The Government Accountability Office (GAO), created more than a century ago to assist Congress in its constitutionally mandated oversight responsibilities, issued a report just last year which estimated that in a span of 20 years, including 2023, that the US...
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Putin Dumps Bucket of Reality-Cold Water on Trump
by Larry C. Johnson | Feb 11, 2025 | Featured Articles
The diplomatic tango between Washington and Moscow is underway, but Trump’s promise to bring a quick end to the war in Ukraine on Trump’s terms appears more unlikely with each passing day. Prior to the conversation between the two leaders during the last four days,...
Why Did Republicans Fund ‘Transgender Dance’ in Bangladesh?
by Wyatt Reed | Feb 10, 2025 | Featured Articles
For years, the Republican Party-aligned International Republican Institute’s (IRI) agenda in Bangladesh has been dominated by ethnic minority and transgender issues, with leaked documents revealing the Institute sponsored “the largest published survey of LGBTI people...
The Most Dramatic Narrative Shift in Modern History
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Feb 10, 2025 | Featured Articles
The most dramatic narrative shift in this post-lockdown period has been the flip in the perceptions of government itself. For decades and even centuries, government was seen as the essential bulwark to defend the poor, empower the marginalized, realize justice, even...
The US Should Not Take Over Gaza
by Ron Paul | Feb 10, 2025 | Featured Articles
This week, President Trump upended US Middle East policy by announcing that the United States would “take over” war-ravaged Gaza and turn it into “the Riviera of the Middle East.” President Trump also said the Palestinians living in Gaza would be (temporarily?)...
Signs that President Donald Trump Is Preparing for War on Mexico
by Adam Dick | Feb 9, 2025 | Featured Articles
Will Donald Trump’s presidency bring a United States war on Mexico? There are indications that it may. In November of 2019, nearly three years into his first term as US president, Trump was declaring his desire for the US military to attack in Mexico. Trump expressed...
Make The Ukraine Truce, Then Cut Europe Loose
by David Stockman | Feb 8, 2025 | Featured Articles
Come see David Stockman speak at the Ron Paul Institute Spring Conference! Exactly 177 days after being sworn to office, America’s greatest peace president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, announced that the demolition derby on the Korean peninsula would be halted, and that an...
The Greatest (Geopolitical) Showman’s ‘Inside Out’ Political Solution
by Alastair Crooke | Feb 7, 2025 | Featured Articles
How to do the impossible? America is instinctively an expansionist power, needing new fields to conquer; new financial horizons to master and to exploit. The US is built that way. Always was. But – if you are Trump, wanting to withdraw from wars on the empire’s...
Tariffs and the Constitution
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Feb 6, 2025 | Featured Articles
The taxing power in the federal government resides in the Congress. The Constitution states that Congress has the power to “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts” of the federal government. Indeed, in order to emphasize the location of...
Donald Trump’s Gaza Mirage
by Larry C. Johnson | Feb 5, 2025 | Featured Articles
I owe Danny Davis an apology. I speculated during our conversation today that one possible explanation for Trump’s recent rant declaring that the Palestinians of Gaza would be relocated to Egypt, Jordan or some other countries was simply a negotiating ploy. I opined...
Why the Mainstream Media Is in Trouble
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 4, 2025 | Featured Articles
As most everyone knows, the mainstream media is hurting, big time. For many years, subscriptions and advertising revenue have been plummeting. Some of the big papers have been able to survive only by having some multimillionaire bail them out with his own money and be...
‘This is NPR’: America’s Public Media Faces Reckoning on What it is
by Jonathan Turley | Feb 4, 2025 | Featured Articles
“This is NPR.” That tagline has long been used for National Public Radio, but what it is remains remarkably in doubt. NPR remains something of a curiosity. It is a state-subsidized media outlet in a country that rejects state media. It is a site that routinely pitches...
‘Scorecard, Scorecard, You Can’t Tell al-Queda Without a Scorecard.’
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Feb 3, 2025 | Featured Articles
When I was a child attending Cleveland Indian baseball games at the old Municipal Stadium a thin man in an Indians’ baseball cap ran up and down the aisles hawking scorecards and calling out, “Scorecard, scorecard, you can’t tell the players without a scorecard.” He...
Audit USAID…Then Shut it Down!
by Ron Paul | Feb 3, 2025 | Featured Articles
As of this writing, when you attempt to access the US Agency for International Development (USAID) website or social media pages you are informed that, “This site can’t be reached.” The media reports that the new Trump Administration has not only frozen USAID...
Tulsi Flubs Answer to Senators’ Question about Snowden
by William Dunkerley | Feb 3, 2025 | Featured Articles
"'Is Edward Snowden a traitor?': Senators repeatedly ask Gabbard for an answer," read a recent CNN headline. This was a hot topic for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Members were questioning cabinet nominee Tulsi Gabbard. She is Trump's choice for...
Condos in Gaza! Solving the Mideast Problem Trump Style
by Eric Margolis | Feb 1, 2025 | Featured Articles
The Great White Father in Washington has spoken. Let mere mortals hark and obey. Gaza is a ‘mess’ said President Trump and must be ‘cleaned up.’ 2.1 million human refuse are befouling this potentially prime beachside property. `We just clean out that whole thing’...
Romanian Election Undone by TikTok
by Alexander Zaitchik | Feb 1, 2025 | Featured Articles
On Nov. 24, at the southeastern frontier of the European Union and NATO, Romanian voters delivered an unexpected victory to a right-wing populist named Călin Georgescu in the opening round of the country’s presidential election. Always considered a longshot, Georgescu...
CIA/NYT Remove North Korean Troops From Ukraine’s Front Line
by Moon of Alabama | Feb 1, 2025 | Featured Articles
After three months of intense propaganda the CIA decided to bury an Ukrainian disinformation scheme and announced to 'pull North Korean troops off the front line'. Well. How did North Koreans get to the front line in the first place? On October 14 the former president...
Trump Issues Executive Order Aimed At Deporting Anti-Israel Protesters
by blueapples | Jan 31, 2025 | Featured Articles
Last spring, a wave of protests across college campuses nationwide against Israel's war in Gaza became the focal point of the growing cultural schism further dividing American society. The dichotomy between supporters and opponents of those protests...
NATO: The Case To Get Out Now
by David Stockman | Jan 31, 2025 | Featured Articles
The case for getting out of NATO now encompasses four fundamental propositions: First, the Federal budget has become a self-fueling fiscal doomsday machine, even as the Fed has run out of capacity to monetize the skyrocketing public debt. Second, the only viable...
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