Snowden is a helluva movie, kicking an audience’s ass on a number of levels. I had a chance to see the film last night at a preview event; it opens everywhere on September 16. Go see it.On one level the film presents Snowden’s story as a political thriller. A brave but frightened man, certain he is doing the right thing but worried if he can pull it off, smuggles some of the NSA’s most secret information out of a secure facility. He makes contact with skeptical journalists in Hong Kong,...
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Israel Wins in November – It Doesn’t Matter Who is Elected
by Philip Giraldi | Sep 14, 2016 | Featured Articles
There is considerable chatter about who will win in some of the hotly contested congressional races around the country, but one thing is certain: whoever triumphs will soon be receiving a nice all expenses paid luxury trip to Israel to learn all about Benjamin Netanyahu’s views regarding what more Washington can do to support him and his government. The “educational seminars” are organized by the Israel Lobby, more specifically by a tax exempt entity referred to as the American Israel...
Republic Not Empire
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Sep 14, 2016 | Featured Articles
The following is a modified version of the speech I delivered at the Ron Paul Institute’s “Peace and Prosperity” conference in Virginia on September 10, 2016. On the Fourth of July in 1821, John Quincy Adams delivered one of the most remarkable speeches in American history. The speech is entitled, “In Search of Monsters to Destroy.” In his speech, Adams described America’s founding principles on foreign policy. He pointed out that there are lots of bad, monstrous things that go on in the world...
Truth About 9/11
by Eric Margolis | Sep 12, 2016 | Featured Articles
“America’s strategic and economic interests in the Mideast and Muslim world are being threatened by the agony in Palestine, which inevitably invites terrorist attacks against US citizens and property.” -Eric Margolis Sun Media Sept 2 2001 (nine days before the Sept 11 attacks against New York and Washington DC.) As Americans enter the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on their nation, they still have not understood the true cause of these dreadful attacks. Who can blame them? Our...
The Fed Plans for the Next Crisis
by Ron Paul | Sep 12, 2016 | Featured Articles
In her recent address at the Jackson Hole monetary policy conference, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen suggested that the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates by the end of the year. Markets reacted favorably to Yellen’s suggested rate increase. This is surprising, as, except for one small increase last year, the Federal Reserve has not followed through on the numerous suggestions of rate increases that Yellen and other Fed officials have made over the past several years. Much more...
The Truth About War and the State
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Sep 12, 2016 | Featured Articles
This talk was delivered at the Peace and Prosperity 2016 Conference of the Ron Paul Institute. Not long ago I was thinking about the legacy of Murray N. Rothbard, the brilliant scholar and the creator of the libertarian movement, as well as a dear friend to both Ron and me. Would that movement have come into existence without Murray? I don’t think so. And whatever might have developed in its place would undoubtedly have been less pro-peace, and more willing to reach an accord with the warfare...
The Trumpillary War Machine Is Bad News
by David Swanson | Sep 8, 2016 | Featured Articles
I was fortunate enough to view a screening of the new Snowden movie Wednesday evening with some of the whistleblowers who have cameos in it and with its director Oliver Stone. I'm not allowed to review it until Saturday night, but it is a truly great movie and has the potential to be the most widely seen, heard, or read thing of any political decency or truth in the world this year. That's not, however, why I'm glad I saw it. I'm glad I watched Snowden because it gave me an extra several hours...
Top 10 Western Lies About Syrian Conflict
by Neil Clark | Sep 8, 2016 | Featured Articles
Here are 10 of the worst lies that have been peddled by the West regarding Syria, with the aim of giving people living in Western countries an entirely false view of the conflict that has been raging in the Middle East country since 2011. As in the case of previous US-led wars against Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya the lies told in relation to the ongoing conflict in Syria have been quite outrageous. 1. The West has failed to intervene in Syria - and that's been the problem This oft-repeated claim...
Newly Released FBI Records Raise Questions of Intentional Destruction of Evidence By Clinton Contractor
by Jonathan Turley | Sep 7, 2016 | Featured Articles
One of the most troubling aspects of the recently released documents from the FBI is a timeline established for when Clinton staffers used BleachBit to try to eradicate emails and prevent them from ever being recovered. It appears that staff may have deleted the email archive after the staff received a subpoena to preserve all such evidence. The staffer working for Platte River Networks (PRN) in Denver, Colorado reportedly had what was described as an “Oh Sh*t” moment when they realized that...
US Blocks Former British Ambassador From Entering America to Honor CIA Whistleblower
by Peter van Buren | Sep 7, 2016 | Featured Articles
The United States over the weekend denied travel to a former British ambassador, Craig Murray, who was also a British diplomat for some 30 years, and is the author of several books. Murray has stood twice for election to the House of Commons. He was “honored” by being thrown out of Uzbekistan by its repressive government after risking his life to expose appalling human rights abuses there. He is not a terrorist and is not a social media jihadi. He has no criminal record, no connection to drug...
For What Do We Stand?
by Butler Shaffer | Sep 6, 2016 | Featured Articles
The humanoid collective is in an unforgiving snit over the refusal of NFL quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, to stand for the playing of the national anthem. For a society that was once grounded in a greater tolerance for individual values and preferences, this reaction is another symptom of a system that no longer serves – much less tolerates – the diverse nature of human life. Why would an intelligent person in any country want to stand for and sing a “national anthem?” How would such an act...
John Kerry is Wrong – Media Shouldn’t Stop Covering Terrorism, But They Should Start Explaining it
by Danielle Ryan | Sep 5, 2016 | Featured Articles
The media would do us all a service if they didn’t cover terrorism so much, because then people “wouldn’t know what’s going on.” That little bit of wisdom comes courtesy of US Secretary of State John Kerry. Kerry’s offhand remark was made during a visit to Bangladesh last week, prompting immediate criticism and even subsequent clarification from State Department spokesperson John Kirby. The secretary of state’s suggestion that simply ignoring terrorism might help it go away and that an...
How to Solve the Illegal Immigration Problem
by Ron Paul | Sep 5, 2016 | Featured Articles
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s recent speech on immigration really missed the point. I understand Trump’s frustration over the US government’s inability to control the US borders and keep out those who would come to this country illegally. Trump was right that the media ignore legitimate questions we have on our immigration policy and he is right that special interests have a great interest in maintaining the status quo. However when it comes to really solving the immigration...
Is the United States Trying to Incite Unrest in Venezuela?
by Robert Wenzel | Sep 3, 2016 | Featured Articles
The country of Venezuela is on the edge of collapse. This is partly the result of a weak oil price that has shrunk an important revenue lifeline for the Venezuelan government.The government has responded by printing massive amounts of new Venezuelan currency to keep the government running. This, in turn, has resulted in hyper-inflation far in excess of 500% annually.The authoritarian government has attempted to "fight" the inflation, not by stopping the money printing and shrinking the...
US V US in Syria
by Eric Margolis | Sep 2, 2016 | Featured Articles
What a mess! In the crazy Syrian war, US-backed and armed groups are fighting other US-backed rebel groups. How can this be?It is so because the Obama White House had stirred up the war in Syria but then lost control of the process. When the US has a strong president, he can usually keep the military and intelligence agencies on a tight leash.But the Obama administration has had a weak secretary of defense and a bunch of lady strategists who are the worst military commanders since Louis XV,...
Acceptable Losses: Aiding and Abetting the Saudi Slaughter in Yemen
by Andrew Cockburn | Sep 2, 2016 | Featured Articles
Just a few short years ago, Yemen was judged to be among the poorest countries in the world, ranking 154th out of the 187 nations on the U.N.’s Human Development Index. One in every five Yemenis went hungry. Almost one in three was unemployed. Every year, 40,000 children died before their fifth birthday, and experts predicted the country would soon run out of water. Such was the dire condition of the country before Saudi Arabia unleashed a bombing campaign in March 2015, which has destroyed...
Was Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested…To Shut Him Up?
The sudden and surprising arrest of FTX mega-scammer Sam Bankman-Fried in the Bahamas has perplexed some of America's top legal minds. Constitutional Law Professor Jonathan...
Was Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested…To Shut Him Up?
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