The term “deep state” has been so over-used in the past few years that it may seem meaningless. It has become standard practice to label one’s political adversaries as representing the “deep state” as a way of avoiding the defense of one’s positions. President Trump...
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Why Trump’s Iran Isolation Plan May Backfire
by Ron Paul | Jul 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
In May, President Trump pulled the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal despite Iran living up to its obligations and the deal working as planned. While the US kept in place most sanctions against Tehran, China and Russia - along with many European countries -...
Who’s Afraid of the Trump/Putin Summit?
by Ron Paul | Jul 2, 2018 | Featured Articles
President Trump’s National Security Advisor John Bolton was in Moscow last week organizing what promises to be an historic summit meeting between his boss and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Bolton, who has for years demanded that the US inflict “pain” on Russia and...
No (Internet Sales) Taxation without Representation!
by Ron Paul | Jun 25, 2018 | Featured Articles
Last week the United States Supreme Court, in the case of South Dakota v. Wayfair, ruled that the Constitution’s Commerce Clause allows state governments to force out-of-state businesses to collect state sales taxes. This decision overturns the court’s precedent that...
Why Can’t We Sue the TSA For Assault?
by Ron Paul | Jun 18, 2018 | Featured Articles
When I was in Congress and had to regularly fly between DC and Texas, I was routinely subjected to invasive “pat-downs” (physical assaults) by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). One time, exasperated with the constant insults to my privacy and dignity,...
Trump/Kim Meeting Shows Value of Policy Over Politics
by Ron Paul | Jun 11, 2018 | Featured Articles
When President Reagan met with Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland, on October 11, 1987, it helped put into motion events that would dramatically change the global system. A line of communication was fully opened with an enemy of decades and substantive issues...
Homeschooling Protects Children from Violence and Marxism
by Ron Paul | Jun 4, 2018 | Featured Articles
The February mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida prompted many parents to consider homeschooling. This is hardly surprising, as the misnamed federal “Gun-Free Schools” law leaves schoolchildren defenseless against mass shooters. Removing one’s children...
America’s Incredible Shrinking Influence
by Ron Paul | May 28, 2018 | Featured Articles
Just two weeks after President Trump pulled the US from the Iran nuclear agreement, his Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, issued 12 demands to Iran that could never be satisfied. Pompeo knew his demands would be impossible to meet. They were designed that way. Just...
Haspel is Not the Problem. The CIA is the Problem.
by Ron Paul | May 21, 2018 | Featured Articles
As a general rule, when Dick Cheney favors a foreign policy position it’s best to be on the opposite side if you value liberty over war and authoritarianism. The former vice president’s enthusiastic endorsement of not only Gina Haspel as CIA director but of the...
Trump’s Plan for Iran: Put Terrorists in Charge
by Ron Paul | May 14, 2018 | Featured Articles
Back in the 2008 presidential race, I explained to then-candidate Rudy Giuliani the concept of “blowback.” Years of US meddling and military occupation of parts of the Middle East motivated a group of terrorists to carry out attacks against the United States on 9/11....
The NSA Continues to Abuse Americans by Intercepting Their Telephone Calls
by Ron Paul | May 7, 2018 | Featured Articles
One of the few positive things in the ill-named USA FREEDOM Act, enacted in 2015 after the Snowden revelations on NSA domestic spying, is that it required the Director of National Intelligence to regularly report on its domestic surveillance activities. On Friday, the...
Baby Alfie, the Latest Victim of Omnipotent Government
by Ron Paul | Apr 30, 2018 | Featured Articles
Twenty-three-month-old Alfie Evans, passed away in a British hospital on Saturday. While the official cause of death was a degenerative brain disease, Alfie may have been murdered by the British health system and the British high court. Doctors at the hospital...
What Will Weapons Inspectors Find in Syria…And Does it Matter?
by Ron Paul | Apr 23, 2018 | Featured Articles
Inspectors from the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) have finally arrived in Douma, Syria, to assess whether a gas attack took place earlier this month. It has taken a week for the inspectors to begin their work, as charges were thrown back...
Trump’s Disastrous Syria Attack
by Ron Paul | Apr 16, 2018 | Featured Articles
Over the weekend, President Trump celebrated firing more than 100 missiles into Syria by Tweeting, “Mission Accomplished!” They say if you cannot learn from history you are condemned to repeat it. So I guess we are repeating it. We all remember that “Mission...
Progressives Should Defend Gun Rights
by Ron Paul | Apr 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
Last week’s shooting at YouTube’s California headquarters is certain to add momentum to the push for more gun control. Even before the shooting, YouTube was working to undermine gun rights by banning videos promoting firearms, including videos teaching safe gun...
Ron Paul: Bring troops home from Syria now
by Ron Paul | Apr 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
I was disappointed to hear President Trump so quickly reverse his position on removing U.S. troops from Syria. “We’re going to get back to our country, where we belong,” he told an Ohio audience just a week ago. That sounded refreshingly like candidate Trump’s...
Economic Storm Clouds Gather, but Ending the Fed Provides Hope
by Ron Paul | Apr 2, 2018 | Featured Articles
The Federal Reserve recently increased interest rates to 1.75 percent. This is the highest interest rates have been since 2008, but it still leaves rates at historic lows. While the Fed says economic growth justifies future rate increases, an honest examination of the...
Neocons Are Back With a Big War Budget and Big War Plans
by Ron Paul | Mar 26, 2018 | Featured Articles
On Friday, President Trump signed the omnibus spending bill for 2018. The $1.3 trillion bill was so monstrous that it would have made the biggest spender in the Obama Administration blush. The image of leading Congressional Democrats Pelosi and Schumer grinning and...
Pompeo and Haspel are Symptoms of a Deeper Problem
by Ron Paul | Mar 19, 2018 | Featured Articles
President Trump’s recent cabinet shake-up looks to be a real boost to hard-line militarism and neo-conservatism. If his nominees to head the State Department and CIA are confirmed, we may well have moved closer to war. Before being chosen by Trump to head up the CIA,...
Tariffs Are Not the Answer
by Ron Paul | Mar 12, 2018 | Featured Articles
President Trump’s planned 25 percent tariff on steel imports and 10 percent tariff on aluminum imports may provide a temporary boost for those industries, but the tariffs will do tremendous long-term damage to the American and global economies. Tariffs raise the price...
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