Thursday’s US missile attack on Syria must represent the quickest foreign policy U-turn in history. Less than a week after the White House gave Assad permission to stay on as president of his own country, President Trump decided that the US had to attack Syria and...
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Yes, Let’s Allow The Syrian People To Decide For Themselves
by Ron Paul | Apr 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
Is common sense beginning to creep into US policy in the Middle East? Last week Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that the longer-term status of Syrian President Assad would be “decided by the Syrian people.” The media reported this as a radical shift in US...
Did the Government Spy on Trump? Of Course. It Spies on All of Us!
by Ron Paul | Mar 27, 2017 | Featured Articles
There was high drama last week when Rep. Devin Nunes announced at the White House that he had seen evidence that the communications of the Donald Trump campaign people, and perhaps even Trump himself, had been “incidentally collected” by the US government. If true,...
Obamacare Repeal or Obamacare 2.0?
by Ron Paul | Mar 19, 2017 | Featured Articles
This Thursday, the House of Representatives will vote on a Republican bill that supposedly repeals Obamacare. However, the bill retains Obamacare’s most destructive features.That is not to say this legislation is entirely without merit. For example, the bill expands...
Why Trump’s Syria ‘Surge’ Will Fail
by Ron Paul | Mar 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
Last week President Trump significantly escalated the US military presence in Syria, sending some 400 Marines to the ISIS-controlled Raqqa, and several dozen Army Rangers to the contested area around Manbij. According to press reports he will also station some 2,500...
Arizona Challenges the Fed’s Money Monopoly
by Ron Paul | Mar 5, 2017 | Featured Articles
History shows that, if individuals have the freedom to choose what to use as money, they will likely opt for gold or silver. Of course, modern politicians and their Keynesian enablers despise the gold or silver standard. This is because linking a currency to a...
On Military and Spending, It’s Trump Versus Trump
by Ron Paul | Feb 27, 2017 | Featured Articles
It can be a challenge to follow the pronouncements of President Trump, as he often seems to change his position on any number of items from week to week, or from day to day, or even from minute to minute. Consider his speech last week at the Conservative Political...
Trump’s ISIS Plan: Another US Invasion?
by Ron Paul | Feb 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
Just over a week into the Trump Administration, the President issued an Executive Order giving Defense Secretary James Mattis 30 days to come up with a plan to defeat ISIS. According to the Order, the plan should make recommendations on military actions, diplomatic...
Will Congress Stop Forcing Pro-Life Americans to Subsidize Abortion?
by Ron Paul | Feb 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
Last month marked 44 years since the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision declaring a constitutional right to abortion. Roe remains one of the Supreme Court’s most controversial decisions. Even some progressive legal theorists who favor legalized abortion have...
Cut, Don’t Reform, Taxes
by Ron Paul | Feb 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
Many Americans who have wrestled with a 1040 form, or who have paid someone to prepare their taxes, no doubt cheered the news that Congress will soon resume working on tax reform. However taxpayers should temper their enthusiasm because, even in the unlikely event tax...
A Better Solution Than Trump’s Border Wall
by Ron Paul | Jan 30, 2017 | Featured Articles
Just one week in office, President Trump is already following through on his pledge to address illegal immigration. His January 25th executive order called for the construction of a wall along the entire length of the US-Mexico border. While he is right to focus on...
Trump’s Foreign Policy: An Unwise Inconsistency?
by Ron Paul | Jan 23, 2017 | Featured Articles
Throughout the presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s foreign policy positions have been anything but consistent. One day we heard that NATO was obsolete and the US needs to pursue better relations with Russia. But the next time he spoke, these sensible positions were...
Will Trump Continue the Bush-Obama Legacy?
by Ron Paul | Jan 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
This week, Congress passed a budget calling for increasing federal spending and adding $1.7 trillion to the national debt over the next ten years. Most so-called “fiscal conservatives" voted for this big-spending budget because it allows Congress to repeal some parts...
Will Obama’s ‘Good War’ in Afghanistan Continue?
by Ron Paul | Jan 9, 2017 | Featured Articles
Last week, as the mainstream media continued to obsess over the CIA’s evidence-free claim that the Russians hacked the presidential election, President Obama quietly sent 300 US Marines back into Afghanistan’s Helmand Province. This is the first time in three years...
Good News: Washington Frozen Out of Syria Peace Plan
by Ron Paul | Jan 2, 2017 | Featured Articles
As the US mainstream media obsessed last week about Russia's supposed “hacking” of the US elections and President Obama’s final round of Russia sanctions in response, something very important was taking place under the media radar. As a result of a meeting between...
Does the Cause of Peace Have a Future?
by Ron Paul | Dec 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
Ron Paul delivers keynote at his 'Peace and Prosperity 2016' conference this yearThe full wrath of the Beltway neocons is about to hit my Institute for Peace and Prosperity. Congress snuck language into this year's Defense Authorization Bill that enables President...
New Year’s Resolutions for Donald Trump and Congress
by Ron Paul | Dec 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
In the spirit of New Year’s, here are four resolutions for President-elect Trump and Congress that will enable them to really make America great again: 1) Audit the Fed….and then end it: The Federal Reserve Bank's easy money policies have eroded the American people’s...
After Aleppo: We Need a New Syria Policy
by Ron Paul | Dec 19, 2016 | Featured Articles
Over the past week, eastern Aleppo was completely brought back under control of the Syrian government. The population began to return to its homes, many of which were abandoned when al-Qaeda-linked rebels took over in 2012. As far as I know, the western mainstream...
Ron Paul: What’s Missing From The Russian Hack Argument?
by Ron Paul | Dec 17, 2016 | Featured Articles
Without any proof or evidence being presented that Russia interfered with our election, we're just seeing political grandstanding at this point by both President Obama and Secretary Clinton. Have you noticed that there's never any mention or concern about Secretary...
War on ‘Fake News’ Part of a War on Free Speech
by Ron Paul | Dec 11, 2016 | Featured Articles
A major threat to liberty is the assault on the right to discuss political issues, seek out alternative information sources, and promote dissenting ideas and causes such as non-interventionism in foreign and domestic affairs. If this ongoing assault on free speech...
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