Whitney Webb

4 weeks ago | thewashingtonstandard.com | Alex Newman |John Whitehead |Thomas DiLorenzo |Whitney Webb

The time is now for states to take action to eliminate property taxes, balance their budgets and pay off debt, protect gun rights, and secure elections, explained Wyoming state senator Bo Biteman, who Trump has encouraged to run for governor, to Alex Newman on The Sentinel Report. While Americans are amenable and excited about the America-First agenda, states must codify it immediately.

4 weeks ago | thewashingtonstandard.com | John Whitehead |Thomas DiLorenzo |Whitney Webb |Tim Brown

“Homegrowns are next. The homegrowns. You gotta build about five more places [like the CECOT prison]. It’s not big enough.”—President Trump on his desire to send American citizens to a megaprison in El Salvador, beyond the reach of U.S. courts and the ConstitutionIt has begun, just as we predicted, justified in the name of national security. Mass roundups. Raids. Indefinite detentions in concentration camps. Martial law. The erosion of habeas corpus protections.

4 weeks ago | thewashingtonstandard.com | Thomas DiLorenzo |Whitney Webb |Tim Brown

Historic anniversary marks day local churchmen died in the cause of freedom. Quick question: How many towns or cities in America are named Lexington? Amazingly, the answer is 25. But the original Lexington, the one the others are named after, is the one in Massachusetts. It was there (and at the sleepy hamlet of Concord, 6 miles away) where the American Revolution began 250 years ago, on April 19, 1775.

4 weeks ago | thewashingtonstandard.com | Thomas DiLorenzo |Whitney Webb |Tim Brown

FOX commentator Charles Payne recently repeated Pat Buchanan’s old post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy (After this, therefore because of this) about tariffs in a Breitbart column. The fallacy goes like this: 1). Economic growth occurred during the post-Civil War period up to the turn of the century. 2). High protectionist tariffs were imposed during the Lincoln regime and lasted for some fifty years. 3). Therefore, the protectionist tariffs caused the economic growth.

4 weeks ago | thewashingtonstandard.com | Whitney Webb |Tim Brown

In Part I of this series on the overlap between the worlds of Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jeffrey Epstein, we examine Combs’ early years, his mentors and the industry figures who ensured their, as well as Combs’ own, commercial success. Ties to organized crime and intelligence are readily apparent and point toward a truly sinister reason behind this network’s patronage of Combs and his close associates, like Andre Harrell and Russell Simmons.