Birthdays are always a good time to take stock of one’s achievements, make some resolutions and contemplate the road ahead. So, with NATO turning sixty-seven today, perhaps it’s time for the military alliance to engage in some honest self-reflection. The problem is,...
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Ron Paul Rewind: Condemns US Support of Terrorist Insurrection in Syria (2012)
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 4, 2016 | Featured Articles
Imagine how many thousands of lives could have been saved in Syria if Congress had only listened to Ron Paul. Almost five years ago, Rep. Paul took to the House Floor to introduce legislation prohibiting the president from providing any form of military assistance --...
Selective Leaks Of The ‘Panama Papers’ Create Huge Blackmail Potential
by Moon of Alabama | Apr 4, 2016 | Featured Articles
A real leak of data from a law firm in Panama would be very interesting. Many rich people and/or politicians hide money in shell companies that such firms in Panama provide. But the current heavily promoted "leak" of such data to several NATO supporting news...
‘The Boys Who Said No!’: New Documentary About War Resisters
by Peter van Buren | Apr 4, 2016 | Featured Articles
Evil is participatory, says interviewee David Harris at the beginning of a documentary in progress about Vietnam-era draft resisters, The Boys Who Said No! Evil continuing depends on people joining in, and the first step to stopping it, he continues, is withdrawing...

Vietnam War at 50: Have We Learned Nothing?
by Ron Paul | Apr 4, 2016 | Featured Articles
Last week Defense Secretary Ashton Carter laid a wreath at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington in commemoration of the "50th anniversary" of that war. The date is confusing, as the war started earlier and ended far later than 1966. But the Vietnam War at 50...
The Cover-Up of the Damning 9/11 Report Continues
by James Bovard | Apr 1, 2016 | Featured Articles
Do Americans have the right to learn whether a foreign government helped finance the 9/11 attacks? A growing number of congressmen and senators are demanding that a 28-page portion of a 2002 congressional report finally be declassified. The Obama administration...
Bill Buckley Conservatism Is Dead…Meanwhile, Rothbard Soars
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Mar 30, 2016 | Featured Articles
Fifty years ago this year, Murray N. Rothbard offered his thoughts on National Review, the flagship magazine of American conservatism, which had commemorated its tenth anniversary in late 1965. He went on to tell the full story in The Betrayal of the American Right,...
Can the State Enforce Virtuous Behavior?
by Robert Higgs | Mar 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
For thousands of years, states (or equivalent ruling organizations and elites) certainly have acted as if they could enforce virtuous behavior—always of course according to the particular conception of virtue they happened to cherish. And many continue to do so today....
Iraq Invasion – Anniversary of The Biggest Terrorist Attack in Modern History
by Felicity Arbuthnot | Mar 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
Since terrorism’s tragedy is again in the news, it is timely to revisit perhaps one of the biggest acts of terrorism in modern history – the illegal invasion and destruction – ongoing – of Iraq. March 20th marked the thirteenth anniversary of an action resulting in...
All Quiet on Western Front After Syrian Forces Recapture Palmyra From ISIS
by Danielle Ryan | Mar 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
The recapture of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra was the single biggest defeat for ISIS since it declared its caliphate, but the West does not seem interested. Why? Because then they’d have to give some credit to Russia. Indeed, it must have been a tough weekend...

A European PATRIOT Act Will Not Keep People Safe
by Ron Paul | Mar 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
It was not long after last week’s horrifying bombings in Brussels that the so-called security experts were out warning that Europeans must give up more of their liberty so government can keep them secure from terrorism. I guess people are not supposed to notice that...
Back to the Future: The Unanswered Questions from the Debates
by Peter van Buren | Mar 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
The nuances of foreign policy do not feature heavily in the ongoing presidential campaign. Every candidate intends to “destroy” the Islamic State; each has concerns about Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korea, and China; every one of them will defend Israel;...
Ukraine is Turning into Liberia
by Andrey Fomin | Mar 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
Earlier this month while delivering a public lecture in Kiev, “The Challenges of an Ever-Changing World,” former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an inspiring remark for anyone who might have been thinking that life in Ukraine was bad: “You should go to...
How Narratives Killed the Syrian People
by Sharmine Narwani | Mar 24, 2016 | Featured Articles
On March 23, 2011, at the very start of what we now call the ‘Syrian conflict,’ two young men - Sa’er Yahya Merhej and Habeel Anis Dayoub - were gunned down in the southern Syrian city of Daraa. Merhej and Dayoub were neither civilians, nor were they in opposition to...
A Better Approach To Terrorism
by Jeff Deist | Mar 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
People of goodwill naturally attempt to make sense of terrible events like yesterday's bombings in Brussels, to help themselves address the psychological discomfort that occurs when seemingly incomprehensible violence occurs. We have a hard time processing a world...
Trump vs. Clinton on Foreign Policy
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
Between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, whose foreign policy would most likely lead to war? Which one has a better track record in foreign policy? Are either of them any good? RPI Director Daniel McAdams finds himself in the middle between a Donald Trump supporter...
Reporting (or Not) the Ties Between US-Armed Syrian Rebels and Al Qaeda’s Affiliate
by Gareth Porter | Mar 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
A crucial problem in news media coverage of the Syrian civil war has been how to characterize the relationship between the so-called “moderate” opposition forces armed by the CIA, on one hand, and the Al Qaeda franchise Al Nusra Front (and its close ally Ahrar al...
My Too-Intimate Relations With The TSA
by James Bovard | Mar 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
Airport security or Gitmo? Transportation security requires competence not sexual assault. The Transportation Security Administration finally obeyed a 2011 federal court order March 3 and issued a 157 page Federal Register notice justifying its controversial full-body...
Brussels Attack, Back To Iraq – What Would Reagan Do?
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
What does today's bombing in Brussels have to do with ISIS in Iraq? Both feed the usual calls for military escalation in response to a problem created by military escalation in the first place. If ISIS is in Iraq as a result of the ill-fated 2003 US military action in...
Google This! Hillary Clinton and the Syrian Regime-Change Conspiracy
by Neil Clark | Mar 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
If you’d have said a year ago that the US State Department, Google, and Al Jazeera had been collaborating in pursuance of regime change in Syria, chances are you’d have been casually dismissed as a "crank" and a ‘conspiracy theorist." Syria was a people’s uprising...
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