Alliances between nations are military. Without being military, they would be nothing at all. Trade agreements don’t require alliances. World War I wouldn’t have occurred if there had not been alliances — it was built upon alliances. It was not built on trade...
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Who Is the Real Enemy?
by Philip Giraldi | Jul 11, 2017 | Featured Articles
It is one of the great ironies that the United States, a land mass protected by two broad oceans while also benefitting from the world’s largest economy and most powerful military, persists in viewing itself as a potential victim, vulnerable and surrounded by enemies....
Russophobia Hits the Libertarian Movement
by Justin Raimondo | Jul 10, 2017 | Featured Articles
Fear and loathing of Russia is all the rage in Washington, D.C., as both liberal Democrats and neoconservative Republicans unite in a campaign to demonize the Kremlin as “the premier and most important threat, more so than ISIS," as Sen. John McCain recently put it....

Janet Yellen: False Prophet of Prosperity
by Ron Paul | Jul 10, 2017 | Featured Articles
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen recently predicted that, thanks to the regulations implemented after the 2008 market meltdown, America would not experience another economic crisis “in our lifetimes.” Yellen’s statement should send shivers down our spines, as there...
The Unspeakable Crime of Viktor Orban
by F. William Engdahl | Jul 8, 2017 | Featured Articles
The past year has been a tough one for the Brussels’ EU political correctness Supremos. First Mr Orbán insisted on going through with a national referendum. How anti-European! Letting citizens vote on issues affecting their lives in their own countries! What a...
Why Imperial Washington Should Cool it On North Korea
by David Stockman | Jul 8, 2017 | Featured Articles
The threat of nuclear war has again sharply escalated owing to North Korea’s apparent successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), albeit one that traveled only 600 miles, not the 6,000 miles needed to reach California. Likewise, it was only a...
New Syria Ceasefire Deal May Be US Attempt to Save Rebels From Defeat
by Sputnik News | Jul 7, 2017 | Featured Articles
A newly announced deal on a ceasefire in southwestern Syria may be an attempt by the United States to save the Syrian rebels from defeat, Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity Executive Director Daniel McAdams told Sputnik. 'On the Syria "ceasefire" agreement,...
Don’t Be Surprised to See Trump Bomb North Korea
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 7, 2017 | Featured Articles
After the in-your-face Fourth of July “gift” that North Korea delivered to President Trump in the form of an intercontinental ballistic missile test, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see President Trump and the Pentagon retaliate by bombing North Korea. The reason...
Trump Sends in the Gun Confiscation Cops
by Adam Dick | Jul 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
Chicago police are keeping busy confiscating “illegal guns.” Last year through the summer, the confiscations were occurring at a rate of one every 59 minutes according to Chicago Police Department figures related by Mark Berman in an October 2016 Washington Post...
‘Russiagate’: The Stink Without a Secret
by Craig Murray | Jul 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
After six solid months of co-ordinated allegation from the mainstream media allied to the leadership of state security institutions, not one single scrap of solid evidence for Trump/Russia election hacking has emerged.I do not support Donald Trump. I do support truth....
Anti-Interventionist Voters Elected Trump
by Justin Raimondo | Jul 5, 2017 | Featured Articles
How did Donald Trump defy all the pollsters, the pundits, and the Twitterverse “experts” and take the White House? According to the Democrats, it was all a Russian plot – Kremlin-directed Twitter “bots” spread “misinformation” and “fake news,” Russian hackers stole...
Time to End Our 14 Year Middle East Misadventure
by James W. McConnell | Jul 5, 2017 | Featured Articles
The United States invaded Iraq in March, 2003. Over the ensuing fourteen years we’ve done nothing of significance that hasn’t proven counterproductive. None of this should have been a surprise. Prior to invading Iraq, Lieutenant General Bill Odom, the Director of the...
The Fraud of the White Helmets
by Philip Giraldi | Jul 4, 2017 | Featured Articles
I actually forced myself to watch the documentary The White Helmets, which is available on Netflix. It is 40 minutes long, is of high quality cinematographically speaking, and tells a very convincing tale that was promoted as “the story of real-life heroes and...
Trump Appoints Himself Chicago Police Chief
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
Will 40 more armed federal agents working in Chicago be able to stop the bloodbath in the streets? That is what President Trump has sent in, calling it an anti-gun violence "strike force." We're not sure more police and more agents are the solution. Maybe there is...
You Want a Picture of the Future? Imagine a Boot Stamping on Your Face
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
“The Internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows about us. The thrilling thing is, that will make us feel we’re part of the medium. The scary...

We Must Declare Independence
by Ron Paul | Jul 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
As Independence Day comes around again we should spend a few moments between barbecue and fireworks to think about the meaning of independence. The colonists who rebelled against the British Crown were, among other things, unhappy about taxation. Yet, as economist...
How Accidental are America’s Accidental Civilian Killings Across the Middle East?
by Peter van Buren | Jul 1, 2017 | Featured Articles
US Secretary of Defense James Mattis has said “civilian casualties are a fact of life in this sort of situation,” referring to America’s war against Islamic State. How can America in clear conscience continue to kill civilians across the Middle East? It’s easy; ask...
NYT Finally Retracts Russia-gate Canard
by Robert Parry | Jun 30, 2017 | Featured Articles
The New York Times has finally admitted that one of the favorite Russia-gate canards – that all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies concurred on the assessment of Russian hacking of Democratic emails – is false.On Thursday, the Times appended a correction to a June 25...
Mad Dog’s Pathetic Syrian Chemical Attack Propaganda
by Kurt Nimmo | Jun 30, 2017 | Featured Articles
It’s obvious Mad Dog and the war-makers take us for complete idiots.On Wednesday Trump’s Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, otherwise fondly known as Mad Dog, said Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian government backed down on a chemical attack after a stern warning from the...
Peace Is Popular
by Jeff Deist | Jun 29, 2017 | Featured Articles
Capitalism is essentially a scheme for peaceful nations. What the incompatibility of war and capitalism really means is that war and high civilization are incompatible. — Ludwig von MisesPeace is popular.That was Ron Paul’s message to our audience in Texas earlier...
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