It is discouraging to note just how the United States has been taking on the attributes of a police state since 9/11. Stories of police raids on people’s homes gone wrong are frequently in the news. In one recent incident, a heavily armed SWAT team was sent to a St....
Philip Giraldi
Goodbye Dollar, It Was Nice Knowing You!
by Philip Giraldi | Jul 4, 2019 | Featured Articles
Over the past two years, the White House has initiated trade disputes, insulted allies and enemies alike, and withdrawn from or refused to ratify multinational treaties and agreements. It has also expanded the reach of its unilaterally imposed rules, forcing other...
June Madness Strikes Washington. Iranians, Russians and Britons Beware!
by Philip Giraldi | Jun 21, 2019 | Featured Articles
It has been a lively June so far in light of Washington’s apparent zeal to remake the world in its own image. There is considerable buzz among those networking in ex- or current government circles that the White House is preparing to “do something” about Iran. The...
False Identities Become the New Weapon: War with Iran Promoted by Fake Journalists
by Philip Giraldi | Jun 17, 2019 | Featured Articles
*(MEK members working in the ‘Twitter troll factory’ in Manez Camp, Albania)One of the claims made about alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US election was that Kremlin-controlled entities were using fake identities to create dissension and confusion on social...
Pence Goes to War: America Will Be Fighting Forever
by Philip Giraldi | Jun 13, 2019 | Featured Articles
On May 25th Vice President Mike Pence was the featured speaker at the United States Military Academy commencement. His speech was predictably an encomium celebrating both the diversity and the success of the newly commissioned officers as well as of the system at West...
Tulsi Gabbard Pushes No War Agenda – and the Media Is Out to Kill Her Chances
by Philip Giraldi | Jun 6, 2019 | Featured Articles
Voters looking ahead to 2020 are being bombarded with soundbites from the twenty plus Democratic would-be candidates. That Joe Biden is apparently leading the pack according to opinion polls should come as no surprise as he stands for nothing apart from being the...
Washington’s Mighty Warriors: Draft Dodgers and Scoundrels
by Philip Giraldi | May 30, 2019 | Featured Articles
Remember Shakespeare’s line “he jests at scars that never felt a wound?” That epithet could have been written with National Security Advisor John Bolton in mind. Bolton was notoriously a draft dodger during the Vietnam War, like his current boss, not due to any...
Pandering to Israel Means War With Iran
by Philip Giraldi | May 9, 2019 | Featured Articles
The United States is moving dangerously forward in what appears to be a deliberate attempt to provoke a war with Iran, apparently based on threat intelligence provided by Israel. The claims made by National Security Advisor John Bolton and by Secretary of State Mike...
Jared Kushner, Not Maria Butina, Is America’s Real Foreign Agent
by Philip Giraldi | Apr 25, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Mueller Special Counsel inquiry is far from over even though a final report on its findings has been issued. Although the investigation had a mandate to explore all aspects of the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US election, from the start the focus was...
The Conspiracy Against Trump
by Philip Giraldi | Apr 23, 2019 | Featured Articles
The real “deplorable” in today’s United States is the continuation of a foreign policy based on endless aggression to maintain Washington’s military dominance in parts of the world where Americans have no conceivable interest. Many voters backed Donald J. Trump...
Rumors of War: Washington Is Looking for a Fight
by Philip Giraldi | Apr 18, 2019 | Featured Articles
It is depressing to observe how the United States of America has become the evil empire. Having served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War and in the Central Intelligence Agency for the second half of the Cold War, I had an insider’s viewpoint of how an...
Who Is Killing Whom in the Middle East? Blaming Iran Might be an Excuse for War
by Philip Giraldi | Apr 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
Newsweek is reporting a story regarding how Iran “was responsible for the deaths of at least 608 American troops in Iraq between 2003 and 2011.” The account is sourced to a newly revised estimate prepared by analysts at the Pentagon that was discussed by Special...
What Monroe Doctrine?
by Philip Giraldi | Apr 4, 2019 | Featured Articles
Because there is a presidential election coming up next year, the Donald Trump Administration appears to be looking for a country that it can attack and destroy in order to prove its toughness and willingness to go all the way in support of alleged American interests....
Now It’s Official: God, Not the Russians, Elected Trump
by Philip Giraldi | Mar 28, 2019 | Featured Articles
Governments that pride themselves on being either democratic or republican in nature claim that they are empowered by the will of the people, but the sad reality is that most regimes come to power based on promises that they have no intention of honoring after the...
Human Rights as Seen by the White House: Concessions to Israel Are Notable
by Philip Giraldi | Mar 22, 2019 | Featured Articles
The State Department’s just issued annual Human Rights Report for 2018 is a disgrace, a document so heavily politicized by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his crew of hardliners that it might be regarded as a model in how to make something that is black appear to...
Goodbye to the Internet: Interference by Governments Is Already Here
by Philip Giraldi | Mar 21, 2019 | Featured Articles
There is a saying attributed to the French banker Nathan Rothschild that "Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes its laws." Conservative opinion in the United States has long suspected that Rothschild was right and there have been frequent calls...
The Trump Phenomenon as Seen in Europe
by Philip Giraldi | Mar 14, 2019 | Featured Articles
President Donald Trump is frequently seen through the prism of an American media that despises him and wants to discredit him so that he can either be impeached soon or defeated in 2020. To a certain extent the foreign media has picked up on that depiction of Trump,...
Attacking Iran: Fake news about a terrorist connection could serve as a pretext for war
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 26, 2019 | Featured Articles
Observers of developments in the Middle East have long taken it as a given that the United States and Israel are seeking for an excuse to attack Iran. The recently terminated conference in Warsaw had that objective, which was clearly expressed by Israeli Prime...
What If They Started a War and No One Showed Up?
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 21, 2019 | Featured Articles
The humiliation of United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Warsaw last week was a good thing. The ancient Greeks, exercising their demonstrated ability to synthesize defining characteristics, had a word for it: hubris. Hubris is when one develops an extreme...
Does Washington Rule the World?
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 7, 2019 | Featured Articles
One of the most disturbing aspects of the past two years of Donald Trump foreign policy has been the assumption that decisions made by the United States are binding on the rest of the world. Apart from time of war, no other nation has ever sought to prevent other...
Recent Posts
- The Runaway Texas Democratsby Andrew P. Napolitano
- Trump is Taunting India But is an Emperor Without Clothesby Melkulangara Bhadrakumar
- Starving Little Children Create Global Outrageby Rep. John J. Duncan Jr.
- Climbing Aboard the Titanic: Trump’s New Ukraine Policyby Ted Galen Carpenter
- Russophrenia: the West’s Favorite Delusion about Russiaby Brian McDonald
- The Secondary Sanctions Squeezeby Moon of Alabama
- A Further US Attack on Iran Would be Pointless Kabukiby Alastair Crooke
- Cold War 2.0 Heats Upby Ron Paul
- Super PAC Targeting Massie Funded By Three Israel-Backing Billionairesby Tyler Durden
- The Betrayal of the Innocents by Ted Cruz Christiansby George D. O’Neill, Jr.
Categories
Sign Up For Institute Updates for Free!
Keep up to date with all Ron Paul Institute news and events by signing up for our updates. We will keep you informed and make sure you are the first to know any RPI news. We will occasionally send you our take on breaking events. But we won't clog your in-box and we absolutely will respect your privacy. Let's work for peace and prosperity together! Come on board!
Donate to The Ron Paul Institute Today!
Support our upcoming set rebuild. We plan to improve our reach by amplifying the message.