On Monday, Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) introduced in the United States House of Representatives a resolution (H.Res. 525) calling on President Barack Obama “to work closely with other North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] members to invoke Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty in response to the Paris attacks.” Article 5 in the NATO treaty deals with member nations taking action in response to an attack on another NATO member. Poe is chairman of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation,...
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Paris and What Should Be Done
by Ron Paul | Nov 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
The horrific attacks in Paris on Friday have, predictably, led to much over-reaction and demands that we do more of the exact things that radicalize people and make them want to attack us. The French military wasted no time bombing Syria in retaliation for the attacks, though it is not known where exactly the attackers were from. Thousands of ISIS fighters in Syria are not Syrian, but came to Syria to overthrow the Assad government from a number of foreign countries -- including from France...
Ron Paul is Right About Terrorism
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Nov 15, 2015 | Neocon Watch
I saw George Stephanopolous and his panel of Bill Kristol and 3 other neocons this morning. They all agreed: Trump is dead because people will want a man experienced in government and foreign and intelligence affairs, like the puppet Rubio. Or like the heads of the French state? Also, the US must invade Syria, murder Assad, install al-Qaeda, and finish the destruction of that country for the benefit of the empire and the local mini-empire. An anti-Islamist Arab leader cannot be allowed to...
The City of Light Falls Dark
by Eric Margolis | Nov 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
On Friday the 13th, Paris, the City of Light, was plunged into darkness and fear. At least eight young jihadists, allegedly from the so-called Islamic State group, attacked the national sports stadium, where President Francois Hollande was attending a soccer match with Germany’s foreign minister. They also attacked outdoor cafes, a pizzeria and a rock club. As of this writing, 127 civilians were killed and dozens wounded. All of the attackers are believed to have died. For the second time this...
Opting Out: A Small Step for Peace
by Justin Pavoni | Nov 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
Let’s discuss conscientious objection. For those who don’t know what it is, conscientious objection is a moral or religious opposition to war. It is essentially the refusal to participate on moral or religious grounds. So I am a conscientious objector. Interestingly enough, before I conscientiously objected, I was an F-15E fighter pilot. I deployed twice to Afghanistan, and I sincerely regret to say that I have killed people. That is a heavy burden for an honest person to carry whether it’s...
Paris: You Don’t Want to Read This
by Peter van Buren | Nov 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
You don’t want to read this, and I take no pleasure in writing it, and no one really wants to hear it right now. But I believe it needs to be said. I join the world in grieving for the dead in Paris. I have grieved for the dead from 9/11 forward — the Australians who died in terror attacks on Bali in 2005, Londoners who died in terror attacks in 2005, the French citizens who died in the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January of this year, the Russians whose plane went down over the Sinai a week or...
Paid Patriotism: The Artist Formerly Known as ‘Propaganda’
by Abigail Hall | Nov 13, 2015 | Featured Articles
Last week, Senators Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and John McCain (R-AZ) released a report revealing the Department of Defense paid professional sports teams to host “patriotic events.” Anyone who has ever attended a sporting event knows these well. Military personnel are featured on the jumbotron, huge flags are spread across the field, returning veterans are named “hometown heroes,” or asked to participate in half-time contests, ceremonial first pitches, and other activities intended to honor the US...
How Ukraine’s Finance Chief Got Rich
by Robert Parry | Nov 12, 2015 | Featured Articles
Before becoming Ukraine’s Finance Minister last December, Natalie Jaresko collected $1.77 million in bonuses from a US-taxpayer-financed investment fund where her annual compensation was supposed to be limited to $150,000, according to financial documents filed with the US Internal Revenue Service this year. The near 12-fold discrepancy between the compensation ceiling and Jaresko’s bonuses, paid in 2013, was justified in the IRS filing from the Jaresko-led Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF)...
Thanking Iraq War Veterans For Their Service
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 11, 2015 | Featured Articles
I wonder what goes through the mind of an Iraq War veteran when someone says, “Thank you for your service.” I wonder if he ever asks himself, “What exactly am I being thanked for?” Consider what the Bush administration did to US soldiers on the eve of the US invasion of Iraq. Bush and his people, many of whom had avoided the draft during the Vietnam War, knew that many soldiers had serious misgivings about invading Iraq. After all, neither the Iraqi people nor the Iraqi government had ever...
The Deep State: The Unelected Shadow Government Is Here to Stay
by John W. Whitehead | Nov 10, 2015 | Featured Articles
“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government, owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.” ― Theodore Roosevelt America’s next president will inherit more than a bitterly divided nation teetering on the brink of financial catastrophe when he or she assumes office. He will also inherit a shadow government, one that is fully operational and staffed by unelected officials who are, in essence, running the country. To be precise, however, the...
Missile Test Terrorism Over Los Angeles
by Dan Sanchez | Nov 10, 2015 | Featured Articles
“Wait, what the f*** is that?” Julien Solomita finally managed to spit that out after two minutes of dumbfounded silence, as he recorded an unidentified flying object from a rooftop parking lot in Van Nuys, California on Saturday night. He had been gathering footage for his video blog when he noticed a strange light in the sky. The light flared several times before developing a tail that expanded into a purple cone. The object then radiated nebulous purple rings and burst into a bright white...
Who Would Dr. Ben Kill?
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 10, 2015 | Neocon Watch
GOP Presidential candidate and retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson is unafraid to wear his Christian values on his sleeve. Indeed he has rocketed to frontrunner status on the strength of his popularity with Evangelical Christians in the US. But thanks to Lew Rockwell for pointing out the shocking anti-Christian core of Ben Carson's "Christianity." Carson rips to shreds a central component of the ancient Christian "Just War" theory: the idea of distinction once war has begun (Jus in...
A Warmonger’s Guide to Militarism and Imperialism
by Thomas DiLorenzo | Nov 9, 2015 | Featured Articles
When Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton was an undergraduate at Harvard he took time out to become a “Publius Fellow” at the “Straussian” neocon Pentagon propaganda mill known as the Claremont Institute in Claremont, California. After graduating he returned to Claremont Graduate School to pursue graduate studies in “government” under the tutelage of the “Straussians” there, but dropped out to pursue a law degree instead. He then joined the US Army, eventually going to Iraq to kill Muslims. All of...
Does the Bell Toll for the Fed?
by Ron Paul | Nov 9, 2015 | Featured Articles
Last week Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen hinted that the Federal Reserve Board will increase interest rates at the board’s December meeting. The positive jobs report that was released following Yellen’s remarks caused many observers to say that the Federal Reserve’s first interest rate increase in almost a decade is practically inevitable. However, there are several reasons to doubt that the Fed will increase rates anytime in the near future. One reason is that the official unemployment...
Reinventing Guns and Butter Politics for the 21st Century
by Franklin C. Spinney | Nov 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
The Center of American Progress (CAP) is a prominent Democratic "think tank" in the Hall of Mirrors that is Versailles on the Potomac. The CAP brands itself by saying it is "dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through progressive ideas and action." The Center also claims it presents a liberal viewpoint on economic issues. Its blog, inaptly named “Think Progress," is widely read among avant-garde "progressives." The blog and the CAP itself are quite useless for people trying to...
TSA Trained Disney World in Goofy ‘Terrorist Detection’ Methods
by Peter van Buren | Nov 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
The same ridiculed and useless techniques used by the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) to not find terrorists at America’s airports are now being used at Orlando theme parks, including Disney World, Seaworld and Busch Gardens, to not find terrorists. (click to enlarge)A Billion Dollars Hits the SPOT The Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques, or SPOT, program is TSA’s one billion dollar “behavioral detection” scheme. SPOT requires TSA staff to be on the lookout for...
Ron Paul Discusses the American Economy and US Foreign Policy in New Interview
Libertarian communicator Ron Paul discussed the American economy and United States foreign policy, including the ongoing war in Ukraine, in a new interview with host Jay Martin...
Ron Paul Discusses the American Economy and US Foreign Policy in New Interview
Oct 20, 2022
Libertarian communicator Ron Paul discussed the American economy and United States foreign policy, including the ongoing war in Ukraine, in a new interview with host Jay Martin...
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