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...
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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...
De Facto Travel Restrictions Now Exist For Americans
by Paul Craig Roberts | Dec 21, 2017 | Featured Articles
Green Party presidential Candidate Jill Stein is being investigated by the Senate Intelligence (sic) Committee for “Russian connections.”What has brought Russiagate to Jill Stein? The answer is that she attended the 10th Anniversary RT dinner in Moscow as did the...
‘A Stunning Rebuke’ – 128 Nations Support UN Call For Trump To Withdraw Jerusalem Decision
by Tyler Durden | Dec 21, 2017 | Featured Articles
One day after Trump escalated his war of words with the UN, threatening to cut off foreign financial aid over today's UN vote on the president's decision to recognize Jerusalem the capital of Israel, the United Nations on Thursday delivered what has been dubbed a...
Trump’s National Security Speech
by Paul Craig Roberts | Dec 19, 2017 | Featured Articles
What do we make of Trump’s national security speech? First of all, it is the military/security complex’s speech, and it is inconsistent with Trump’s intention of normalizing relations with Russia.The military/security complex, using Trump’s position as President, has...
The RussiaGate Witch-Hunt – The Deep State’s ‘Insurance Policy’
by David Stockman | Dec 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
There was a sinister plot to meddle in the 2016 election, after all. But it was not orchestrated from the Kremlin; it was an entirely homegrown affair conducted from the inner sanctums -- the White House, DOJ, the Hoover Building and Langley -- of the Imperial...

Who to Believe on Washington’s Korea Policy, Tillerson or Trump?
by Ron Paul | Dec 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Trump has often said that his foreign policy objective was to keep his enemies guessing. If that’s the goal, you could say that he’s doing a good job. The problem is who does he think his enemies are, because the American people are often left guessing as...
US Defense Secretary Mattis Rejects War on Iran
by Adam Garrie | Dec 17, 2017 | Featured Articles
US Defense Secretary James “Mad Dog” Mattis has refuted claims that the US is preparing for war on Iran after US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley led a bizarre press conference in which she stated that Iran has armed Houthi fighters in Yemen and thus violating the...
Heads Up, President Trump, Secretary Tillerson: Beware ‘Project Overreach’
by Faith Whittlesey | Dec 17, 2017 | Featured Articles
The State Department recently announced it was committing $700,000 to what might be called Project Overreach – an American government initiative to “help” the Hungarians get the “right” news.Department mandarins, it seems, have determined that Hungarians need access...
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