President Donald Trump’s announcement of an imminent withdrawal of US troops from northeastern Syria summoned a predictable paroxysm of outrage from Washington’s foreign policy establishment. Former Secretary of State and self-described “hair icon” Hillary Clinton...
Month: December 2018
Leaving Syria: Will Trump Hold Fast?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 31, 2018 | The Liberty Report
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) emerged from lunch with President Trump yesterday claiming that the president has agreed with him to scuttle an immediate withdrawal of all US troops from Syria. Is this another case of neocons playing fast and loose with facts? President...
Rough Times Ahead, But Liberty Can Still Win
by Ron Paul | Dec 31, 2018 | Featured Articles
While Congress and the president fight over funding a border wall, they continue to ignore the coming economic tsunami caused by the approximately 22 trillion dollars (and rapidly increasing) federal debt. President Trump may not be troubled by the debt’s effect on...
Rep. John Duncan’s Final Comment on the House Floor: ‘Seek Peace and Pursue It’
by Adam Dick | Dec 30, 2018 | Congress Alert
Come the swearing in of members of the new United States Congress on January 3, Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN), who is one of the longest-serving Republican members of the House of Representatives and among the House’s strongest peace advocates, will be beginning his...
Ron Paul: Trump Presidency is a ‘Mixed Bag’
by Adam Dick | Dec 28, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Donald Trump’s presidency is a “mixed bag.” That is the assessment of libertarian communicator and former presidential candidate Ron Paul in a recent interview with Larry King at King’s Ora TV show Politicking. Asked by King what he thinks overall about the Trump...
Good Riddance To General Mattis And The Rest Of Washington’s Mad Dogs Of War
by David Stockman | Dec 28, 2018 | Featured Articles
From the wailing and gnashing of teeth among the mainstream media and officialdom over General Mattis' (welcome) departure, you would think that the Rapture had come and Washington's ruling class was being unjustly left behind to eternal perdition. And if not that,...
Two Strikes on Bolton…Why Wait For a Third?
by James W. McConnell | Dec 28, 2018 | Featured Articles
President Trump’s foreign policy appointments have frequently been difficult to reconcile with the views he has often expressed. The most disappointing was the appointment of John Bolton as National Security Advisor. Bolton is a long-time and very vocal advocate of...
Newsweek Gets Russia Experts from the Atlantic Council, the Atlantic Council & the Atlantic Council
by Danielle Ryan | Dec 28, 2018 | Featured Articles
Sources are everything to a journalist. Without them, their stories would be hollow. Imagine there was a ready-made list of experts always willing to bring that crucial air of credibility to any story about...Russia, for example. Well, it turns out there is — and that...
Flashback: Whistleblowers Panel at Ron Paul Institute Conference 2017
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 27, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Never before on YouTube, the 2017 Ron Paul Institute Washington conference featured an unprecedented group of US government whistleblowers, describing their cases, what led them to blow the whistle, and the consequences they faced for upholding their oath to the...
LinkedIn Billionaire ‘Sorry’ for Funding ‘Russian bot’ Disinformation Campaign Against Roy Moore
by RT | Dec 27, 2018 | Featured Articles
The co-founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman, has apologized to Republican Roy Moore for funding an organisation that faked a "Russian bot" involvement to mar his election campaign in Alabama. American Engagement Technologies (AET), which Hoffman gave $750,000 to, put...
The Mattis Dilemma
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 27, 2018 | Featured Articles
The resignation letter of Secretary of Defense James Mattis that was published last Thursday revealed much of the Deep State mindset that has produced the foreign policy catastrophes of the past seventeen years. Mattis, an active duty general in the Marine Corps who...
Syria Withdrawal Enrages the Chickenhawks
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 26, 2018 | Featured Articles
President Donald Trump’s order to withdraw from Syria has been greeted, predictably, with an avalanche of condemnation culminating in last Thursday’s resignation by Defense Secretary James Mattis. The Mattis resignation letter focused on the betrayal of allies, though...
Senate Report on Russian Interference Was Written by Information Warriors Behind Alabama ‘False Flag’ Operation
by Dan Cohen | Dec 26, 2018 | Featured Articles
On December 17, two reports detailing ongoing Russian interference operations commissioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee were made public. They generated a week’s worth of headlines and sent members of Congress and cable news pundits into a Cold War frenzy....
Looking To 2019 At The Ron Paul Liberty Report
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 26, 2018 | The Liberty Report
Thanks to President Trump's surprise announcement, all of a sudden America is talking about ending wars! Naysayers may tell us that the president won't follow through with his decision to remove all US troops from Syria and several thousand from Afghanistan. They miss...
Was Jim Mattis the Last ‘Adult’ in Trump’s Room?
by Peter van Buren | Dec 24, 2018 | Featured Articles
The idea Mattis was the “adult in the room,” the moral and intellectual restraint on Trump’s evil wishes, is tired. We’ve been recycling that one for two years and more now, as various “adults” were christened as such and rose and fell in the eyes of the media —...
Troops Out of Syria and Afghanistan? That’s a Good Start!
by Ron Paul | Dec 24, 2018 | Featured Articles
We all had a big shock this week when, seemingly out of the blue, President Trump announced that he was removing US troops from Syria and would draw down half of the remaining US troops in Afghanistan. The president told us the troops were in Syria to fight ISIS and...
Trump Selects Former Boeing Executive to Replace Former General Dynamics Board Member as Defense Secretary
by Adam Dick | Dec 23, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The military-industrial complex revolving door keeps revolving. Sunday morning, President Donald Trump announced in a Twitter post that he plans to replace outgoing Secretary of Defense James Mattis, temporarily at least, with current Deputy Secretary of Defense...
US Leaves Trail of Bitterness in Syria
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Dec 22, 2018 | Featured Articles
On December 17, Ankara was notified of President Trump’s decision on troop withdrawal from Syria. During an earlier phone conversation between him and President Recep Erdogan on Dec 14, Trump had pointedly asked and elicited a positive response from the Turkish leader...
Five Minutes Five Issues: New York Marijuana, Trump’s Wall, Vaping Teens, Deportation Numbers, Heinlein Idea
by Adam Dick | Dec 22, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted on Saturday. You can listen to it, and read a transcript, below. You can also find previous episodes of the show at Stitcher, iTunes, YouTube, and SoundCloud.Listen to the new episode here:Read a transcript of the new...
Did Someone Slip Donald Trump Some Kind of Political Viagra?
by James George Jatras | Dec 22, 2018 | Featured Articles
This has been an extraordinary week. After two years of getting rolled by the Washington establishment, it seems that President Donald Trump woke up and suddenly realized, “Hey – I’m the president! I have the legal authority to do stuff!” - He has announced his order...
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