George Soros and Charles Koch are joining to finance a new foreign-policy think tank in Washington D.C., reports the Boston Globe. The claim is that it will promote an approach to the world based on diplomacy and restraint rather than threats, sanctions, and bombing....
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US Government Tops All for Creating Refugees
by Eric Zuesse | Jul 1, 2019 | Featured Articles
On June 19th, Statistica headlined “Number of forcibly displaced people reaches new high”, and when one looks at the data, one finds an even bigger story which stands behind those numbers:This new report from the United Nations documents Statistica’s headline, and it...

Media and Politicians Ignore Oncoming Financial Crisis
by Ron Paul | Jul 1, 2019 | Featured Articles
The mainstream media was too busy obsessing over Russiagate to notice that, according to an annual Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees report, the Social Security trust fund will run out of money by 2035. The trustees also reported that the Medicare...
Washington’s Infatuation with the MEK
by Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich | Jun 30, 2019 | Featured Articles
Inarguably, Washington has a long history of supporting terrorists. As General William Odom, President Reagan’s former National Security Agency (NSA) Director wrote in his 2007 article “American Hegemony, How to Use It, How to Lose It”: “[T]errorism is not an enemy....
Bullies Like Me
by Peter van Buren | Jun 30, 2019 | Featured Articles
Harvard revoked a Parkland student’s admission, a survivor kid who supported the Second Amendment. Two former Central Park 5 prosecutors lost their jobs 30 years after the case, because of a Netflix movie released last week called “When They See Us.” By the time you...
How Sen. Rick Scott Became Big Oil’s Point Man on Venezuelan Regime Change
by Dan Cohen | Jun 29, 2019 | Featured Articles
While National Security Advisor John Bolton, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Florida Senator Marco Rubio have helped drive the Trump administration’s maximum pressure-style campaign against Venezuela, Rubio’s counterpart, Senator Rick Scott, has been every bit as...
Marijuana Legalization: Where We’ve Been, Where We Are, And Where We Are Going
by RPI Staff | Jun 29, 2019 | Featured Articles
From last month's Ron Paul Institute confernece, Deputy Director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, Paul Armentano, gives a full history of marijuana in 20th century America. From early hysteria and racism to a huge shift back to...
Trump To Unleash Hell On Europe: EU Announces Channel To Circumvent SWIFT And Iran Sanctions Is Now Operational
by Tyler Durden | Jun 28, 2019 | Featured Articles
With the world waiting for the first headlines from the Trump-Xi meeting, the most important and unexpected news of the day hit moments ago, when Europe announced that the special trade channel, Instex, that will allow European firms to avoid SWIFT and bypass American...
Problems Arise with Washington’s Latest ‘Color Revolution’ in Hong Kong
by Tony Cartalucci | Jun 28, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Western media has been boasting over recent protests in Hong Kong. Western headlines have claimed the protests have “rattled” Beijing’s leadership. The protests have been organized to obstruct Hong Kong’s elected government from moving forward with an extradition...
Demasking the Torture of Julian Assange
by Nils Melzer | Jun 28, 2019 | Featured Articles
I know, you may think I am deluded. How could life in an Embassy with a cat and a skateboard ever amount to torture? That’s exactly what I thought, too, when Assange first appealed to my office for protection. Like most of the public, I had been subconsciously...
Have You Heard of the CIA’s Iran Mission Center?
by Vijay Prashad | Jun 27, 2019 | Featured Articles
In 2017, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) created a special unit—the Iran Mission Center—to focus attention on the U.S. plans against Iran. The initiative for this unit came from CIA director John Brennan, who left his post as the Trump administration came...
Why the State Department Let a Terrorist Cult Gather on its Doorstep
by Alexander Rubinstein | Jun 26, 2019 | Featured Articles
Watching the Trump administration’s push for war with Iran, news consumers may find it hard to be surprised by the lengths the US government is willing to go to in order to instigate war — or regime change at the very least — against the Islamic Republic. US citizens...
The Donald’s Latest Iranian Caper – Sh*t-Faced Stupidity
by David Stockman | Jun 26, 2019 | Featured Articles
This is just wanton sh*t-faced stupidity. We are referring to the Trump Administration’s escalation of sanctions on Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei and its foreign minister, and then the Donald’s tweet-storm of bluster, threats and implicit redlines when they didn’t take...
NY Times Admits it Sends Stories to US Government for Approval Before Publication
by Ben Norton | Jun 26, 2019 | Featured Articles
The New York Times has publicly acknowledged that it sends some of its stories to the US government for approval from “national security officials” before publication. This confirms what veteran New York Times correspondents like James Risen have said: The American...
Trump Seeks ‘Coalition Of The Willing’ Against Iran
by Moon of Alabama | Jun 25, 2019 | Featured Articles
After a somewhat quiet weekend the Trump administration yesterday engaged in another push against Iran.Monday the Treasury Department sanctioned the leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). It also sanctioned Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei...
Is the Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program an Illusion?
by Col. W. Patrick Lang | Jun 24, 2019 | Featured Articles
There is so much rubbish said about the supposed Iranian nuclear weapons program that it is a good idea to "review the bidding" about this.Iran does have a nuclear power program, but: "In 2012, sixteen U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA, reported that Iran...

Boxed in by Neocons and the Media, Will Trump Launch Iran War?
by Ron Paul | Jun 24, 2019 | Featured Articles
President Trump did the smart thing last week by calling off a US airstrike on Iran over the downing of an American spy drone near or within Iranian territorial waters. According to press reports, the president over-ruled virtually all his top advisors – Bolton,...
A View From the Frontline of the Drug War
by John Baeza | Jun 22, 2019 | Featured Articles
Former NY Police Department narcotics detective John Baeza at the Ron Paul Institute's May conference on "Winning the War on the War on Drugs," speaking of his conversion from drug warrior to anti drug war warrior. Don't miss Baeza's harrowing tales of undercover drug...
Be Thankful for Trump’s Iran Indecision… For Now
by Kurt Nimmo | Jun 22, 2019 | Featured Articles
We can for now be thankful Trump didn’t kill people and blow things up in Iran Thursday. Even so, the fact he went full-throttle, and then backed off is worrisome. It’s been obvious for some time now the president is in the middle of a tug of war between those who...
VIPS Memo to the President: Is Pompeo’s Agenda the Same As Yours?
by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity | Jun 22, 2019 | Featured Articles
VIPS says its direct experience with Mike Pompeo leaves them with strong doubt regarding his trustworthiness on issues of consequence to the President and the nation. DATE: June 21, 2019 MEMORANDUM FOR: The President. FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for...
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