The Associated Press has carried an exclusive report regarding the intensive, on-going political dialogue between the Afghan government and the Taliban behind the scene, the appearance of a "stalemate" notwithstanding. That such contacts have been going on was a...
Month: August 2017
Making Stuff up on Twitter is the New ‘Journalism’ — and We Deserve it
by Danielle Ryan | Aug 30, 2017 | Featured Articles
Louise Mensch and Chris Hayes on Real Time On Monday, The Guardian published a story which should have surprised no one: Information pushed aggressively on Twitter by anti-Trump conspiracy theorist duo Louise Mensch and Claude Taylor came from a hoaxer who duped...
Is a Militarized Police The Answer To Inner City Turmoil?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 30, 2017 | Featured Articles
On Monday, President Trump announced he was issuing an executive order to reinstate the transfer of military weapons and equipment to local police forces. A partial ban had been put in place late in the Obama Administration. The weapons transfer program has a long...
Iran, Again…Will Israel Start a New War?
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 29, 2017 | Featured Articles
When politicians are feeling the heat, they start a war and their popularity goes up even if the war is unnecessary or completely ridiculous. Donald Trump, the presidential candidate who promised that he would not take the nation into another Middle Eastern war, did...
Ruby Ridge Lessons for Fighting Right-Wing Extremism
by James Bovard | Aug 29, 2017 | Featured Articles
In the wake of the protest in Charlottesville by white supremacists, many people are demanding a crackdown on dangerous right-wing extremists. The federal government has previously carried out similar campaigns against with disastrous results. Rather than...

Will Congress and Trump Declare War on WikiLeaks?
by Ron Paul | Aug 28, 2017 | Featured Articles
The Senate Intelligence Committee recently passed its Intelligence Authorization Act for 2018 that contains a chilling attack on the First Amendment. Section 623 of the act expresses the “sense of Congress” that WikiLeaks resembles a “non-state hostile intelligence...
One Way to End Drug War Violence
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 26, 2017 | Featured Articles
Two police officers in Kissimmee, Florida, were recently shot and killed while investigating illegal drug activity in a dangerous part of town. According to the New York Times, government officials praised the officers for their service and asked Floridians to pray...
I Predict a ‘RIOT’ as Dissent in American Media Becomes Illegitimate
by Bryan MacDonald | Aug 26, 2017 | Featured Articles
Since the German Marshall Fund of the United States unveiled its “Alliance For Securing Democracy (AFSD)," I’ve resisted commenting, simply because the lobby group’s “Hamilton 68 dashboard” is too preposterous to merit serious analysis.It has rightly been ridiculed by...
Wikileaks’ Julian Assange to Join RPI Conference!
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 26, 2017 | Featured Articles
The Ron Paul Institute's second annual Washington, D.C. conference got a shot in the arm over the weekend, as Wikileaks founder and chief editor Julian Assange agreed to open up the Whistleblowers Roundtable with a talk on the recent US Senate and Director of Central...
Trump’s New Strategy for Afghanistan Is Neither New, nor a Strategy, nor Trump’s
by James George Jatras | Aug 25, 2017 | Featured Articles
For some time it has been clear that the White House of President Donald Trump was convulsed with a struggle among various court factions vying for the Emperor’s ear. Crudely oversimplified, these are variously described as:1. The military "Junta" (Generals McMaster,...
Trump and Korea. I’m Also Scared
by Eric Margolis | Aug 25, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Trump’s ability to trigger a nuclear war is "pretty damn scary" said former US intelligence director James Clapper this week. Remember when Trump vowed to "bomb the shit" out of his enemies?I don’t have much respect for Clapper, who brazenly lied to Congress...
Unlike Trump, JFK Didn’t Bend the Knee
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 24, 2017 | Featured Articles
NOTE: I’ll be speaking at the Ron Paul Institute’s Peace and Prosperity 2017 Conference. Saturday, September 9, from 9:30 am to 3:00 p.m., Washington Dulles Airport Marriott. Last year’s conference was a sell-out and this year’s conference promises to be even better....
The Mini-Skirt Deception: How McMaster Got His Afghan ‘Surge’
by Justin Raimondo | Aug 23, 2017 | Featured Articles
According to reports, Gen. H. R. McMaster convinced President Trump to give up his longstanding opposition to the Afghan war by showing him this photograph, below, of Afghan women in what the media are describing as “miniskirts.” As the Washington Post put it: One of...
US Liberals Cozy up to Antifa, America’s Anti-Free Speech ‘Taliban’
by Robert Bridge | Aug 23, 2017 | Featured Articles
The liberal media is pushing the idea that any violence committed on the part of Antifa, the so-called "anti-fascist" leftist group, is acceptable if it is directed at the political right. Such delusional thinking will only lead to civil war.Following the recent spate...
The International Criminal Court is the Antithesis of Justice
by Richard Galustian | Aug 22, 2017 | Featured Articles
If there was a prize for the world’s most ineffective institution, the International Criminal Court would win hands down.Consider this: The court has been in operation for fifteen years, has spent over a billion Euros, and has convicted just four war criminals. Yes,...
New Senate Intelligence Authorization Bill Includes Language Threatening WikiLeaks
by Adam Dick | Aug 22, 2017 | Congress Alert
The Senate Intelligence Authorization Act (SB 1761), introduced Friday by Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) and already approved by the committee, concludes with a one sentence section — Section 623 — that appears to threaten WikiLeaks with...
Freedom for the Speech We Hate: The Legal Ins and Outs of the Right to Protest
by John W. Whitehead | Aug 22, 2017 | Featured Articles
“If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought — not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.”— Supreme Court Justice Oliver...
One Step Closer to War: US, South Korea Hold New Military Drills
by Andrei Akulov | Aug 21, 2017 | Featured Articles
The US and South Korean large-scale combined joint exercise Ulchi Freedom Guardian (UFG) begins on Aug. 21 to last till Aug. 31. There will be approximately 17,500 total US service members participating, with roughly 3,000 coming from off-peninsula - 500 more than...

Oppose Fascism of the Right and the Left
by Ron Paul | Aug 21, 2017 | Featured Articles
Following the recent clashes between the alt-right and the group antifa, some libertarians have debated which group they should support. The answer is simple: neither. The alt-right and its leftist opponents are two sides of the same authoritarian coin.The alt-right...
Escape from Aleppo
by Eric Margolis | Aug 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
AMMAN JORDAN – I haven’t seen many miracles in my decades of travel around the globe, particularly not in the strife-torn Mideast.But last week I participated in a real miracle in Jordan as the splendid Four Paws International group staged a daring rescue of 13 wild...
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