Inarguably, Washington has a long history of supporting terrorists. As General William Odom, President Reagan’s former National Security Agency (NSA) Director wrote in his 2007 article “American Hegemony, How to Use It, How to Lose It”: “[T]errorism is not an enemy....
Month: June 2019
Bullies Like Me
by Peter van Buren | Jun 30, 2019 | Featured Articles
Harvard revoked a Parkland student’s admission, a survivor kid who supported the Second Amendment. Two former Central Park 5 prosecutors lost their jobs 30 years after the case, because of a Netflix movie released last week called “When They See Us.” By the time you...
How Sen. Rick Scott Became Big Oil’s Point Man on Venezuelan Regime Change
by Dan Cohen | Jun 29, 2019 | Featured Articles
While National Security Advisor John Bolton, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Florida Senator Marco Rubio have helped drive the Trump administration’s maximum pressure-style campaign against Venezuela, Rubio’s counterpart, Senator Rick Scott, has been every bit as...
Marijuana Legalization: Where We’ve Been, Where We Are, And Where We Are Going
by RPI Staff | Jun 29, 2019 | Featured Articles
From last month's Ron Paul Institute confernece, Deputy Director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, Paul Armentano, gives a full history of marijuana in 20th century America. From early hysteria and racism to a huge shift back to...
Demasking the Torture of Julian Assange
by Nils Melzer | Jun 28, 2019 | Featured Articles
I know, you may think I am deluded. How could life in an Embassy with a cat and a skateboard ever amount to torture? That’s exactly what I thought, too, when Assange first appealed to my office for protection. Like most of the public, I had been subconsciously...
Problems Arise with Washington’s Latest ‘Color Revolution’ in Hong Kong
by Tony Cartalucci | Jun 28, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Western media has been boasting over recent protests in Hong Kong. Western headlines have claimed the protests have “rattled” Beijing’s leadership. The protests have been organized to obstruct Hong Kong’s elected government from moving forward with an extradition...
Trump To Unleash Hell On Europe: EU Announces Channel To Circumvent SWIFT And Iran Sanctions Is Now Operational
by Tyler Durden | Jun 28, 2019 | Featured Articles
With the world waiting for the first headlines from the Trump-Xi meeting, the most important and unexpected news of the day hit moments ago, when Europe announced that the special trade channel, Instex, that will allow European firms to avoid SWIFT and bypass American...
Have You Heard of the CIA’s Iran Mission Center?
by Vijay Prashad | Jun 27, 2019 | Featured Articles
In 2017, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) created a special unit—the Iran Mission Center—to focus attention on the U.S. plans against Iran. The initiative for this unit came from CIA director John Brennan, who left his post as the Trump administration came...
Iran/US Escalation – Blame Pompeo And Bolton?
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 27, 2019 | The Liberty Report
The US/Iran conflict is coming to a crisis point this weekend, with a vote in the Senate on war powers, Iran set to breach its agreed to stockpile limits on enriched nuclear material, and strong words of warning from the Russian government. Will this weekend's...
Why the State Department Let a Terrorist Cult Gather on its Doorstep
by Alexander Rubinstein | Jun 26, 2019 | Featured Articles
Watching the Trump administration’s push for war with Iran, news consumers may find it hard to be surprised by the lengths the US government is willing to go to in order to instigate war — or regime change at the very least — against the Islamic Republic. US citizens...
NY Times Admits it Sends Stories to US Government for Approval Before Publication
by Ben Norton | Jun 26, 2019 | Featured Articles
The New York Times has publicly acknowledged that it sends some of its stories to the US government for approval from “national security officials” before publication. This confirms what veteran New York Times correspondents like James Risen have said: The American...
The Donald’s Latest Iranian Caper – Sh*t-Faced Stupidity
by David Stockman | Jun 26, 2019 | Featured Articles
This is just wanton sh*t-faced stupidity. We are referring to the Trump Administration’s escalation of sanctions on Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei and its foreign minister, and then the Donald’s tweet-storm of bluster, threats and implicit redlines when they didn’t take...
US Arms Dealers Getting Rich On Yemen’s Misery
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 26, 2019 | The Liberty Report
As the Saudi genocide of Yemen continues, everything's coming up roses for the US arms dealers who are supplying the Saudi killing machine. Billions in arms sales are made yearly and foreign agents lobbying for the Saudis and the United Arab Emirates are making...
Politics As Usual: Senate Refuses To Hold Iran War Debate
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 25, 2019 | The Liberty Report
The Senate Majority Leader is attempting to block consideration of an amendment to the National Defense Authorization bill that would withhold funds for any attack on Iran without Congressional approval. As usual, the debate is not about whether or not to go to war or...
Trump Seeks ‘Coalition Of The Willing’ Against Iran
by Moon of Alabama | Jun 25, 2019 | Featured Articles
After a somewhat quiet weekend the Trump administration yesterday engaged in another push against Iran.Monday the Treasury Department sanctioned the leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). It also sanctioned Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei...
New Sanctions To Hit Iranian Kids – Pompeo, Bolton Thrilled…
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 24, 2019 | The Liberty Report
Somehow even more sanctions are going to be slapped onto Iran today, with the Administration admitting they increase suffering of the civilian population. If the US claims it does not want to punish the Iranian people, why does it keep punishing the Iranian people?...

Boxed in by Neocons and the Media, Will Trump Launch Iran War?
by Ron Paul | Jun 24, 2019 | Featured Articles
President Trump did the smart thing last week by calling off a US airstrike on Iran over the downing of an American spy drone near or within Iranian territorial waters. According to press reports, the president over-ruled virtually all his top advisors – Bolton,...
Is the Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program an Illusion?
by Col. W. Patrick Lang | Jun 24, 2019 | Featured Articles
There is so much rubbish said about the supposed Iranian nuclear weapons program that it is a good idea to "review the bidding" about this.Iran does have a nuclear power program, but: "In 2012, sixteen U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA, reported that Iran...
A View From the Frontline of the Drug War
by John Baeza | Jun 22, 2019 | Featured Articles
Former NY Police Department narcotics detective John Baeza at the Ron Paul Institute's May conference on "Winning the War on the War on Drugs," speaking of his conversion from drug warrior to anti drug war warrior. Don't miss Baeza's harrowing tales of undercover drug...
Did Venezuelan coup leaders pocket $70 million from Citgo’s stolen US assets?
by Anya Parampil | Jun 22, 2019 | Featured Articles
Former Exxon Lawyer and Venezuela opposition envoy to Washington, Carlos Vecchio, may have overseen a multi-million dollar fraud scheme since his political allies were handed control of his country’s US-based oil accounts. On June 17, Venezuela’s government claimed...
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