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President Starts a War? Congress Yawns. Threatens to End One? Condemnation!
By Rep. Ron Paul
Last week’s bipartisan Senate vote to rebuke President Trump for his decision to remove troops from Syria and Afghanistan unfortunately tells us a lot about what is wrong with Washington, DC. While the two parties loudly bicker about minor issues, when it comes to matters like endless wars overseas they enthusiastically join together. Read more...

Indigenous Activists Set Up Protest Camp at South Texas Cemetery to Stop Trump’s Wall
By Gus Bova
Just a few feet north rises a sloped earthen river levee, which the Trump administration soon plans to transform into a 30-foot concrete and steel border wall. Read more...

Being Marco Rubio

By Philip Giraldi
Americans consistently indicate in opinion polls that they approve of congress less than any other part of the federal government. The approval rating is sometimes in the single digits. As the congress was intended, per the Founders, to serve as the direct link to the American people, there is a certain irony in its being the most despised branch of government. Read more...

Scotland’s Bomb: Six Times More Powerful than Hiroshima
By Arthur West
Trident is a fearsome weapon of mass destruction. Each Trident warhead is at least six times more powerful than the bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima at the end of the second world war. Read more...

Is America’s “Deep State” Divided over the Taliban Peace Talks?
By Andrew Korybko
Not everyone in America’s permanent military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies (“deep state”) is on the same page regarding the ongoing Taliban peace talks, especially when it comes to the official role of increasingly irrelevant Kabul in this process. Read more...

Who Guards the Guardians? “Newsguard”, the “Integrity Initiative” and Other Threats to Independent Media
By Michael Welch, Whitney Webb, and Patrick Henningsen
It is estimated that six major corporations own and control 90 percent of everything Americans see, read and hear. Consequently certain narratives will get emphasis, and the spectrum of debate will be restricted. Read more...

Pompeo Attempts to Link Iran, Hezbollah to Crisis in Venezuela
By Whitney Webb
During a Wednesday night interview with FOX Business host Trish Regan, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made several statements that raised eyebrows, such as claiming that Cuba had invaded Venezuela and “taken control” of the Venezuela’s “security apparatus” and that U.S. sanctions illegally imposed on Venezuela “aren’t aimed at the Venezuelan people.” Read more...