Last week the FBI arrested a Wisconsin state judge as she was walking into the courthouse where she works. The feds had alerted the media -- but not the judge -- to this event, and they arrived and recorded the arrest. The standard and preferred practice when...
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IMF and World Bank: Crony Covid Crackdown Enablers
by James Bovard | Apr 30, 2025 | Featured Articles
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained last week that the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are suffering from “mission creep.” But Bessent announced that Trump will be “doubling down” on supporting the largest foreign aid gushers on earth. “Far from...
Evasive Maneuvers
by William Schryver | Apr 30, 2025 | Featured Articles
(photo: The erstwhile USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75), now dubbed the USS Trembling Puppy for its multiple episodes of fleeing Yemeni missile strikes in a panic.) In the aftermath of the USS Trembling Puppy acknowledging the loss of yet another fighter aircraft in the...
The Uhuru Prosecution Brings Egg on the Face of the Justice Department – The Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 29, 2025 | Featured Articles
In what can only be called one of the most ridiculous federal criminal prosecutions in U.S. history, the U.S. Department of Justice and, specifically, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Middle District of Florida, ended up with a massive amount of egg on its face. The...
The Kellogg Framework is a Disaster for Trump
by Alastair Crooke | Apr 29, 2025 | Featured Articles
Political warfare in Washington is endemic. But the body count at the Pentagon has started to rise precipitously. Three of Secretary of Defence Hegseth’s top advisors were placed on leave, and then fired. The war continues, with the Secretary now in the firing line....
The Empire Strikes Back
by Ron Paul | Apr 28, 2025 | Featured Articles
News this week that Elon Musk will soon be departing his “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) is a grim reminder of what happens when you challenge big spending DC. Unfortunately, the lesson once again is that when you challenge the empire, the empire...
The Road to War in Ukraine — The History of NATO and US Military Exercises With Ukraine — Part 2
by Larry C. Johnson | Apr 28, 2025 | Featured Articles
(Read part 1 here) The decade of 2000 marked the start of Ukraine becoming a de facto member of NATO. It not only participated in all of the main exercises, but it hosted many. In fact, between 2000 and 2010, Ukraine is ranked in the top six of countries that hosted a...
The Road to War in Ukraine — The History of NATO and US Military Exercises With Ukraine — Part 1
by Larry C. Johnson | Apr 26, 2025 | Featured Articles
This is the first of a three-part series on the history of NATO and US European Command military exercises with Ukraine. This shows how the West, acting like a camel, slipped its big nose under the Ukrainian tent as part of a long-term strategy to defeat Russia. While...
A ‘Trump Deal’? Juggling War, ‘Easy War’ and Negotiation
by Alastair Crooke | Apr 26, 2025 | Featured Articles
Trump clearly is in the midst of an existential conflict. He has a landslide mandate. But is ringed by a resolute domestic enemy front in the form of an “industrial concern” infused with Deep State ideology, centred primarily on preserving U.S. global power (rather...
Gang Deportations Are a Fool’s Errand; Instead, End the Drug War
by Jonathan Hofer | Apr 25, 2025 | Featured Articles
As part of its border strategy, the administration deported Venezuelan migrants to a notorious prison in El Salvador, claiming the deportees were Tren de Aragua gang members. Because of the nature of gang documentation, the claim that they are all violent...
Russia/Ukraine: Final Offer
by RPI Staff | Apr 25, 2025 | Featured Articles
Is Trump’s plan to end the Ukraine conflict a dead letter on arrival? A ceasefire is not peace. Freezing the conflict does not address security issues. Washington provoked this conflict. This is why Trump’s attempt to mediate is doomed to fail. CrossTalking with...
HHS – a Billy Club Enforcing Allegiance to the Israel Government
by Adam Dick | Apr 25, 2025 | Featured Articles
Supporters of liberty had much reason for hope due to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. becoming secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This man’s tenacity and eloquence in challenging the coronavirus crackdowns suggested great potential accomplishments...
The Worst Pope in History
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Apr 24, 2025 | Featured Articles
A little over a year ago, I spent a week living and studying at the Vatican as a guest lecturer at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, a university-like organization of scholars that explores ideas of interest to the Vatican. Last year, the Academy addressed...
War Dust and Collateral Inhalation: Israel Breathes in Gaza’s Dust
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Apr 23, 2025 | Featured Articles
Gaza is suffering the most intense bombing, per capita, of anywhere on earth, ever. Over 100,000 tons of bombs have been dropped on Gaza, an area slightly smaller than the City of Detroit, Michigan, resulting in the recorded deaths of at least 60,000 Gazans and...
Stop the US Abuse of Cuba
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 23, 2025 | Featured Articles
Amidst the horrific US abuse of foreigners through the use of tariffs and police-state enforcement of immigration controls, it’s easy to forget that the US government abuses foreigners in other ways, such as sanctions, embargoes, invasions, occupations, wars of...
Israel – Killing Ambulance Workers, Starving Little Children
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Apr 23, 2025 | Featured Articles
On Palm Sunday (April 13), Israeli bombs destroyed the surgery and intensive care sections of the “last fully functional hospital in Gaza City,” according to a report by the British Broadcasting Corporation. The hospital was run by the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem,...
US Plays ‘Mediator’ in its Own War on Russia
by Brian Berletic | Apr 22, 2025 | Featured Articles
CNN in a recent article has reported that: The United States could end its efforts on ending the Ukrainian conflict within “days” if there are no signs of progress, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Friday. 'If it is not possible to end the war in...
Trump’s Unconstitutional, Presidential War Against Yemen
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Apr 22, 2025 | Featured Articles
For Americans who still think that Donald Trump is an advocate of realism and restraint in foreign policy, the events in Yemen should come as a rude awakening. Unfortunately, the most prominent indicator enabled the president’s political opponents to evade their...
Fateful Errors: Why NATO Leaders Should Have Listened to George Kennan in 1997
by Ian Proud | Apr 21, 2025 | Featured Articles
In 1997, veteran U.S. diplomat George Kennan stated that ‘expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American foreign policy in the entire post-Cold War era’. Twenty-eight years later, who would say he was wrong? George Kennan famously authored the U.S. policy...
REAL ID: Phony Security, Real Authoritarianism
by Ron Paul | Apr 21, 2025 | Featured Articles
Those who hoped the second Trump Administration would reject big spending, war, and restrictions on liberty continue to be disappointed. A new disappointment came when Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced her department would in May begin...
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