Thanks to the always astute MoA blog for pointing out that for the estimated $72 billion per year the US government spends on intelligence gathering (the actual figure is classified and probably much higher), the US government is flying blind on what is happening in...
RPI Director Daniel McAdams is on the Scott Horton Show this week, discussing what is going on in Ukraine while everyone is paying attention to the disintegration of Iraq. The shelling of Slavyansk continues while the danger of US-sanctioned ethnic cleansing of...
The neocons cannot stand that Ron Paul was right on Iraq. They ridiculed him as he argued -- beginning at least in 1998 -- against another US attack. They ignored his hundreds of House Floor speeches, television appearances, weekly columns, and more. What did he know,...
As Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) forces continue to move ever closer Baghdad, the possibility increases of the billion dollar, Vatican City-sized, US Embassy compound being over-run by al-Qaeda linked Islamists.The Obama regime ponders drone strikes and the...
On the eve of President Bush's war on Iraq, as the House debated the authorization for the use of force that it ultimately gave the president, then-Rep. Ron Paul stood up to oppose the coming war from every possible angle. The process was wrong; the precedent set by...
As the radical Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) continues its march through the US-trained Iraqi army like a knife through butter in the Baghdad sun, the US-backed Maliki government is looking its collapse square in the eyes. What to do? Ask Washington for Gulf...
Has Iraq Fallen? RPI Director Daniel McAdams is on the Tom Woods Show today to discuss breaking news on the fall of Mosul and Tikrit in Iraq, the total failure of the Iraq war narrative, the total failure of "the surge," the disaster of the COIN.Also on the menu is...
What happened in Lugansk, in eastern Ukraine? RPI Director Daniel McAdams is on the Scott Horton Show to discuss his recent article on the strange US response to a military attack on civilians in Lugansk. As new Ukraine President Poroshenko is sworn in, the violence...
We all remember Secretary of State John Kerry lying through this teeth last summer, when he swore that US intelligence reports proving that Syria used chemical weapons in Ghouta were “as clear as they are compelling.” However, the US administration never provided any...
(still from YouTube)Anyone reading the Washington Post's coverage of Ukraine and Russia over the past several months knows well that when it comes to fealty to the regime, the Post makes the USSR's Pravda look like a samizdat. As long as the US administration has...
The current debate over whether Pvt. Bowe Bergdahl, recently swapped for five Guantanamo detainees, was a traitor or hero obscured what should be the real debate of our foreign policy, Ron Paul told Charles Goyette in his weekly podcast today. Many on the pro-war side...
President Obama met with British Prime Minister David Cameron today in Brussels, where the two leaders issued an ultimatum to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Russian leader would have just one month to meet their demands or face deeper "structural" sanctions...
On June 2, a missile screamed through downtown Lugansk, in eastern Ukraine, leaving a trail of craters in a city park before slamming into a regional administration building. At least eight people were killed in the blast, as it struck in a busy pedestrian area. Blood...
This week President Obama traveled to eastern Europe with one billion dollars in his pocket. He plans to use it to finance more NATO military exercises on Russia's border and to rotate more US troops into Poland and other new NATO member countries. Yes, the same...
On the Ron Paul Channel, Dr. Paul reviews a recent article by neoconservative writer Charles Krauthammer, in which Krauthammer expresses his great fear that US "influence" is on the decline after a $400 billion trade deal between Russia and China was signed last...
President Obama on Wednesday delivered one of the most bellicose foreign policy speeches of his presidency. Promising more, not less, US interventionism overseas, the president told the graduates of the US Military Academy at West Point: [T]he question each of you...
US mainstream media misinforms the American public on Ukraine and the dangers of war with Russia. They back US foreign policy to the hilt, assuring the people that they know what they are doing. But look at the track record for US intervention in the past 15 years.How...
As NATO and its US masters edge the US and EU closer to war with Russia over Ukraine, it might be appropriate to have a look at NATO's last "success" story.Yesterday in Libya, where NATO bombs fell just over three years ago to "liberate" the people from Gaddafi,...
Ron Paul and Charles Goyette discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, including a new Senate bill that seeks to push the US to the very brink of war with Russia. In addition to ramping up NATO's military presence on Russia's borders, the bill will appropriate $10...
US Secretary of State John Kerry seems to be on a personal mission to draw the US into an invasion of Syria. At the least, he remains determined to continue backing the rebellion against the Syrian government until the country is completely destroyed. Meeting...
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