Washington, DC, may be the only place in the world where people openly flaunt their pseudo-intellectuality by banding together, declaring themselves “think tanks,” and raising money from external interests, including foreign governments, to compile reports that advance policies inimical to the real-life concerns of the American people. As a former member of the House of Representatives, I remember 16 years of congressional hearings where pedigreed experts came to advocate wars in testimony...
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Looking Ahead: Clinton’s Plans for Syria
by Peter van Buren | Oct 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
Hillary Clinton has a plan for defeating Islamic State in Syria. Donald Trump has one, too. With the conflict in Syria spreading beyond its borders, it’s essential to understand the new president’s strategies – and how they may need to be adjusted over the next four years. Trump: Safe Zones Trump has advocated for a “safe zone” for Syrians to ride out the conflict. Such a zone would be a swath of territory inside the country, where today’s refugees would reside instead of fleeing to Europe and...
Hypocritical Air Force Secretary Deborah James Wants to Draft Women (Other Than Herself)
by Shane Kastler | Oct 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
Sometimes I wonder if I live in an alternative universe. The third dimension or the twilight zone. Do women in America honestly think it is a sign of “equality” to be forced to register for a military draft? In a recent interview with Greta Van Sustern, Air Force Secretary Deborah James seems to think so. As reported by Claire Zillman in Fortune Magazine, James said “equality” has led us to the place where women should be forced to register for the draft. Need I remind the world of what a...
The Path to Total Dictatorship: America’s Shadow Government and Its Silent Coup
by John W. Whitehead | Oct 24, 2016 | Featured Articles
“Today the path to total dictatorship in the US can be laid by strictly legal means,unseen and unheard by Congress, the President, or the people. Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system … a well-organized political-action group in this country, determined to destroy our Constitution and establish a one-party state.... The important point to remember about this group is not its ideology but its organization… It operates...

Obama’s Pivot to Asia Hits a Roadblock in the Philippines
by Ron Paul | Oct 24, 2016 | Featured Articles
While the mainstream media continues its obsessive reporting on the mud-slinging campaign for the White House, a dramatic development in China last week brought President Obama’s “pivot to Asia” to a sudden halt. Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, while in Beijing, announced his country’s “separation” from the United States. He told his Chinese audience, “Your honors, in this venue, I announce my separation from the United States … both in military, but also economics.’’The State Department...
Khadaffi’s Murder
by Eric Margolis | Oct 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
“We came, we saw…he died” boasted a beaming Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, speaking of the 2011 western overthrow of Libya’s leader Muammar Khadaffi.She was, of course, shamelessly paraphrasing Caesar’s famous summary of his campaign around the Black Sea. Mrs. Clinton, who seems ordained to be America’s next president, should have been rather more cautious in admitting to murder.This week marks the fifth anniversary of Khadaffi’s grisly death. The Libyan leader was fleeing in a motor...
Former Hungarian Communist Party Paper Goes Bankrupt, Washington Panics
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
Everywhere in the western world, printed newspapers are struggling to stay afloat. The old advertising-based model is no longer sustainable as more people turn to the Internet and alternative sources for their news and analysis. Hungary is no different. But some newspapers are more equal than others, and sometimes when market forces determine that a Washington-favored newspaper overseas goes out of business it becomes a matter of "human rights" and "free expression." That is the case in...
Paranoid Apoplexy Over the Russkies
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Oct 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
As I watch the paranoid apoplexy that US officials and their acolytes in the mainstream press are displaying over the hacking of Democratic Party computers and the disclosure of their emails, I’m tempted to say that it might all be some sort of karmic justice. But since I’m a Christian rather than a Buddhist, I’m more tempted to say that it might all be a ratification of the principle, “You get what you sow.” Consider their accusation: that it was the Russkies who did the hacking and the...
Obama and Hillary’s Two-Minutes of Hate for Russia
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
President Obama claimed that Donald Trump's "flattery" of Russian president Putin is "unprecedented in American politics." But as RPI Board Member Lew Rockwell tells RT, there is nothing new about it. During the Cold War Americans were told they had to hate the Russians and the Chinese, that the Russians were coming. The latest bashing, however, is "despicable, warmongering, narcissistic, and dangerous, says Lew Rockwell. Now Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Barack Obama are "actually threatening...
An ‘Epidemic of Graft’ – Anti-Corruption Efforts in Afghanistan Fail Hard
by Peter van Buren | Oct 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
The US spends spends $5 billion of your tax money a year in “aid” to Afghanistan, plus billions more for the cost of the thousands of American troops and Pentagon-sponsored military contractors there.An “Epidemic of Graft”One of the (many) reasons why all that money has accomplished close to jack squat in 15 years of war is corruption. Extraordinary amounts of US money simply disappears, siphoned off at high levels, passed on as bribes to suppliers and Taliban hustlers at the lower levels. It...
Assange’s Fate
by Justin Raimondo | Oct 19, 2016 | Featured Articles
The saga of Julian Assange seems to be drawing to a climax – one that will decide the fate of this historic whistleblower who, for years, has been a giant thorn in the side of governments everywhere.His role in exposing the machinations of the US government over the years earned him the plaudits of liberals – until the Bush era ended, and he started exposing the crimes of the Obama administration and – most pointedly – the hypocrisy and venality of Hillary Clinton and her journalistic...
Western Doublethink on Aleppo & Mosul Obscures Terror Complicity
by Finian Cunningham | Oct 19, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Syrian and Iraqi cities of Aleppo and Mosul have strikingly similar situations – yet the Western media perform a complete mental flip over the respective conflicts. Consecutive reports in news broadcasts set new standards of doublethink by presenting the battles underway in each city as diametrically opposite, when in fact they’re the same. Both are crucial sites for the defeat of illegally armed insurgents. Aleppo and Mosul, each located far north in neighboring Arab countries, are the...
After Mosul Falls, ISIS will Flee to Syria. Then What?
by Robert Fiske | Oct 18, 2016 | Featured Articles
Syria’s army and Hezbollah and Iranian allies are preparing for a massive invasion by thousands of Isis fighters who will be driven out of Iraq when Mosul falls. The real purpose behind the much-trumpeted US-planned “liberation” of the Iraqi city, the Syrian military suspect, is to swamp Syria with the hordes of Isis fighters who will flee their Iraqi capital in favour of their “mini-capital” of Raqqa inside Syria itself. For weeks now, Western media and the American experts it likes to quote...
CNN: It Is Illegal For Voters To Possess Wikileaks Material
by Jonathan Turley | Oct 18, 2016 | Featured Articles
There was an interesting segment on CNN last week where CNN anchor Chris Cuomo reminds viewers for it is illegal for them to “possess” Wikileaks material and that, as a result, they will have to rely on the media to tell them what is in these documents. The legal assertion is dubious, but the political implications are even more concerning. Polls show that many voters view the media as biased and this is a particularly strong view among supporters of Donald Trump who view CNN and other...
The Horror of Endless Interventionism
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Oct 17, 2016 | Featured Articles
When the US government invaded Iraq in 2003, I wonder how many US officials contemplated the possibility that the cycle of death and destruction that they were initiating would be continuing 13 years later. And yet, here we are — more than a decade after Operation Iraqi Freedom was launched — and US and Iraqi soldiers are, once again, battling over control of Mosul. The battle for Mosul is being met with considerable indifference or nonchalance among many Americans. After all, there are so...
Who Brought the World to the Brink of World War III?
by Michael S. Rozeff | Oct 17, 2016 | Featured Articles
Who has the major responsibility for creating the confrontation between the US and Russia in Syria? How have these two major nuclear powers moved closer and closer to the brink of World War III? At the moment, one clear way to resolve this clash is for Syria’s armed forces to win an unambiguous victory over the forces seeking to overturn the existing government. Bloody as it may be, the defeat of the rebel forces will defuse the military portion of the conflict between the US and Russia, at...
Biden's Bank Bailout Isn't Fooling Anyone
President Biden's attempt to reassure Americans that the US banking sector is doing just fine had the opposite effect: banking stocks plunged after he spoke. Will his...
Biden's Bank Bailout Isn't Fooling Anyone
Mar 14, 2023
President Biden's attempt to reassure Americans that the US banking sector is doing just fine had the opposite effect: banking stocks plunged after he spoke. Will his...
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