It’s been the week from hell for Donald Trump. Everything seems to be going wrong for him. The worst was the foolish and painful fight he picked with the grieving Khan family.What happened was clearly a very clever ambush devised by the Clinton camp. A Muslim-American...
Featured Articles
The Sham Rebrand of al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front
by Gareth Porter | Aug 5, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Nusra Front’s adoption of the new name Jabhat Fateh al-Sham and claim that it has separated itself from al-Qaeda was designed to influence US policy, not to make the group any more independent of al-Qaeda. The objective of the manoeuvre was to head off US-Russian...
Kerry’s And Al-Qaeda’s ‘Very Different Track’ Attack On Aleppo Fails
by Moon of Alabama | Aug 4, 2016 | Featured Articles
Early May US Secretary of State Kerry set a deadline for "voluntary" regime change in Syria: [He] said 'the target date for the transition is 1st of August' in Syria or else the Assad government and its allies 'are asking for a very different track.' Hoping that...
Milosevic Exonerated, as the NATO War Machine Moves On
by Neil Clark | Aug 3, 2016 | Featured Articles
piece:The ICTY’s exoneration of the late Slobodan Milosevic, the former President of Yugoslavia, for war crimes committed in the Bosnia war, proves again we should take NATO claims regarding its “official enemies” not with a pinch of salt, but a huge lorry load. For...
Captain Khan Was Waging an Unconstitutional War
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 2, 2016 | Featured Articles
Amidst the fury over the exchanges between Donald Trump and Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the couple who lost their son in Iraq, the mainstream media and mainstream political commentators are missing some important elements in the controversy. In his speech at the...
As Israel Prospers, Obama Set to Give Billions More in Aid While Netanyahu Demands Even More
by Glenn Greenwald | Aug 1, 2016 | Featured Articles
For all the chatter about animosity between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Washington Post reports that “a senior Israeli official will arrive in Washington next week for a final round of negotiations involving the largest...
Can Hillary Clinton Be Pro-War and a Progressive?
by Adam Dick | Aug 1, 2016 | Featured Articles
Despite Hillary Clinton obtaining the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination last week, many people, including many Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) delegates who publicly dissented throughout the Democratic National Convention and even walked off the convention floor...

Americans Are Going to be Disappointed in Election Outcome
by Ron Paul | Aug 1, 2016 | Featured Articles
It is a sad commentary on the state of political life in the United States that our political conventions have become more like rock music festivals than competitions of ideas. There has been a great deal of bombast, of insults, of name-calling, and of chest-beating...
America’s Longest War Gets Longer
by Eric Margolis | Jul 31, 2016 | Featured Articles
Anti-Russian hysteria in America reached its apogee this week as Democrats tried to divert attention from embarrassing revelations about how the Democratic Party apparatus had rigged the primaries against Bernie Sanders by claiming Vlad Putin and his KGB had hacked...
Gaddafi’s Ghosts: Return of the Libyan Jamahiriya
by Dan Glazebrook | Jul 30, 2016 | Featured Articles
When NATO murdered Gaddafi and blitzed his country in 2011, they hoped the socialist "Jamahiriya" movement he led would be dead and buried. Now his son has been released from prison to a hero’s welcome with his movement increasingly in the ascendancy. There were...
Who Hacked the DNC?
by Justin Raimondo | Jul 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
We haven’t seen this kind of hysteria since the darkest days of the cold war: a spy scare that is being utilized by one political party against another in a national election, with charges of disloyalty and even “treason” being hurled by one side against the other....
Strategic Shift? Putin to Receive Erdogan in Hometown
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jul 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
The developments in Turkey are taking a dramatic turn. All Indications are that the Turkish government is in possession of definite information that the attempted military coup was orchestrated by the United States. (Anadolu) The Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag made an...
The Secret Rules That Allow the FBI to Spy on Journalists
by Peter van Buren | Jul 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
The bones of our democracy — the core elements that separate that way of life from others — lie in the First Amendment to the Constitution, specifically the rights to free speech and a free press. Without the ability to speak freely, and to have things about our...
Trump: Siberian Candidate?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
Has Vladimir Putin taken over the US electoral process? That has been the media mantra over the past 24 hours or so, since a Wikileaks data dump revealed a deeply flawed presidential selection in the Democratic Party. Rather than address how Democratic National...
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin: Potential Partners – Not Allies or Even Friends
by George Szamuely | Jul 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
Reporters and pundits covering the presidential campaign of Donald Trump have been torn between two conflicting narratives: The first is that Trump is a reckless amateur and, as president with his finger on the nuclear button, he would bring the world to the brink of...
Stop Drinking the Kool-Aid, America: Political Fiction in an Age of Televised Lies
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
“We’ve got to face it. Politics have entered a new stage, the television stage. Instead of long-winded public debates, the people want capsule slogans—‘Time for a change’—‘The mess in Washington’—‘More bang for a buck’—punch lines and glamour.”— A Face in the Crowd...
Clinton, Wasserman Schultz and the Wheezing Corpse of the Democratic Process Revealed
by Peter van Buren | Jul 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
Wikileaks over the last few days dumped tens of thousands of emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) server. The disclosures of dirty tricks directed against Bernie Sanders contained in those emails are startling, and only add to the whirlpool of...
New From RPI: A Tipping Point for Liberty
by Adam Dick | Jul 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
Ron Paul Institute Senior Fellow Adam Dick’s new book A Tipping Point for Liberty: Exposing and Defeating Leviathan Government was published this week. Dick’s new book frankly explores the battle between overbearing government, both at home and abroad, and...
Defeating Islamic Terrorism. Here’s How…
by Peter van Buren | Jul 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
As terrorism struck again in Nice and Germany and… Donald Trump outlined his policy against Islamic State: as president, he will seek a full declaration of war from Congress, the first such formal invocation since Pearl Harbor. Trump was short on specifics but very...

The Path to Fed-Exit
by Ron Paul | Jul 24, 2016 | Featured Articles
I recently proposed that the liberty movement capitalize on Brexit with “Fed-exit”: a campaign to “secede" from the Federal Reserve. Fed-exit could be accomplished with a few simple policy changes. Passing Audit the Fed is a good first step toward Fed-exit. Contrary...
Recent Posts
- Is Too Late to Establish a Department of Peace?by Karen Kwiatkowski
- Making Corporatism Great Againby Ron Paul
- The Danger of Loyalty Tests in US Foreign Policyby Sina Toossi
- Partisan Democrats Even Oppose Efforts To End War In Ukraineby Rep. John J. Duncan Jr.
- The Sword Swings Over Sorosby Mariann Ory
- The Big Conby James Carden
- Making Palestinians Go Awayby Philip Giraldi
- Trump’s Drug-War Murders in the Caribbeanby Jacob G. Hornberger
- Major conservative split over Israel spills out into the open at NatConby Kelley B. Vlahos
- The Feds Defend Their Tortures Againby Andrew P. Napolitano
Categories
Sign Up For Institute Updates for Free!
Keep up to date with all Ron Paul Institute news and events by signing up for our updates. We will keep you informed and make sure you are the first to know any RPI news. We will occasionally send you our take on breaking events. But we won't clog your in-box and we absolutely will respect your privacy. Let's work for peace and prosperity together! Come on board!
Donate to The Ron Paul Institute Today!
Support our upcoming set rebuild. We plan to improve our reach by amplifying the message.