Last night Israeli F-16s attacked the area near the Syrian coastal city of Latakia. It appears in the course of the attack, Syrian air defense missiles may have hit a Russian surveillance aircraft, killing 15 Russian service members. The Israelis blame the Syrians for using old air defense systems, while in fact they have been the loudest voices arguing against any upgrade of Syrian defenses (it would make it harder to bomb the country). Meanwhile the Russo-Turk agreement on Idlib has defused the threat of an imminent Russian attack on the province and has thwarted US and western government plans to retaliate against the Syrian government. What's going on? Tune in to today's Liberty Report... read on...
The mainstream media in the US is a joke. A really bad joke. Far from reporting facts and providing analysis, they are sell-outs and "presstitutes." Famed trends forecaster and president of the Trends Research Institute Gerald Celente delivers an extremely informative, pointed, and entertaining look at what passes for the fourth estate in the United States today. What's happened to the media? You won't want to miss this! read on...
Do we have any reason at all to hope for a less militaristic foreign policy under President Trump? Col. Macgregor has seen war up close - he led the charge against the Iraqi Republican Guard in the 1991 Iraq war - and he's had enough of the US empire. In his Media & War speech he offers a way out of the neocon militarism that dominates Washington... read on...
On the very day we heard that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo certified that the Saudi/UAE coalition was doing everything possible to avoid civilian casualties in its war on Yemen, yet another Saudi airstrike hit a civilian bus and killed at least 15 people. Congressional efforts to address the unconstitutional US involvement in the Yemenn war have been toothless. The hypocrisy of US foreign policy is laid bare in Washington's Yemen policy. More in today's Liberty Report... read on...
This week the Trump Administration announced that the Palestinian Mission to the US would be closed. Earlier the Administration announced an end to US humanitarian assistance to Palestinian hospitals and an end to all US assistance. These moves do not save taxpayer money, however. They are meant to be punitive. The Palestinian leadership has opposed the US Embassy move to Jerusalem and its objections have been met with US punishment. Why does it seem they are getting ripped off? Is there a better way? Tune in to today's Liberty Report... read on...
Seventeen years after 9/11, we've spend $5.6 trillion in a "war on terror" that has left al-Qaeda "stronger than ever" (as in a recent LA Times article). Most of that war effort seems to have been directed against the American people, who these days cannot fly on a plane without a TSA sexual assault, cannot be secure in their papers and persons due to government spying, and cannot speak freely due to government censorship. Have we just gone completely off the rails this past 17 years? Can we right our course? Tune in to today's Liberty Report... read on...
The Wall Street Journal tells us that an anonymous US Administration official claims the existence of secret intelligence showing that Syrian President Assad has already given the order to release chlorine gas in Idlib. The US stands by waiting to begin bombing. How strangely like the run-up to the Iraq war, with the "just trust us" evidence of Saddam's WMD. Will America fall for it again? Tune in to today's Liberty Report... read on...
The New York Times unleashed a firestorm by publishing an anonymously written op-ed from someone purporting to be a "senior US Administration official" and who writes of a secret cabal within the US government that conspires to thwart President Trump's agenda. Presented as a heroic "resistance" from within, many see it as the work of a dangerous and undemocratic "deep state." Is the "steady state," as the NYT anonymous writer terms it, really another word for the "deep state"? Tune in to today's Liberty Report... read on...
The hits keep coming! Today we release the speech of Nassim Nicholas Taleb from our Media & War conference two weeks ago in Washington, DC. Did you miss the conference? Do you want to see Taleb again? Tune in to this very special edition of the Ron Paul Liberty Report... read on...
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been forced to spend nearly 3,000 days in solitary confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. His crime? He isn't charged with anything. But the neocons and warmongers in the US government want to put him in a box - or worse - for publishing government secrets. Wait...isn't that what all journalists do? Yes, that is what they are supposed to do. So isn't the persecution of Assange actually an attack on the free press? Yes. What can we do to help Assange? Our ideas in today's Liberty Report... read on...
