In March of 2003, as the United States military prepared for its imminent invasion of Iraq, Paul Wolfowitz suggested to US Congress members that the US would not foot the bill for rebuilding Iraq after the devastation the US invasion would bring to the country....
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The Sweet Sound of Censorship: The Biden Administration Seeks the Perfect Pitch for Disinformation Governance
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 30, 2022 | Featured Articles
Many politicians and pundits are in full panic over Elon Musk’s threat to restore free speech values to Twitter. While Hillary Clinton has called upon Europeans to step in to maintain such censorship and Barack Obama has called for US regulations, the Biden...
Biden's Mammoth $33BN Ukraine Package Includes Help With Wartime Propaganda
by Tyler Durden | Apr 29, 2022 | Featured Articles
Politico's Christopher Miller noted earlier that the record-smashing $33 billion spending package that the White House is proposing for Ukraine actually "dwarfs the annual defense budgets of most nations." To which we naturally asked: how many billions of dollars does...
Will Putin Submit to US-Imposed 'Weakening'?
by Patrick J. Buchanan | Apr 29, 2022 | Featured Articles
"Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War's very object is victory -- not prolonged indecision." So said Gen. Douglas MacArthur in his April 1951 address to Congress after being fired by...
$4 Billion and Counting: the DC War Machine Feasts on Ukraine
by Jordan Schachtel | Apr 28, 2022 | Featured Articles
After going a full administration without a new war to fill their coffers, the D.C. defense industry has finally found their next big prize. After dismissing the prospect of diplomacy between Ukraine and Russia, the Biden Administration continues to flood Ukraine with...
Elon Musk's Twitter Gambit and What It Means to the 'Clique in Power'
by Michael Rectenwald | Apr 28, 2022 | Featured Articles
Elon Musk’s bid to take over Twitter and turn it into a private company has apparently been successful. Now the real action begins. Musk’s buyout exposes the Big Digital media complex to unwanted and unwonted competition, while threatening to loosen its near-total...
Going Full Orwell: Homeland Security To Launch 'Disinformation Governance Board'
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 28, 2022 | Featured Articles
The US Department of Homeland Security announced yesterday that it is creating a "Disinformation Governance Board" to fight "disinformation." Heading up the new outfit is, not surprisingly, a highly political Democratic Party operative who is herself a spreader of...
Nuclear War?
by Walter E. Block | Apr 27, 2022 | Featured Articles
The Russians are a weird people. For some reason, known only to their bizarre selves, they object to German invasions of their country. And not only that: they have the inexplicable habit of strenuously opposing another such eventuality. One might well have thought...
Garland Stonewalls Questions about a Special Counsel in Hunter Biden Scandal Despite New Evidence Tied to President Biden
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 27, 2022 | Featured Articles
Attorney General Merrick Garland continued to refuse to address questions over his refusal to appoint a Special Counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation despite new evidence tying President Joe Biden to the controversial business deals. The New York Post...
Must We Make a Case Against Dictatorship?
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Apr 26, 2022 | Featured Articles
Some federal officials have made startling statements in recent days. Given the times in which we live, we can no longer take for granted that they won’t be convincing. Ever since lockdowns, which shattered all our social and political rituals and assumptions about...
Risking Nuclear War for a Corrupt, Increasingly Repressive Ukraine
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Apr 26, 2022 | Featured Articles
Fortunately, President Biden thus far has rejected the most risky policies that hawks are pushing in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Despite being under intense pressure, he continues to rule out proclaiming a no-fly zone, and he flatly rejects suggestions...

The Ukraine War is a Racket
by Ron Paul | Apr 25, 2022 | Featured Articles
“War is a racket, wrote US Maj. General Smedley Butler in 1935. He explained: “A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the...
Inflation, Quick and Dirty
by Jeff Deist | Apr 25, 2022 | Featured Articles
All of a sudden everyone is an expert on inflation. Your brother-in-law, your local paper, and even dilettantes at dubious outlets like the Washington Post or The Atlantic feel compelled to explain our current predicament. With the admitted rate of consumer inflation...
Minsk II: Two Words You’ll Never Hear on Mainstream News
by Walt Zlotow | Apr 25, 2022 | Featured Articles
Ask a hundred Americans and you’ll be lucky to find even one who’s ever heard of Minsk II. But ask those same Americans how the Ukraine war started, and you’ll likely get "Russian President Putin woke up one day and decided to re-establish the Soviet empire, starting...
The Death Throes of the 'Public Health Expert'
by Jordan Schachtel | Apr 22, 2022 | Featured Articles
The very concept of Public Health, once a rather innocuous term, is facing an extinction level event, and Americans should be incredibly thankful for this development. Sometimes, when a people are faced with a grand crisis, a bold new idea or group of individuals...
Ukraine: Total War?
by RT | Apr 22, 2022 | Featured Articles
The US and its NATO allies claim they are continuing to send massive military aid to Ukraine. At the same time, Washington appears to have no interest in a negotiated end to the conflict. This begs the question: What is Washington’s policy goal? Could it be direct...
Former Intelligence Officials, Citing Russia, Say Big Tech Monopoly Power is Vital to National Security
by Glenn Greenwald | Apr 21, 2022 | Featured Articles
A group of former intelligence and national security officials on Monday issued a jointly signed letter warning that pending legislative attempts to restrict or break up the power of Big Tech monopolies — Facebook, Google, and Amazon — would jeopardize national...
The US Cries About War Crimes While Imprisoning A Journalist For Exposing Its War Crimes
by Caitlin Johnstone | Apr 21, 2022 | Featured Articles
In what his lawyers have described as a “brief but significant moment in the case,” a British magistrates' court has signed off on Julian Assange's extradition to the United States, bringing the WikiLeaks founder one step closer to a US trial under the Espionage Act...
Ukraine Is Still Losing So What Is Its Plan?
by Moon of Alabama | Apr 20, 2022 | Featured Articles
Russian and Donbas forces have cleared the city of Mariupol except for the giant metallurgic complex of Azovstal which is held by some estimated 4,000 men, including many from the fascist Azov battalion. On Sunday Russia opened corridors across the front line and...
Here Lies the Mask Cult: 2020-2022
by Jordan Schachtel | Apr 20, 2022 | Featured Articles
In my view, the mask regime is officially dead and buried. In many of our day to day lives [at least those of us who live in Free States], the mask has already become a complete afterthought. Unless you happen to be entering an airplane or a doctor’s office, there...
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