On this day 16 years ago, less than one month after 9/11, President George W. Bush delivered a televised address from the White House announcing the beginning of the Afghanistan War.“On my orders, the United States military has begun strikes against al Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan,” he said.What Bush did not say was the fact that the War in Afghanistan would become the longest war in United States history. Thousands of American...
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Trump Will Declare Iran Nuclear Deal ‘Not in the National Interest’
by Jason Ditz | Oct 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
Officials familiar with the situation say that President Trump is intending to “decertify” the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran ahead of the October 15 deadline. With no evidence Iran is violating the deal in any way, he is going to instead claim it is just “not in the national interest of the United States” to honor the deal’s terms.This has much the same effect as falsely claiming Iran to be in violation, as it would put the nuclear deal up for a vote in Congress. Though Congress has long...
Russia Issues Third Warning Against US Cooperation With Terrorists in Syria
by Moon of Alabama | Oct 5, 2017 | Featured Articles
The Syrian Army was on its way across the Euphrates river to liberate the oil- and gas-fields east of Deir Ezzor city. The US countered the move. It sent a small forces of Arab tribal mercenaries who were earlier allied with the Islamic State (ISIS). These proxy forces came from a northern direction and moved through Islamic State held areas without fighting and casualties up to the walls of Deir Ezzor city.The Syrian army was about to win the race when it started to cross the Euphrates. But...
Britain Moves To Criminalize Reading Extremist Material On The Internet
by Jonathan Turley | Oct 5, 2017 | Featured Articles
For years, civil libertarians have warned that Great Britain has been in a free fall from the criminalization of speech to the expansion of the surveillance state. Now the government is pursuing a law that would make the repeated viewing of extremist Internet sites a crime punishable to up to 15 years in prison. It appears that the government is not satiated by their ever-expanding criminalization of speech. They now want to criminalize even viewing sites on the Internet. As always, officials...
Trump and ‘His Generals’ on Collision Course Over Iran
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 4, 2017 | Featured Articles
With President Trump again facing the requirement to certify whether Iran is complying with the P5+1 nuclear deal this month, it looks like a major clash may be brewing between the president and the neocons on one side, and the military generals he openly embraces in his Administration on the other. What might normally be a fairly automatic and objective process is looking more like a clash of the titans for the Administration. Who will blink?In what must be a relatively uncommon if not...
BREAKING: FISA Section 702 Reauthorization Bill Circulated
by Patrick Eddington | Oct 4, 2017 | Congress Alert
Earlier this afternoon, the House Judiciary Committee circulated its draft FISA Sec. 702 reauthorization bill. This is a preliminary readout of the major problems I see with this legislation.Mandatory Data Destruction Not MandatoryOne of the biggest vulnerabilities Americans face today is the growing volume of their personal data being stored on servers in the private sector and in government. In the government counterterrorism (CT) context—and CT intelligence collection was the original...
Whose Bright Idea Was RussiaGate?
by Paul Craig Roberts | Oct 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
The answer to the question in the title of this article is that Russiagate was created by CIA director John Brennan.The CIA started what is called Russiagate in order to prevent Trump from being able to normalize relations with Russia. The CIA and the military/security complex need an enemy in order to justify their huge budgets and unaccountable power. Russia has been assigned that role. The Democrats joined in as a way of attacking Trump. They hoped to have him tarnished as cooperating with...
US Violence Abroad Begets Violence at Home
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Oct 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
Although ISIS is claiming that Las Vegas mass murderer Stephen Paddock was one of theirs and was acting on its behalf, so far no independent evidence has surfaced to confirm ISIS’s claim. If such evidence does emerge, it will be one more of a long series of deadly “blowback” occurrences arising from US interventionism abroad.But even if Paddock’s mass killing spree turns out to have no rational explanation, I continue to contend that these bizarre, unexplainable acts of violence are also...
America: The Dictatress of the World
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Oct 2, 2017 | Featured Articles
On July 21, 1821, John Quincy Adams, who would go on to become the sixth president of the United States, warned that if America were ever to abandon its founding principle of non-interventionism in foreign affairs, she might well become the dictatress of the world.Adams issued his warning in a speech he delivered to Congress, a speech that has gone down in history with the title “In Search of Monsters to Destroy.”Adams was referring to the fact that the United States was founded as a...
What Did Washington Achieve in its Six Year War on Syria?
by Ron Paul | Oct 2, 2017 | Featured Articles
Now that the defeat of ISIS in Syria appears imminent, with the Syrian army clearing out some of the last ISIS strongholds in the east, Washington’s interventionists are searching for new excuses to maintain the illegal US military presence in the country. Their original rationale for intervention has long been exposed as another lie.Remember that President Obama initially involved the US military in Iraq and Syria to “prevent genocide” of the Yazidis and promised the operation would not drift...
Vietnam Déjà Vu
by Eric Margolis | Oct 1, 2017 | Featured Articles
Much of America, including yours truly, has been watching the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) series, ‘Vietnam.’ Instead of clarifying that confusing conflict, the series has ignited fiery controversy and a lot of long-repressed anger by soft-soaping Washington’s motives.This march to folly in Vietnam is particularly painful for me since I enlisted in the US army at the height of the war. Gripped by youthful patriotism, I strongly supported the war. In fact, the TV series even showed a...
Congress Relying On Debunked ‘Guilt By Association’ Online Tool To Track ‘Russian Influence’
by Tyler Durden | Sep 30, 2017 | Featured Articles
As we previously warned, the latest McCarthyite scam called "Hamilton 68" is increasingly serving as a go-to source for major media outlets and more disturbingly, now even members of Congress. This week Republican Senator James Lankford (Oklahoma) added another layer to the seemingly endless 'Russiagate' conspiracies - he claimed Wednesday during a hearing on threats faced by the US that Russia is using the NFL anthem kneeling controversy to drive a wedge through the American...
Ron Paul: Anti-Russia Campaign Stems From Bias and Desire to Limit Free Speech
by RT | Sep 30, 2017 | Featured Articles
The investigation into the alleged Russian meddling in the US elections and the supposed use of social media by Moscow to sway public opinion is just a “witch hunt,” former US Congressman Ron Paul told RT.“The people who promote this witch hunt do not care about what [the former US presidential candidate] Hillary [Clinton] was doing and they are very biased against the Trump campaign,” Paul said, adding that he believes that the “real problem” lies precisely in this bias.He also said that the...
Coverup? FBI, DOJ Refuse To Comply With Congressional ‘Trump Dossier’ Subpoena
by Tyler Durden | Sep 29, 2017 | Featured Articles
In what looks like a naked coverup meant to obscure the fact that the Department of Justice's decision to launch a criminal investigation into possible Russia-Trump collusion was based on a lie, Reuters reports that the DOJ and FBI are resisting a Congressional subpoena from to turn over documents that would reveal details about how the infamous "Trump dossier" factored into their decision to launch said investigation.Despite receiving the subpoena from US Intel Committee Chairman Devin Nunes,...
Dissonance: When Cult of Personalities Gets in the Way of Understanding
by Teodrose Fikre | Sep 29, 2017 | Featured Articles
You know what gets in the way of progress? Dogma. When people are wedded to ideologies, society atrophies and ideas become non-existent. Voltaire once said, “it is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.” Truer words have rarely been spoken; it’s as though America has morphed into a society of Jim Jones cultists. Personalities the Kool-Aid and politics the cyanide; we keep swallowing poison only to complain of migraines after we get bludgeoned by policies our political idols...
‘US in Grip of Anti-Russia Hysteria, Worse Than Days of Salem Witch Trials’
by RT | Sep 29, 2017 | Featured Articles
The whole "Russia thing" is due to the neocons who are looking for another Cold War because it is very profitable for them, Daniel McAdams, executive director of the Ron Paul Institute, told RT.Twitter has published a report on how the company battled against alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US election and also mentioned RT.In the report, Twitter revealed confidential information to the US Senate on RT's advertising outlay.The company claims over a thousand tweets, "definitely - or...
German Foreign Minister: 'We Are At War With Russia…'
With the sudden about-face of the US and Germany on sending heavy tanks to Ukraine, the world finds itself bizarrely transported back in time to WWI or WWII. German tanks with...
German Foreign Minister: 'We Are At War With Russia…'
Jan 25, 2023
With the sudden about-face of the US and Germany on sending heavy tanks to Ukraine, the world finds itself bizarrely transported back in time to WWI or WWII. German tanks with...
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