By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com If one of the very worst provisions of the Patriot Act – which the government has erroneously and illegally interpreted to gather the phone records of each and every American – expires, we’ll have Senator Rand Paul to thank. And the truth is, we […]
My recent interview with PressTV. Listen here: http://presstv.ir/Default/embed/413640 The forces trained by the United States to fight against terrorist groups like ISIL are increasingly “defecting to the other side,” says a political analyst from Virginia. Keith Preston made the remarks when asked about a report that an ISIL […]
By Jerome Corsi Global Research More than 100 pages of previously classified Department of Defense and Department of State documents implicate the Obama administration in a cover-up to obscure the role Hillary Clinton and the State Department played in the rise of ISIS. The documents were obtained in a […]
Truth in Media Ron Paul Liberty Report A redacted assessment of the situation in Iraq and Syria has provided “some confirmation” of suspicions regarding the U.S. government’s support of moderate rebels in the region and its intentions in the conflict, according to Ron Paul. In the latest episode […]
By George Washington Zero Hedge America’s closest allies have been busted supporting ISIS in order to topple Syria’s government. Mainstream U.S. writers are calling for open support of ISIS and Al Qaeda to enact regime change in Syria. And a newly-declassified government document hints that the West supported […]
By Seuman Milne The Guardian he war on terror, that campaign without end launched 14 years ago by George Bush, is tying itself up in ever more grotesque contortions. On Monday the trial in London of a Swedish man, Bherlin Gildo, accused of terrorism in Syria, collapsed after […]
By Simon Denyer Washington Post BEIJING — China said Tuesday that it plans to extend its global military reach to safeguard its economic interests, while defending its territorial claims at sea against “provocative actions” by neighbors and “meddling” by the United States. A policy document setting out China’s […]
By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com When Ivy Ziedrich, a nineteen-year-old college student, approached Jeb Bush on the campaign trail and zinged him with “Your brother created ISIS!” the media ate it up and the video went viral. Ms. Ziedrich, a member of the College Democrats, talks very fast, and […]
By Mahdi Darius Nazemroava Global Research The strategic equation in the Middle East is about to see major changes. It strongly appears that the Iranian-led Resistance Bloc or Axis of Resistance — comprised of Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, and a cross-section of Palestinian and Iraqi groups — is about […]
By Ilana Mercer Libertarian Alliance “If we knew what we know today, we would not have gone into Iraq”: This is as good an apology Republicans vying for the highest office are willing to offer, 12 years after launching a war that was immoral and unjust from the […]
By Alexander Ionov Stop-Imperialism.Com “If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don’t want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances. Neither […]
Everything will be better when we’ve achieved gender equality in mass homicide, right? By Dominique Mosbergen Huffington Post the first woman to fly the F-35 Lightning II fighter jet. Lt. Col. Christine Mau, 33rd Operations Group deputy commander, puts on her helmet before taking her first flight in […]
By John Chuckman Foreign Policy Journal When I think of America’s place in the world today, the image that comes to mind is of a very large animal, perhaps a huge bull elephant or even prehistoric mammoth, which long roamed as the unchallenged king of its domain, but […]
This fits with The American Conservative‘s description Obama as a Nixon Republican. By Paul R. Pillar Consortium News President Obama is what might be called a “closet realist” who often pounds his fists upon the table while shaking hands under the table. He has to pull off this […]
And we’ll never ditch foreign intervention as long as we have this government. By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com Why should advocates of limited government support a non-interventionist foreign policy? This web site was founded some 20 years ago by libertarians perplexed and disturbed at the sight of ever-expanding government […]
It’s time the US gave these Bronze Age douchebags the toss. By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com Let’s get this straight: Saudi Arabia is Al Qaeda. If there was any doubt about that, the Kingdom’s invasion of Yemen makes it plain as day. The Los Angeles Times reports: “A brazen […]
Is a split emerging among the Anglo-American-Zionist-Wahabist axis between the Atlanticist wing and the Israeli-Saudi wing? By Pat Buchanan Taki’s Magazine At the Summit of the Americas where he met with Raul Castro, the 83-year-old younger brother of Fidel, President Obama provided an insight into where he is […]
By Jesse Rosenfeld The Daily Beast The U.S. relationship is informal amid a tangled roster of Kurdish warriors, but the PKK troops are too good to ignore. MATARA, Iraq — On the volatile front lines facing the so-called Islamic State outside the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, American […]
This video is mostly a silly attack on national-anarchism, but it’s worth watching because of a speaker that appears off-camera at 39:13 in this. The speaker specifically attacks anti-imperialists for not conforming to Western standards of what an anti-imperialist movement should be, and simultaneously attacks Western radicals for […]
This man, and not Rand Paul, is the logical successor to Ron Paul as the leading figure in the anti-state movement. Listen to the interview here.
An interesting discussion of Dugin’s ideas from Canadian television. Vladimir Putin’s name is known throughout the world. Alexander Dugin’s name, not so much. But to people in the know, Alexander Dugin is a very important name, as the Russian public intellectual says what Putin thinks. The Agenda examines […]
By Giorgio Cafiero and Daniel Wagne Antiwar.Com Nearly four years after NATO-backed rebels toppled the former Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi, the North Africa country has plunged into chaotic unrest. The failure of last year’s election to achieve political unity in Libya was most evident when Fajr Libya, or […]
The Daily Kos Republican Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson appeared on The Ed Show where he spoke about President Obama’s unprecedented agreement with Iran. Wilkerson, unlike most Republicans and quite a number of Democrats, was able to see what the agreement if fulfilled would mean. “Ed I don’t normally codify […]
The voice of the ruling class makes makes the empire’s intentions clear. By Robert Parry BillMoyers.Com If two major newspapers in, say, Russia published major articles openly advocating the unprovoked bombing of a country, say, Israel, the US government and news media would be aflame with denunciations about […]
It must be a good thing. By Daniel Larison The American Conservative Flickr The Kissinger/Shultz piece from yesterday’s Wall Street Journal makes the best case I’ve seen yet against making a deal with Iran – one that doesn’t rely on apocalyptic rhetoric or fantasies about the efficacy of […]
By Daniel Larison The American Conservative Paul Pillar puts the Iran hawks’ alarmist claims about an Iranian “march of conquest” in perspective: The main fact on this subject is that Iran hasn’t been doing anything close to the country-gobbling, capital-controlling, instability-creating stuff in the Middle East that it […]
“He has plainly adjusted his views on defense spending, foreign aid and on the threat posed by Iran. This is a good thing as it shows Paul has the capacity to learn from experience. This sets him apart from our current president, who like Paul, was a freshman […]
“Even dovish Democratic donors, by contrast, generally care about issues like abortion, gay marriage, gun control and climate change, which makes them more willing to donate to Schumer or Clinton despite their differences on Iran.” By Peter Beinhart The Atlantic John Kerry speaks to the press following the […]
” Benjamin Netanyahu has become the symbolic leader of the GOP, and even he is probably not as aggressive as most in the party would like him to be.” By Scott McConnell The American Conservative When the unexpectedly detailed P5+1 framework agreement with Iran was announced last Thursday, […]
The reactionary tears the neocon mouthpiece a new one. By Nick Hankoff Voices of Liberty April 2, 2015—Cable news got good yesterday. That’s what happens when Pat Buchanan is allowed on. The author and commentator was invited on Fox News Channel’s Hannity, apparently to be goaded and lambasted […]
By Petar Stanchev ROARMag.Org The dogmatic criticism of popular struggles for autonomy in Chiapas and Rojava reveals a colonial mentality that should be stamped out of our movement. Photo: comrades from the Revolutionary Anarchist Action (DAF) in Turkey express their solidarity with the Kurdish defenders of Kobani at […]
An interesting reply to the Western “anti-fascist” Left from a Maoist perspective. By Efe Can Gurcan Socialism and Democracy Matthew Lyons, using emotional language, targets me rather than the original arguments that I advanced in my essay. Lyons accuses me of “completely whitewashing Alexander Dugin,” whereas I make […]
A must read. By Ajamu Baraka Global Research The announcement by the Obama administration that it will seek congressional authorization to expand the war on ISIS in Syria and possibly send more heavy weapons to its client government in Ukraine did not generate the kind of muscular opposition and sense […]
By Neil Clark Russia Today A report called Body Count has revealed that at least 1.3 million people have lost their lives as a result of the US-led “war on terror” in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. It’s a report which should have made front page news across the […]
Dr. Roberts should rightfully be the executive figurehead of the Pan-Secessionist Meta-Party. By Paul Craig Roberts Foundations and corporations do not support truth-tellers. American foundations underwrite war and US imperialism. Foundations support subversion of countries that are not Washington’s puppet states. Your website has no foundation support, no […]
By William T. Hathaway (Warning: This one is not for the easily offended.) RADICAL PEACE is a collection of reports from antiwar activists, the true stories of their efforts to change our warrior culture. In this chapter a mother tells of her son’s return from combat. She wishes […]
Good critique of Rand Paul’s flip-flopping unpredictability by Nick Gillespie. I’m glad to see Reason is not merely sucking up to Rand. Still, Reason is considerably to the right of ATS on foreign policy “More than ever, we need a strong voice to argue that $600 billion is […]
This article and the discussion that follows are an interesting discussion of ethnic and national conflict within and between anarchist movements around the world both historically and today. By Budour Hassan The appearance of the Egyptian Black Bloc in Cairo’s streets in January 2013 triggered gullible excitement in […]
The picture says it all. UndercoverInfo Towards the end of last year reports filtered through of an ‘anarchist’ revolution underway in the Kurdistan province of Rojava. It appeared to have all the trappings in place – equality of gender, redistribution of wealth, levelling of hierarchies – and even, […]
If we needed more proof that Rand Paul is worthless as far as being any kind of genuine opposition leader, this is it. By Ryan McMaken Mises Institute Time reports that Rand Paul has come out in favor of a sizable boost to defense spending, [U]nder Paul’s new […]
By Navid Nasr Thank you again Tim Anderson for laying things out so clearly. These are the options. There is no “C Team.” A half dozen anarchists in Damascus and Aleppo are not “C Team.” The tiny, and now severely compromised, enclave of Rojava is not “C Team.” […]
By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society I normally associate terms like “treason” and “sedition” with right-wing know-nothings like the American Legion. So it’s eye-rollingly painful, in cases like the letter to Iran from Tom Cotton and 47 other Republican senators, to hear self-described progressives seize on […]
The torch of civilization is being passed to the East, as the BRIC Axis rises and the West descends into stagnation and tyranny. Russia Today Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (L) shakes hands with China’s President Xi Jinping. (Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon) The strategic ties between China and Russia are mutually […]
The imperialists will not tolerate resistance anywhere. Based on my conversations with American and Canadian expatriates living in Latin America, I’m increasingly leaning towards the view that Central and South America are becoming the bastions of freedom (relatively speaking) in the Western hemisphere, while North America continues its […]
In case anyone doesn’t know, this quote is from President Eisenhower. So was Joe McCarthy correct when he accused Ike of being a pawn in the Communist Conspiracy? What turds the Republicans have become under the combined leadership of the arch-imperialist/Israel-first neoconservatives and the militarist/corporatist “movement conservative” ideologues. […]
By Robert Lindsay Benjamin Maggi, an Argentine, wrote the comments in italics below. I respond after the italics. Little of what Benjamin says is true. Chavez himself plotted a coup to overthrown the government in the late 90’s Now that is true, but he was arrested and put […]
PJMedia.Com An ISIS e-book on how to accomplish their caliphate goal of sacking Rome stresses enlisting “the Islamic State’s secret weapon = secret white converts” to take on Italy. Much of the book, “Black Flags from Rome,” is dedicated to laying out a case for why Muslims in […]
A good article on ISIS, its ideology, and objectives. By Graeme Wood The Atlantic The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means […]
By William T. Hathaway A former student of mine works as a janitor. After graduating from college he worked as a market researcher and an advertising salesperson, but both jobs soured him on the corporate world. He hated being a junior suit, and the thought of becoming a […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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