Last week, as the mainstream media continued to obsess over the CIA’s evidence-free claim that the Russians hacked the presidential election, President Obama quietly sent 300 US Marines back into Afghanistan’s Helmand Province. This is the first time in three years that the US military has been sent into that conflict zone, and it represents a final failure of Obama’s Afghanistan policy. The outgoing president promised that by the end of his second term, the US military would only be present...
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Stop Demonizing North Korea and Talk Business
by Eric Margolis | Jan 7, 2017 | Featured Articles
North Korea has "entered the final stage of preparation for the test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile(ICBM)." So crowed North Korea’s young leader, Kim Jong-un, in his New Year’s Day message aimed at tough-talking US president-elect, Donald Trump.In case there was any doubt about Pyongyang’s meaning, Kim warned his nation would continue to build its ‘capability for preemptive strike’ as long as the US and its allies continued their nuclear threats and "war games they stage on...
Is That All There Is? Intel Community Releases Its Russia ‘Hacking’ Report
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
Cartoon of RT editor Margarita Simonyan from today's Intelligence Community AssessmentThe much-anticipated Intelligence Community report backing up its claims that the Russians hacked the US elections in November has just been released. Titled "Declassified Intelligence Community Assessment of Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections," the report is long on speculation and short on any evidence for the claims it was supposed to prove. It even came with a warning label stating...
Here’s Why the US Elite Fear RT
by Adam Garrie | Jan 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
James Clapper, the US Director of National Intelligence, on the basis of his comments to the Senate committee on Thursday about RT, would appear to agree with Alex Jones in thinking ‘there’s a war on for your mind’. I happen to disagree. I think there’s a race to the bottom, in order to see how much the American deep state and Congressional supporters of Obama’s neo-liberal ideology can condescend to ordinary Americans.The truth behind the ‘media wars’ is far less exotic, let alone dramatic...
‘Surreal Echo Chamber’ – Challenging the ‘Russia Hacked US Elections’ Narrative
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
Did the Russians hack the US elections? In a Senate hearing yesterday, National Intelligence Director James Clapper assured the Senators that Russia had indeed taken a role in affecting the outcome of the US election. The proof was not supplied, however, and Clapper's credibility as a witness is tainted by his admitted previous lie before Congress. RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins a panel on RT to discuss the Russia hacking claims, the credibility of the US mainstream media, and more in this...
Purge the CIA
by Justin Raimondo | Jan 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified at a hearing on “Russian interference” in the election that there’s a difference between “skepticism” of the intelligence community’s assessment and “disparagement” of said community. While stopping short of asking for a “safe space,” this admitted liar used the opportunity to cry on the shoulders of Donald Trump’s assembled enemies: “We’re not perfect,” he burbled, but hey everybody makes mistakes.Clapper’s remarks were clearly aimed...
The Coup Against Truth
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jan 5, 2017 | Featured Articles
Jon Rappoport’s mocking of the US presstitutes is superb: Vladimir Putin is the secret president of the United States.Yep. That’s it. The US is now the USSR. It’s all over. Trump is a Communist who took orders from Putin. Trump is a Red. That was his game all along. He’s a billionaire Commie. Ridicule is effective, and nothing deserves ridicule more than the Washington Post, New York, Times, CNN, and the rest of the presstitutes who pretend to be real journalists. But as I have emphasized, and...
Foreign Policy Blowback in Germany
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
Ever since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, one of the things that has fascinated me most is the response of the mainstream media. Supporting the retaliatory invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, ever-increasing budgets for the national-security establishment, and constantly expanding infringements on civil liberties and privacy, mainstream reporters, commentators, and pundits have steadfastly resisted focusing on the root cause of anti-American terrorism: deadly foreign interventionism on the part of...
America or Israel? Quislings in Congress and the Media Need to Decide Which Comes First
by Philip Giraldi | Jan 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
I am reluctant to write about the “Israel problem” at the heart of US foreign policy two weeks in a row but it seems that the story just will not go away as the usual suspects pile on the Barack Obama Administration over its alleged betrayal of America’s “best and greatest friend and ally in the whole world.” Even as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his gaggle of war criminals continue to foam at the mouth over the United Nations vote it is, in truth, difficult to blame Israel for...
Good News: Washington Frozen Out of Syria Peace Plan
by Ron Paul | Jan 2, 2017 | Featured Articles
As the US mainstream media obsessed last week about Russia's supposed “hacking” of the US elections and President Obama’s final round of Russia sanctions in response, something very important was taking place under the media radar. As a result of a meeting between foreign ministers of Russia, Iran, and Turkey last month, a ceasefire in Syria has been worked out and is being implemented. So far it appears to be holding, and after nearly six years of horrible warfare the people of Syria are...
Russia Hysteria Infects WashPost Again: False Story About Hacking US Electric Grid
by Glenn Greenwald | Dec 31, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Washington Post on Friday reported a genuinely alarming event: Russian hackers have penetrated the US power system through an electrical grid in Vermont. The Post headline conveyed the seriousness of the threat: Russian operation hacked a Vermont utility, showing risk to U.S. electrical grid security, officials say The first sentence of the article directly linked this cyber-attack to alleged Russian hacking of the email accounts of the DNC and John Podesta – what is now routinely referred...
Another 50 Years of Mideast Strife
by Eric Margolis | Dec 31, 2016 | Featured Articles
One of my favorite literary expressions is the term "Parthian shaft." It refers to the favored tactic of the Parthians, a Persian people, of turning while on horseback and firing arrows while retreating.The Roman consul Crassus, who defeated Spartacus, may have died from such a Parthian shaft after his defeat at the battle of Carrhae in 53 BC.This week, outgoing President Barack Obama loosed his own Parthian shaft at Israel’s leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, by refusing, for once, to veto a UN...
Symbolic Failure Point: Female Afghan Pilot Wants Asylum In The US
by Peter van Buren | Dec 30, 2016 | Featured Articles
History loves little markers, tidy packages of symbolism that wrap up a big, complex thing.You know, the helicopter on the roof of the American Embassy in Saigon standing in for years of failed war, the Berlin Wall being knocked down to visually note the end the Cold War, that sort of thing.Well, the never-ending-gobsmacker of the Afghan War may have gotten its iconic moment.Crash and BurnAfghanistan’s first female pilot, Captain Niloofar Rahmani, above, has applied for asylum in the US,...
Obama Under ‘Intense Pressure’ To Release Evidence Proving Russians Hacked The Election
by Tyler Durden | Dec 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
As noted previously, at some point today the White House is set to unveil new sanction, and other retaliatory "measures" against Russia and specifically the Kremlin, in retaliation for what according to a constantly repetitive narrative has been Russian hacking of the US election. Obama will do so by using a 2015 executive order that would allow the president to freeze the US assets of Russians overseas who have engaged in cyber acts, even though such order only applies to actions that have...
Does the Cause of Peace Have a Future?
by Ron Paul | Dec 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
Ron Paul delivers keynote at his 'Peace and Prosperity 2016' conference this yearThe full wrath of the Beltway neocons is about to hit my Institute for Peace and Prosperity. Congress snuck language into this year's Defense Authorization Bill that enables President Obama (or a future president) to crack down on critics of Washington's disastrous foreign policy. All they have to do is claim an organization pushes "foreign propaganda" and a new task force including the State Department, Pentagon,...
2016: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year
by John W. Whitehead | Dec 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
“What’s past is prologue.” ― William Shakespeare, The Tempest What a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year this has been. Endless wars. Toxic politics. Violence. Hunger. Police shootings. Mass shootings. Economic downturns. Political circuses. Senseless tragedies. Loss. Heartache. Intolerance. Prejudice. Hatred. Apathy. Meanness. Cruelty. Poverty. Inhumanity. Greed. Here’s just a small sampling of what we’ve suffered through in 2016. After three years of increasingly toxic politics, the...
Ukraine In NATO? Foreign Ministers Flex (Jaw) Muscles in Bucharest
At the NATO foreign ministers summit in Bucharest this week, Member states talked tough about endless support for Ukraine "whatever it takes." They also reiterated a 2008 pledge...
Ukraine In NATO? Foreign Ministers Flex (Jaw) Muscles in Bucharest
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At the NATO foreign ministers summit in Bucharest this week, Member states talked tough about endless support for Ukraine "whatever it takes." They also reiterated a 2008 pledge...
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