Immediately after Israel's latest unprovoked strike on Syria we posed the question, did Benjamin Netanyahu just panic? The answer is yes, Israel is now acting from a position of desperation as it has failed in its goal of regime change in Syria. Overnight (Wed....
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The Bombast of Nikki Haley
by Justin Raimondo | Sep 8, 2017 | Featured Articles
How Nikki Haley got her job as UN ambassador, and a major foreign policy spokesperson for the Trump administration, is a mystery, at least to me. Her vicious personal attacks on Trump when he was a candidate should’ve ruled her out from the get-go. Where oh where is...
The USS Liberty Wins One!
by Philip Giraldi | Sep 7, 2017 | Featured Articles
On June 8th 1967 the United States Navy intelligence ship the U.S.S. Liberty was attacked in international waters by aircraft and vessels belonging to Israel. Thirty-four sailors, Marines and civilians were killed in the attack. The deliberate Israeli air and sea...
GOP Congressman: Trump Losing Me on Foreign Policy
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Sep 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
A few days before the 2000 elections, I hosted the Duncan Family Barbecue at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum, which aside from free food, always features bands, choirs, and top names from the Country music and Oldies worlds, drawing upwards of 10,000 people.Governor...
Interventionism and the Korean Crisis
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Sep 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
If war ends up breaking out in Korea, President Trump, the Pentagon, and the CIA will be announcing that it was all North Korea's fault. They’ll say that North Korea was “begging for war,” and that the United States was “forced” to act to protect “national security.”...
What Michael Moore Gets Right and Wrong about the Police State
by Adam Dick | Sep 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
Documentarian Michael Moore, in a Friday post at Twitter, linked to video of Alex Wubbels, a nurse at a Salt Lake City, Utah hospital, being arrested for refusing to comply with a police demand that she draw blood from an unconscious patient at the hospital without...
American Jackboot Diplomacy
by Finian Cunningham | Sep 5, 2017 | Featured Articles
The latest extraordinary roughshod violation of Russian diplomatic rights by the American authorities shows that the US doesn’t want to restore normal bilateral relations. Indeed, it has now resorted publicly to jackboot diplomacy.The rapid ordering of Russia to...
Government ‘Aid’ Makes Disasters Worse
by Ron Paul | Sep 4, 2017 | Featured Articles
Texans affected by Hurricane Harvey, including my family and me, appreciate the outpouring of support from across the country. President Donald Trump has even pledged to donate one million dollars to relief efforts. These private donations will be much more valuable...
Russia Responds to Netanyahu’s Ultimatum in Syria With a Warning to Israel
by Darius Shahtahmasebi | Sep 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Russian President Vladimir Putin in person that Israel will not tolerate an Iranian military presence in Syria that threatens Israeli interests. Netanyahu also stated that Israel is prepared to take action in...
Three Dangerous Delusions about Korea
by James George Jatras | Sep 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
They say that most of the world’s real dangers arise not because of what people don’t know but because of what they do "know" that just ain’t so.As a case in point, consider three things about Korea that the bipartisan Washington establishment seems quite sure of but...
Always Planning Never Winning: While US Wins Some Battles, Insurgents Win the Wars
by Brian Cloughley | Sep 2, 2017 | Featured Articles
General John F Campbell, commander of all foreign forces in Afghanistan 2014-2016, said in a speech in Kabul on December 28, 2014 that "The insurgents are losing, they’re desperate." But they weren’t and they aren’t.On August 21 President Trump outlined his plan for...
Time To Listen to Our Korean Allies
by Eric Margolis | Sep 2, 2017 | Featured Articles
Old Chinese saying: "when elephants battle, ants get crushed." Think of the current crisis on the Korean Peninsula in which the government in Seoul has been all but ignored. South Korea’s newly elected president, Moon Jae-in, keeps insisting that the US must not...
Last Eight Months Prove United States a Bonafide ‘Regime’
by Neil Clark | Sep 1, 2017 | Featured Articles
Elected to the Oval Office as a harsh critic of US involvement in costly Middle Eastern conflicts by a war-weary public, The Donald has turned out be just as much of a war president as those who went before. He’s ordered the firing of 59 Tomahawk missiles on a Syrian...
What Afghan ‘Stalemate’ is All About
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 31, 2017 | Featured Articles
The Associated Press has carried an exclusive report regarding the intensive, on-going political dialogue between the Afghan government and the Taliban behind the scene, the appearance of a "stalemate" notwithstanding. That such contacts have been going on was a...
Is a Militarized Police The Answer To Inner City Turmoil?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 30, 2017 | Featured Articles
On Monday, President Trump announced he was issuing an executive order to reinstate the transfer of military weapons and equipment to local police forces. A partial ban had been put in place late in the Obama Administration. The weapons transfer program has a long...
Making Stuff up on Twitter is the New ‘Journalism’ — and We Deserve it
by Danielle Ryan | Aug 30, 2017 | Featured Articles
Louise Mensch and Chris Hayes on Real Time On Monday, The Guardian published a story which should have surprised no one: Information pushed aggressively on Twitter by anti-Trump conspiracy theorist duo Louise Mensch and Claude Taylor came from a hoaxer who duped...
Ruby Ridge Lessons for Fighting Right-Wing Extremism
by James Bovard | Aug 29, 2017 | Featured Articles
In the wake of the protest in Charlottesville by white supremacists, many people are demanding a crackdown on dangerous right-wing extremists. The federal government has previously carried out similar campaigns against with disastrous results. Rather than...
Iran, Again…Will Israel Start a New War?
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 29, 2017 | Featured Articles
When politicians are feeling the heat, they start a war and their popularity goes up even if the war is unnecessary or completely ridiculous. Donald Trump, the presidential candidate who promised that he would not take the nation into another Middle Eastern war, did...
Will Congress and Trump Declare War on WikiLeaks?
by Ron Paul | Aug 28, 2017 | Featured Articles
The Senate Intelligence Committee recently passed its Intelligence Authorization Act for 2018 that contains a chilling attack on the First Amendment. Section 623 of the act expresses the “sense of Congress” that WikiLeaks resembles a “non-state hostile intelligence...
Wikileaks’ Julian Assange to Join RPI Conference!
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 26, 2017 | Featured Articles
The Ron Paul Institute's second annual Washington, D.C. conference got a shot in the arm over the weekend, as Wikileaks founder and chief editor Julian Assange agreed to open up the Whistleblowers Roundtable with a talk on the recent US Senate and Director of Central...
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