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Iran, We Got to Do Something?

Iran, We Got to Do Something?

Like a Japanese Kabuki dance Washington is in the grasp of War theater. Many pundits and members of Congress are filling the airwaves and offering up quotes demanding action. Demanding retaliation. We have to stand up to Iran. Only one little problem, the intel on the attack on the Saudi oil installations remains sketchy and hidden. If the missiles were fired from Iranian territory then our intel collection certainly captured the launch or tracked the origin of the drones or missiles used in...

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A Non-Interventionism Foreign Policy Strategy Can Be a Bipartisan Affair

A Non-Interventionism Foreign Policy Strategy Can Be a Bipartisan Affair

Non-interventionism is a foreign policy strategy that seeks to minimize the use of direct military force against other nations, while maintaining diplomatic ties. It is a strategy that the American Founders recommended, but has largely been ignored. The corporate media and scholars alike often confuse non-interventionism in American foreign policy with isolationism, which is often associated with anti-diplomacy, minimal trade with other nations, and a focus solely on the homeland, without...

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Spy vs Spy vs Spy: The Mysterious Mr. Smolenkov

Spy vs Spy vs Spy: The Mysterious Mr. Smolenkov

A new spy story has been making the rounds in Washington, but this time it involved a brave Russian official who allegedly was allegedly recruited while in the Russian Embassy in Washington in 2007 and then worked secretly for the CIA until he was exfiltrated safely in 2017 lest he be discovered and caught. The tale was clearly leaked by the Agency itself to CNN by way of “multiple Trump administration officials.” The CNN headline Exclusive: US extracted top spy from inside Russia in 2017...

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Understanding Motivation in Criminal, Terror, and Military Attacks

Understanding Motivation in Criminal, Terror, and Military Attacks

During Dr. Ron Paul’s 2012 Presidential campaign, as we were quietly sitting in a car, Dr. Paul suddenly asked me, “John, do detectives look for the motives of criminals?” I replied, “Well sir, the good ones certainly do. Knowledge of the motive can help prevent future crimes.” This very brief interaction stuck with me through the years. I knew Dr. Paul was right. Knowledge of motive was crucial to understanding the deterrence of criminal, terror, and military attacks. I came to understand...

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Martial Law Masquerading as Law and Order: The Police State’s Language of Force

Martial Law Masquerading as Law and Order: The Police State’s Language of Force

“Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? The constitutional theory is that we the people are the sovereigns, the state and federal officials only our agents. We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.” —Justice William O. Douglas, dissenting, Colten v. Kentucky, 407 US 104 (1972) Forget everything you’ve ever been...

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Something Extraordinary in Sacramento

Something Extraordinary in Sacramento

Something extraordinary happened in Sacramento last week. The people protesting California’s increasingly draconian vaccine-mandate legislation—most of them mothers of vaccine-injured children—stopped playing by the rules. On Monday, Senate Bill 714—the companion bill to SB276 which puts the determination of medical exemptions from any of the vaccines required for school into the hands of the state—was before the California State Assembly for a vote. Six women had already been arrested,...

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Locked And Loaded In Behalf Of Empire First

Locked And Loaded In Behalf Of Empire First

American democracy and capitalist prosperity are dying on the vine of Empire. And this weekend's drone attack on the largest oil processing facility on the planet is a graphic case of why. So is the related picture above. The scene is of Yemenis burying a busload of children who were obliterated by American-made bombs delivered by American-made Saudi aircraft, which were being navigated to target by US command and control assets. This particular cruel foray was just one of thousands of sorties...

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Israel Spies and Spies and Spies

Israel Spies and Spies and Spies

Here we go again! Israel is caught red handed spying against the United States and everyone in Congress is silent, as are nearly all the mainstream media which failed to report the story. And the federal government itself, quick to persecute a Russian woman who tried to join the NRA, concedes that the White House and Justice Department have done absolutely nothing to either rebuke or punish the Israeli perpetrators. One senior intelligence official commented that “I’m not aware of any...

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Will Trump Take Neocon Bait and Attack Iran Over Saudi Strike?

Will Trump Take Neocon Bait and Attack Iran Over Saudi Strike?

The recent attacks on Saudi oil facilities by Yemeni Houthi forces demonstrate once again that an aggressive foreign policy often brings unintended consequences and can result in blowback. In 2015 Saudi Arabia attacked its neighbor, Yemen, because a coup in that country ousted the Saudi-backed dictator. Four years later Yemen is in ruins, with nearly 100,000 Yemenis killed and millions more facing death by starvation. It has been rightly called the worst humanitarian catastrophe on the...

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Biden Takes Iraq Lies to the Max at Democratic Debate

Biden Takes Iraq Lies to the Max at Democratic Debate

Presidential candidate Joe Biden is adding lies on top of lies to cover up his backing of the Iraq invasion. At last night's Democratic Party debate hosted by ABC News Biden lied about his Iraq record, just like he did at the first two debates. Watch: Joe Biden: "With regard to Iraq, the fact of the matter is that, you know, I should have never voted to give Bush the authority to go in and do what he said he was going to do." #DemocraticDebate pic.twitter.com/70MzR2gcki — Action News on 6abc...

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Latest Russian Spy Story Looks Like Another Elaborate Media Deception

Latest Russian Spy Story Looks Like Another Elaborate Media Deception

When I was 20, I studied at the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute, in the waning days of the Soviet empire. Most of the Russians I met were amusingly free of stress caused by following news. Why would they bother? Bull-factories like Rossiskaya Gazeta and Leningradsaya Pravda were basically collections of dreary government news releases rewritten to sound like news reports. I saw newspapers in Leningrad shredded into slivers of toilet paper, used in place of curtains in dorm rooms, even...

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Sen. Graham Wants to Bomb Iran in Response to Houthi Attack on Saudi Oil

Sen. Graham Wants to Bomb Iran in Response to Houthi Attack on Saudi Oil

Following the early morning attack on Saudi Arabia’s Abqaiq oil processing facility—the largest oil processing plant in the world—and a similar drone attack at the Khurais oil field on Saturday, the neocon senator from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham, has called for attacking Iran. It is now time for the U.S. to put on the table an attack on Iranian oil refineries if they continue their provocations or increase nuclear enrichment. — Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) September 14, 2019 Although...

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‘Real Anti-Interventionism’

Ron Paul Institute Director Daniel McAdams opens the August 24, 2019, Peace and Prosperity Washington conference with some thoughts on what anti-interventionism really means and why non-intervention is so important to our national security and our moral and financial future.

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The Cost of War!

What are the financial costs of our 18 years of the "war on terror"? What about the moral costs, the psychological costs, the opportunity costs? RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins Libertarian Institute founder Scott Horton, former USAF officer Kal Molinet, and USAF pilot-turned-conscientious-objector Justin Pavoni for an in-depth look into a whole generation grown up in endless war.

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Color Revolutionaries of the World, Unite! Hong Kong Protest Leader Pictured with White Helmets Boss

Color Revolutionaries of the World, Unite! Hong Kong Protest Leader Pictured with White Helmets Boss

Hong Kong protest figurehead Joshua Wong, who has been rocking up to "pro-democracy" meetings with various Western officials in recent weeks, has been spotted hanging out with the chairman of the White Helmets in Berlin. Wong attended the "Bild 100" summer party in Berlin this week, where he seems to have bumped into White Helmets boss Raed Al Saleh. That’s a tad awkward, since the Syrian first-responders group operates solely in areas controlled by anti-government fighters and has been...

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How To Defeat The Empire

How To Defeat The Empire

One of the biggest and most consistent challenges of my young career so far has been finding ways to talk about solutions to our predicament in a way that people will truly hear. I talk about these solutions constantly, and some readers definitely get it, but others will see me going on and on about a grassroots revolution against the establishment narrative control machine and then say “Okay, but what do we do?” or “You talk about problems but never offer any solutions!” Part of the...

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