After several decades of nation-building and trillions of dollars missing or improperly recorded, the long-awaited audit of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has finally begun. On Wednesday, the Defense Department Comptroller David Norquist told lawmakers in Washington that the DoD’s first-ever department wide audit will cost about $367 million in 2018 and an additional $551 Read More…
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A compilation of in-depth research articles for those seeking to expand their minds and open themselves to a different point of view. Each topic is researched by one of our journalists over the course of an extended period of time, using both open source investigative information and archived documentation on the subject, in order to provide an objective view on many different subjects that are rife with controversy and or contrasting perspectives. The goal is to provide some clarity on these subjects and allow the reader a base from which to develop one’s one perspective and initiate one’s own research.
Trump Isn’t Another Hitler. He’s Another Obama.
Not a lot of people remember this, but George W Bush actually campaigned in 2000 against the interventionist foreign policy that the United States had been increasingly espousing. Far from advocating the full-scale regime change ground invasions that his administration is now infamous for, Bush frequently used the word “humble” when discussing the type of Read More…
From Shahs To The CIA: The History Of Western Intervention In Iran – Part 1
“Once you understand what people want, you can’t hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can’t hate them, because you can find the same desires in your own heart” – concluded Andrew Wiggins in the novel Speaker for the Dead. When Americans hear the word Iran, many have a sort of knee-jerk visceral Read More…
Iran Claims It Has “Hard Evidence” Of Foreign Meddling In Protests
Friday’s UN Security Council meeting didn’t disappoint in terms of the anticipated level of inflammatory rhetoric and accusations. Also not unexpected is that the US finds itself isolated after a week of the Trump White House going on the offensive: first by essentially calling for regime change in Iran after the onset of mass protests last week (the Read More…
The Clinton Merry-Go-Round: Will The Clintons Actually Be Held Accountable?
More times than we can count, it seems that the Clintons, and more to the current point, Hillary Clinton, has been under the gun and surrounded with, by all accounts, blatant evidence of criminal activity, and willful intent to not only hide that evidence but obstruct the entire process of investigation. So forgive me when Read More…
A Tale Of Two Americas: Where The Rich Get Richer And The Poor Go To Jail
“It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.” ― Nelson Mandela This is the tale of two Americas, where the rich get richer and the poor go to jail. Read More…






