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...
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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...
One Way to End Drug War Violence
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 26, 2017 | Featured Articles
Two police officers in Kissimmee, Florida, were recently shot and killed while investigating illegal drug activity in a dangerous part of town. According to the New York Times, government officials praised the officers for their service and asked Floridians to pray...
I Predict a ‘RIOT’ as Dissent in American Media Becomes Illegitimate
by Bryan MacDonald | Aug 26, 2017 | Featured Articles
Since the German Marshall Fund of the United States unveiled its “Alliance For Securing Democracy (AFSD)," I’ve resisted commenting, simply because the lobby group’s “Hamilton 68 dashboard” is too preposterous to merit serious analysis.It has rightly been ridiculed by...
Trump and Korea. I’m Also Scared
by Eric Margolis | Aug 25, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Trump’s ability to trigger a nuclear war is "pretty damn scary" said former US intelligence director James Clapper this week. Remember when Trump vowed to "bomb the shit" out of his enemies?I don’t have much respect for Clapper, who brazenly lied to Congress...
Trump’s New Strategy for Afghanistan Is Neither New, nor a Strategy, nor Trump’s
by James George Jatras | Aug 25, 2017 | Featured Articles
For some time it has been clear that the White House of President Donald Trump was convulsed with a struggle among various court factions vying for the Emperor’s ear. Crudely oversimplified, these are variously described as:1. The military "Junta" (Generals McMaster,...
Unlike Trump, JFK Didn’t Bend the Knee
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 24, 2017 | Featured Articles
NOTE: I’ll be speaking at the Ron Paul Institute’s Peace and Prosperity 2017 Conference. Saturday, September 9, from 9:30 am to 3:00 p.m., Washington Dulles Airport Marriott. Last year’s conference was a sell-out and this year’s conference promises to be even better....
US Liberals Cozy up to Antifa, America’s Anti-Free Speech ‘Taliban’
by Robert Bridge | Aug 23, 2017 | Featured Articles
The liberal media is pushing the idea that any violence committed on the part of Antifa, the so-called "anti-fascist" leftist group, is acceptable if it is directed at the political right. Such delusional thinking will only lead to civil war.Following the recent spate...
The Mini-Skirt Deception: How McMaster Got His Afghan ‘Surge’
by Justin Raimondo | Aug 23, 2017 | Featured Articles
According to reports, Gen. H. R. McMaster convinced President Trump to give up his longstanding opposition to the Afghan war by showing him this photograph, below, of Afghan women in what the media are describing as “miniskirts.” As the Washington Post put it: One of...
Freedom for the Speech We Hate: The Legal Ins and Outs of the Right to Protest
by John W. Whitehead | Aug 22, 2017 | Featured Articles
“If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought — not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.”— Supreme Court Justice Oliver...
The International Criminal Court is the Antithesis of Justice
by Richard Galustian | Aug 22, 2017 | Featured Articles
If there was a prize for the world’s most ineffective institution, the International Criminal Court would win hands down.Consider this: The court has been in operation for fifteen years, has spent over a billion Euros, and has convicted just four war criminals. Yes,...
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