Departing Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats sent Congress a letter requesting that several features of the misnamed USA FREEDOM Act be made permanent, allowing the US government to spy in Americans in perpetuity. The Trump Administration wants to be able to...
Watch Abby Martin’s New Documentary on Great March of Return
Abby Martin and Mike Prysner of the Empire Files teamed up with Palestinian journalists on the ground in Gaza to produce Gaza Fights For Freedom. The documentary covers the Great March of Return protests at the Gaza border that have been going on since March 2018....
US Sanctions Killing Innocent Iranians… Just ‘Collateral Damage’?
The US government claim that US sanctions do not affect medicines and humanitarian assistance to Iran is a bold-faced lie. They make the manufacture of medicines in Iran nearly impossible and they make the cost of medicines beyond the reach of Iranians by disrupting...
‘Humanitarianism’? Hillary’s Libya Lies Still Creating Misery
The 2011 US attack on Libya to "save the people" from Gadaffi was an entirely manufactured narrative with Hillary Clinton's weaponized State Department, a chief author of the lies. Libya's population continues to suffer endless war and terrorism from a US intervention...
Can Trump Get Out of Afghanistan?
With a peace agreement between the US and the Taliban nearly completed, will President Trump be able to do what his two predecessors were unable to do – end the US military's 18 year war on Afghanistan? Neocons at home are screaming that we must stay, Trump has...
Ron Paul Interviews David Stockman: Grave Danger of China Collapse
Trade war with US, Hong Kong protests showing no signs of slowing – is China on the verge of a collapse? If the collapse does come, what next? Are America's fingerprints on the protests, as China claims? Former Reagan Administration official and former Tune in to...
The Saudi Coalition Is Tearing Itself Apart
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.The Saudi coalition and its proxies are once again fighting among themselves as the UAE-backed separatists rose up against the Hadi government and seized control of most of Aden:Yemeni separatists took over most of the...
The Return of Doomsday
Former Energy Secretary Ernest J. Moniz and former Senator Sam Nunn have a new article in Foreign Affairs about the nuclear weapons crisis between the United States and Russia. We can't run it as a viewpoint since the authors accept false conventional narratives about...
William J. Astore on Torture USA
Five years ago, President Obama infamously said, "We tortured some folks." And no one was held accountable; indeed, as Tom Tomorrow put it in a cartoon from that time, "The only government official who went to jail for it [John Kiriakou] was the whistleblower who...
Stop the Collective Punishment of the Iranian People
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Bobby Ghosh wants the U.S. to “stay the course” in its destructive Iran policy:For critics of the Trump administration’s Iran policy, all this is reason enough to declare the “maximum pressure” campaign a...


