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When War Comes Home: A Constitutional Warning

When War Comes Home: A Constitutional Warning

by | Sep 10, 2026 |

A failed war does not end when the drones stop flying. It creates a new danger: A government that refuses to admit defeat and a president who, having failed abroad, seeks muscular victories elsewhere. The war against Iran is a case study in the limits of military power, the dangers of presidential overreach and the enduring wisdom of the Constitution’s separation of powers. It was unauthorized, unconstitutional, illegal, strategically incoherent and -- by the standards by which wars must be...

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Americans Should Never Have Given the US Government a Pass After 9/11

Americans Should Never Have Given the US Government a Pass After 9/11

by | Sep 10, 2026 |

One of the most disastrous consequences of the 9/11 aftermath was the pass that the American people gave to their own government. Their anger was focused entirely on the terrorists rather than on both the terrorists and the government that provoked the attacks. There were two reasons for this phenomenon. The biggest reason is that Americans bought into the rationale that U.S officials immediately announced as to motive — that is, the reason the terrorists struck on 9/11 with their devastating...

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Corporatism Goes Global

Corporatism Goes Global

by | Sep 8, 2026 |

Last Monday, a day before the Republican-controlled House passed a resolution condemning socialism, the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital announced that it had acquired a 35 percent stake in North American Blue Energy Partners, one of Venezuela’s largest private oil producers. In the deal, the Venezuela government gives the company a hundred years lease for some oil fields. The deal also provides the US government with veto power over appointments to the company’s board of directors....

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Front Row At the Revolution

Front Row At the Revolution

by | Sep 8, 2026 |

I spent the past weekend as a participant in the annual Ron Paul Institute conference that takes place in the Washington area, in northern Virginia. This year the theme was “Front Row at the Revolution” and the circa 500 attendees that filled the Hilton Hotel ballroom certainly got what the gathering’s theme sought to deliver. The outstanding list of speakers included Congressman Thomas Massie, Dennis Kucinich, Jim Webb, Josh Paul, Michael Vlahos, Max Blumenthal and Joe...

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Trump lifts sanctions on top Al Qaeda recruiters, financiers days before 9/11 anniversary

Trump lifts sanctions on top Al Qaeda recruiters, financiers days before 9/11 anniversary

by | Sep 8, 2026 |

The administration of President Donald Trump has removed the names of some of the world’s most notorious commanders, recruiters and financiers for the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda from its list of specially designated terrorists. Among those relieved of US sanctions this August was Abdullah Muhaysini, a Salafi-jihadi cleric from Saudi Arabia who participated in videotaped massacres of captive soldiers and recruited droves of foreign youth to carry out suicide bombings throughout...

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Massie, Kent Join Ex-Officials Lighting up Ron Paul ‘Revolution’

Massie, Kent Join Ex-Officials Lighting up Ron Paul ‘Revolution’

by | Sep 7, 2026 |

In his first non-Congressional public speech since his Republican primary loss to Ed Gallrhein, Thomas Massie brought some of the loudest energy to the Ron Paul Institute’s Washington conference on Saturday. He was full of jokes and promise for the future. Massie said he was not interested in mourning the defeat and declared that he was, in a way, happy he had lost. When addressing what he planned to do next, he joked that “you could scan my head” for an answer and still...

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God’s Little Helpers

God’s Little Helpers

by | Sep 7, 2026 |

Stalin once said, `The death of one person is a tragedy. The death of thousands is a mere statistic.’ He was quite right, of course. Palestine is the current example of Stalin’s cynical observation. There, young, violent Israeli hoodlums – known as ‘settlers’ in western media – have been trying to terrorize Arab villagers into flight. It’s all part of a broad plan of genocide against peaceful Palestinian villagers. In fact, this is a repeat of what happened in the region in the 1940’s and 50’s...

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A Small but Welcome Justice at Gitmo

A Small but Welcome Justice at Gitmo

by | Sep 3, 2026 |

The recent suppression of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s torture-tainted confessions at Guantanamo Bay is far more than a victory for a defendant. It is a victory for the Constitution. The United States government today alleges that Mohammed was the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, a crime of historic horror that demands accountability. For nine years, the government told us that the mastermind of the attacks was Osama bin Laden, whom it never charged for 9/11-related crimes. Then, after it...

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Corporatism Goes Global

The Definition of Insanity

by | Sep 1, 2026 |

Albert Einstein is credited with saying, "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Whether he actually said it or not, the definition stands. This definition also very well describes the Trump Administration’s war with Iran. According to media reports, President Trump was cajoled by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu that this would be an “easy war,” like Venezuela. Just assassinate the Iranian leadership, he promised, and the...

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Trump’s Stolen Venezuelan Crude Oil Sent to Israel

Trump’s Stolen Venezuelan Crude Oil Sent to Israel

by | Sep 1, 2026 |

On August 29, President Trump went on social media and boasted about stealing Venezuelan oil. The theft, according to Trump, “more than doubles American oil reserves.” He said there was “no cost” to American taxpayers, although there will obviously be a huge cost to the people of Venezuela who will see little if any benefit from Trump’s plunder. Trump went so far as to claim the brazen theft will benefit the Venezuelan people. The profits are expected to enrich oil company executives...

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Trump Censorship Machine Loses Again in Court

Trump Censorship Machine Loses Again in Court

by | Sep 1, 2026 |

The Trump administration’s crusade to crush campus criticism took another wallop on Friday in a California courtroom. Federal judge Noël Wise ruled that the Trump administration’s “ideological-deportation policy” brazenly violated the US Constitution. The Stanford Daily—one of the best-known college student newspapers in the nation—sued the Trump administration for changing its “immigration policy and pattern of enforcement, namely by arresting, detaining, and deporting students...

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The CIA’s John Ratcliffe Goes to Moscow

The CIA’s John Ratcliffe Goes to Moscow

by | Aug 31, 2026 |

Last Monday the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director (DCI) John Ratcliffe and his retinue boarded a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster transport plane at Joint Base Andrews airfield in Maryland, stopped presumably to refuel at the Riga airport in NATO member Latvia, and then flew on to land at Vnukovo International Airport, one of the four airports that serve the Russian capitol Moscow. The plane touched down on Tuesday at 9 am local time. The trip had been unannounced and its purpose was...

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Trump Must Not Let Washington’s Korea Hawks Intimidate Him Again

Trump Must Not Let Washington’s Korea Hawks Intimidate Him Again

by | Aug 29, 2026 |

One of the great foreign policy disappointments of Donald Trump’s first term was the failure to advance his initial promising initiative to begin normalizing relations with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).  Trump had abandoned the threats and bluster toward Pyongyang that marked his early months in office.  Instead, he moved to open a personal dialogue with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and facilitate productive negotiations on several important issues. ...

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The Bunker State: The Government Will Survive, but Will the Constitution?

The Bunker State: The Government Will Survive, but Will the Constitution?

by | Aug 28, 2026 |

What began publicly as Donald Trump’s lavish, taxpayer-funded vision of a gilded White House ballroom is now being justified by the administration—in and out of court—as a matter of national security. To President Trump, it seems, a ballroom by any other name is a bunker. And what a bunker it is. Court documents indicate the massive subterranean military complex being constructed five stories beneath the White House grounds will include bomb shelters, a hospital, “top...

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Welcome Home Stalin

Welcome Home Stalin

by | Aug 27, 2026 |

I’ve been all over the world and have seen both its good and sordid countries. One of the best run, most decent and honest nations I’ve seen is Canada. As George Bernard Shaw noted, Canada is a wonderful country, but it has nine months of winter and three months of fall. It has vast forests, beautiful lakes, lots of beautiful animals and birds, lavish natural resources, and people, as I’ve found, who are the kindest, most honest and thoughtful in the world. As an American, I have always...

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Twilight’s Last Gleaming

Twilight’s Last Gleaming

by | Aug 27, 2026 |

There is a point in the decline of republics when the problem is no longer that government breaks its own laws. Governments will always behave unlawfully. The deeper problem comes when the constitutional machinery designed to prevent those acts stops functioning -- when spending becomes detached from arithmetic, presidential power becomes detached from law, and Congress and the courts become detached from the Constitution. That’s where America is today. The fiscal warning could hardly be...

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