A few months ago, AEI’s student group at Middlebury College invited me to speak on the themes in Coming Apart and how they relate to the recent presidential election. Professor Allison Stanger of the Political Science Department agreed to serve as moderator of the...
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Arizona Challenges the Fed’s Money Monopoly
by Ron Paul | Mar 5, 2017 | Featured Articles
History shows that, if individuals have the freedom to choose what to use as money, they will likely opt for gold or silver. Of course, modern politicians and their Keynesian enablers despise the gold or silver standard. This is because linking a currency to a...
Why Libya’s Cry for Justice Must be Heard
by John Wight | Mar 5, 2017 | Featured Articles
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s meeting in Moscow with Fayez al-Sarraj, prime minister of the Government of National Accord of Libya, reminds us that security and stability has yet to be restored in the war-torn country.Though it may have slipped off the...
TSA Launches ‘Invasive’ Pat-Downs With ‘More Intimate Contact Than Before’
by Tyler Durden | Mar 4, 2017 | Featured Articles
As a result of a study, which found that weapons routinely make it past airport security, the TSA is introducing “more rigorous” and “comprehensive” physical inspections at airports around the country, according to Bloomberg. The security agency, which until now had...
Obama Ordered Abuse Of Intelligence To Sabotage Trump Policies
by Moon of Alabama | Mar 4, 2017 | Featured Articles
In its last months the Obama administration ordered the intelligence agencies to collect and distribute information of contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia. This to prevent any change by the Trump administration of the hostile policy towards Russia that the...
GOP – Which Way?
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
The Trump presidency is shaking the Republican Party to its core. The neocons, led by Senators Graham and McCain are actively working to undermine the president in league with the Democrats. The old-guard elites cannot bear the bombastic Trump as head of their party....
Dissent and the State Department: What Comes Next?
by Peter van Buren | Mar 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
Some 1000 employees at the Department of State are said to have signed a formal memo sent through the “Dissent Channel” in late January, opposing President Donald Trump’s Executive Order initially blocking all Syrian refugee admissions indefinitely, delaying other...
The Basic Formula For Every Shocking Russia/Trump Revelation
by Michael Tracey | Mar 2, 2017 | Featured Articles
The basic formula for every breaking Trump/Russia story is essentially as follows: 1. The New York Times or Washington Post releases an article that at first blush appears extremely damning. 2. Anti-Trump pundits and Democrats react reflexively to the news, express...
Lobbyists Concealed Their Saudi Paymasters From Veterans Pressed to Lobby Against 9/11 Bill
by Brian McGlinchey | Mar 2, 2017 | Featured Articles
Three veterans who were flown to Washington as part of a Saudi-sponsored campaign to lobby for changes to the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) say organizers of the event concealed the Saudi role in the initiative. Enacted in September 2016 over...
US-Backed Siege of Mosul Shows How Hypocritical Media Manipulates Us
by Darius Shahtahmasebi | Mar 1, 2017 | Featured Articles
In order to determine the truth when it comes to the mainstream media’s coverage of American-led offensives in the Middle East, be sure to scroll down to the bottom of any article. This is where the most important information can be found. As can be seen in a BBC...
Expect Increased Spending under President Trump, and Not Just on the Military
by Adam Dick | Mar 1, 2017 | Featured Articles
The Trump administration announced Monday its support for an additional 54 billion dollars in spending for military and national security programs in fiscal year 2018 and a 30 billion dollar bump for such spending in fiscal year 2017. Meanwhile, 54 billion dollars in...
Trump’s ‘Obsolete NATO’ Means Europe Paying for US Militarism
by Finian Cunningham | Feb 28, 2017 | Featured Articles
When US President Donald Trump dismisses the NATO alliance as “obsolete” what he really means is not withdrawing from the military pact, but rather offloading running costs onto European nations.Several times during his election campaign, Trump sounded contemptuous...
A Troubled CIA Analyst Finds Jesus (and the devil is spelled T-R-U-M-P)
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 28, 2017 | Featured Articles
Last Monday The Washington Post featured an op-ed by one Edward Price entitled “I didn’t think I’d ever leave the CIA. But because of Trump, I quit.” I must admit that it was refreshing at first to read something in The Post that did not rush to blame BOTHTrump and...
Trump and Haley’s Uncoordinated and Contradictory Syria Paths
by Michael S. Rozeff | Feb 27, 2017 | Featured Articles
Trump has stated in no uncertain terms that he’s against ISIS. He’s awaiting a military review due on Feb. 28 that provides him with options. In addition: ’The president has been very clear that he’s going to work with any country that shares our interest in defeating...

On Military and Spending, It’s Trump Versus Trump
by Ron Paul | Feb 27, 2017 | Featured Articles
It can be a challenge to follow the pronouncements of President Trump, as he often seems to change his position on any number of items from week to week, or from day to day, or even from minute to minute. Consider his speech last week at the Conservative Political...
Sleepwalking Into a Nuclear Arms Race with Russia
by Chuck Spinney | Feb 24, 2017 | Featured Articles
The Nuclear Question is becoming increasingly obfuscated by spin and lobbying as the West sleepwalks into Cold War II — a walk made all the more dangerous when the loose lips of the US tweeter-in-chief announced that another nuclear arms race is a great idea (see...
Ron Paul Rewind: Discussing Foreign Policy with Alan Colmes
by Adam Dick | Feb 24, 2017 | Featured Articles
Radio and television talk show host Alan Colmes, who died on Thursday, interviewed Ron Paul several times over the years. Colmes’ interviews with Paul were always interesting, in large part due the research, thoughtfulness, and intelligence Colmes could be counted on...
The Futility and Corruption of the Drug War
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 24, 2017 | Featured Articles
I just finished watching the much-acclaimed series “Narcos” on Netflix. What a fantastic program. And what an excellent depiction of the futility and corruption of the war on drugs.The series is a true-life account of Pablo Escobar, a Colombian drug lord who headed up...
Trump’s First Terror Arrest: A Broke Stoner The FBI Threatened at Knifepoint
by Murtaza Hussain | Feb 23, 2017 | Featured Articles
photo: Boone County Sheriff's Department The Department of Justice proudly announced the first FBI terror arrest of the the Trump administration on Tuesday: An elaborate sting operation that snared a 25-year old Missouri man who had no terrorism contacts besides the...
The Sacrifice of Tulsi Gabbard
by David Gornoski | Feb 22, 2017 | Featured Articles
The media continues to be an increasingly petty, insecure clique as it mimetically parrots its own echo chamber talking points against any person who challenges their preferred leftist-corporatist brand of state hegemony. Think of political ideologies like...
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