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Caught With Our Pants Down in the Gulf

Caught With Our Pants Down in the Gulf

Your B.S. meter should be making an awful racket in response to the shifting explanations given for the twenty-four-hour Iranian hostage scare involving two US Navy boats intercepted in the Gulf. First they told us “at least one of the boats” had experienced a “mechanical failure.” Then they said the boats had run out of fuel, although it wasn’t clear if they meant both boats. Then they said “there was no mechanical problem.” Then they claimed that the two crews had somehow not communicated...

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Ron Paul on MSNBC: Talking Presidential Race and Rise of Libertarian Ideas

Speaking Thursday with host Chuck Todd on MSNBC before the latest Republican presidential debate, former US House of Representatives member from Texas and three-time presidential candidate Ron Paul gave his assessment of the 2016 presidential race. Paul also commented on the "great progress" libertarianism is making, noting, for example, that many states are opting out of parts of the drug war. Watch Paul’s complete interview here: Paul is the chairman and founder of the Ron Paul Institute for...

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Why Brookings Institution and Establishment Love Wars

Why Brookings Institution and Establishment Love Wars

Washington’s public relations operations for the military contracting firms that surround the US Capitol aren’t by for-profit PR firms, so much as they're by "non-profit" foundations and think tanks, which present that "non-profit" cover for their sales-promotion campaigns on behalf of the real beneficiaries: owners and top executives of these gigantic defense contracting corporations, such as Lockheed Martin, and Booz Allen Hamilton. Among the leading propagandists for invading Iraq back in...

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Obama Speech Ignored His Death Toll at Home and Abroad

Obama Speech Ignored His Death Toll at Home and Abroad

The White House kept one seat vacant in the gallery during Obama’s State of the Union Address on Tuesday “for the victims of gun violence who no longer have a voice.” This was part of Obama’s campaign for new federal restrictions on firearms ownership. But shouldn’t there have also been chairs left empty to memorialize other casualties – including those “who no longer have a voice” thanks to Obama administration policies? While trumpeting the private death toll from guns, Obama ignored the 986...

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Cold War Fearmongering on Cuba and Korea

Cold War Fearmongering on Cuba and Korea

It is standard strategy in North Korea for officials to keep the citizenry constantly on edge about the possibility of a US attack. The idea is that if people are kept afraid, they will inevitably rally to the government, ignore their desperate economic plight, and accept any loss of liberty necessary to keep them safe. To keep the citizenry afraid, North Korean officials point to pronouncements by US officials regarding the evil nature of North Korea, military exercises by US troops, and...

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Sen. McCain Furious Iran Treated US Sailors Well

Sen. McCain Furious Iran Treated US Sailors Well

The two US Navy riverine command boats intercepted in Iranian territorial waters yesterday were sent on their way along with the crew of 10 US sailors after brief detention on Iranian soil. According to news reports, the well-armed warships either suffered mechanical or navigational difficulties which caused them to enter Iranian territory (although it may well have been a game of cat-and-mouse to test the Iranian response). The US sailors were apparently treated well, enjoyed what appeared a...

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What’s the Real Story Behind Saudi Arabia’s Execution of Shia Cleric al-Nimr?

What’s the Real Story Behind Saudi Arabia’s Execution of Shia Cleric al-Nimr?

The execution of Shi’ite cleric Nimr al-Nimr and 46 convicted al-Qaeda members by the Saudis triggered a still-unfolding crisis between the Kingdom and Iran. Protesters in Tehran set fire to the Saudi embassy, and the Iranian government threatened that the Saudis will face “divine” revenge. Riyadh responded by severing diplomatic relations and ordering Iran’s ambassador to depart the Kingdom, followed by the cutting off of all commercial ties with Iran. Saudi allies Bahrain, Sudan, and the...

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The State of the Nation: A Dictatorship Without Tears

The State of the Nation: A Dictatorship Without Tears

“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the...

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American Foreign Policy Oxymorons

American Foreign Policy Oxymorons

Oxymoron: a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in“cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.” (Dictionary.com) The way we use words matters — a lot. When words begin to lose their meaning or get distorted, the things we say begin to mean something entirely different…perhaps even expressing a sentiment opposite to the original intent. This is not unlike the term “doublespeak” (a concept highlighted in George Orwell’s 1984, where...

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Sen. Tom Cotton Scores a Big Foreign Payoff

Sen. Tom Cotton Scores a Big Foreign Payoff

In Washington's corridors of power, it can often pay to do the bidding of a foreign country. Foreign governments pay top dollar to remain in Washington's good graces (and to make sure their adversaries are demonized), and the myriad of public relations firms that litter the Beltway attest to just how much foreigners are willing to spend for the privilege. While most guns for foreign hire are off the government payroll and self-declared "agents of a foreign power," as is required by the Foreign...

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Oregon Standoff: Isolated Event or Sign of Things to Come?

Oregon Standoff: Isolated Event or Sign of Things to Come?

The nation's attention turned to Oregon this week when a group calling itself Citizens for Constitutional Freedom seized control of part of a federal wildlife refuge. The citizens were protesting the harsh sentences given to members of the Hammond ranching family. The Hammonds were accused of allowing fires set on their property to spread onto federal land. The Hammonds were prosecuted under a federal terrorism statute. This may seem odd, but many prosecutors are stretching the definition of...

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Nearly 60 Percent of Republicans Support Candidates Who Oppose Ousting Assad

Nearly 60 Percent of Republicans Support Candidates Who Oppose Ousting Assad

The Russian air campaign in Syria is netting some impressive gains – for Russia, Syria, and – although many of us are loath to admit it – the West: Russian air power, working closely with the Syrian Arab Army, has stymied the efforts of ISIS and other violent extremists to overthrow the secular, religiously tolerant, multi-confessional government of Syria. Gains have been made on the ground in and around Damascus, Aleppo, Homs, and Latakia. And there is evidence the Russian campaign was...

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Gun Control? What About US Arms Sales?

Gun Control? What About US Arms Sales?

While President Obama was tearing up to support his call for gun control, the US military-industrial complex was celebrating its continued leadership in the sale of weaponry to foreign regimes. According to the New York Times, US foreign arms deals increased nearly $10 billion in 2014. Total sales went from $26.7 billion in 2013 to $36.2 billion in 2014, a 35 percent increase. Meanwhile, American statists, including those in the mainstream press, continue to scream about gun-show loopholes...

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New ‘Jihadi John?’ ISIS Video Features English-Speaker

New ‘Jihadi John?’ ISIS Video Features English-Speaker

For those who still don’t get why the War of Terror continues to fail after 14+ years, here is another lesson. We all remember “Jihadi John,” who of course was never called that except in the western media. John (real name: Mohammed Emwazi) was a British citizen who became radicalized, joined ISIS and went on to do horrible things, including beheadings. The media, in hand with the White House and Downing Street, fluffed this one loser guy up into an international super villain. So, when...

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Enough Already! It’s Time To Send The Despicable House Of Saud To The Dustbin Of History

Enough Already! It’s Time To Send The Despicable House Of Saud To The Dustbin Of History

A recent column by Pat Buchanan could not be more spot on. It slices through the misbegotten assumption that Saudi Arabia is our ally and that the safety and security of the citizens of Lincoln NE, Spokane WA and Springfield MA have anything to do with the religious and political machinations of Riyadh and its conflicts with Iran and the rest of the Shiite world. Nor is this only a recent development. In fact, for more than four decades Washington’s middle eastern policy has been dead wrong...

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Dollar Dominance: Deconstructing the Myths, Untangling the Web

Dollar Dominance: Deconstructing the Myths, Untangling the Web

On December 16th, 2015, Federal Reserve Officials announced that after six years of 0 percent interest, they would finally raise the Federal Fund Rate. The move was seen by many as an attempt to provide markets with a boost of confidence. Although markets initially sold off on the news, they have in fact rebounded back to normal levels. Still, the question of whether or not the US economy is strong enough to maintain levels of growth has yet to be answered. Washington’s privileged position as...

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