Ron Paul asks: Is Gina Haspel Qualified To Be CIA Director?
May 14, 2018
Will the Senate confirm career CIA officer Gina Haspel to be the Agency’s next director? Sens. McCain and Paul, who don’t often agree, have both vowed to oppose Haspel due to her past involvement in torture and cover-up of torture. They have a good point. But is there a bigger issue in play here? If […]
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Massacring Palestinians with Impunity
May 14, 2018
Originally appeared on The American Conservative. Israeli forces have shot and killed at least three dozen unarmed Palestinians and wounded many hundreds more in the latest attack on Gaza protests: Gaza’s Health Ministry says the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli army fire amid mass protests near the Gaza border has reached 37, making it […]
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As NORAD Turns 60, It’s Time To Dismantle It
May 11, 2018
This weekend the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) celebrates its 60th anniversary. On May 12, 1958, Canada and the US officially signed their most significant bilateral military accord. The Cold War agreement was supposed to defend the two countries from an invasion by Soviet bombers coming from the north. But, the Berlin Wall fell […]
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Gina Haspel: Torturers Should be Punished, Not Promoted
May 11, 2018
US president Donald Trump should never have nominated Gina Haspel to head the Central Intelligence Agency. When Haspel offered to withdraw her name from consideration, as the Washington Post reports she did during a White House meeting in early May, her offer should have been gratefully accepted. The US Senate should vote against confirming her […]
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Praise for Antiwar Congressman Walter Jones after His Republican Primary Victory
May 11, 2018
On Tuesday, Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), who is seeking reelection for what he has indicated will be his final term in the United States House of Representatives, won his Republican Party primary. Jones defeated two other candidates — a Washington, DC lobbyist who holds elective office in the district and one of Jones’ primary opponents […]
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Europe ‘Can No Longer Trust US For Protection.’ Good, says Ron Paul
May 10, 2018
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron are upset that US President Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Iran nuclear agreement. We agree that it was a dumb move on his part that will likely bring us closer to yet another war, but when Merkel said the Europeans needed to start […]
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Uri Avnery on Golda Meir’s Destructive Reign
May 10, 2018
Ben-Gurion said about her: "The only thing Golda knows how to do is to hate!" Golda Meir did not hate me. That would be an understatement. She detested me. The way I speak, the way I dress, the way I look. Everything. Once, in the middle of a speech in the Knesset (I believe it […]
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CIA Whistleblower Ray McGovern Brutally Assaulted by Police at Haspel Hearing
May 9, 2018
78-year-old CIA whistleblower Ray McGovern had his arm dislocated by Capitol Hill police as he was brutally dragged out of the confirmation hearing for Trump CIA Chief nominee Gina Haspel today. Watch the video:
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Canada’s Trudeau Promotes ‘Anglosphere’ Spying
May 9, 2018
While the media has been full of news about information-gathering by Facebook and other Internet giants, other secretive organizations that are a major threat to our personal privacy and public security are seldom mentioned. When they are, it has been because politicians are praising them and offering up more money for them to spy. For […]
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Ron Paul on Trump Killing the Iran Deal – Who Wins? Who Loses?
May 9, 2018
President Trump’s statement upon ending US participation in the Iran nuclear agreement was filled with so many objectively false statements that it almost seems the neocons who crafted it were trying to make a fool out of him. The assertion that Iran is allied with al-Qaeda is so brazenly false that it rivals the tallest […]
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