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'Russiagate' And The Decline Of Journalism - With Robert Parry

Russiagate has "jumped the shark." So says Robert Parry, investigative journalist and founder of ConsortiumNews.com. Parry joins today's Liberty Report to discuss the current state of the mainstream media and the ongoing allegations of Russian interference in American political and social life.

When Mainstream Media Is Encouraged To Lie ... And When It Isn't

By Liberty Report Staff

Unintentionally, President Trump has shown everyone what government-"licensed" mainstream media is all about.

Trump attacks their dishonesty. But dishonesty is baked in. It's pretty much a requirement.

Mainstream media has bamboozled Americans to support a century of devastating wars. It was all dishonest and propped up with lies.

But those lies were OK.

They were "licensed" lies.

Honesty is not a criteria for keeping your government license.

Just the thought of government li...

Did Trump Call For Ten Times More Nukes?

President Trump vehemently denied an NBC report that he called for a ten-fold increase in US nuclear weapons at a meeting this summer. Calling it "fake news." the president reportedly threatened NBC's broadcast license. Is this really "fake news"? Or is President Trump just continuing President Obama's massive nuclear weapons "modernization" program?

In a Cashless World, You'd Better Pray the Power Never Goes Out

By Ryan McMaken

When Hurricane Maria knocked out power in Puerto Rico, residents there realized they were going to need physical cash — and a lot of it. 

Bloomberg reported yesterday that the Fed was forced to fly a planeload of cash to the Island to help avert disaster:

William Dudley, the New York Fed president, put the word out within minutes, and ultimately a jet loaded with an undisclosed amount of cash landed on the stricken island...

[Business executive in Puerto Rico] described corporate...

The Art of The Deflection

By Liberty Report Staff

When future generations look back, they'll surely ask the question: "What were the American people doing while their government bankrupted itself? Did they care about anything? Did they oppose anything?"

They'll look back and see that of course there was plenty of bickering and fighting between different groups of power-seekers, but overall, the politicians and their media mastered the art of keeping everyone occupied on the immaterial.

Americans were fed a steady diet of...

Horrific New Revelations On CIA Torture

The CIA has been forced to declassify nearly 300 documents about a secret torture site in Afghanistan where CIA psychologists devised some of the most cruel and inhuman ways of torturing. Some were killed. The psychologists made millions of dollars. It was more than ten years ago. Past history? Not if you listen to President Trump on torture. Waterboarding? "I love it," he said at a rally.

Will Tax Reform Increase or Limit Liberty?

Press Play to hear Ron Paul deliver his Weekly Update:By Ron Paul

President Trump and the congressional Republican leadership recently unveiled a tax reform “framework.” The framework has a number of provisions that will lower taxes on middle-class Americans. For example, the framework doubles the standard deduction and increases the child care tax credit. It also eliminates the alternative minimum tax (AMT). Created in the 1960s, the AMT was designed to ensure the “wealthy” did not use “looph...

Trump's 70-Point Immigration Reform - Here's A Better Way

The White House has rolled out the President's 70 point plan to reform the immigration system. Will building a wall, hiring more officers and prosecutors, mandating E-Verify, and other enforcement measures help solve the problem? Or is there a better way?

It's Deja Vu All Over Again

By Liberty Report Staff

H.L. Mencken observed very astutely:

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

While reading through an old piece from Patrick Buchanan from April 2, 2010, one finds the following:

"Diplomacy has failed," Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told AIPAC, "Iran is on the verge of becoming nuclear and we cannot afford that."

"We have to contemp...

The Ideas of Liberty: Measuring Success

By Chris Rossini

Our outside world is a reflection of the dominant ideas that people hold. It's a mirror image of the beliefs that dominate at the time. When we gaze out of our eyes and see government dominating virtually all aspects of society, it's no surprise to see multitudes of people who believe that this is the way it should be. The outside is a mirror image of the inside.

Since we don't live in a static world, but one of constant change, the ideas that dominate are always changing as we...