According to the Congressional Budget Office, “Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II. To date, the United States has provided Israel $121 billion (current, or non-inflation-adjusted, dollars) in bilateral assistance....
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‘Hard-Core Libertarian’ Austin Petersen’s Advice for ‘Soviet’ Ron Paul
by Adam Dick | Jul 25, 2014 | Featured Articles
Austin Petersen, who describes himself in the introduction to his Freedom Report Podcast as a “hard-core libertarian” who cares about “pure freedom,” is upset that Ron Paul wrote an editorial expressing skepticism regarding the US government’s and media’s line on the...
Ron Paul: ‘I Don’t Blame America, I Blame Neocons’
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 25, 2014 | Featured Articles
Facing a tough but respectful grilling on Fox Business's The Independents over his recent comments on Ukraine and the apparent downing of a Malaysia Air plane, Ron Paul argues that the US government wants to blame Russia for the shoot-down while providing no evidence...
Breedlove…or Strangelove?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 25, 2014 | Featured Articles
NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, Gen. Philip Breedlove, wants to light a torch under the rapidly reconstituting Cold War with Russia. According to the Times (UK), NATO's top military commander has plans to transform an old military base in Poland into a tip...
Ron Paul: What’s So Bad About a Split-Up Ukraine?
by RPI Staff | Jul 24, 2014 | Featured Articles
In an in-depth commentary about the recent Malaysian Airlines crash, Dr. Paul makes the point that no one in western media or government wants us to ponder: if eastern Ukraine wants to be closer to Russia and western Ukraine wants to be aligned with the EU, why can't...
9/11 Commission: 10th Anniversary of a Bootlicking National Disgrace
by James Bovard | Jul 23, 2014 | Featured Articles
Ten years ago, the 9/11 Commission released its report on the challenges to the nation. Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton, the chairman and vice chairman of the commission, have a platitude-laden piece this morning in USA Today: “The 'generational challenge' against terrorism...
Parallel Construction: Unconstitutional NSA Searches Deny Due Process
by Peter van Buren | Jul 23, 2014 | Featured Articles
The NSA sits at the nexus of violations of both the Fourth and Fifth Amendments with a legal dodge called Parallel Construction. Parallel Construction is a technique used by law enforcement to hide the fact that evidence in a criminal case originated with the NSA. In...
On Malaysian Crash, Obama’s Case Against Russia Disintegrates
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 23, 2014 | Featured Articles
Tuesday the US government admitted it had been bluffing about its certainty that Russia was behind the downing of Malaysian Air Flight MH-17 over Ukraine. This dramatic turn of events started with State Department Spokeswoman Marie Harf claiming Monday that the State...
Kerry’s Latest Reckless Rush to Judgment
by Robert Parry | Jul 22, 2014 | Featured Articles
Secretary of State John Kerry boasts that as a former prosecutor he knows he has a strong case against the eastern Ukrainian rebels and their backers in Russia in pinning last Thursday’s shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on them, even without the benefit of a...
The Stealing of America by the Cops, the Courts, the Corporations and Congress
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 21, 2014 | Featured Articles
“What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” —Author Tom Clancy Call it what you will—taxes, penalties, fees, fines, regulations, tariffs, tickets, permits, surcharges, tolls, asset...
What the Media Won’t Report About Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17
by Ron Paul | Jul 20, 2014 | Featured Articles
Just days after the tragic crash of a Malaysian Airlines flight over eastern Ukraine, Western politicians and media joined together to gain the maximum propaganda value from the disaster. It had to be Russia; it had to be Putin, they said. President Obama held a press...
What Happened to the Malaysian Airliner?
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jul 20, 2014 | Featured Articles
Washington’s propaganda machine is in such high gear that we are in danger of losing the facts that we do have. One fact is that the separatists do not have the expensive Buk anti-aircraft missile system or the trained personnel to operate it. Another fact is that the...
What Gaza’s Crisis Shows About Israel’s Ambitions and America’s Decline
by flynt leverett and hillary mann leverett | Jul 19, 2014 | Featured Articles
As Israel’s military kills and injures hundreds of civilians in Gaza—whose population Israel is legally obligated to protect as an occupying power—people around the world, including in the United States, wonder why official Washington appears so indifferent to even...
David Versus Goliath in Gaza
by Eric Margolis | Jul 19, 2014 | Featured Articles
Israel is clearly winning the David v. Goliath struggle with Palestinians in Gaza. Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, seized on the murder in June of three Jewish teenagers from a West Bank settlement to launch Israel’s third war against Gaza in six years....
Blood, Treasure and Soul: The Exorbitant Price of the American Empire
by Mike Marion | Jul 19, 2014 | Featured Articles
(click to enlarge) It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when it happened, but clear evidence can be seen at least in the aftermath of World War II. Some trace the origins back to 1898 and the Spanish-American War, or even earlier to the War of 1812. And still others...
US Foreign Food Aid Hurts the Poor
by James Bovard | Jul 17, 2014 | Featured Articles
The U.S. government loves to preen about its generosity to the world’s downtrodden. However, a long series of presidents and their tools have scorned the evidence that their aid programs perennially clobber recipients. Nowhere is this clearer than in the sordid...
Neocons Go Undercover
by Justin Raimondo | Jul 16, 2014 | Featured Articles
Ben SmithFox News reports it’s entirely legal in many jurisdictions for criminals to change their names, citing the case of an Oklahoma man convicted of impersonating a police officer – as well as a would-be school bus driver who is a convicted sex offender. It’s a...
West’s Confusing Foreign Policy Contradictions
by Neil Clark | Jul 15, 2014 | Featured Articles
I'm confused. Jen Psaki, US State Department spokesperson, says that the Ukrainian government has "every right" to use air strikes against its opponents in Ukraine on the grounds that it "is defending the country." Yet in 2011, alleged air strikes by Libyan government...
Ron Paul Institute Now in Texas!
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 13, 2014 | Featured Articles
Great news! The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity has moved from its former location in Washington, D.C.'s Virginia suburbs down to its new headquarters in Clute, Texas. The Institute is setting up its office next door to Ron Paul's FREE Foundation and not...
What’s Missing in the Current Immigration ‘Crisis’ Debate
by Ron Paul | Jul 13, 2014 | Featured Articles
Over the past several weeks we have seen a significant increase in illegal immigration, as thousands of unaccompanied minors pour across what seems an invisible southern border into the United States. The mass immigration has, as to be expected, put an enormous strain...
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