Senate Moves To Seize The Internet – Do We Need More Government Censorship?

August 8, 2018

Senator Mark Warner’s (D-VA) office has drawn up a proposal for the US government to become much more involved in the Internet and particularly social media. They tell us for our own good they must protect us from “disinformation” and be able to determine the identity of each social media account as well as the […]

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Scott Horton says “I’m Quitting Twitter”

August 8, 2018

As Dan McAdams was saying yesterday on the Liberty Report, Twitter has demanded that we hit their Soviet BF Skinner button to delete our terribly offensive tweets, which at least in my case have been deleted from my feed by Twitter already, in order to begin the 12 hour countdown to having our access to […]

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Intel Professionals Ask Twitter to Restore Van Buren’s Account

August 8, 2018

TO: Twitter Board of DirectorsFROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)SUBJECT: Suspension of VIPs Associate Peter Van Buren’s Twitter Account We at Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPs) are greatly disturbed by the recent decision of your management to permanently suspend the Twitter account @WeMeantWell of our colleague Peter Van Buren. Peter is a highly […]

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Justin Raimondo on The Media, Trump, and Antiwar.com

August 8, 2018

Last night before I put down The Star Beast and fell into dreamland I wondered to myself: "What will I write about tomorrow?" There didn’t seem to be anything especially pressing or interesting. And, lo and behold, I was right! It was 4:30 in the morning, with most of the country asleep, but there was […]

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Behind the Scenes at the Twitter Purge – With Scott Horton, Peter Van Buren, and Daniel McAdams

August 7, 2018

Sunday’s suspension and banning of antiwar and libertarian Twitter users Peter Van Buren (whistleblower), Scott Horton (Antiwar.com Editorial Director), and Daniel McAdams (Ron Paul Institute Director) is all over the media today, including on Drudge and Zero Hedge. In today’s Ron Paul Institute special report we bring all three together to tell what really happened… […]

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Shocker: AP Reports on US/Al-Qaeda Coalition in Yemen

August 7, 2018

The independent press has long reported the seeming collusion between the US and al-Qaeda in the war on the Houthis in Yemen. Now the most mainstream of mainstream media outlets – AP – has concluded a blockbuster report that reaches the same findings. The US and its allies in the war on Yemen are so […]

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Twitter Suspends Peter Van Buren Forever

August 7, 2018

Some readers are aware I have been permanently suspended from Twitter as @wemeantwell. This followed exchanges with several mainstream journalists over their support for America’s wars and unwillingness to challenge the lies of government. After two days of silence, Twitter sent me an auto-response saying what I wrote “harasses, intimidates, or uses fear to silence […]

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Can Afghans Convince Us That the Method of War Isn’t Effective?

August 6, 2018

If we’re still quietly hoping that wars would end and people all over the world would get along peacefully, the dreams and demands of the Helmand Peace Convoy would give us courage and evidence. When Amanullah Khateb joined the Convoy, now called the People’s Peace Movement (PPM), he didn’t know that he would not see […]

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How the War on Yemen Helps al-Qaeda

August 6, 2018

Originally appeared on The American Conservative. The Associated Press reports on the Saudi coalition’s cooperation with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Yemen: A military coalition led by Saudi Arabia and backed by the United States has cut secret deals with al-Qaida fighters, paying some to leave key cities and towns the militants had […]

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New Sanctions Kick In: Trump Declares (Trade) War On Iran… And EU!

August 6, 2018

Starting tonight, US sanctions on Iran and anyone who does business will kick in. Did Iran attack someone? Threaten someone? No. President Trump has unilaterally pulled the US out of the nuclear agreement and now demands that all US allies follow suit and, de facto, abrogate the treaty. The Europeans are making a lot of […]

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