I'm confused. A few weeks ago we were told in the West that people occupying government buildings in Ukraine was a very good thing. These people, we were told by our political leaders and elite media commentators, were 'pro-democracy protestors'. The US government warned the Ukrainian authorities against using force against these 'pro-democracy protestors' even if, according to the pictures we saw, some of them were neo-Nazis who were throwing Molotov cocktails and other things at the police...
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The Mask Slips: ‘Libertarians’ Call for Pre-Emptive War
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 15, 2014 | Neocon Watch
Neocon Watch readers may remember Eglė Markevičiūtė. She is the Lithuanian member of the International Executive Board of the Students for Liberty (SFL) who co-wrote, with SFL president Alexander McCobin, an embarrassingly error-riddled attack on Ron Paul over his opposition to US intervention in Ukraine. She is also part of the Young Voices network, which has been recognized for its work by the National Endowment for Democracy, the US government funded regime change organization.Well...
Nevada: Early Lessons of Bunkerville
by Karen Kwiatkowski | Apr 15, 2014 | Featured Articles
The rush and rapidity of events in Bunkerville, Nevada surprised and cheered many, and there is a lot to learn from this case.It’s too soon to know the long-term impact of people standing up against armed federales last week, but here are some early takeaways.Location matters. This insurrection, brought on by federal government arrogance and greed, happened in part because people could get there, physically and intellectually. Wide open rangeland (for hardy cattle and 100 year old turtles)...
Another Phony Budget Debate
by Ron Paul | Apr 14, 2014 | Featured Articles
Anyone watching last week’s debate over the Republican budget resolution would have experienced déjà vu, as the debate bore a depressing similarity to those of previous years. Once again, the Republicans claimed their budget would cut spending in a responsible manner, while Democratic opponents claimed the plan’s spending cuts would shred the safety net and leave vital programs unfunded. Of course, neither claim is true.The budget does not cut spending at all, and in fact actually increases...
Patriotism is The Platform of Fools
by Eric Margolis | Apr 13, 2014 | Featured Articles
"Where is Ukraine?"A century ago, crowds in Paris were cheering, “on to Berlin!” Crowds in Berlin cried, “on to Paris.” World War I, the supreme example of nationalist/militaristic stupidity, was about to begin.One hundred years later we hear cries across America to “get tough” with Moscow over fragmenting Ukraine. A dozen US F-16 fighters are being sent to the Baltic, a squadron of F-15’s to Poland, and a US warship to the Black Sea. In short, just enough to spark a war but certainly not...
The Cliven Bundy Standoff: Wounded Knee Revisited?
by William Norman Grigg | Apr 12, 2014 | Featured Articles
We took away their country and their means of support, broke up their mode of living, their habits of life, introduced disease and decay among them, and it was for this and against this they made war. Could anyone expect less? – General Philip Sheridan, who presided over the expropriation of the Plains Indians, in the 1878 Annual Report of the General of the U.S. Army Following the War Between the States, as the formerly independent South was being re-assimilated into the Soyuz, the US...
The American Spring
by Nebojsa Malic | Apr 12, 2014 | Featured Articles
Many years after the end of the Cold War, when the United States government brings to power a neo-Nazi leader in Ukraine in order to hurt both Moscow and Europe, the world finds itself on the brink of nuclear war once again. This may sound like an oversimplified distillation of current headlines, but it is in fact a plot point in Norman Spinrad’s science-fiction novel "Russian Spring", published in 1991.Written as the Cold War came to an end, Spinrad’s novel envisioned the USSR not falling...
Is the US or the World Coming to an End?
by Paul Craig Roberts | Apr 10, 2014 | Featured Articles
2014 is shaping up as a year of reckoning for the United States. Two pressures are building on the US dollar. One pressure comes from the Federal Reserve’s declining ability to rig the price of gold as Western gold supplies shrivel and market knowledge of the Fed’s illegal price rigging spreads. The evidence of massive amounts of naked shorts being dumped into the paper gold futures market at times of day when trading is thin is unequivocal. It has become obvious that the price of gold is...
Hayden: Feinstein Too ‘Emotional’ To Discuss The Torture Program
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 9, 2014 | Featured Articles
Former CIA and National Security Agency director Michael Hayden has long been the face and voice of the growing security state within the United States. While many of his representations have been challenged, he continues (like Dick Cheney) to create his own reality to justify powers viewed as authoritarian and unlawful. Now, with the approaching release of a comprehensive report on the torture program, Hayden is out in the press denying the findings of the report that torture did not result...
Forbes Magazine’s Doomsday Preacher
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 9, 2014 | Neocon Watch
Like a fanatical preacher, who keeps moving ahead his prediction of the end of the world as each new date comes and passes, Forbes magazine's Paul Roderick Gregory has worked himself into a lather screaming that the Russian military invasion of Ukraine is imminent! It's coming! It's already taking place! Ukrainian defense analysts and coup-appointed military leaders in Kiev (no conflict of interest there?) are reporting on the invasion, War of the Worlds-style, and Gregory is there, his...
Why Are Americans Paying to Be Searched, Spied On, Shot At and Robbed Blind by the Government?
by John W. Whitehead | Apr 7, 2014 | Featured Articles
“To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.”—Benjamin Tucker, 19th century advocate of American individualist anarchism The State Department wants $400,000 to purchase a fiberglass sculpture of a camel looking at a needle for its new embassy in Pakistan. They’ve already spent their allotted $630,000 to increase the number of “likes” and fans on their Facebook and Twitter pages. The NATO ambassador for the U.S. needs $700,000 for...
Can the West Get Out of Its (Self-Made) Cul-de-Sac in Syria?
by Going to Tehran | Apr 7, 2014 | Featured Articles
In recent years, the limits on America’s ability to shape important outcomes in the Middle East unilaterally—or even with a few European partners—have been dramatically underscored by strategically failed interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. Last year, President Obama’s inability to act on his declared intention to attack Syria after chemical weapons were used there in August made clear that Washington can no longer credibly threaten the effective use of force in the region. Still,...
Ft. Hood: An Avoidable Tragedy
by Ron Paul | Apr 7, 2014 | Featured Articles
Last week we saw yet another tragedy at Ft. Hood, Texas, as a distraught Iraq war veteran killed three of his fellow soldiers before killing himself. It is nearly five years after the last Ft. Hood shooting, where 13 people were killed. These tragedies are heartbreaking and we certainly feel much sympathy for the families of the victims.While there is much focus on the mental illness that appears to have driven many of these men to murder, what is left unsaid is the cause of the tragedy....
Rep. John Duncan’s Plea for US Non-Intervention in Ukraine
by Adam Dick | Apr 7, 2014 | Congress Alert
Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN) on March 13 presented on the floor of the United States House of Representatives a brief and insightful plea against the US government “sending billions” of dollars to Ukraine and escalating US intervention to cause “some type of military confrontation.”Most representatives did not follow Duncan’s advice. Over the last few weeks, Duncan, an RPI Advisory Board member, has voted “no” with small minorities of representatives on bills that promote increasing US...
US Government’s Regime Change Obsession Rears Its Ugly Head Again
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 5, 2014 | Featured Articles
The US government’s 116-year-old obsession with controlling Cuba has suddenly manifested itself again. Yesterday, the Associated Press, based on secret records that it obtained, reported that USAID, the federal agency that distributes billions of dollars in US-taxpayer funded foreign aid and which has long served as a front organization for the CIA, has been engaged in a super-secret, covert operation to effect regime change in Cuba.The USAID scheme involved illegally securing the cell phone...
For America, Perhaps Now is The Time For Neutrality
by Michael Scheuer | Apr 5, 2014 | Featured Articles
Among the most striking aspects of the current debate over U.S. foreign policy is the almost complete lack of perception among Americans about their country’s actual economic and military capabilities and its international influence. Whether it is Ukraine and Russia, the intensifying Islamist offensive on several continents, or the blatantly Potemkin Middle East peace talks, U.S. political leaders, academics, pundits, and most of the media speak as if today’s America is the America of 1945,...
Canada's Health Minister: 'You'll NEVER Be Fully Vaxxed!'
Canada's Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos has called for continuous Covid-vaxxing of Canadians, claiming that the concept of being fully vaxxed against the virus is "out of...
Canada's Health Minister: 'You'll NEVER Be Fully Vaxxed!'
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