by Jonathan Turley | May 17, 2025 | Featured Articles
“For posterity’s sake.” Those words from President Joe Biden sum up the crushing impact of the leaked audiotapes from the interview between then-President Joe Biden and Special Counsel Robert Hur. Not only did they remove any serious doubt over Biden committing the...
How War Propaganda Has Fueled American Foreign Policy for a Century
by Ryan McMaken | May 16, 2025 | Featured Articles
The New York Times this week reports that the Trump administration has canceled many grants that were to fund “research” on “misinformation.” This is being presented by the media as a dastardly deed that will supposedly allow the spread of...
State Department must declassify Rümeysa Öztürk deportation rationale
by Lauren Harper | May 16, 2025 | Featured Articles
A federal judge recently ordered the release of Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk from custody with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge William Sessions III said that Öztürk’s only apparent offense was...
What if Freedom Is Suspended?
by Andrew P. Napolitano | May 15, 2025 | Featured Articles
What if the writ of habeas corpus has been guaranteed to the British since 1215 and to Americans since 1789? What if this encompasses the right of every person who is confined by the government against his or her will to compel the jailer to justify the confinement...
Can Trump Slip the Grip of the Neocons?
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | May 15, 2025 | Featured Articles
During the 1988 campaign, George W. Bush came to the Courthouse in Maryville, TN to speak at a rally for his Dad. As we were leaving, I told my friend and later Chief of Staff, Bob Griffitts, “Bob, he is better than his Dad.” When he ran for President in 2000, then...
Trump Praises ‘Young, Attractive’ President Sharaa, Founder Of Al Qaeda In Syria, Before Qatar Visit
by Tyler Durden | May 14, 2025 | Featured Articles
As a last major event while still on the ground in Saudi Arabia, and before embarking for Qatar, President Donald Trump met with Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa. This signifies a monumental, historic shift in the entire regional order. We are witnessing...
Will Trump Invade or Bomb Mexico to Win the Drug War?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 14, 2025 | Featured Articles
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Iván Archivaldo Guzmán recently evaded capture by Mexican police by using escape tactics that he learned from his father Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. The Journal described Iván as “Mexico’s Most...
Trump Advisor to Washington Post: ‘In MAGA, We Are Not Bibi Fans’
by Chris Menahan | May 13, 2025 | Featured Articles
Israel is in "total panic" that they're going to be the next US "ally" dropped by the Trump administration, according to the Washington Post. From The Washington Post, "Trump repeatedly bypasses Netanyahu, stoking dismay among Israelis": JERUSALEM — During his...
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