Sometime before he withdrew from the presidential race, President Joe Biden secretly reaffirmed his own self-willed and self-created authority to kill persons in other countries, so long as the CIA and its military counterparts have “near certainty” that the target of...
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Israel Sure Looks Like It Wants To Prevent Peace And Start A New War
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jul 31, 2024 | Featured Articles
Israel has been on another assassination spree, killing Hamas political leader Ismael Haniyeh on Wednesday with an airstrike while he was in Tehran for the swearing in of the new Iranian president. Israel also claims to have killed Hezbollah...
The Right to Not Be Lied To: Making the Case for Truth in Politics
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Jul 31, 2024 | Featured Articles
Q: “How can you tell if a politician is lying?”A: “When his lips are moving.” The First Amendment assures us of a right to free speech. It does not, unfortunately, explicitly assure us of a right to not be lied to by our government and its various officials. Any hope...
Is There a Risk that Kamala Harris Might ‘Go Soft’ on Foreign Policy?
by Alastair Crooke | Jul 29, 2024 | Featured Articles
Extraordinary Times: Biden renounces his election bid via in the slimmest of Sunday afternoon postings; retreats into a silence which finally is broken by a “long farewell” pronounced from the Oval Office. Biden’s staff didn’t hear of his renunciation until...
Supreme Court Takes Two Steps Forward, One Step Back.
by Ron Paul | Jul 29, 2024 | Featured Articles
We can all probably agree that this has been one of the strangest Julys in memory. From the attempt on Trump’s Life to the Republican National Convention to the bizarre “coup” against Biden in the Democratic Party. With all this, it’s easy to forget some truly...
The Real Boss of Congress Comes to Town
by Eric Margolis | Jul 27, 2024 | Featured Articles
New York – According to Britain’s esteemed medical journal, The Lancet, 186,000 Palestinian adults and children have so far been killed or died of disease in Gaza. Nearly 600 Palestinians have been killed on the Israeli-occupied West Bank. 10,000 Palestinians languish...
Biden’s parting deluge of deceit deserves damning
by James Bovard | Jul 26, 2024 | Featured Articles
In a mere 11 minutes on Wednesday night, President Biden settled any doubts about whether he was fit for another four years of the presidency. Uncle Joe wrestled with the teleprompter like a slacker high school boy blindsided by trigonometry questions on the...
Is the GOP Improving on Foreign Policy?
by RPI Staff | Jul 26, 2024 | Featured Articles
JD Vance has been critical of U.S. funding of the war in Ukraine, but is that simply because he'd rather fund other countries with the money? Daniel McAdams of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity joins me for an overview of where the Republican Party is...
War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu Addresses the US Congress
by Philip Giraldi | Jul 26, 2024 | Featured Articles
To my surprise, last Thursday morning there was relatively little coverage of the address to the US Congress delivered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last Wednesday afternoon apart from a critical opinion piece that appeared in...
‘Whose America first?’
by RT | Jul 25, 2024 | Featured Articles
Clearly the Republican Party has rallied around its nominee, former President Donald Trump. But that does not mean there is unity within the party when it comes to policy, particularly foreign policy. Trump was rolled once. Will it happen again?CrossTalking with...
It’s Time to Rethink the U.S.-Israel ‘Special Relationship’
by Jon Hoffman | Jul 25, 2024 | Featured Articles
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a joint session of Congress, Washington must finally face reality: its emphatic embrace of Israel’s war in Gaza is not advancing U.S. interests or promoting regional stability—to say nothing of...
The Democratic party rigged the primary process for Biden
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Jul 25, 2024 | Featured Articles
I ran for president twice in 2004 and 2008, in an attempt to truly protect and defend the Constitution by ending perpetual war, stopping government intrusion into Americans’ private lives, and transforming America’s role in the world so that we would have the...
Call it Censorship: A Court Rules Against Former ‘Disinformation Czar’ Nina Jankowicz
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 25, 2024 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in the New York Post on the ruling against Nina Jankowicz in her defamation case. It turns out that calling opposing views defamation is no better than calling them disinformation. Here is the column: For free speech advocates, there are few images...
Freedom’s Extinction
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jul 25, 2024 | Featured Articles
“Freedom is always just one generation away from extinction.”-- Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) In December 1776, just six months after the Declaration of Independence had been signed and a year and a half into the Revolutionary War, Thomas Paine sensed a desperation...
Why the U.S. Secrecy Surrounding Evan Gershkovich?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 23, 2024 | Featured Articles
Last Friday, a Russian court, operating in secret, convicted Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich of espionage and sentenced him to 16 years in a Russian penal colony. Ever since Gershkovich’s arrest in March 2023, I have written extensively about the case....
During the Crisis, Free Speech Worked Brilliantly
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Jul 22, 2024 | Featured Articles
There is only one major social media platform that is relatively free of censorship. That is X, once known as Twitter, and owned by Elon Musk, who has preached free speech for years and sacrificed billions in advertising dollars in order to protect it. If we don’t...
Succession by Defenestration: How Biden’s Withdrawal Could Trigger a 25th Amendment Fight
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 22, 2024 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in the Hill on the withdrawal of President Joe Biden from the 2024 election. After weeks of Democrats and the media raising the alarm of his mental capacity, Biden finally gave up his public refusal to step aside. Harris will now be the nominee...
Republican Platform Ignores Real Causes of Inflation
by Ron Paul | Jul 22, 2024 | Featured Articles
The 2024 Republican platform promises that, if Donald Trump returns to the White House and Republicans gain complete control of Congress, they will reduce inflation. The platform contains some proposals, such as reducing regulations and extending the 2017 tax...
Taking Rights Seriously
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jul 18, 2024 | Featured Articles
“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion,and only one person were of the contrary opinion,Mankind would be no more justifiedIn silencing that one person,Than he, if he had the power,Would be justified in silencing mankind.”-- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) The...
Media Flubs Chance to Avert Trump Shooting
by William Dunkerley | Jul 18, 2024 | Featured Articles
Were there signals of a possible assassination attempt that were missed? My research suggests there were. These signals were not out in the open, staring us in the face. Identifying them would have required putting together a series of clues and observing the...
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