The Justice Department was caught in another high-profile travesty last month that continues to reverberate through the western states. On Dec. 20, federal judge Gloria Navarro declared a mistrial in the case against Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and others after...
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Iran and Myths of Revolution
by James George Jatras | Jan 5, 2018 | Featured Articles
In just the past few days during which Iran has seen anti-government protests, much has been written and said about Iranians’ desire for freedom, mixed with speculation about whether or not the ayatollahs’ Islamic republic is in danger of collapse.The following is not...
Birth Of An Insurgency: The US-Israeli 'Secret Deal' To Manipulate Protests In Iran
by Whitney Webb | Jan 4, 2018 | Featured Articles
Using the recent protests as cover, the governments of the United States and Israel are advancing a much larger plan for covert regime change against the Iranian government, one born out of the “secret deal” negotiated and signed between the two countries right before...
The War Party's Desperate Assault On 'America First'
by David Stockman | Jan 4, 2018 | Featured Articles
The major -- perhaps only -- redeeming virtue of the Donald's ersatz campaign platform was his clear intent to seek a rapprochement with Russia, revamp America's commitments to NATO and other cold war relics and to discard "Regime Change" as the core tenant of...
Expect Even Less Freedom of Internet in 2018
by Philip Giraldi | Jan 4, 2018 | Featured Articles
Users of social media have been increasingly reporting that their accounts have been either censored, blocked or suspended during the past year. Initially, some believed that the incidents might be technical in nature, with overloaded servers struggling to keep up...
Iraq War 3.0, the War to End All Wars, is Over
by harley | Jan 2, 2018 | Featured Articles
America’s serial wars in Iraq are ending with a whimper, not a bang. And in the oddest of ironies, it may be President Donald Trump, feared as a war monger, the fifth president to make war in Iraq, who has more or less accidentally ended up presiding over the...
US Empire Is Running The Same Script With Iran That It Ran With Libya, Syria
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jan 1, 2018 | Featured Articles
Two weeks ago a memo was leaked from inside the Trump administration showing how Secretary of State and DC neophyte Rex Tillerson was coached on how the US empire uses human rights as a pretense on which to attack and undermine noncompliant...
Despite Setbacks, Liberty Will Prevail in 2018
by Ron Paul | Jan 1, 2018 | Featured Articles
Happy New Year! We always approach a new year with anticipation, hope, and also some worries. Last year was one of the strangest political years I have seen in some time. A new Republican president spent his first year pursuing more or less the same foreign policy as...
The Charge of the Invisible Army of Kremlin Trolls
by Diana Johnstone | Dec 31, 2017 | Featured Articles
There is no holiday truce in the propaganda war. On this Christmas day, The Washington Post offered its readers a scare story entitled “Kremlin trolls burned across the Internet as Washington debated options.” The article is long – nearly 4000 words. The only part...
Ten Years Ago The Real Tea Party Was Born…And It Continues Today!
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 30, 2017 | Featured Articles
Recently an article on Lew Rockwell's blog reminded us of that fateful day, ten years ago this month, when the real Tea Party was launched. It signaled the Ron Paul rebellion in the Republican Party ranks but it also demonstrated the massive appeal of the peace...
Facebook Says It Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the US and Israeli Governments
by Glenn Greenwald | Dec 30, 2017 | Featured Articles
In September of last year, we noted that Facebook representatives were meeting with the Israeli government to determine which Facebook accounts of Palestinians should be deleted on the ground that they constituted “incitement.” The meetings — called for and presided...
All Is Not Quiet on the Syrian Front: US to Launch Another War
by Alex Gorka | Dec 29, 2017 | Featured Articles
This is a classic example of flip-flop policy. In November, the US promised Turkey to stop arming Kurdish militias in Syria after the Islamic State was routed. Brett McGurk, the US Special Presidential Envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat Islamic State, explained...
Who Are the Leading State Sponsors of Terrorism?
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 28, 2017 | Featured Articles
As 2017 draws to a close, it is difficult to be optimistic about what will be coming in the new year. The American President, whose margin of victory was certainly based on his pledge to avoid unnecessary wars, has doubled down on Afghanistan, refuses to leave Syria...
Reasons to Doubt the Veracity of the ‘Steele Dossier’ on Trump are Still Emerging
by Danielle Ryan | Dec 28, 2017 | Featured Articles
There is a parallel but lesser-publicized narrative running alongside the dominant media-favored Trump-Russia collusion story.It centers not on Trump and his alleged collusion with Moscow, but on Fusion GPS, the shady firm behind the infamous Steele dossier.Stories...
Whither the Antiwar Movement?
by Daniel Martin | Dec 27, 2017 | Featured Articles
Dear Friends: Help keep the peace movement alive. Please consider a year-end donation to the Ron Paul Institute. “Imagine there’s no heaven…and no religion too.”A more useful line when it comes to our current wars may be “Imagine there’s no duopoly.” It’s hard to...
Homeland Security’s Multi-Billion Dollar Comedy Show
by James Bovard | Dec 26, 2017 | Featured Articles
After the 9/11 attacks, Congress and the Bush administration pretended that unlimited federal spending was one of the best ways to thwart terrorist threats. In 2002, Congress created the Homeland Security Department (DHS), sweeping some of the most inept federal...
US Decides to Provide Ukraine with Lethal Weapons
by Alex Gorka | Dec 26, 2017 | Featured Articles
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said on December 22 that the US was going to provide Ukraine with "enhanced defensive capabilities as part of our effort to help Ukraine build its long-term defense capacity, to defend its sovereignty and territorial...
Intel Vets Tell Trump Iran Is Not Top Terror Sponsor
by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity | Dec 26, 2017 | Featured Articles
MEMORANDUM FOR: The PresidentFROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for SanitySUBJECT: Is Iran the “World’s Leading Sponsor of Terrorism?”EXECUTIVE SUMMARY/BACKGROUND We are concerned by recent strident and stark public statements from key members of your...

Political Immorality and Personal Immorality
by Ron Paul | Dec 25, 2017 | Featured Articles
Many Americans have been shocked by recent revelations of the extent of sexual harassment in Congress. However, no one should be too surprised that those who spend their lives defending and expanding the welfare-warfare state engage in immoral personal conduct. It is...
Iraq Redux in the Making? US Rhetoric on Iran Brings Back Memories of 2003
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 22, 2017 | Featured Articles
Sometimes you wake up in the morning and it’s 2003 all over again. That was the year when the United States embarked on its catastrophic course of intervention in Asia. It was at least somewhat justified in invading Afghanistan to eliminate al-Qaeda but then made the...
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