In mocking California Senator Alex Padilla by referring to him as “Jose,” Vice President Vance has unwittingly reminded us of the Jose Padilla case. The Padilla case showed us how government officials use “crises” to destroy the civil liberties of the people. The 9/11...
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The Fictional Mental Illness That Only Affects Enemies Of The Western Empire
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jun 27, 2025 | Featured Articles
Within the storytelling of western politics and punditry there exists a fictional type of mental illness which only affects people the US empire doesn’t like. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, its crazy lunatic government will flip out and nuke us all. Watch out for...
Let Trump Save Us from War with Iran
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jun 26, 2025 | Featured Articles
The ongoing pundit discussions whether or not the US attack destroyed the three Iranian nuclear facilities, which might or might not have been involved in developing a weapon, with many challenging the Trump administration’s report that all three facilities were...
The Coming Police State
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jun 26, 2025 | Featured Articles
We have seen this before. A foreign entity attacks American persons or property and the government warns that its sleeper cells have infiltrated the United States and it is somehow necessary to expand the powers of the government and shrink protections for civil...
The War on Iran is not Over
by Larry C. Johnson | Jun 26, 2025 | Featured Articles
I don’t know why Iran agreed to the ceasefire, but it did. Iranian leaders, in my opinion, are frighteningly naive. Some apparently believe that they can achieve a legitimate negotiated deal with Donald Trump. I suggest the Ayatollah and IRGC commanders read Donald...
Middle East in Crisis After US Bombing of Iran
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jun 25, 2025 | Featured Articles
The former President and Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev who is one of the most authoritative voices in the Kremlin, wrote on the Telegram channel on June 23 a critique on the Middle East crisis following the US attack on Iran’s three key...
Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran(q)
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 25, 2025 | Featured Articles
President Trump says it was necessary for him to order US pilots to bomb Iran to prevent that nation’s government from building a nuclear bomb. Wait a minute. Something is coming to me. Just give me a moment. It’s coming into my mind. Oh, yes, I remember: “WMDs! WMDs,...
The key nuclear allegation that started the war was coaxed from a Palantir counter-intelligence algorithm
by Alastair Crooke | Jun 24, 2025 | Featured Articles
The IAEA Board’s “Non-Compliance” Resolution on 12 June 2025 was the planned precursor for Israel’s “bolt from the blue” strike on Iran the next day. Israelis say the plan to go to war with Iran was grounded in “the opportunity” to strike, and not the intelligence...
Iran vs the US and Israel — Kabuki Theater on Steroids
by Larry C. Johnson | Jun 24, 2025 | Featured Articles
Any moment now I am expecting John Cleese (a veteran of Monty Python) to jump out of the bushes and announce the creation of the Ministry of Silly Wars, with Donald Trump as the deranged leader. For you youngsters out there, Monty Python’s skit, The Ministry of Silly...
President Trump: End the War Now!
by Ron Paul | Jun 23, 2025 | Featured Articles
Just a few weeks ago in this space I urged President Trump to accept a deal with Iran allowing it to continue pursuing civilian nuclear power while ensuring that it would not pursue nuclear weapons. Iran signaled it was ready to sign such a deal, yet suddenly Trump’s...
Trump Takes America to War
by Philip Giraldi | Jun 23, 2025 | Featured Articles
There is a somewhat troublesome backstory to President Donald Trump’s glorification of how Saturday’s US forces attack on three Iranian nuclear sites that “completely obliterated” their targets was carried out without any declaration of war against a country that has...
A Day That Will Live in Infamy
by Douglas Macgregor | Jun 23, 2025 | Featured Articles
On the 21st of June, a day that will live in infamy, President Trump led the American People to War with Iran. Trump’s message to Americans? Striking Iran's three nuclear facilities is all that U.S. Forces will do. Unless, of course, the Iranians have the temerity to...
Will Trump Attack Iran?
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 21, 2025 | Featured Articles
This article first appeared as an exclusive to Ron Paul Institute subscribers. Subscribe here for free. As of this writing, the United States military appears to have all of its assets in place for a major attack on Iran. Over the past several days we have seen...
The Real National Emergency: Endless Wars, Failing Infrastructure, and a Dying Republic
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Jun 21, 2025 | Featured Articles
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”—President Dwight D. Eisenhower (April 16, 1953) Seventy years after President...
Alarming Fox Report Says Tactical Nukes ‘Not Off The Table’ For Trump’s Iran Response
by Tyler Durden | Jun 20, 2025 | Featured Articles
We described earlier that the Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has reportedly informed American officials that destroying Iran’s heavily fortified Fordow nuclear facility might require the use of a nuclear weapon, based on The Guardian....
The Dangerous New Neoconservatism
by Bruno Maçães | Jun 20, 2025 | Featured Articles
It is remarkable that many of those who swore never to repeat the mistakes of the Iraq invasion are now set on another misconceived adventure. Once again we are told that a Middle Eastern nation needs to be bombed so it can taste the fruit of freedom. Once again the...
World War III Update
by Larry C. Johnson | Jun 20, 2025 | Featured Articles
Here is my prediction… Donald Trump will change his mind at least three times in the next three days. Trump did nothing to calm fears that he has lost touch with reality when his press secretary, Ms. Leavitt, announced that Trump would make the decision on US...
Nuclear War Ala Mode?
by Philip Giraldi | Jun 19, 2025 | Featured Articles
One of the more interesting aspects of the expanding war between Israel and Iran is the way the media and the crowd of “experts” have avoided any discussion of the possible, or perhaps even likely, upcoming decision of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to dig deep...
Ron Paul Rewind: No War on Iran Without a Congressional Declaration of War
by Adam Dick | Jun 19, 2025 | Featured Articles
It is déjà vu concerning the United States going to war against Iran. Back in a February of 2012 Republican presidential nomination race debate, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) was asked about if the US should go to war against Iran because of the same purported threat that...
Trump, War and the Constitution
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jun 19, 2025 | Featured Articles
Has the United States become what President Donald Trump recently condemned? Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses? Are there constitutional and legal requirements that must first be met before war is waged? These questions...
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