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...
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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...
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...
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...
Pentagon Concludes America Not Safe Unless It Conquers The World
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jul 10, 2015 | Featured Articles
The Pentagon has released its “National Military Strategy of the United States of America 2015” in June, 2015. The document announces a shift in focus from terrorists to “state actors” that “are challenging international norms.” It is important to understand what these words mean. Governments that challenge international norms are sovereign countries that pursue policies independently of Washington’s policies. These “revisionist states” are threats, not because they plan to attack the US,...
Obama Fails to Make the Strategic Case for an Iran Nuclear Deal
by Going to Tehran | Jul 8, 2015 | Featured Articles
The Iran nuclear talks may be getting close to some sort of conclusion in Vienna, but American political and policy elites remain, to an appallingly large extent, clueless as to what is really at stake in the negotiations. And, while the headline from a recent NBC News poll notes that Americans favor an Iran nuclear deal by a “2 to 1” margin, in fact, the polls shows that a plurality of Americans say they don’t know what to think about a possible Iran nuclear deal. These observations...
Government Warmongering Criminals: Where Are They Now?
by Philip Giraldi | Jul 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
The United States already has by far the per capita largest prison population of any developed country but I am probably one of the few Americans who on this Independence Day would like to see a lot more people in prison, mostly drawn from politicians and senior bureaucrats who have long believed that their status makes them untouchable, giving them license to steal and even to kill. The sad fact is that while whistleblowers have been imprisoned for revealing government criminality, no one in...
Jade Helm, Terrorist Attacks, Surveillance, and Other Fairy Tales for a Gullible Nation
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 6, 2015 | Featured Articles
“Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.” ― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly Once upon a time, there was a nation of people who believed everything they were told by their government. When terrorists attacked the country, and government officials claimed to have been caught by surprise, the people believed them. And when the government passed massive laws aimed at locking down the nation and opening the door to total government surveillance, the people believed it was done...

For Normal Relations With Cuba, End US Interventionism
by Ron Paul | Jul 6, 2015 | Featured Articles
Last week we saw an encouraging sign that the 50 year cold war between the US and Cuba was finally coming to an end. President Obama announced on Wednesday that the US and Cuba would restore full diplomatic relations and that embassies could be re-opened in each country by the end of the month. For this achievement, which was resisted by vested interests in the US, Obama should be praised. However we shouldn't be too optimistic about truly establishing normal relations until we understand how...
Did The Pentagon Really 'Green Light' Ukraine Strikes Inside Russia?
The London Times newspaper reported on Friday that the US has given Ukraine the "green light" to fire missiles deep into Russian territory, reportedly based on lack of Russian...
Did The Pentagon Really 'Green Light' Ukraine Strikes Inside Russia?
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The London Times newspaper reported on Friday that the US has given Ukraine the "green light" to fire missiles deep into Russian territory, reportedly based on lack of Russian...
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