According to the Centers for Disease Control, over 93,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2020. That’s an all-time high, and the steepest year-over-year increase in thirty years. By way of comparison just over 72,000 Americans died of overdoses in 2019. Some 57,000 of those overdose deaths are estimated to have come from the use of opioids. Cocaine and methamphetamine overdose deaths expanded as well. But it’s not only that drug use (and abuse) rose: as stay-at-home orders were imposed,...
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US Warns Syrian Military…Against Operating Inside Syria!
Just when you thought US foreign policy could not get more absurd. Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, who is listed as "commander of US forces in Iraq and Syria," has issued a warning to...
‘Aleppo Child Survivor Image Will be Used as Propaganda for More War – Not Less’
When the government wants you to cry over something – a very murderous government – you have to look beyond that and think ‘what are they trying to do, what additional killing...
Ron Paul: US Intervention Contributes to Risk of Ukraine Fighting Expansion
Ron Paul, interviewed Friday by Stuart Varney at Fox Business, says “trouble has been brewing” around Ukraine since the United States government in 2014 “participated in the...
The Aleppo Poster Child
Washington’s media presstitutes are using the image of the child to bring pressure on Russia to stop the Syrian army from retaking Alleppo. Washington wants its so-called...
Breaking: US Issues Threat as Syria Bombs Rebels Near US Special Forces
The US government scrambled jets over northern Syria today as a Syrian government attack on Kurdish rebels came close to US Special Forces fighting on the ground in Syria, media...
John McLaughlin, RIP
Yesterday was a sad day for political junkies with the news that John McLaughlin had passed away.McLaughlin, a former Jesuit priest and Nixon speechwriter, was best known for...
See You in September! ‘Peace and Prosperity 2016’ Conference Program
The elephant in the living room? Foreign policy. No one wants to really talk about it. Washington is hoping the rest of us won't blurt out that the emperor has no clothes, that...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Clinton Assassination, Yemen Bombing, Bill Weld, Iran Cash, VA Pension
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted on Friday. You can listen to it, and read a transcript, below. You can also find previous episodes of the show at Stitcher,...
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