Israel’s blitzkrieg against Iran five days ago is failing spectacularly. The Russian media reported that: i) Israel’s Rafael weapons complex has been destroyed; ii) Haifa oil refinery is in flames; iii) the Iron Dome has been breached; iv) and, Israel’s air dominance...
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Secret Deals, Endless Wars: The America First Betrayal in Iran?
by Brandan P. Buck | Jun 18, 2025 | Featured Articles
Israel’s airstrikes on Iran and US involvement shatter the illusion that America First guides President Trump’s Middle East policy. The hijacking of “America First” for hawkish goals is clear as Trump treads the same failed interventionist path in the Middle...
The regime change maniacs are back: Iran is in their sights, and they’ve learned nothing
by Sohrab Ahmari | Jun 18, 2025 | Featured Articles
In 2002, the Bush administration was met with scant resistance from the mainstream media or wider establishment as it drummed up the case for toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq. But there were a handful of dissenters, above all Brent Scowcroft. The two-time...
Donald Trump Doubles Down on Crazy
by Larry C. Johnson | Jun 17, 2025 | Featured Articles
Clean up in aisle five. Someone needs to tackle Donald Trump and confiscate his phone. He should not be allowed to post on Truth Social until some adult with a measure of common sense has a chance to review prospective Trump posts. Roughly sixteen million...
Tame the ‘Rising Lion’ Before it Eats Us!
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Jun 17, 2025 | Featured Articles
Israel’s government, which has undertaken, with prevaricative impunity the illegal occupation and theft of Palestinian water sources, farmland, homes, property, and energy resources through ethnic cleansing and the execrable crimes of mass starvation and genocide in...
America Last?
by James Carden | Jun 17, 2025 | Featured Articles
In a landmark piece of reporting out this week in New York magazine, the journalist Suzy Hansen observes that, The Democrats allowed themselves to be dragged into lawlessness by Netanyahu and his virulently racist Cabinet members like [Finance...
America First – We Hardly Knew Ye
by David Stockman | Jun 16, 2025 | Featured Articles
The Donald called Fed Chairman Powell a “numbskull” last week and deservedly so. But to paraphrase an old adage, when the cap fits said numbskulls tend to wear it themselves. Surely, that’s where we are this morning upon Israel’s reprehensible attack on Iran’s...
Great Big Ugly Surveillance State
by Ron Paul | Jun 16, 2025 | Featured Articles
On March 20, President Trump signed an executive order “Eliminating Information Silos.” The order directed heads of federal agencies to make sure officials designated by the president “have full and prompt access to all unclassified agency records, data, software...

Slouching Toward Authoritarianism?
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jun 14, 2025 | Featured Articles
The deployment of California National Guard troops and active-duty U.S. Marines onto the streets of Los Angeles is an assault on federalism, violates federal law and manifests a dangerous pattern of governmental behavior in defiance of constitutional principles and...

The Silver Lining in the Dark War Cloud Over Iran
by Larry C. Johnson | Jun 14, 2025 | Featured Articles
Israel’s unjustified and unprovoked attack on Iran early Friday morning, marks the full-on start of a war that is likely to change the face of the region. I mince no words… this is war. But there is a silver lining of sorts — with Israel having to use its air...

US-Israeli Deception Gave Iran False Security Amid Washington Green Light
by Tyler Durden | Jun 13, 2025 | Featured Articles
Fresh reporting as well as new Friday statements by President Trump reveal that the US and Israel practiced deceptive diplomacy, as Israeli and American officials worked together to convince Iran that nuclear negotiations were progressing. Yet all the while an...

Apply NOW: 2025 Ron Paul Scholars Seminar!
by RPI Staff | Jun 12, 2025 | Featured Articles
Attention Upper Division Undergrads and Grad Students! This year we will celebrate our SIXTH class of Ron Paul Scholars and that means if you are a student interested in peace and prosperity, a non-interventionist foreign policy, liberty, and in making contacts among...
Ron Paul Rewind: Don’t Ban Flag Burning
by Adam Dick | Jun 12, 2025 | Featured Articles
In a Tuesday speech at Fort Bragg, President Donald Trump declared that “people that burn the American flag should go to jail for one year,” something Trump proceeded to state he is working with United States senators to bring about. Twenty-two years ago this month,...
Today Is the Anniversary of JFK’s Declaration of War
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 11, 2025 | Featured Articles
June 10, is the anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s declaration of war against the national-security branch of the U.S. government. To be sure, he didn’t call it that. He simply was delivering a speech at the June 10, 1963, commencement exercises at American...
Can the Tyranny Be Soft-Landed?
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Jun 10, 2025 | Featured Articles
The excuse that this regime is better than it was, or might otherwise have been, only lasts so long. Every transition government in history has deployed that trope. Think the Girondins in France, Kerensky in Russia, Weimar in Germany, the Second Spanish...
The Silence of the Bears
by Alastair Crooke | Jun 10, 2025 | Featured Articles
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Can Trump and Musk Make Up?
by Ron Paul | Jun 9, 2025 | Featured Articles
Last week’s dramatic blowout between President Trump and his one-time top collaborator Elon Musk was shocking yet predictable. According to media reports, a cold war had been brewing between Musk’s people and Trump’s appointees and it was bound to break out into the...
The ‘Golden Dome’ is Pure Fantasy
by Eric Margolis | Jun 6, 2025 | Featured Articles
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Jake Tapper: Biden Cover-up ‘Worse Than Watergate’
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Jun 5, 2025 | Featured Articles
For years, Jake Tapper, the leading newsreader for CNN, has been very unfair to and very biased against Republicans in general, and to President Trump in particular. Now, in an attempt to restore some of his lost credibility, he has written a new book with Alex...
The Right to be Left Alone
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jun 5, 2025 | Featured Articles
Last week, the Trump administration announced the streamlining of access to illegally seized personal data from unsuspecting Americans, thereby making warrantless domestic spying easier for the spies. Here is the backstory. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S....
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