Four years ago, President Obama promised in a United Nations speech to “change the way we do business” with foreign aid and “seek partners who want to build their own capacity to provide for their people.” A year earlier, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton complained...
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Putin’s Complaint: Is Washington a Revisionist Power?
by Justin Raimondo | Oct 29, 2014 | Featured Articles
The idea that the United States must exercise "global leadership" is rationalized by our interventionists as a necessary perquisite for maintaining some type of "world order."Who will guard the sea lanes? Who will deter "aggression"? Who will defend the "rules"...
Time Mag to Ron Paul: Stop Telling The Truth!
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 28, 2014 | Featured Articles
Time Magazine is angry with Ron Paul. How dare he point out that the media has been over-reacting to the Ebola outbreak? How dare he mention that Canada's 13 years of bombing Muslim countries has irritated plenty of people on the receiving end of those bombs? How dare...
Don’t Let Lunatics Make Our Policies
by Eric Margolis | Oct 27, 2014 | Featured Articles
Things seemed crazy in the US and Canada last week, with a shooting on normally tranquil Parliament Hill in Ottawa and a grisly hatchet attack on two New York City policemen. Add in an American doctor who returned to the big city from Ebola-stricken West Africa and...

Once-Peaceful Canada Turns Militaristic; Blowback Follows
by Ron Paul | Oct 26, 2014 | Featured Articles
In 1968 the government of Canada decided to openly admit Americans seeking to avoid being drafted into the US war on Vietnam. Before, would-be immigrants were technically required to prove that they had been discharged from US military service. This move made it...
Anti-Assad Warmongers Drag in the Holocaust
by Maidhc O Cathail | Oct 25, 2014 | Featured Articles
“The irony is that the Nazi holocaust has now become the main ideological weapon for launching wars of aggression,” Norman Finkelstein tells Yoav Shamir in “Defamation,” the Israeli filmmaker’s award-winning 2009 documentary on how perceptions of anti-Semitism affect...
Fragile Fact-Checking: How The Media Fell in And Out of Love With The Sikorski ‘Revelations’
by Bryan MacDonald | Oct 23, 2014 | Featured Articles
What’s worse than a junior neocon? A junior neocon trying to make a name for himself. Ben Judah’s meteoric rise, aided by his staunch anti-Russian credentials in a climate of fear, has imploded as quickly as it began. As I learnt the hard way, when you are a young man...
Hollow Justice and Courts of Order in an Age of Government-Sanctioned Tyranny
by John W. Whitehead | Oct 22, 2014 | Featured Articles
“The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people.”—Justice William O. Douglas Justice in America makes less sense with each passing day. A Michigan couple that has been raising chickens in their backyard as a source...
The Cuban Embargo is an Attack on Both Cubans And Americans
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Oct 20, 2014 | Featured Articles
Sen. Robert MenendezIn its October 11 Sunday edition, the New York Times published an editorial calling for the lifting of the 45-year-old Cold War-era economic embargo against Cuba. The Times pointed out: Over the decades, it became clear to many American policy...
National Service is Anti-Liberty and Un-American
by Ron Paul | Oct 19, 2014 | Featured Articles
Former Clinton Administration Labor Secretary Robert Reich recently called on the government to force young people to spend two years either “serving” in the military or performing some other type of government-directed “community service.” Neoconservative Senator...
The Real Secret of Iraq’s Germ Weapons
by Eric Margolis | Oct 18, 2014 | Featured Articles
Back in the 1990’s, journalists used to joke, “Of course we know Iraq has chemical weapons. We have the delivery receipts to prove it!” The joke turned out to be the exact truth. While covering Iraq in 1990 – just before the first massive US bombing campaign – I...
The Neocons — Masters of Chaos
by Robert Parry | Oct 18, 2014 | Featured Articles
If you’re nervously watching the stock market gyrations and worrying about your declining portfolio or pension fund, part of the blame should go to America’s neocons who continue to be masters of chaos, endangering the world’s economy by instigating geopolitical...
Ron Paul Blasts ‘Deeply Flawed’ US Foreign Policy – Interview With Larry King
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 17, 2014 | Featured Articles
RPI Chairman Ron Paul appeared on Larry King's "Politiking" program this week to discuss Ebola, Obama, foreign policy and so much more.A big "thank you" to Larry King for mentioning the Ron Paul Institute in his introduction!Dr. Paul and Mr. King hit on a wide variety...
Warmongering Washington Hunting for Ebola, Russia and Islamic State
by Robert Bridge | Oct 17, 2014 | Featured Articles
The US Secretary of Defense Secretary categorized Russia as a global threat – much like Obama in his UN address last month - in the same breath as Ebola and Islamic State. For anybody who took at face value the Obama administration’s past commitment for a “reset” with...
The Politicians Are Scaring You Again
by Sheldon Richman | Oct 16, 2014 | Featured Articles
They are doing it again. “They” are the war-party politicians, Democrats and Republicans. “It” is scaring you into supporting another war in the Middle East. When will the American people learn? If in a republic the people are the ultimate check on government power, a...
Seven Worst-Case Scenarios in the Battle With the Islamic State
by Peter van Buren | Oct 16, 2014 | Featured Articles
You know the joke? You describe something obviously heading for disaster -- a friend crossing Death Valley with next to no gas in his car -- and then add, “What could possibly go wrong?” Such is the Middle East today. The U.S. is again at war there, bombing freely...
Committing Highway Robbery to Fund Police Militarization
by Adam Dick | Oct 15, 2014 | Featured Articles
The militarization of local police in the United States is not being fueled just by the federal government providing military equipment, including machine guns, grenade launchers, and armored vehicles, to local police departments. The police are also funding the rise...
Where Did Iraq Get Its Weapons of Mass Destruction?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Oct 15, 2014 | Featured Articles
In April 2003, when U.S. officials were still celebrating their invasion and occupation of Iraq as a fantastic success, I wrote an article entitled, “Where Did Iraq Get Its Weapons of Mass Destruction?” Actually though, it wasn’t actually an article but rather a list...
Shielded from Justice: The High Cost of Living in a Police State
by John W. Whitehead | Oct 14, 2014 | Featured Articles
“It’s been over five months since the night a SWAT team broke into the house in which we were staying…We were staying with relatives and my whole family was sleeping in one room. My husband and I, our three daughters and our baby (nicknamed “Baby Bou Bou”) in his...
US/Afghan Pact: Permanent Occupation
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Oct 14, 2014 | Featured Articles
Writing on the subject of “foreign troops” a few months ago, the well known Guardian columnist and editor Seumas Milne observed, “It’s almost never discussed in the political mainstream. But thousands of foreign troops have now been stationed in Britain for more than...
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