Almost two years after the firestorm that took place in Ferguson, Missouri, when a white police officer shot an unarmed black teenager and militarized police descended in a brutal show of force to quell local protests, not much has really changed for the better. Unarmed Americans are still getting shot by police with alarming regularity. SWAT teams are still bursting through doors, terrorizing families and leaving lives and property shattered. And the military industrial complex is still...
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Is NATO necessary?
by Stephen Kinzer | Jul 6, 2016 | Featured Articles
Britain's vote to quit the European Union was a rude jolt to the encrusted world order. Now that the EU has been shocked into reality, NATO should be next. When NATO leaders convene for a summit in Warsaw on Friday, they will insist that their alliance is still vital because Russian aggression threatens Europe. The opposite is true. NATO has become America’s instrument in escalating our dangerous conflict with Russia. We need less NATO, not more. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was...
On July 4th Demand Freedom, Don’t Celebrate The State
by Ron Paul | Jul 4, 2016 | Featured Articles
As we gather with family and friends to celebrate the July 4th holiday we should remember that we are not celebrating the state, but rather commemorating an act of secession from an oppressive government. We are celebrating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain – a daring move by the Founders inspired by a desire for liberty. Thomas Jefferson famously said, “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” That does not only mean that we should be prepared to defend...
America Should Exit From NATO and the National Security State
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 3, 2016 | Featured Articles
In its reporting on Brexit, the New York Times asks an interesting question: “Is the post-1945 order imposed on the world by the United States and its allies unraveling, too?” Hopefully, it will mean the unraveling of two of the most powerful and destructive governmental apparatuses that came out of the postwar era: NATO and the US national-security state. In fact, although the mainstream media and the political establishment elites will never acknowledge it, the irony is that it is these two...
Confessions Of A War Propagandist
by Jim Hale | Jul 2, 2016 | Featured Articles
In explaining Donald Trump and the train wreck of the Republican Party, neoconservative contempt has targeted cultural rot, immigrant haters, and according to the the National Review, prescription drug addicted hillbillies. These poor, dumb racists have latched on to a celebrity shyster who has no conservative principles and worst of all, no understanding of international affairs. No self-reflection is even considered by neoconservatives or their strongest pro-war allies, evangelical...
Stop Giving Chickens Away, Bill Gates
by Peter van Buren | Jul 1, 2016 | Featured Articles
Bill Gates’ philanthropic efforts are usually greeted with near-universal praise from people who believe he is a great humanitarian, but Bill Gates knows very little about sustainable, intelligent development. Bolivia to Bill Gates: Go to Hell and Take Your Chickens with You The billionaire recently sought to donate 100,000 chickens to impoverished countries. The leftist government of Bolivia, one of the nations to receive the poultry, refused the donation, describing Gates’ gift as...
Obama’s ‘New Beginning’ was the Beginning of the End
by Martin Berger | Jun 30, 2016 | Featured Articles
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...
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,...
WWIII? Ukraine Should Attack Inside Russia, Says Latvian Foreign Minister
Taking advantage of NATO's defense umbrella, the Latvian Foreign Minister stated yesterday that Ukraine should be free to bomb targets deep inside of Russia, stating that NATO...
WWIII? Ukraine Should Attack Inside Russia, Says Latvian Foreign Minister
Dec 1, 2022
Taking advantage of NATO's defense umbrella, the Latvian Foreign Minister stated yesterday that Ukraine should be free to bomb targets deep inside of Russia, stating that NATO...
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