Turn Away in Disgust? Dr. Frankenstein Did, But Our Leaders Can Not

September 28, 2017

I think we do know that terrorist organizations have an interest in using drones…We’ve seen that overseas already with growing frequency. I think the expectation is that it’s coming here imminently. I think they are relatively easy to acquire, relatively easy to operate, and quite difficult to disrupt and monitor. ~ FBI Director Christopher Wray One need not delve […]

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Lessons From Stop the Draft Week 50 Years Ago

September 28, 2017

In 1967, protesters filled the streets of Oakland to stop the draft. Seven faced serious charges – and their message still resonates today October marks the 50th anniversary of Stop the Draft Week, the largest militant anti-Vietnam War demonstration up to that time. Ten thousand people jammed into the streets of downtown Oakland to shutdown […]

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Trump Says ‘No’ To Catalan Independence

September 27, 2017

The Catalan push for independence from Spain appears to be part of a larger European – and possibly worldwide – movement away from larger, more distant governance and toward more local control. Elsewhere in Europe, the old order is slowly breaking down. New parties find success in German elections, Hungary continues to defy Brussels on […]

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Media Matters’ Goofball Argument That the Drudge Report Is a Russian Propaganda Pipeline

September 26, 2017

Media Matters published an article Wednesday with the provocative title “How Matt Drudge became the pipeline for Russian propaganda.” The explanation offered in the article for the title’s grand claim, however, would be convincing only to someone who has no familiarity with what the Drudge Report, founded and edited by Matt Drudge, is. Here is […]

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Ron Paul on the Kurdish Independence Vote – Progress or Danger?

September 26, 2017

The US was strongly opposed to Monday’s independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan, as were the countries in the region. The US wanted to manage the Kurds’ relationship with Baghdad, but it did not work out the way Washington’s planners hoped. How did we get to the point? To a large degree due to the US […]

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Today Is the Day: International Day for the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons

September 26, 2017

Today, September 26, is the International Day for the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons. This day, first proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2013, draws attention to the international commitment to global nuclear disarmament by the majority of the world’s nations as expressed in Article 6 of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. It also […]

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Ron Paul on Trump vs The NFL – The Right To Protest

September 25, 2017

Do NFL players have the “right” to protest against the national anthem on the playing field? Should Trump’s demand that anyone who does not stand should be fired? What about the owners? And what about the millions the Defense Department sent the NFL to militarize the sporting events? Our take in today’s Ron Paul Liberty […]

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Scott Horton in Los Angeles, Thursday, Sept. 28: US Out of Afghanistan!

September 25, 2017

This Thursday evening, September 28, join KPFK Radio’s Alan Minsky, and Scott Horton, managing director of the Libertarian Institute and opinion editor of Antiwar.com, for a discussion about the deadly and disastrous war in Afghanistan you won’t hear anywhere else! Approaching sixteen years of continuous war, Horton’s new book: Fool’s Errand: Time to End the […]

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Seymour Hersh Receives Adams Award for Integrity

September 25, 2017

Journalist Seymour Hersh, whose career includes exposing U.S. intelligence abuses, received an award for integrity from an organization of former US and Western intelligence officials who share Hersh’s ethical concerns about such abuses. The trademark “Oscar” for Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) was presented to longtime investigative journalist Seymour Hersh at a […]

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The Catalan Coup Chronicles 24 September 2017: The Catalans Keep On Keepin’ On

September 24, 2017

The state crackdown on the Catalan drive to vote on their future on October 1st, coincides with what is perhaps Barcelona’s most important festival, that of the Mercé (the Feast of our Lady of Mercy), which signals the traditional end of the summer season. It is celebrated with the parading of papier maché giants (gegants) […]

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