Appearing last week before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified that he could not say the threat from al-Qaeda is any less today than it was ten years ago. It was a shocking admission. Does he mean that the...
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Ron Paul Goes Off The Grid…With Jesse Ventura!
by Ron Paul | Jan 31, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Chairman Ron Paul joins Jesse Ventura for a segment of Ventura's edgy "Off the Grid" broadcast. Dr. Paul discusses President Obama's State of the Union speech -- and particularly the president's threat to expand his use of executive orders if Congress does not...
Warfare, Welfare, and Wonder Woman — How Congress Spends Your Money
by Ron Paul | Jan 21, 2014 | Featured Articles
Supporters of warfare, welfare, and Wonder Woman cheered last week as Congress passed a one trillion dollar “omnibus” appropriation bill. This legislation funds the operations of government for the remainder of the fiscal year. Wonder Woman fans can cheer that buried...
Congress Defers to President On NSA Reform
by Ron Paul | Jan 12, 2014 | Featured Articles
Congress’s decline from the Founders’ vision as “first among equals” in government to an echo chamber of the unitary executive, has been a slow but steady process. In the process we have seen a steady stream of unconstitutional wars and civil liberties abuses at home....
Iraq: The ‘Liberation’ Neocons Would Rather Forget
by Ron Paul | Jan 5, 2014 | Featured Articles
Remember Fallujah? Shortly after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the US military fired on unarmed protestors, killing as many as 20 and wounding dozens. In retaliation, local Iraqis attacked a convoy of US military contractors, killing four. The US then launched a full...
Progress Toward Peace in 2013, But Dark Clouds Remain
by Ron Paul | Dec 22, 2013 | Featured Articles
It is the time of year we feel a sense of joy and optimism. We are preparing for the holidays and looking to spend time with our families and friends. This year as we look back we see several developments that leave us feeling optimistic. A US attack on Syria was...
Hobby Lobby Case is About Rights, Not Contraceptives
by Ron Paul | Dec 8, 2013 | Featured Articles
One of the most important cases the US Supreme Court will consider this term is Hobby Lobby’s lawsuit challenging the Obamacare mandate that employer-provided health care plans must cover abortion and contraceptives. Hobby Lobby, a corporation owned and managed by a...
You Cannot Negotiate With Iran?
by Ron Paul | Dec 1, 2013 | Featured Articles
You cannot negotiate with Iran. That is what they told us for years. The Iranian leadership is too fanatical, they are not rational actors, they are “not like us.” One US official even recently said that deception is part of the Iranian DNA. But just over a week ago...
Can Karzai Save Us?
by Ron Paul | Nov 24, 2013 | Featured Articles
After a year of talks over the post-2014 US military presence in Afghanistan, the US administration announced last week that a new agreement had finally been reached. Under the deal worked out with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the US would keep thousands of troops...
Ron Paul: ‘I Would Not Carry a Gun for the Government’
by Ron Paul | Nov 9, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
When I was thinking of the URL for my new personal homepage, I considered many possibilities. Thanks also to all those who sent other suggestions. But I settled on RonPaulMD.com as reflecting a very important area of my life. To be a physician, and deliver 4,000...
What Was Not Said About Iraq
by Ron Paul | Nov 3, 2013 | Featured Articles
October was Iraq’s deadliest month since April, 2008. In those five and a half years, not only has there been no improvement in Iraq’s security situation, but things have gotten much worse. More than 1,000 people were killed in Iraq last month, the vast majority of...
A Welcome US/Saudi ‘Reset’
by Ron Paul | Oct 27, 2013 | Featured Articles
Last week it was reported that Saudi Arabia decided to make a “major shift” away from its 80 years of close cooperation with the United States. The Saudi leadership is angry that the Obama administration did not attack Syria last month, and that it has not delivered...
Ron Paul Channel Discusses US Africa Raids, Quotes RPI
by Ron Paul | Oct 9, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In today's edition of the Ron Paul Channel, Dr. Paul discusses in detail the folly of last weekend's twin US raids in Libya and Somalia. He describes how his optimism over recent developments in US/Iranian relations turned somewhat sour over US moves in Africa. Dr....
An Opening to Iran?
by Ron Paul | Oct 6, 2013 | Featured Articles
Last week, for the first time since the 1979 Iranian revolution, the US president spoke with his Iranian counterpart. Their 15 minute telephone call was reported to open the door to further high-level discussions. This is a very important event. I have been saying for...
Own a Piece of Ron Paul History
by Ron Paul | Sep 30, 2013 | Featured Articles
Going, Going...Gone! Congratulations and a big "thank you" to Jonathan Cole, whose generous donation of $15,100 to the Ron Paul Institute won him a piece of Ron Paul history -- the "green pea"! We will be sure to bring you photos of the handover ceremony with Dr. Paul...
Own a Piece of Ron Paul History
by Ron Paul | Sep 30, 2013 | The Liberty Report
Going, Going...Gone! Congratulations and a big "thank you" to Jonathan Cole, whose generous donation of $15,100 to the Ron Paul Institute won him a piece of Ron Paul history -- the "green pea"! We will be sure to bring you photos of the handover ceremony with Dr. Paul...
A Grand Bargain for Liberty?
by Ron Paul | Sep 29, 2013 | Featured Articles
As I write this, it appears that the federal government is about to shut down because the House and Senate cannot agree on whether to add language defunding or delaying Obamacare to the “Continuing Resolution”. Despite all the hand-wringing heard in DC, a short-term...
Ron Paul Speech is LPAC Highlight
by Ron Paul | Sep 22, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Ron Paul Institute capped off the Liberty Political Action Conference (LPAC) with a reception Saturday evening attended by many conference participants who had earlier visited the RPI outreach booth. The highlight of the conference was RPI Founder and CEO Ron...
Has The Tide Turned Against the Warmongers?
by Ron Paul | Sep 16, 2013 | Featured Articles
Will the history books record these past couple of weeks as the point when the tide finally turned against our interventionist foreign policy?We began September with the Obama Administration on the verge of launching Tomahawk missiles at Syria. The missiles were...
Ron Paul on Mike Gallagher’s Radio show 9/4
by Ron Paul | Sep 5, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Listen to Ron Paul on Mike Gallagher's radio show yesterday, discussing Syria, etc.
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