Those who keep hoping that gun control will protect them from terrorist retaliation for U.S. interventionism in the Middle East had their hopes dashed last week at Ohio State University. That’s because the lack of a gun didn’t stop Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a Somali-born...
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The Uselessness of NATO: Do We Really Need to Defend Montenegro?
by Justin Raimondo | Nov 30, 2016 | Featured Articles
Photo credit: Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.The latest entrant into the NATO alliance, Montenegro, underscores both the absurdity of this archaic cold war relic and the dangers it poses to the United States.Yes, Montenegro is a real country, kind...
Ron Paul: ‘Fake News Comes From our Own Government’
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 30, 2016 | Featured Articles
The mainstream media and politicians peddling the line that there is a network of "fake news" sites spreading Russian disinformation and propaganda is just scapegoating to divert attention from the far worse job they have done objectively reporting the truth, Ron Paul...
The Only Way Trump Could Actually ‘Drain the Swamp’
by Andrew Bacevich | Nov 30, 2016 | Featured Articles
President-elect Donald Trump’s message for the nation’s senior military leadership is ambiguously unambiguous. Here is he on 60 Minutes just days after winning the election. Trump: “We have some great generals. We have great generals.” Lesley Stahl: “You said you knew...
Iranophobes on Parade: Will Iran be the Target of the Trump Regime?
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
One of the most discouraging aspects of the filling out of the Donald Trump cabinet is the array of Iran haters that seem to be lining up in the foreign policy and national security areas. Trump has been personally advocating sensible policies relating to Russia and...
The War Against Castro Comes to an End
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
With the passing of former Cuban president Fidel Castro over the weekend, the decades-long U.S. war waged against him finally comes to an end, even if the decades-long embargo against the Cuban people continues.Castro was one of the most tyrannical dictators in the...
The Western War On Truth
by Paul Craig Roberts | Nov 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
The “war on terror” has simultaneously been a war on truth. For fifteen years—from 9/11 to Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of mass destruction” and “al Qaeda connections,” “Iranian nukes,” “Assad’s use of chemical weapons,” endless lies about Gadaffi, “Russian invasion of...

To Really ‘Make America Great Again,’ End the Fed!
by Ron Paul | Nov 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
Former Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher recently gave a speech identifying the Federal Reserve’s easy money/low interest rate policies as a source of the public anger that propelled Donald Trump into the White House. Mr. Fisher is certainly correct...
Suez: The End of Europe’s Empires
by Eric Margolis | Nov 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
Sixty years ago, I was home after school, sitting in our living room on New York’s Central Park West, reading a history of Rome and listening to Dvorak’s splendid cello concerto when the announcer on WQXR broke in to announced, “Israeli armored forces are thrusting...
RPI’s Daniel McAdams on the Washington Post ‘Fake News’ Attack Piece
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
With its status as the Beltway newspaper of record, with its budget of some half a billion dollars, with its 750 or so employees, what a surprise that the Washington Post feels threatened by a tiny truth-telling think tank like the Ron Paul Institute. But obviously...
Washington Post Peddles Tarring of Ron Paul Institute as Russian Propaganda
by Adam Dick | Nov 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Washington Post has a history of misrepresenting Ron Paul’s views. Last year the supposed newspaper of record ran a feature article by David A. Fahrenthold in which Fahrenthold grossly mischaracterized Paul as an advocate for calamity, oppression, and poverty —...
Ron Paul Rewind: Ron Paul on Julian Assange
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
As the transition from Obama to the Trump Administration accelerates, brutal battles are being waged behind the scenes. From the ramparts of the neocon think tanks to the "experts" who are always wrong yet somehow always featured by the mainstream media, the...
What Would an ‘America First’ Foreign Policy Look Like?
by Justin Raimondo | Nov 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
As Donald Trump takes the reins and we all prepare for the next four years, the need to translate rhetoric into reality comes to the fore. Trump spent the campaign repeating a phrase that horrified the elites – especially the foreign policy Establishment – even...
Trump’s Tulsi Gabbard Factor
by Robert Parry | Nov 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
Two weeks after Donald Trump’s shocking upset of Hillary Clinton, the imperious and imperial neoconservatives and their liberal-interventionist understudies may finally be losing their tight grip on US foreign policy. The latest sign was Trump’s invitation for a...
When It Comes to Fake News, the US Government Is the Biggest Culprit
by John W. Whitehead | Nov 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.” —Former New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg Let’s talk about fake news stories, shall we? There’s the garden variety fake news...

Education System Broken: Let’s Try ‘Ed-Exit’
by Ron Paul | Nov 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan recently signed an executive order forbidding Maryland public schools from beginning classes before Labor Day. Governor Hogan’s executive order benefits businesses in Maryland’s coastal areas that lose school-aged summer employees and...
Help Wanted, Apply Now!
by Peter van Buren | Nov 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
You may have seen the stories last week — President-elect Donald Trump was shocked to learn he needs to hire over 4,000 political appointees by January 20, or that people in Washington may refuse to work in a Trump administration, or that Trump, as a newcomer to...
Mr. Trump: Here is a Worthy, Perhaps Final Opportunity to Put America First
by Michael Scheuer | Nov 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
Although Obama’s effort to help Hillary Clinton’s campaign by taking Mosul on the eve of the election failed, there is a good chance that Mosul will fall to the heterogeneous coalition that is attacking it. Be that event in six weeks, six months, or a year, the United...
War Breaks Out Between Neo-Cons And Libertarians Over Trump’s Foreign Policy
by Tyler Durden | Nov 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
In late October, when it was still conventional wisdom that Hillary was "guaranteed" to win the presidency, the WaPo explained that among the neo-con, foreign policy "elites" of the Pentagon, a feeling of calm content had spread: after all, it was just a matter of...
Those Damn Emails
by Peter van Buren | Nov 19, 2016 | Featured Articles
In the end, the emails mattered. How much they mattered — how many votes went to Trump, how many would be-Clinton supporters stayed home, how many voted third party — we’ll never know.Clinton supporters were surprised the emails mattered at all, because they had been...
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