It’s been seven years since Obama delivered his famous speech at Cairo University in June 2009, which at the time was quite ironically heralded as the “new beginning” since it was believed that it would open a new page in the US relations with the Middle Eastern and North Africa. Back then, this speech was perceived as an actual program that Obama would be following, therefore many Muslim states embraced Obama’s vision as a game changer. According to this “new beginning” speech, Obama was...
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RPI Conference Announcement: Paul and Rockwell Together Again in DC!
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 30, 2016 | Featured Articles
Here's one great reason to visit the US capital this September: Ron Paul and Lew Rockwell will be back together again in Washington, D.C., speaking at the RPI "Peace and Prosperity 2016" conference! Lew Rockwell, the founder and CEO of the Mises Institute and editor of LewRockwell.com, was also Dr. Ron Paul's first Congressional chief of staff (1978-1982). We are so honored that Lew has agreed to return to what we know is not one of his favorite places -- the "belly of the beast" -- to speak...
The Syria ‘Dissent’ Memo and US Bureaucratic Pressure Strategy
by Gareth Porter | Jun 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
The memorandum by 51 State Department officials calling for US military intervention in Syria last week has been treated in news media coverage as a case of dissent from existing Syria policy by individual officials involved in Syria policy. But the memo has all the earmarks of an initiative that had the blessing of the most senior officials in the department – including Secretary of State John Kerry himself - rather than having been put together by individual officials entirely on their own....
The Magnitsky Hoax?
by Philip Giraldi | Jun 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
Sergei Magnitsky was a Russian lawyer hired by an Anglo-American investment fund operating in Moscow to investigate the apparent diversion of as much as $230 million in taxes due to the government. He became a whistleblower after discovering that the money had been stolen by the police, organized crime figures and other government officials. After he went to the authorities to complain he was unjustly imprisoned for eleven months. When he refused to recant he was both beaten and denied medical...
‘We the Prisoners’: The Demise of the Fourth Amendment
by John W. Whitehead | Jun 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
“Our carceral state banishes American citizens to a gray wasteland far beyond the promises and protections the government grants its other citizens… When the doors finally close and one finds oneself facing banishment to the carceral state—the years, the walls, the rules, the guards, the inmates…the incarcerated begins to adjust to the fact that he or she is, indeed, a prisoner. New social ties are cultivated. New rules must be understood.”—Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic In a carceral...
Google, YouTube, Facebook, Others, Now Using Automated Blocking of ‘Extremist’ Content
by Peter van Buren | Jun 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
The web’s biggest content providers have started using automation to remove “extremist propaganda” videos from their sites. Censoring Content YouTube (owned by Google) and Facebook are among the sites deploying systems to block or rapidly take down Islamic State videos and other similar material, sources said, though no company would confirm the action. The technology employed was originally developed to remove copyright-protected content on video sites. It looks for “hashes,” unique digital...
After ‘Brexit,’ Can We Exit a Few Things Too?
by Ron Paul | Jun 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
Last week’s UK vote to leave the EU may have come as a shock to many, but the sentiment that led British voters to reject rule from Brussels is nothing unique. In fact it is growing sentiment worldwide. Frustration with politics as usual, with political parties that really do not differ in philosophy, with an economy that serves the one percent at the expense of the rest of society is a growing phenomenon throughout Europe and in the United States as well. The Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump...
Do We Really Want War With Russia?
by Eric Margolis | Jun 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
War with Russia appears increasingly likely as the US and its NATO satraps continue their military provocations of Moscow. As dangers mount, our foolish politicians should all be forced to read, and then re-read, Prof. Christopher Clark’s magisterial book, ‘The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914.’ What is past increasingly appears prologue. Prof. Clark carefully details how small cabals of anti-German senior officials in France, Britain and Russia engineered World War I, a dire...
The Brexit Vote – What Does it Mean?
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jun 24, 2016 | Featured Articles
What does it mean?Hopefully, a breakup of the EU and NATO and, thereby, the avoidance of World War III.The EU and NATO are evil institutions. These two institutions are mechanisms created by Washington in order to destroy the sovereignty of European peoples. These two institutions give Washington control over the Western world and serve both as cover and enabler of Washington’s aggression. Without the EU and NATO, Washington could not force Europe and the UK into conflict with Russia, and...
Sen. McCain Attacks Due Process, Votes No Guns for Americans on Watch List
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 23, 2016 | Neocon Watch
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) is proud to have voted to gut the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution. In a press release dated today, McCain praises himself for voting in favor of a Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) amendment to prohibit Americans from purchasing firearms if they are on the US "terror watchlist."Wrote McCain: I believe deeply that we can and must do more to keep guns out the hands of dangerous terrorists who seek to harm us... While no one would disagree with McCain's above statement,...
Saudis Push Washington Revolt Against Obama on Syria
by Finian Cunningham | Jun 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
That 51 US diplomats reproached President Obama’s Syria policy by calling for greater American military force deployed against the Damascus government was itself a remarkable sign of official dissent within Washington. But the president’s authority was further brazenly undermined when a few days later the Saudi rulers endorsed the dissenting US diplomats – while being received at the White House. Several things can be discerned here. For one, the US policy on Syria is reeling from failure. The...
Teen Sues US Over Cavity Drug Search for Which She was Billed $575
by Peter van Buren | Jun 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
Ashley Cervantes, a then 18-year-old American citizen, was stopped at the Mexico border and, for some unspecified reason, perhaps related to her being young and of Hispanic ethnicity, accused by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of smuggling drugs. What Drugs? A search of her person and belongings proved fruitless, which often is a strong indicator that there are no drugs. The process involved being locked into a detention room for several hours, handcuffed to a chair, while several dogs...
Bill Kristol: ‘We Beat Back Ron Paul and Rand Paul’
by Robert Wenzel | Jun 22, 2016 | Neocon Watch
Neoconservative by birth, Bill Kristol, apparently thinks the libertarian moment is over.Kristol was in San Francisco yesterday and appeared at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco for a "conversation with" event.He fielded questions from the audience and also the moderator neocon Kori Schake, mostly about Donald Trump.At one point, he named a list of non-mainstream Republican candidates that had their moment in the sun and then faded away.This included Ron and Rand Paul."We beat back Ron...
‘Hello, Lenin!’ Three Components of America’s Misguided Foreign Policy
by Jim Jatras | Jun 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
Since the end of the Cold War, American foreign policy could almost have been designed to undermine our national interests. Whether under Republican George W. Bush or Democrats Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, we have seen “regime changes” and “color revolutions,” facilitation of global jihadism while claiming to combat it, and gratuitous confrontation with post-communist Russia which was going out of its way to become our reliable ally. For those familiar with the operational code of the late...
Fifty-One Foreign Service Officers Can't be Wrong…Or Can They? More bombs and Less Talk on Syria
by Philip Giraldi | Jun 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
Fmr US Ambassador Robert Ford meets with "moderate" terrorists in SyriaIt is ironic that fifty-one US State Department employees, perhaps overly-generously dignified in the media with the title of “diplomats,” have come out in favor of removing a foreign head of state by force. Detailing their opposition to the status quo, the signatories submitted a dissent memo through established Foreign Service channels. The document itself is classified, even though the New York Times and the Wall Street...
Orlando: Islam or Blowback?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
According to the Telegraph newspaper, “Omar Mateen, the Orlando gunman, told his victims the attack was revenge for American bombing of Afghanistan, but allowed black Americans to be released because ‘they have suffered enough.’” The person who recounted what Mateen said is 20-year-old Patience Carter. According to theTelegraph article, she heard Mateen telling police on the phone that he was pledging allegiance to Isil and saying the attacks were in retaliation for America’s bombing of...
Sec. State Blinken: Nordstream Bombing 'Offers Tremendous Opportunity'
While US neocons and mainstream media continue to inexplicably blame Russia for blowing up its own pipeline, US officials continue to signal their motive and the benefit they see...
Sec. State Blinken: Nordstream Bombing 'Offers Tremendous Opportunity'
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While US neocons and mainstream media continue to inexplicably blame Russia for blowing up its own pipeline, US officials continue to signal their motive and the benefit they see...
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