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The threat of a nuclear war between the US and Russia is now at its greatest since 1983

The threat of a nuclear war between the US and Russia is now at its greatest since 1983

When the Commander of NATO says he is a fan of flexible first strike at the same time that NATO is flexing its military muscle on Russia’s border, the risk of inadvertent nuclear war is real. US Air Force Gen. Tod D Wolters told the Senate this week he “is a fan of flexible first strike” regarding NATO’s nuclear weapons, thereby exposing the fatal fallacy of the alliance’s embrace of American nuclear deterrence policy.  It was one of the most remarkable yet underreported exchanges in recent...

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No Pardons for War Crimes

No Pardons for War Crimes

“How does America change if our intelligence agencies were more accurate in their assessment of Saddam Hussein’s chemical and nuclear weapons programs?” The question was posed, just the other day, in “Make America Competent Again,” by David French, at the Dispatch, a neoconservative website. The tract is an agony aunt’s meander that calls on shoring-up competency in state and civil society. But first: Dissecting, deconstructing and exposing the neoconservative mindset and machinations matters....

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Tulsi Gabbard: Presidential candidates must also condemn election interference by US intelligence agencies

Tulsi Gabbard: Presidential candidates must also condemn election interference by US intelligence agencies

Reckless claims by anonymous intelligence officials that Russia is “helping” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are deeply irresponsible. So was former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s calculated decision Tuesday to repeat this unsubstantiated accusation on the debate stage in South Carolina. Enough is enough. I am calling on all presidential candidates to stop playing these dangerous political games and immediately condemn any interference in our elections by out-of-control intelligence agencies. A...

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The Threat of a Russia-Turkey-NATO Hot War Over Idlib is a Godsend for US Foreign Policy

The Threat of a Russia-Turkey-NATO Hot War Over Idlib is a Godsend for US Foreign Policy

Turkey is calling for NATO’s protection after 33 of its soldiers were killed in an apparent Syrian airstrike in Idlib, allegedly while fighting in terrorist ranks. In the regional chaos that ensues, only one player stands to gain. Speculation over what’s to come next has seen #article 5 trending on Twitter in the hours following the attacks, after Omer Celik, spokesman for Turkey’s ruling AKP party, indicated to reporters in Ankara that he was looking at requesting formal NATO protection...

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The Threat of a Russia-Turkey-NATO Hot War Over Idlib is a Godsend for US Foreign Policy

Anonymous sources and the guys and gals who made the Iraq war a reality are now claiming that the Kremlin is at it again!

Those hapless individuals who run the United States are again slipping into a fantasy world where Americans are besieged by imaginary threats coming from both inside and outside the country. Of course, it is particularly convenient to warn of foreign threats, as it makes the people in government seem relevant and needed, but one might recommend that the tune be changed as it is getting a bit boring. After all, there are only so many hours in the day and Russian President Vladimir Putin must...

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Debunking The Smear That Assange Recklessly Published Unredacted Documents

Debunking The Smear That Assange Recklessly Published Unredacted Documents

The prosecution in the Assange extradition trial has falsely alleged that WikiLeaks recklessly published unredacted files in 2011 which endangered people’s lives. In reality the Pentagon admitted that no one was harmed as a result of the leaks during the Manning trial, and the unredacted files were actually published elsewhere as the result of a Guardian journalist recklessly including a real password in a book about WikiLeaks. A key government witness during the Chelsea Manning trial, Brig....

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The Threat of a Russia-Turkey-NATO Hot War Over Idlib is a Godsend for US Foreign Policy

Credibility of European Court of Human Rights lies in ruins after judges’ links to Soros revealed

A study by the European Center for Law and Justice in Strasbourg has revealed several conflicts of interest between judges at the European Court of Human Rights and NGOs funded by George Soros. The European Center for Law and Justice is an NGO which often appears at the court to campaign on social, family and religion-related issues. I am proud to be listed as a research fellow at the ECLJ but in reality I have written only one article for the center’s website and I receive no salary from it....

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The Threat of a Russia-Turkey-NATO Hot War Over Idlib is a Godsend for US Foreign Policy

US Foreign Policy Perpetual Perfidy

The Washington establishment was aghast in October when Donald Trump appeared to approve a Turkish invasion of northern Syria. The United States was seen as abandoning the Kurds, some of whom had assisted the United States in the fight against ISIS and other terrorist groups. But the indignation over the latest US policy shift in the Middle East is farcical considering the long record of US double-crosses. Rather than the triumph of American idealism, recent US policy has been perpetual...

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The Threat of a Russia-Turkey-NATO Hot War Over Idlib is a Godsend for US Foreign Policy

Cancel Culture: Its Causes and Its Consequences

The Cancel Culture Mob knows few limitations. While social media has empowered people to speak their minds, it has also empowered the masses to attempt to “cancel” those who express controversial opinions. Victims of cancel culture often end up jobless, friendless, and helpless. Those engaging in canceling people, however, gain nothing but empty satisfaction. In a Cancel Culture, everyone loses the ability to understand differing perspectives, making echo chambers and their disastrous...

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Will Jacob Hornberger Sweep Upcoming Libertarian Presidential Primaries and Caucuses? If He Does, How Much Will It Matter?

Will Jacob Hornberger Sweep Upcoming Libertarian Presidential Primaries and Caucuses? If He Does, How Much Will It Matter?

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has been racking up wins in state-level contests of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Much less mentioned in the media is that Libertarian presidential candidate Jacob Hornberger won the February 8 Iowa Libertarian caucus with 47 percent of the vote. This put Hornberger far ahead of other candidates for the nomination, including Lincoln Chafee — a former governor and United States senator — who came in second with 13 percent. Writing about his...

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The Threat of a Russia-Turkey-NATO Hot War Over Idlib is a Godsend for US Foreign Policy

How to Know If America Is Your Enemy

If your country is friendly toward Russia, China, or Iran, then today’s American Government is probably applying subversion, economic sanctions, or maybe even planning a coup, or (if none of those will succeed) probably is war-gaming now for a possible military invasion and permanent military occupation, of your country. These things have been done to Russia, Iran, China, Yugoslavia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Cuba, Ukraine, Georgia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen,...

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The Threat of a Russia-Turkey-NATO Hot War Over Idlib is a Godsend for US Foreign Policy

Intelligence Officials Sow Discord By Stoking Fear of Russian Election Meddling

Another presidential election year is upon us, and the intelligence agencies are hard at work stoking fears of Russian meddling. This time it looks like the Russians do not only like the incumbent president but also favor who appears to be the Democratic front-runner, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. On Thursday, The New York Times ran a story titled, "Lawmakers Are Warned That Russia Is Meddling to Re-elect Trump." The story says that on February 13th US lawmakers from the House were briefed...

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The Threat of a Russia-Turkey-NATO Hot War Over Idlib is a Godsend for US Foreign Policy

Trump’s Betrayal of Julian Assange

One thing we’ve learned from the Trump Presidency is that the “deep state” is not just some crazy conspiracy theory. For the past three years we’ve seen that deep state launch plot after plot to overturn the election.It all started with former CIA director John Brennan’s phony “Intelligence Assessment” of Russian involvement in the 2016 election. It was claimed that all 17 US intelligence agencies agreed that Putin put Trump in office, but we found out later that the report was cooked up by a...

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The Threat of a Russia-Turkey-NATO Hot War Over Idlib is a Godsend for US Foreign Policy

The Rise of Pete Buttigieg: The Man Who Isn’t There

“Yesterday, upon a stair “I met a man who wasn’t there “He wasn’t there again today “I wish, I wish he’d go away.” -Hughes Mearns This year, the Democratic Party caucus-goers of Midwest, prosperous Iowa and the voters of hard-scrabble, post-industrial, impoverished Granite State New Hampshire 1,342 miles (2,160 kilometers) away agreed on a historic decision: They put the fantasy of a wonderful, First-Ever Lady President of the United States behind them and significantly tilted towards...

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Debunking The Smear That Assange Recklessly Published Unredacted Documents

Show Trial Ends: Roger Stone Sentenced to 40 months in Prison, While Judge Rants About Trump

Today, the long-time friend and Trump campaign consultant Roger Stone was sentenced to 40 months in a federal prison for multiple charges relating to his Congressional testimony and Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued Stone’s sentence after his lawyers had first requested that he receive no prison time. After the sentence was handed down, Stone refrained from making a personal statement to the court. Normally, one might refrain from criticizing a judge...

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Tulsi Gabbard: Presidential candidates must also condemn election interference by US intelligence agencies

Drug War Obtuseness

Sometimes I wonder how super-smart people can be so obtuse when it comes to the drug war. A recent example of this phenomenon is Ioan Grillo, a contributing editor for the New York Times. Grillo is the author of two books on the drug war: El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency, which was translated into five languages and was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, and his new book Gangster Warlords. Clearly, Ioan Grillo is a super-smart person. The problem is that he, like so many...

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