One of the chief US/UK justifications for their regime change policy in Syria is the claim that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is "bombing his own people." While in fact the intentional targeting of his civilian population is more propaganda than fact, there is a...
According to Washington, al-Qaeda and ISIS are the biggest danger facing the US. But in Yemen, the US has backed Saudi Arabia's bombing of the Houthis, who are bitterly opposed to al-Qaeda and ISIS? The neocons are all behind the bombing because they are dedicated to...
This month, the Physicians for Social Responsibility released a report on the number of Afghanis, Iraqis, and Pakistanis killed in the ten year US "war on terror." Titled "Body Count" the report from the Nobel Peace Prize winning organization has found that what was...
Some 367 Members of the US House of Representatives sent a letter to President Obama warning him that the talks with Iran must "constrain Iran's nuclear infrastructure" so that Iran has no "pathway to a bomb." In his Liberty Report, Ron Paul argues that although...
Patriarch Gregoire III LahamMelkite Catholic Church Patriarch Gregoire III Laham of Damascus, Syria, has a message for those who continue to intervene in Syria's tragic four year civil war: please stop. The Patriarch rejected the idea that international military...
When did RPI Director Daniel McAdams first start following the ideas of Ron Paul? How did he come to work for Dr. Paul? When and how did he embrace non-interventionism? How did RPI come about and what are its priorities for 2015? Why is Germany the battered spouse of...
US military vehicles in military exercises near Russia's border this week.Just weeks after a European-brokered ceasefire greatly reduced the violence in Ukraine, the US House of Representatives today takes a big step toward re-igniting -- and expanding -- the bloody...
Obama blames the rise of ISIS and al-Qaeda in Iraq on US military action against Iraq in 2003. So what is his solution? More military action against Iraq! And what if ISIS continues to capture hundreds of millions of dollars of US military equipment to use against the...
What are the implications of a new law passed by Ukraine's parliament making it legal for Kiev to undertake special operations in the breakaway east? Will this open the door for assassinations and other covert operations against the secession-minded Lugansk and...
US Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), an RPI Board Member, took to the House Floor yesterday to criticize the new Republican budget for its increased spending in Afghanistan. Spending on that "graveyard of empires," said Walter Jones, is an "absolute waste of taxpayers'...
Sen. Tom Cotton and Bill KristolFreshman Senator Tom Cotton arrived in the Senate with a real bang. First he authored an unprecedented letter to the leaders of Iran trying to convince them (but really the American public) that the US government is an unreliable...
Why is NATO conducting military operations on Russia's border in Latvia? Should US ally itself with ISIS? Senator Cotton is an ill-informed warmonger. Is Venezuela the greatest threat to the United States? RPI's Daniel McAdams and Jay Taylor tackle the foreign policy...
RPI Chairman discusses his new essay on United States' 25 year war in the Middle East, starting with the green light US Ambassador April Glaspie gave Saddam Hussein to invade Kuwait, then the first US attack on Iraq in 1990, and up to today with the war in ISIS in...
As part of its 60 year anniversary, Roll Call newspaper is looking back on its coverage over the years. Have a look at how they covered Ron Paul when he was first elected to Congress in 1976: Roll Call Question: What freshman lawmaker was described as “somewhat cocky...
One would think news this week that the Iranians are helping defeat ISIS in Iraq would be greeted enthusiastically by those who insist we must fight the Islamist extremists. However, neocons like John McCain are furious that the US is not on the ground doing the...
This week NATO delivered more than 100 tanks and heavy armored units, and several thousand soldiers including US troops, to Latvia, on the border with Russia, in its "Operation Atlantic Resolve." US Army General John O'Conner made no secret that the military operation...
The US/NATO invasion of Libya was supposed to be another cakewalk, the interventionists promised. But just like Iraq, it turned out just like Iraq! Now, after "liberation," Islamic radicals like ISIS and al-Qaeda have a strong foothold there. Join Ron Paul and Co-Host...
Generally speaking, if one were to argue that the US foreign policy elites secretly back al-Qaeda, that person would be accused of extreme stupidity and of wallowing in the conspiracy theory mud.But what happens when a writer in the flagship journal of the foreign...
It is often incorrectly assumed that elected officials are better informed about current events than are average American citizens. "I don't have access to the kinds of information they have," is what is often heard. In fact, this is not the case. Members of Congress...
Sen. John McCain has a knack for getting his picture taken with the strangest characters. Though his support for US interventionism is steadfast, does he even know what he is getting himself into when he travels overseas? In the above photograph, we see Sen. McCain,...
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