Last week’s successfully concluded Iran agreement is one of the two most important achievements of an otherwise pretty dismal Obama presidency. Along with the ongoing process of normalizing relations with Cuba, this move shows that diplomacy can produce peaceful, positive changes. It also shows that sometimes taking a principled position means facing down overwhelming opposition from all sides and not backing down. The president should be commended for both of these achievements. The agreement...
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Bill Kristol on Iran Deal: ‘Its Munich!’
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 18, 2015 | Neocon Watch
Bill Kristol is the epitome of the neocon mindset: cultivating a staid and urbane image while writing the most unhinged and mendacious claptrap. In his utterly predictable denunciation of the successful Iran nuclear talks, Kristol frames the issue in the crudest terms: if the deal goes through on the US end it will mean the return of $150 billion that was seized from the Iranians by the United States -- and that money will be used to commit terrorism against the United States!Writes Kristol:...
Praise To Barack Obama For Stiffing The War Party — Peace Is Finally Being Given A Chance
by David Stockman | Jul 18, 2015 | Featured Articles
I have rarely found anything President Obama has done to be praiseworthy, and believe his domestic policies of Keynesian borrow and spend and incessant statist intervention in capitalist enterprise to be especially deplorable. But finally he has stood up to the War Party—and that could mark a decisive turning point in rolling back Washington’s destructive interventionism and imperial pretensions in the Middle East and, indeed, around the world. The Iranian nuclear agreement is a decisive...
US/Israeli/Saudi ‘Behavior’ Problems
by Robert Parry | Jul 17, 2015 | Featured Articles
There is a madness in how the mainstream US media presents the world to the American people, a delusional perspective that arguably creates an existential threat to humanity’s survival. We have seen this pattern in the biased depiction of the Ukraine crisis and now in how Official Washington is framing the debate over the Iranian nuclear agreement. In this American land of make-believe, Iran is assailed as the chief instigator of instability in the Middle East. Yet, any sane and informed...
Central Banking and War: Ron Paul’s ‘Swords Into Plowshares’ reviewed
by Paul-Martin Foss | Jul 17, 2015 | Featured Articles
It’s July 17th, which means that Ron Paul’s new book “Swords Into Plowshares” is finally available. And what a book it is. Only the hardest of hearts and most closed of minds could read Dr. Paul’s new book and fail to be convinced of the futility of war. But what interests us the most is Dr. Paul’s discussion of the connection between central banking and war. Almost since the first banks were developed, bankers have funded government wars in exchange for receiving privileges from government....
It’s Official: ISIS is No Threat to the US Homeland
by Patrick Bahzad | Jul 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing that took place earlier this week, Air Force nominee for Vice-chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Gen. Paul Selva, stated that the "Islamic State" was currently "no threat to the US homeland." Asked to prioritize the list of threats the US was actually facing, Gen. Selva gave the following answer: "Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and all of the organizations that have grown around ideology that was articulated by al Qaeda". While the merits...
Iran Deal Causes Neocon Nervous Breakdown
by Chris Rossini | Jul 16, 2015 | Neocon Watch
The Iran Deal has thrown neocons into a frenzy. Mark Kirk says: “This agreement condemns the next generation to cleaning up a nuclear war in the Persian Gulf. Tens of thousands of people in the Middle East are gonna lose their lives because of this decision by Barack Hussein Obama.” Mark Levin: "Barack Obama has planted the seeds, in my view, for World War III." Glenn Beck: "What this president has done will be remembered as something far worse than Neville Chamberlain. It will only be a...
New Law Says Web Sites Would Have to Inform Law Enforcement about Readers’ ‘Terrorist Activity’
by Peter van Buren | Jul 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
Social media sites such as Twitter and YouTube would be required to report “terrorist” videos and other content posted by users to federal authorities under legislation approved this past week by the Senate Intelligence Committee. The measure, contained in the 2016 intelligence authorization, still has to be voted on by the full Senate. The measure applies to “electronic communication service providers,” which includes e-mail services such as Google and Yahoo. “Posted content” would likely...
Freedom or the Slaughterhouse? The American Police State from A to Z
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
“Who needs direct repression when one can convince the chicken to walk freely into the slaughterhouse?”—Philosopher Slavoj Žižek Despite the best efforts of some to sound the alarm, the nation is being locked down into a militarized, mechanized, hypersensitive, legalistic, self-righteous, goose-stepping antithesis of every principle upon which this nation was founded. All the while, the nation’s citizens seem content to buy into a carefully constructed, benevolent vision of life in America...
‘EU Periphery Countries Taking Brunt of US/EU Interventionist Policies in Ukraine’
by RT | Jul 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
The EU and the US are the ones who created the chaos in Ukraine, said Daniel McAdams, of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. The countries on the EU periphery like Hungary have to take on the burden receiving thousands of refugees, he added. Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has called for a crackdown on paramilitary units working in the country, saying no political force should have armed squads at its disposal. The statement came after a violent stand-off in the western town...
MH17: The Blaming Putin Game Goes On
by Philip Giraldi | Jul 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
Once upon a time CIA Stations overseas received what was referred to as an “Operating Directive” which prioritized intelligence targets for the upcoming year based on their importance vis-à-vis national security. Prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union, penetrating Moscow and preventing the KGB’s repaying the favor in kind loomed large as Russia and its allies represented the only genuine threat that could in fact destroy much of the United States. Today’s Russia retains much of that...
Greece Today, America Tomorrow?
by Ron Paul | Jul 13, 2015 | Featured Articles
The drama over Greece’s financial crisis continues to dominate the headlines. As this column is being written, a deal may have been reached providing Greece with yet another bailout if the Greek government adopts new “austerity” measures. The deal will allow all sides to brag about how they came together to save the Greek economy and the European Monetary Union. However, this deal is merely a Band-Aid, not a permanent fix to Greece’s problems. So another crisis is inevitable. The Greek crisis...
Destroying Syria to Make it Safe for American Values
by Eric Margolis | Jul 12, 2015 | Featured Articles
“The Turks have passed by here; all is in ruins and mourning. “ So wrote France’s great writer, Victor Hugo, of the horrors he had witnessed during the Balkan liberation wars of the 1880’s. If Hugo were alive today, he might well have used the same haunting lines to describe the smoking wreckage of the Mideast. Except this time it was the United States, France, and Britain who wrought havoc in the Arab world, assisted by modern Turkey. The UN’s refugee czar, Antonio Guterres, just asserted...
Do Flags Kill People?
by Butler Shaffer | Jul 11, 2015 | Featured Articles
No sooner had a sociopath carried out the murder of nine black people at a South Carolina church, than the voice of Boobus Americanus rose up, as one, to get to the cause of the slayings: the Confederate battle flag! The South Carolina legislature hurriedly passed a bill to remove this flag from the capitol grounds. Not content with so limited a measure, it was decided to also cut down the flagpole that had flown it, the pole having been tainted by the flag’s presence thereon. Proponents of...
Demanding What You Can’t Get: Obama’s Gamble with the Iran Talks in Vienna
by Going to Tehran | Jul 11, 2015 | Featured Articles
As nuclear talks between the P5+1 and Iran in Vienna extend past yet another (largely US-imposed) deadline, the dysfunctionality of the Obama administration’s approach becomes increasingly apparent. Since April, when the parties announced a set of “parameters” for a final deal, senior administration officials have staked out public positions on the most important unresolved issues that, frankly, are inconsistent with what was agreed in April. These include a US demand for open-ended retention...
When Money Dies
by Paul-Martin Foss | Jul 10, 2015 | Featured Articles
“When Money Dies” is the title of a 1975 book by Adam Fergusson, in which he describes the downfall of the Reichsmark in Weimar Germany. A fascinating look at that period of history, one can glean quite a few useful pieces of advice on how to survive a currency crisis. But “when money dies” could also describe the current currency crisis in Greece, in which many Greeks seem to have taken those lessons from Fergusson’s account of the Weimar hyperinflation to heart. Even though the Greek...
Elon Musk's Ukraine Peace Proposal Slammed By Ukraine Officials
Tesla and Space-X chief Elon Musk got a taste of the vitriol delved out to anyone who challenges the Ukraine narrative, as his Tweeted proposal to begin discussions on ending the...
Elon Musk's Ukraine Peace Proposal Slammed By Ukraine Officials
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Tesla and Space-X chief Elon Musk got a taste of the vitriol delved out to anyone who challenges the Ukraine narrative, as his Tweeted proposal to begin discussions on ending the...
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