The purpose of all wars, is peace. So observed St. Augustine early in the first millennium A.D. Far be it from me to disagree with the esteemed Bishop of Hippo, but his crisply formulated aphorism just might require a bit of updating.
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Ray McGovern •
Wednesday’s criminal referral by 11 House Republicans of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as well as several former and serving top FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) officials is a giant step toward a Constituti…
Haunted by his vote to authorize the Iraq War, the Republican congressman is standing up against US military actions.
By Barry Yeoman
On the day in late January that I interviewed Walter Jones Jr. in his office in Greenville, North Carolina, the Re…
This is great TV:
I still look at the attack and say, you know, either Assad must be the dumbest dictator on the planet — or maybe he didn’t do it. I have yet to see evidence that he did do it,”
“The only thing that would galvanize the …
Twenty-five years ago today, FBI tanks smashed into the ramshackle home of the Branch Davidians outside Waco, Texas. After the FBI collapsed much of the building atop the residents, a fire erupted and 76 corpses were dug out of the rubble. Unfortunatel…
Wayne MADSEN | 16.04.2018
British Propaganda and Disinformation: An Imperial and Colonial Tradition
When it comes to creating bogus news stories and advancing false narratives, the British intelligence services have few peers. In fact, the Secret…
It was clear from the first few minutes of War secretary Mattis’s press conference last night that these strikes were going to be symbolic. They change nothing on the ground militarily. Russia’s threat to respond worked – the US essentially backed…
“There was NO chemical attack by Syria. … I would bet my life on it.”
Paul Craig Roberts
The author is a former Assistant Secretary for the Treasury in the Reagan administration, and former editor at the Wall Street Journal and Businessweek.
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By John Vibes - April 6, 2018
In the growing debate surrounding the natural right to self-defense, one of the most popular proposed methods of gun control has been restrictions on gun-ownership for those who are deemed to be mentally ill. …
by Ray McGovern Posted on April 06, 2018
John Bolton’s March 22 appointment-by-tweet as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser has given “March Madness” a new and ominous meaning. There is less than a week left to…
I was disappointed to hear President Trump so quickly reverse his position on removing U.S. troops from Syria. “We’re going to get back to our country, where we belong,” he told an Ohio audience just a week ago. That sounded refreshin…
We have talked a lot about the liberal assault on our right as American citizens to keep and bear arms for the defense of ourselves, our families, our communities, and our Constitution, but it is a mistake to think of a disarmed population as their des…
By Prof. John McMurtry
Global Research, March 28, 2018
We are now entering yet another US-UK led war build-up against the cornerstone of Western ideology, the designated Enemy Russia.
As usual there is amnesia of the ever-recurring big-lie prete…
The paper claims the founding father had no less than four children with Sally Hemings.
By Margaret Menge • April 2, 2018
On January 25, the Washington Post ran an article by the author of a new book related to Thomas Jefferson with the headl…
By Murray N. Rothbard
Mises.org
March 30, 2018
One of the fatal flaws in the concept of “limited” government is the judiciary. Endowed with the compulsory monopoly of the vital power of deciding disputes, of ultimately deciding who…
The latest Steven Spielberg film, The Pentagon Papers, made me wonder about the historical significance of this glorious episode of whistleblowing and victorious struggle for freedom of the press. The leaking and publishing in 1971, by the New York Tim…
by Eric Zuesse
The Morning Consult poll released on March 30th headlines “Republicans Drive Biggest Decline in Voter Optimism Since Trump Took Office: Record drop isn’t matched by a similar decrease in president’s approval rating.&…
By John W. Whitehead
March 26, 2018
Enough is enough.
That was the refrain chanted over and over by the thousands of demonstrators who gathered to protest gun violence in America.
On March 24, 2018, more than 200,000 young people took the tim…
Paul Craig Roberts
Among Western political leaders there is not an ounce of integrity or morality. The Western print and TV media is dishonest and corrupt beyond repair. Yet the Russian government persists in its fantasy of “working with Russi…
An amendment to the Constitution to stop globalism
by Justin Raimondo Posted on March 22, 2018
In this era of “America first,” when an upsurge of nationalism is sweeping the country (and, I might add, the rest of the world), the popul…
