Jeremy R. Hammond is an independent political analyst and a recipient of the Project Censored Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism. He is the founding editor of Foreign Policy Journal (www.foreignpolicyjournal.com) and can also be found on the web at JeremyRHammond.com. He is the author of "Ron Paul vs. Paul Krugman: Austrian vs. Keynesian economics in the financial crisis" and "The Rejection of Palestinian Self-Determination: The Struggle for Palestine and the Roots of the Israeli-Arab Conflict", both available in paperback or Kindle versions from Amazon.com.
The Houla Massacre as Pretext for Regime Change in Syria
The atrocity will likely be cited as a pretext in increasing calls for military intervention to overthrow the Assad regime on “humanitarian” grounds.…
Ron Paul’s Position on Israel is a Betrayal of His Values
It is a disturbing development in Ron Paul’s campaign to see him sounding on this issue more rather than less like his establishment opponents.…
Ben Bernanke: A Real American Hero?
The April issue of The Atlantic has a worshipful piece on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, featuring him on the cover with the moniker, “THE HERO”.…
Michael B. Oren’s Worship of ‘Israel’s Resilient Democracy’
One may recall again the ethnic cleansing through which the “Jewish state” was established. So much for “Israel’s Resilient Democracy”.…
Review: “Revolution From Above: Manufacturing ‘Dissent’ in the New World Order”
Whether or one agrees with all of the arguments Dr. Bolton makes in Revolution From Above or not, he establishes the validity of his overall thesis quite convincingly through the…
Foreign Policy’s Irresponsible Reporting on Iran’s Nuclear Program
Foreign Policy has had a troubling record that goes beyond one or two guest op-eds. There has been a pattern of what can be termed irresponsible reporting at best. …
Preparing Minds for an Israeli Attack on Iran
A New York Times Magazine article titled “Will Israel Attack Iran?” can only be described as a propaganda piece, which maintains that central premise only through deliberate omission and distortion…
Ron Paul: Propagandist or Prophet?
Ron Paul is “the best-known American propagandist for our enemies”, writes Dorothy Rabinowitz in a recent Wall Street Journal hit piece. To support the charge, she writes that Dr. Paul…
Rich People Don’t Create Jobs? 5 Economic ‘Myths’ Reexamined
A featured article in this month’s issue of Mother Jones is entitled “Rich People Create Jobs! And five other myths that must die for our economy to live.” If rich…
David Frum: Saving America from Ron Paul
David Frum, the Bush speechwriter who wrote Dubya’s “Axis of Evil” line, doesn’t like Ron Paul for president, and doesn’t think you should, either. He makes a pretty convincing case.…
Newt’s Invented History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The Republican presidential candidates are falling all over themselves competing for who can be the most “pro-Israel”, with Newt Gingrich taking the game to a whole new level last week…
Paul Krugman vs. Ron Paul and Friedrich Hayek
Paul Krugman tried to slam Ron Paul in his most recent column by writing: Back in 1980, just as America was making its political turn to the right, Milton Friedman…
9/11 and Skeptic Magazine’s ‘Science’ of Controlled Demolitions
Chris Mohr at Skeptic magazine writes that “conspiracists are working hard to publicize their claims of scientific validity to the conjecture that the World Trade Center buildings were destroyed through…
What Would Paul Krugman Do?
WWPKD? Much more than Ben Bernanke has done. In a recent New York Times op-ed, Krugman criticizes the Federal Reserve chairman following his much-anticipated Jackson Hole announcement for not doing…
The Future Is Palestine
Special to the Palestine Chronicle. The U.S. has long opposed any “unilateral” action on the part of the Palestinians to seek fulfillment of their right to self-determination, and there is…
Video Analysis of NIST’s Claim of a 5.4 s Collapse Time Over 18 Stories for WTC 7
ABSTRACT NIST, in its draft report for public comment, initially denied that WTC 7 collapsed at the acceleration of gravity with the claim that an overall collapse time of 5.4…
The Propaganda Narrative of U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq
The New York Times this week reports under the headline “Taking Lead, Iraqis Hope U.S. Special Operations Commandos Stay” that the security situation in Iraq “may be at risk now…
Relying on Misinformation, U.S. Senate Calls on U.N. to Rescind Goldstone Report
The U.S. Senate on April 14 passed a resolution “calling on the United Nations to rescind the Goldstone report”, the popular name for the report of a U.N. fact-finding mission…
The Afghan Drug Trade and the Elephant in the Room
Foreign Policy magazine this month features an article entitled “Think Again: The Afghan Drug Trade“, which is a decent overview of the opium problem – as far as it goes.…
It’s Well Past Time to Start Taking Peak Oil Seriously
Michael Lind writes a top-9 list of “most annoying sky-is-falling clichés in American foreign policy” under the headline “So Long, Chicken Little” in the March/April issue of Foreign Policy, with…
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Quid Pro Quo Diplomacy in US-Myanmar Relations
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No Bear Market In Gold
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Erdoğan’s Visit to Washington, D.C.
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As scandals deepen, Obama, his party, and Republicans will militarily intervene in Syria
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Afghanistan War May End By 2024… Maybe
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- US Preparing for a Post-Israel Middle East? by Jeremy R. Hammond - 298 Comments
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A Scientific Theory of the WTC 7 Collapse
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The Myth of the U.N. Creation of Israel
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Bush Convicted of War Crimes in Absentia
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Ron Paul: Propagandist or Prophet?
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