The US is considering bombing pipelines in Syria, which it claims is in an attempt to cut off the huge profits being made by ISIS from captured oilfields. The Independent quotes Julieta Valls Noyes, the deputy assistant secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs during a visit to London, that ISIS was making $2 million a day off oil sales and that the US would consider airstrikes as well as “kinetic strikes against some pipelines” and “actual physical action to stop the flow”. The trouble...
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More Guns Plus Less War Equals Real Security
by Ron Paul | Nov 2, 2014 | Featured Articles
Last week’s tragic shootings in Canada and Washington state are certain to lead to new calls for gun control. The media-generated fear over “lone wolf terrorists” will enable the gun control lobby to smear Second Amendment supporters as “pro-terrorist.” Marketing gun control as an anti-terrorist measure will also enable gun control supporters to ally with those who support any infringement on liberty done in the name of “homeland security.” As with most infringements on liberty, gun control...
Afghanistan: None Dare Call it a Defeat
by Eric Margolis | Nov 1, 2014 | Featured Articles
“Lord of our far-flung battle-line, Beneath whose awful Hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine— Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget! Far-called, our navies melt away; On dune and headland sinks the fire: Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre! Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget!” Rudyard Kipling “Recessional” The last British soldiers were airlifted out of Afghanistan last week, marking the sorry end of Britain’s...
In Ukraine, A Tale of Two Elections
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 1, 2014 | Featured Articles
The US government loves to “promote democracy” overseas, often at the barrel of a gun. Strangely enough, however, it often “deplores” actual elections being held in such places. Take Ukraine, for example. An election held last week by a group that forcibly seized power from a legitimately-elected government was hailed by the US administration as a great democratic achievement. Said John Kerry about last week’s parliamentary election held by the post-coup government in Kiev: We applaud...
US Post Office Spying on Americans Without Oversight
by Peter van Buren | Oct 31, 2014 | Featured Articles
The United States Postal Service disclosed it approved nearly 50,000 requests, called “mail covers,” last year alone from law enforcement to secretly monitor the snail mail of Americans. An audit shows the surveillance program is more extensive than widely known and that oversight protecting Americans is lax: 21 percent of the covers examined were approved without even the minimal required written authorization and 13 percent that did have authorization “were not adequately justified.” The...
The Iranian Nuclear Issue and Sino-Iranian Relations
by flynt leverett and hillary mann leverett | Oct 31, 2014 | Featured Articles
As the world waits to see if Iran and the P5+1 reach a final nuclear agreement by November 24, we remain relatively pessimistic about the prospects for such an outcome. Above all, we are pessimistic because closing a comprehensive nuclear accord will almost certainly require the United States to drop its (legally unfounded, arrogantly hegemonic, and strategically senseless) demand that the Islamic Republic dismantle a significant portion of its currently operating centrifuges as a sine qua non...
The Cheney-Powell-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz Strategy: An Evaluation
by Michael S. Rozeff | Oct 30, 2014 | Featured Articles
The US never demobilized after the Cold War ended. It constructed new missions for its military. It adopted a new post-Cold War strategy but kept its military forces intact. Americans received no peace dividend. To the contrary, as the years have passed and America’s wars have proliferated, Americans have expended enormous wealth. The war policies of Barack Obama and George W. Bush grew out of defense plans of the George H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations. These plans maintained the Cold...
Obama’s Phony Foreign-Aid Reform
by James Bovard | Oct 29, 2014 | Featured Articles
Four years ago, President Obama promised in a United Nations speech to “change the way we do business” with foreign aid and “seek partners who want to build their own capacity to provide for their people.” A year earlier, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton complained that “a lot of these aid programs don’t work” and lamented their “heartbreaking” record of failure. However, Mr. Obama, like numerous prior presidents, is more devoted to boosting aid spending than to fixing its flaws. The Agency...
Putin’s Complaint: Is Washington a Revisionist Power?
by Justin Raimondo | Oct 29, 2014 | Featured Articles
The idea that the United States must exercise "global leadership" is rationalized by our interventionists as a necessary perquisite for maintaining some type of "world order."Who will guard the sea lanes? Who will deter "aggression"? Who will defend the "rules" against those "rogue states" just waiting for an opportunity to wreak havoc, if not the United States of America? No "mainstream" politician dares challenge this mythology, and those academics and popular writers who do so risk being...
Time Mag to Ron Paul: Stop Telling The Truth!
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 28, 2014 | Featured Articles
Time Magazine is angry with Ron Paul. How dare he point out that the media has been over-reacting to the Ebola outbreak? How dare he mention that Canada's 13 years of bombing Muslim countries has irritated plenty of people on the receiving end of those bombs? How dare he tell the truth about US history: that if the colonies were told they could never leave it is unlikely there would ever have been a United States?Ron Paul is a "professional provocateur," screeches Time's Denver Nicks. The...
Don’t Let Lunatics Make Our Policies
by Eric Margolis | Oct 27, 2014 | Featured Articles
Things seemed crazy in the US and Canada last week, with a shooting on normally tranquil Parliament Hill in Ottawa and a grisly hatchet attack on two New York City policemen. Add in an American doctor who returned to the big city from Ebola-stricken West Africa and proceeded to run around all over town – from the Bronx to the west Village to a bowling alley in Brooklyn – just as he was coming down with the dreaded sickness. New Yorkers are a pretty tough bunch, so panic was mild, but in this...
Once-Peaceful Canada Turns Militaristic; Blowback Follows
by Ron Paul | Oct 26, 2014 | Featured Articles
In 1968 the government of Canada decided to openly admit Americans seeking to avoid being drafted into the US war on Vietnam. Before, would-be immigrants were technically required to prove that they had been discharged from US military service. This move made it easier for Americans to escape President Johnson’s war machine by heading north. Although a founding member of NATO, Canada did not join the United States in its war against Vietnam. The Canadian government did not see a conflict 7,000...
Anti-Assad Warmongers Drag in the Holocaust
by Maidhc O Cathail | Oct 25, 2014 | Featured Articles
“The irony is that the Nazi holocaust has now become the main ideological weapon for launching wars of aggression,” Norman Finkelstein tells Yoav Shamir in “Defamation,” the Israeli filmmaker’s award-winning 2009 documentary on how perceptions of anti-Semitism affect Israeli and U.S. politics. “Every time you want to launch a war of aggression, drag in the Nazi holocaust.” If you’re looking for evidence in support of Finkelstein’s thesis today, you need look no further than the U.S. Holocaust...
Rep. Pete King Wants ‘All Out’ Surveillance Of Muslims
by Chris Rossini | Oct 24, 2014 | Neocon Watch
One would have hoped that after Ron Paul schooled Rudy Giuliani on the concept of “blowback” in front of a national audience, US politicians would have paid attention. Sadly, it was back to foreign interventionism as usual. Once again, it appears that the latest tragedy in Canada, may be attributed to “blowback.” Here in the US, instead of reassessing foreign policy, Rep. Pete King wants to ratchet up surveillance on “Muslims” and “Muslim communities.” Buzzfeed quotes Rep King: We can have all...
Fragile Fact-Checking: How The Media Fell in And Out of Love With The Sikorski ‘Revelations’
by Bryan MacDonald | Oct 23, 2014 | Featured Articles
What’s worse than a junior neocon? A junior neocon trying to make a name for himself. Ben Judah’s meteoric rise, aided by his staunch anti-Russian credentials in a climate of fear, has imploded as quickly as it began. As I learnt the hard way, when you are a young man in a hurry it’s easy to trip up. The first few times you’ll, probably, be forgiven but once it becomes a trend, even the most ardent supporters will abandon you. The fewer redeeming features you possess, the faster it’ll happen....
Hollow Justice and Courts of Order in an Age of Government-Sanctioned Tyranny
by John W. Whitehead | Oct 22, 2014 | Featured Articles
“The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people.”—Justice William O. Douglas Justice in America makes less sense with each passing day. A Michigan couple that has been raising chickens in their backyard as a source of healthy food for their family could get up to 90 days in jail for violating a local ban on backyard hens. A Kentucky prison guard who was charged with 25 counts of sexual abuse against female inmates, trafficking controlled...
One Year Later: Was Afghan Withdrawal A Mistake?
This week marks one year since the end of the 20 year US war on Afghanistan. Former US Gen. David Petraeus argues in The Atlantic that the withdrawal was a mistake. Is he right?...
One Year Later: Was Afghan Withdrawal A Mistake?
Aug 16, 2022
This week marks one year since the end of the 20 year US war on Afghanistan. Former US Gen. David Petraeus argues in The Atlantic that the withdrawal was a mistake. Is he right?...
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