According to Forbes magazine, at least 5,000 Americans contacted healthcare providers fearful they had contracted Ebola after the media reported that someone with Ebola had entered the United States. All 5,000 cases turned out to be false alarms. In fact, despite all...
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The Real Status of Forces in Afghanistan and Iraq
by Ron Paul | Oct 5, 2014 | Featured Articles
After 13 years of war in Afghanistan – the longest in US history – the US government has achieved no victory. Afghanistan is in chaos and would collapse completely without regular infusions of US money. The war has been a failure, but Washington will not admit it....
Scottish Referendum Gives Reasons to be Hopeful
by Ron Paul | Sep 28, 2014 | Featured Articles
Even though it ultimately failed at the ballot box, the recent campaign for Scottish independence should cheer supporters of the numerous secession movements springing up around the globe. In the weeks leading up to the referendum, it appeared that the people of...
Congress Votes for More War in the Middle East
by Ron Paul | Sep 21, 2014 | Featured Articles
Last week, the House and Senate voted to rubber stamp President Obama’s war plans for the Middle East. Both bodies, on a bipartisan basis, authorized the US to begin openly training and arming the rebels who have been fighting for three years to overthrow the Assad...
Will The Swiss Vote to Get Their Gold Back?
by Ron Paul | Sep 14, 2014 | Featured Articles
On November 30th, voters in Switzerland will head to the polls to vote in a referendum on gold. On the ballot is a measure to prohibit the Swiss National Bank (SNB) from further gold sales, to repatriate Swiss-owned gold to Switzerland, and to mandate that gold make...
One Party Interventionist State — Ron Paul With Charles Goyette
by Ron Paul | Sep 12, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The two US political parties are united in their dedication to foreign interventionism, Ron Paul told Charles Goyette in their weekly podcast. Where did all the weapons come from that ISIS is using to wreak havoc in parts of Iraq and Syria? From the US! That is why...
Nixon’s Vindication
by Ron Paul | Sep 7, 2014 | Featured Articles
Forty years ago many Americans celebrated the demise of the imperial presidency with the resignation of Richard Nixon. Today it is clear they celebrated too soon. Nixon’s view of presidential powers, summed up in his infamous statement that, “when the president does...
Obama Has No Middle East Strategy? Good!
by Ron Paul | Aug 31, 2014 | Featured Articles
Last week President Obama admitted that his administration has not worked out a strategy on how to deal with the emergence of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as a dominant force in the Middle East. However, as ISIS continues its march through Syria and...
Ron Paul and Charles Goyette: Syria and Iraq the Fruits of Interventionism
by Ron Paul | Aug 29, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
It was only weeks ago that President Obama requested an extra $500 million dollars for Syrian rebels. Now we are told that the US must start bombing some of those rebels in Syria. The elective Bush war in Iraq for WMDs that never were is a good case history in the...
Ferguson: The War Comes Home
by Ron Paul | Aug 24, 2014 | Featured Articles
America’s attention recently turned away from the violence in Iraq and Gaza toward the violence in Ferguson, Missouri, following the shooting of Michael Brown. While all the facts surrounding the shooing have yet to come to light, the shock of seeing police using tear...
What Have We Accomplished in Iraq?
by Ron Paul | Aug 17, 2014 | Featured Articles
We have been at war with Iraq for 24 years, starting with Operations Desert Shield and Storm in 1990. Shortly after Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait that year, the propaganda machine began agitating for a US attack on Iraq. We all remember the appearance before Congress of a...
US Sanctions on Russia May Sink the Dollar
by Ron Paul | Aug 10, 2014 | Featured Articles
The US government's decision to apply more sanctions on Russia is a grave mistake and will only escalate an already tense situation, ultimately harming the US economy itself. While the effect of sanctions on the dollar may not be appreciated in the short term, in the...
Why Won’t Obama Just Leave Ukraine Alone?
by Ron Paul | Aug 3, 2014 | Featured Articles
President Obama announced last week that he was imposing yet another round of sanctions on Russia, this time targeting financial, arms, and energy sectors. The European Union, as it has done each time, quickly followed suit. These sanctions will not produce the...
End Torture, Shut Down the CIA!
by Ron Paul | Jul 27, 2014 | Featured Articles
Remember back in April, 2007, when then-CIA director George Tenet appeared on 60 Minutes, angrily telling the program host, “we don’t torture people”? Remember a few months later, in October, President George W. Bush saying, “this government does not torture people”?...
What the Media Won’t Report About Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17
by Ron Paul | Jul 20, 2014 | Featured Articles
Just days after the tragic crash of a Malaysian Airlines flight over eastern Ukraine, Western politicians and media joined together to gain the maximum propaganda value from the disaster. It had to be Russia; it had to be Putin, they said. President Obama held a press...
Ron Paul: Don’t Blame Putin For Malaysian Jet Shoot Down
by Ron Paul | Jul 18, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Chairman Ron Paul was on NewsMax today to discuss yesterday's apparent shooting down of a Malaysian Airlines plane over eastern Ukraine. While the US media and the Obama administration have jumped to the conclusion that the Russians (or their "proxies") must have...
Ron Paul: ‘Who Are the Real Isolationists?’
by Ron Paul | Jul 17, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Who are the real isolationists? Ron Paul tells Fox Business it is those who demand sanctions on Russia, Cuba, Iran, and any other country that does not follow the dictates of Washington. We non-interventionists, he says, are the ones who want to be internationalists...
What’s Missing in the Current Immigration ‘Crisis’ Debate
by Ron Paul | Jul 13, 2014 | Featured Articles
Over the past several weeks we have seen a significant increase in illegal immigration, as thousands of unaccompanied minors pour across what seems an invisible southern border into the United States. The mass immigration has, as to be expected, put an enormous strain...
Hobby Lobby Decision Creates Small Island of Freedom in Ocean of Statism
by Ron Paul | Jul 6, 2014 | Featured Articles
This week, supporters of religious freedom cheered the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Hobby Lobby case. The Court was correct to protect business owners from being forced to violate their religious beliefs by paying for contraceptives. However, the decision was very...
Celebrate Independence Day By Opposing Government Tyranny
by Ron Paul | Jun 29, 2014 | Featured Articles
This week Americans will enjoy Independence Day with family cookouts and fireworks. Flags will be displayed in abundance. Sadly, however, what should be a celebration of the courage of those who risked so much to oppose tyranny will instead be turned into a...
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