The liberal media is pushing the idea that any violence committed on the part of Antifa, the so-called "anti-fascist" leftist group, is acceptable if it is directed at the political right. Such delusional thinking will only lead to civil war.Following the recent spate of violence that rocked Charlottesville after right-wing groups assembled to protest the removal of a Confederate statue, it became quickly apparent the US media had a dog in this fight. And a vicious dog at that.Liberals howled...
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The Mini-Skirt Deception: How McMaster Got His Afghan ‘Surge’
by Justin Raimondo | Aug 23, 2017 | Featured Articles
According to reports, Gen. H. R. McMaster convinced President Trump to give up his longstanding opposition to the Afghan war by showing him this photograph, below, of Afghan women in what the media are describing as “miniskirts.” As the Washington Post put it: One of the ways McMaster tried to persuade Trump to recommit to the effort was by convincing him that Afghanistan was not a hopeless place. He presented Trump with a black-and-white snapshot from 1972 of Afghan women in miniskirts...
New Senate Intelligence Authorization Bill Includes Language Threatening WikiLeaks
by Adam Dick | Aug 22, 2017 | Congress Alert
The Senate Intelligence Authorization Act (SB 1761), introduced Friday by Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) and already approved by the committee, concludes with a one sentence section — Section 623 — that appears to threaten WikiLeaks with potential harsh actions. The section categorizes the news organization, which helps expose information obtained from whistleblowers, as resembling "a non-state hostile intelligence service.""Senior leaders" of WikiLeaks, such as...
Freedom for the Speech We Hate: The Legal Ins and Outs of the Right to Protest
by John W. Whitehead | Aug 22, 2017 | Featured Articles
“If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought — not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.”— Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes There was a time in this country, back when the British were running things, that if you spoke your mind and it ticked off the wrong people, you’d soon find yourself in jail for offending the king.Reacting to this...
The International Criminal Court is the Antithesis of Justice
by Richard Galustian | Aug 22, 2017 | Featured Articles
If there was a prize for the world’s most ineffective institution, the International Criminal Court would win hands down.Consider this: The court has been in operation for fifteen years, has spent over a billion Euros, and has convicted just four war criminals. Yes, that's correct. In a decade and a half, an institution proclaiming itself the world’s first permanent war crimes court has jailed just four war criminals.In any other justice system that kind of abysmal conviction rate would get...
One Step Closer to War: US, South Korea Hold New Military Drills
by Andrei Akulov | Aug 21, 2017 | Featured Articles
The US and South Korean large-scale combined joint exercise Ulchi Freedom Guardian (UFG) begins on Aug. 21 to last till Aug. 31. There will be approximately 17,500 total US service members participating, with roughly 3,000 coming from off-peninsula - 500 more than last year. The numbers of all participants swell to a total of about 530,000 because South Korean servicemen (around 50,000), government officials and civilians also take part in the drills. The missions include: amphibious landings,...

Oppose Fascism of the Right and the Left
by Ron Paul | Aug 21, 2017 | Featured Articles
Following the recent clashes between the alt-right and the group antifa, some libertarians have debated which group they should support. The answer is simple: neither. The alt-right and its leftist opponents are two sides of the same authoritarian coin.The alt-right elevates racial identity over individual identity. The obsession with race leads them to support massive government interference in the economy in order to benefit members of the favored race. They also favor massive welfare and...
Escape from Aleppo
by Eric Margolis | Aug 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
AMMAN JORDAN – I haven’t seen many miracles in my decades of travel around the globe, particularly not in the strife-torn Mideast.But last week I participated in a real miracle in Jordan as the splendid Four Paws International group staged a daring rescue of 13 wild animals trapped in the wartime hellhole of Aleppo, Syria. It appeared to be a mission impossible.Syria has been torn apart for the past six years by a bloody civil war that has killed over 400,000 people and reduced many parts of...
Everyone Is Wrong About North Korea
by Darius Shahtahmasebi | Aug 19, 2017 | Featured Articles
Imagine a world where one country – country X – is bombing at least seven countries at any one time and is seeking to bomb an eighth, all the while threatening an adversarial ninth state – country Y – that they will bomb that country into oblivion, as well. Imagine that in this world, country X already bombed country Y back into the Stone Age several decades ago, which directly led to the current adversarial nature of the relationship between the two countries.Now imagine that country Y, which...
Weapons Money Intended for Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying
by Alex Emmons | Aug 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
The United Arab Emirates created a “slush fund” using money meant for domestic economic development projects and funneled it to a high-profile think tank in the United States, emails obtained by The Intercept show.Last week, The Intercept reported that the UAE gave a $20 million grant to the Middle East Institute, flooding a well-regarded D.C. think tank with a monetary grant larger than its annual budget. According to an email from Richard Clarke, MEI’s chairman of the board, the UAE got the...
Marco Rubio Says It’s OK To Beat People For Their Thoughts
by Shane Kastler | Aug 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
In a truly “free” society, no one gets beaten up for their political views. Laws cannot be passed against thoughts or symbols. And mob violence is not allowed to rule the day. But Florida Senator Marco Rubio, like most establishment political hacks, is not interested in a free society. He’s interested in seizing power in any way possible. And if that means excusing and encouraging mob violence, to achieve his political ends, then so be it. While Rubio may rail against dictators, his statements...
Iran Will be Trump’s Nemesis
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 17, 2017 | Featured Articles
The White House readout of US President Donald Trump’s phone call to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday highlighted that the latter “thanked” Trump for his “strong leadership uniting the world against the North Korean menace.” Modi must be the only world leader who has given such fulsome praise to Trump for his performance vis-a-vis North Korea. And, Trump naturally felt elated.In reality, though, it wasn’t particularly difficult for Modi to say such a strange thing, because India has...
Korea and Venezuela: Flip Sides of the Same Coin
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
By suggesting that he might order a US regime-change invasion of Venezuela, President Trump has inadvertently shown why North Korea has been desperately trying to develop nuclear weapons — to serve as a deterrent or defense against one of the US national-security state storied regime-change operations. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Venezuela and, for that matter, other Third World countries who stand up to the US Empire, also seeking to put their hands on nuclear weapons. What better...
The Wrong Narrative in Charlottesville
by Jeff Deist | Aug 14, 2017 | Featured Articles
The political violence in Charlottesville yesterday was as predictable as it was futile. One person was killed and dozens badly injured, marking a new low in the political and cultural wars that are as heated as any time since in America since the 1960s.This relentless politicization of American culture has eroded goodwill and inflamed the worst impulses in society. Antifa and the alt-right may represent simple-minded expressions of hatred and fear, but both groups are animated entirely by...
North Korea and The Unintended Consequences of Trump
by Patrick Henningsen | Aug 14, 2017 | Featured Articles
There’s something very strange and disturbing about the hype around the White House and US media’s latest obsession with North Korea. It’s not just the usual war-mongering and hot air though. We’ve seen all that before. This goes beyond sabre-rattling. There’s something uncomfortably bipartisan about this new appetite for war.Watching CNN this week, you got the impression we’ve entered a new comic book phase in the American experiment, driven by an 24 hour media environment where facts and...

Attack Venezuela? Trump Can’t be Serious!
by Ron Paul | Aug 14, 2017 | Featured Articles
There is something unsettling about how President Trump has surrounded himself with generals. From his defense secretary to his national security advisor to his White House chief of staff, Trump looks to senior military officers to fill key positions that have been customarily filled by civilians. He’s surrounded by generals and threatens war at the drop of a hat. President Trump began last week by threatening “fire and fury” on North Korea. He continued through the week claiming, falsely,...
'The Durham Report Unmasks the Deep State'
Peter Van Buren's speech at the RPI Houston Conference 2023. Watch it on today's Liberty Report:
'The Durham Report Unmasks the Deep State'
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Peter Van Buren's speech at the RPI Houston Conference 2023. Watch it on today's Liberty Report:
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