This weekend the US experienced another “Saigon moment,” this time in Afghanistan. After a 20 year war that drained trillions from Americans’ pockets, the capital of Afghanistan fell without a fight. The corrupt Potemkin regime that the US had been propping up for two...
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Equality in Slavery
by Ron Paul | Aug 9, 2021 | Featured Articles
The Senate Armed Services Committee approved last month a National Defense Authorization Act that includes a requirement that women register with Selective Service on their 18th birthday. If the bill becomes law with this provision included and a military draft is...
Why Americans No Longer Trust the Biden Administration
by Ron Paul | Aug 2, 2021 | Featured Articles
For libertarians – and even many non-libertarians – it’s not shocking to discover that a US Administration lies and deceives the electorate. For government on all levels, lying to the American people is as American as apple pie. Sometimes the liars are held to account...
The Jan. 6th Show Trials Threaten All of Us
by Ron Paul | Jul 26, 2021 | Featured Articles
The recent felony conviction and eight month prison sentence of January 6th protester Paul Hodgkins is an affront to any notion of justice. It is a political charge and a political verdict by a political court. Every American regardless of political persuasion should...
‘Ed-exit’ to Protect Your Kids from Critical Race Theory
by Ron Paul | Jul 19, 2021 | Featured Articles
Parents across the country are fighting to stop government schools from indoctrinating their children with Critical Race Theory. Critical Race Theory is a form of Marxism that focuses on the “oppression” of racial minorities. Central to Critical Race Theory is the...
True Civil Libertarians Must Oppose the IRS
by Ron Paul | Jul 12, 2021 | Featured Articles
Progressives who work to end individual rights violations committed by the NSA, FBI, DEA, CIA, and other federal agencies usually overlook, or even support, the routine violations of Americans’ rights by the IRS.For example, progressives rarely, if ever, speak out...
It’s Saigon in Afghanistan
by Ron Paul | Jul 5, 2021 | Featured Articles
The end of the 20-year US war on Afghanistan was predictable: no one has conquered Afghanistan, and Washington was as foolish as Moscow in the 1970s for trying. Now, US troops are rushing out of the country as fast as they can, having just evacuated the symbol of the...
HMS Defender Versus The Russian Military: The Danger of Believing Your Own Propaganda
by Ron Paul | Jun 28, 2021 | Featured Articles
Less than two weeks after NATO members reaffirmed allegiance to Article 5 – that an attack on one member was an attack on all members – the UK nearly put that pledge to the test. In a shockingly provocative move, the UK’s HMS Defender purposely sailed into Crimean...
The Road to Authoritarianism is Paved with Fiat Currency
by Ron Paul | Jun 21, 2021 | Featured Articles
Last week, the Federal Reserve announced it will maintain an interest rate target of zero to 0.25 percent for the rest of 2021. The Fed said it will also continue its monthly purchase of 120 billion dollars of Treasury and mortgage-backed securities.Some Fed board...
The Lessons of Waco
by Ron Paul | Jun 14, 2021 | Featured Articles
April 19 was the 28th anniversary of one of the most shameful episodes in modern American history: the massacre of 76 innocent men, women, and children by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) in a military-style assault on the Branch Davidian...
The Coming Biden/Putin Train-Wreck Summit
by Ron Paul | Jun 7, 2021 | Featured Articles
I have my doubts whether the Putin-Biden summit in Geneva will take place later this month, but even if somehow it is pulled off, recent Biden Administration blunders mean the chance anything of substance will be achieved is virtually nil.The Biden Administration was...
The ‘Woke’ Fed
by Ron Paul | May 31, 2021 | Featured Articles
President Joe Biden has ordered the Financial Stability Oversight Council to prepare a report on how the financial system can mitigate the risks related to climate change. The Financial Stability Oversight Council was created through the Dodd-Frank financial...
How Texas Killed Covid
by Ron Paul | May 24, 2021 | Featured Articles
In March, Governor Greg Abbott announced that Texas would open for business 100 percent without a statewide mask mandate. The pro-lockdown “experts” were shocked. If a state as big as Texas joined Florida and succeeded in thumbing its nose at “the science” – which...
Big Government and Big Inflation
by Ron Paul | May 17, 2021 | Featured Articles
April’s 4.2 percent past year increase in the Consumer Price Index is not likely to dissuade the Federal Reserve from continuing its policy of near-zero interest rates. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell believes the rising prices are just a temporary phenomenon caused by the...
Covid Authoritarians Abuse Children
by Ron Paul | May 10, 2021 | Featured Articles
Centers for Diseases Control (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky has “recommended” that children wear masks while playing. Her offered reason is to ensure Covid is not spread by “heavy breathing” of children near each other while around a soccer ball.Dr. Walensky’s...
Will Special Interests Allow America’s ‘Longest War’ to Finally End?
by Ron Paul | May 3, 2021 | Featured Articles
Even if “won,” endless wars like our 20 year assault on Afghanistan would not benefit our actual national interest in the slightest. So why do these wars continue endlessly? Because they are so profitable to powerful and well-connected special interests. In fact, the...
Police Problems? Embrace Liberty!
by Ron Paul | Apr 26, 2021 | Featured Articles
Many Americans saw former policeman Derek Chauvin’s conviction on all counts last week as affirming the principle that no one is above the law. Many others were concerned that the jury was scared that anything less than a full conviction would result in riots, and...
Why Can’t We ‘Just March Out’ Of Afghanistan?
by Ron Paul | Apr 19, 2021 | Featured Articles
Last week President Biden announced a “full” US withdrawal from Afghanistan – the longest war in US history – by the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the United States. While this announcement is to be welcomed, the delayed US withdrawal may result in Americans...
Global Taxes – Global Stagnation
by Ron Paul | Apr 12, 2021 | Featured Articles
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has proposed that governments around the world require payment of at least a uniform “global minimum corporate tax.” A motivation for Yellen's push for a global minimum corporate tax is fear that the Biden administration’s proposed...
Why is the Biden Administration Pushing Ukraine to Attack Russia?
by Ron Paul | Apr 5, 2021 | Featured Articles
On March 24th, Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelensky signed what was essentially a declaration of war on Russia. In the document, titled Presidential Decree No. 117/2021, the US-backed Ukrainian leader declared that it is the official policy of Ukraine to take back...
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