During the 1950s and 1960s, the CIA made multiple attempts to assassinate Cuba’s ruler, Fidel Castro. Let’s assume that the CIA had succeeded and that Castro had been shot dead on the streets of Havana. It’s not difficult to imagine what US national-security state officials would be saying today: “If we hadn’t assassinated Castro, the United States would have fallen to the communists and, today, Fidel and his brother would be running the IRS, Social Security, Medicare, public schooling, and...
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The Choice Before Europe
by Paul Craig Roberts | May 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
Washington continues to drive Europe toward one or the other of the two most likely outcomes of the orchestrated conflict with Russia. Either Europe or some European Union member government will break from Washington over the issue of Russian sanctions, thereby forcing the EU off of the path of conflict with Russia, or Europe will be pushed into military conflict with Russia. In June the Russian sanctions expire unless each member government of the EU votes to continue the sanctions. Several...
In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much
by John W. Whitehead | May 6, 2015 | Featured Articles
Police officers are more likely to be struck by lightning than be held financially accountable for their actions.—Law professor Joanna C. Schwartz (paraphrased) “In a democratic society,” observed Oakland police chief Sean Whent, “people have a say in how they are policed.” Unfortunately, if you can be kicked, punched, tasered, shot, intimidated, harassed, stripped, searched, brutalized, terrorized, wrongfully arrested, and even killed by a police officer, and that officer is never held...
The Media Misses The Point on ‘Proxy War’
by Gareth Porter | May 5, 2015 | Featured Articles
The term “proxy war” has experienced a new popularity in stories on the Middle East. Various news sources began using the term to describe the conflict in Yemen immediately, as if on cue, after Saudi Arabia launched its bombing campaign against Houthi targets in Yemen on 25 March. “The Yemen Conflict Devolves into Proxy War,” The Wall Street Journal headlined the following day. “Who’s fighting whom in Yemen’s proxy war?” a blogger for Reuters asked on 27 March. And on the same day the Journal...
The Neoconservatives: Tyranny’s Fifth Column
by Nelson Hultberg | May 5, 2015 | Featured Articles
The term, “Fifth Column,” came into popular use in the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s and thereafter as socialism and fascism were sweeping into conflict to take over the nations of the West. It means a group of guerrillas, activists, intellectuals, etc. who work to undermine a nation (or some larger organization) from within. Its activities can be out in the open, or they can be secret. Today in America, the neoconservative political movement represents a “Fifth Column” for the forces of...
Washington Post Blames Obama for Syrian Mess
by Robert Parry | May 4, 2015 | Featured Articles
For the past two decades, American neocons and Israeli hard-liners have targeted Syria for “regime change,” a dream that may be finally coming true, albeit with the nightmarish ending of Al-Qaeda or maybe the Islamic State emerging as the likely winners. Such an outcome would be disastrous for the millions of Syrian Shiites, Alawites, secular Sunnis and Christians, including descendants of survivors of Turkey’s Armenian genocide a century ago. They would all face harsh repression or, possibly,...
USA FREEDOM Act: Just Another Word for Lost Liberty
by Ron Paul | May 3, 2015 | Featured Articles
Apologists for the National Security Agency (NSA) point to the arrest of David Coleman Headley as an example of how warrantless mass surveillance is necessary to catch terrorists. Headley played a major role in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack that killed 166 people. While few would argue that bringing someone like Headley to justice is not a good thing, Headley’s case in no way justifies mass surveillance. For one thing, there is no “terrorist” exception in the Fourth Amendment. Saying a good...
The Ghosts of Vietnam Should Haunt Us – But Don’t
by Eric Margolis | May 2, 2015 | Featured Articles
It was 1967. The war in Vietnam was raging. I was 24 years old, just out of graduate school in New York City. Cambridge University had accepted me to do a doctorate history. But no. In a burst of youthful patriotism, I concluded it was every citizen’s duty to join the armed forces in wartime. So I enlisted as an infantry officer candidate in the US Army and was packed off to basic training. Life can only be understood in retrospect. With the wisdom of hindsight, most people consider the...
Saudi Succession Struggles: Who’s on Top and Why
by Col. W. Patrick Lang | May 1, 2015 | Featured Articles
Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Defense MinisterWhat we are seeing in Saudi Arabia is the seizure of power by one section of the Sudeiri faction in the Saudi Royal family. The late King Abdullah was not a Sudeiri and relations between him and the Sudeiris were always a bit tense. King Salman, who is reputed to be a bit gaga (kharaf) is seeking to ensure the succession for his part of The Family. He, like all the Sudeiris, are much influenced and obliged to the Wahhabi, Hanbali ulema....
Sen. Cotton Challenges ‘Coward’ Iranian Foreign Minister
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 30, 2015 | Neocon Watch
Fresh off his strange foray into international diplomacy neo-con style, where he sent a letter to Iranian leadership warning that a US deal with Iran would not be honored by the United States, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has again dipped his Arkansan toes into the international waters.This time Cotton, who is in danger of becoming the Westboro Baptist Church of the neocon movement, has sent a flurry of Tweets to Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif challenging him to come to Washington to debate...
General Dempsey Errs by Telling The Truth, But Quickly Recants
by Michael Scheuer | Apr 29, 2015 | Featured Articles
During his term as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey has shown a decided inability to differentiate between truth and falsehood when talking to Americans and their congressional representatives, more often than not erring on the side of the latter. Those paying attention, for example, will recall General Dempsey repeatedly telling the media, the citizenry, and the Congress that the US military’s training of the Afghan National Army (ANA) had gone splendidly and the...
Unending War on Terror
by Philip Giraldi | Apr 28, 2015 | Featured Articles
The admission by the White House that two western hostages were killed by an errant drone strike in Pakistan serves as only an ugly little footnote to what has been nearly fifteen years of undeclared war waged by Washington against a large part of the world. The New York Times notes that “…most individuals killed [by drones] are not on a kill list, and the government does not know their names,” adding that “the proliferating mistakes have given drones a sinister reputation in Pakistan and...
A Return to the Peace Party
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Apr 28, 2015 | Featured Articles
A few weeks ago, I spoke to about 200 people at the famous Willard Hotel in Washington in a program put on by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. I had been told that this was a group of CEOs and owners of major companies in Southern California, obviously a very upper-income group. I got to a point in my speech where I said: “It is long past the time when we need to stop trying to run the whole world and start putting our own people and our own Country first once again.” Much to my surprise,...
Crisis, What Crisis?—The al-Qaeda Takeover of Syria
by Neil Clark | Apr 27, 2015 | Featured Articles
This weekend it was reported that al-Qaeda affiliated rebels were “almost completely in control” of the last major government held city in the Idlib province in northern Syria. This is really big news as it means that the Syrian government’s coastal heartlands including the important port of Latakia, a Baathist stronghold are under direct threat. It’s a major advance for the cause of al-Qaeda, yet what is most revealing is the lack of reaction or any concern from Western leaders. You‘d think...
The Real War on the Middle Class
by Ron Paul | Apr 26, 2015 | Featured Articles
One of the great ironies of American politics is that most politicians who talk about helping the middle class support policies that, by expanding the welfare-warfare state, are harmful to middle-class Americans. Eliminating the welfare-warfare state would benefit middle-class Americans by freeing them from exorbitant federal taxes, including the Federal Reserve’s inflation tax. Politicians serious about helping middle-class Americans should allow individuals to opt out of Social Security and...
First They Came for the Anti-Vaxxers
by Bretigne Shaffer | Apr 23, 2015 | Featured Articles
Earlier this year I spent a few days at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center with my daughter who was having an EEG done. On our way home, I learned that there had been an outbreak of an antibiotic-resistant bacteria while we were there, that it had infected seven people and killed two of them. My daughter and I were fine – the infection having been limited to people using a particular kind of duodenoscope. When the story hit the news, I fully expected nationwide outcry similar to that...
Scandal At Vanderbilt: Mutilating Children…For Profit!
Thanks to excellent investigative work by conservative journalist Matt Walsh, we have a full view of the horrors of Vanderbilt University Medical Center program to sterilize,...
Scandal At Vanderbilt: Mutilating Children…For Profit!
Sep 22, 2022
Thanks to excellent investigative work by conservative journalist Matt Walsh, we have a full view of the horrors of Vanderbilt University Medical Center program to sterilize,...
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