I have often thought that after Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson was our worst president. By worst is meant least faithful to the Constitution and most destructive of personal liberty. With the exception of Lincoln’s dictatorship -- during which the federal government...
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Tough Times at Foggy Bottom
by Peter van Buren | Feb 26, 2025 | Featured Articles
The DOGE tsunami is about to strike the U.S. Department of State, as well as other agencies. Let’s see what that means. The day the music died was January 28, when nearly everyone at State, along with over two million other federal civilian employees, received...
Trump Is Right – Cut Everything, Even Bloated Defense Budget
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Feb 26, 2025 | Featured Articles
Don't miss John Duncan, Jr. at the Ron Paul Institute Spring Conference! President Trump made a very strong statement on Feb. 13 which will be revolutionary in nature if he can carry it out. He said there is no reason that we should be spending a trillion dollars a...
Silenced and Seized: How Ukraine’s War, Gaza’s Land Grab, and Europe’s Free Speech Assault Are Fueling a Global Fight for Liberty
by Kurt Wallace | Feb 26, 2025 | Featured Articles
In this episode I’m joined by Daniel McAdams, director of the Ron Paul Institute and co-host of the Ron Paul Liberty Report, we dissect three seismic issues shaking the globe: the war in Ukraine, speculative land grabs in Gaza, and Europe’s escalating assault on free...
Trump and Europe Fail to Realize that Russia Has a Vote
by Larry C. Johnson | Feb 25, 2025 | Featured Articles
I think Trump is sincere in wanting to broker a peace deal with Russia, but I do not think he has grasped the fact that Russia has no desire to end the war with Ukraine until it is defeated, along with NATO, or the United States accepts the conditions President Putin...
Sacrificing Truth on Leviathan’s Altar
by James Bovard | Feb 24, 2025 | Featured Articles
Last Sunday, 60 Minutes featured tyrannical German prosecutors boasting about persecuting private citizens who made comments that officialdom disapproved. Three prosecutors explained how the government was entitled to launch pre-dawn raids and lock up...
Is It Foreign Aid or Covert Action?
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 24, 2025 | Featured Articles
There has been considerable controversy surrounding the Trump administration decision to cutback on government agencies that are ostensibly committed to charitable, educational and other nation building activities both overseas and in the United States. This spending,...
The Federal Reserve Killed the Penny. Is MAGA Next?
by Ron Paul | Feb 24, 2025 | Featured Articles
President Trump recently issued an executive order instructing the US Mint to stop producing pennies. The reason for this is it costs nearly four cents to produce one penny. That’s right: the US government can’t even make pennies without losing money! President Trump...
Fire the Washington War Party
by Eric Margolis | Feb 22, 2025 | Featured Articles
President Donald Trump gets a lot of things wrong. Chief among them is his crazy plan to ethnically cleanse two million Palestinians from the smoking ruins of Gaza. But he also gets some very important things very right. Trump managed to end the longest war in US...
Is Trump Risking His Life with Russia and Ukraine?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 21, 2025 | Featured Articles
If you want to get a sense of what President Kennedy was up against with his Peace Speech at American University a few months before he was taken out, just look at the reaction to President Trump’s friendly overtures toward Russia in the last few days. The mainstream...
How USAID Assisted the Corporate Takeover of Ukrainian Agriculture
by John Klar | Feb 21, 2025 | Featured Articles
A recent essay titled “The Real Purpose of Net Zero” by Jefferey Jaxon posited that Europe’s current war against farmers in the name of preventing climate change is ultimately designed to inflict famine. Jaxon is not speculating on globalist...
Hate For Trump Has Now Expanded To Musk
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Feb 20, 2025 | Featured Articles
Don't miss Rep, Duncan at the March 22nd Ron Paul Institute Conference! The hatred in the hearts and minds of many on the Left is just astounding. Having spent a lifetime closely following and being involved in the American political scene, I have never seen anything...
The Feds and Their Own Bribery
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Feb 20, 2025 | Featured Articles
Normally, when the government asks a judge to dismiss criminal charges against a defendant, the judge will happily do so. This does not occur frequently, but occasionally, the government will reevaluate the strength of its own case and conclude it cannot prove the...
DOGE Cuts Bureaucracy — Sound Money Can Bury It
by Chris Rossini | Feb 20, 2025 | Featured Articles
There are times when self-reflection becomes a necessity. We Americans became that which we seceded from. Recall that one of the complaints in the Declaration of Independence against King George III was: “He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither...
USAID Falls, Exposing a Giant Network of US-Funded ‘Independent’ Media
by Alan MacLeod | Feb 19, 2025 | Featured Articles
The Trump administration’s decision to pause USAID funding has plunged hundreds of so-called “independent media” outlets into crisis, thereby exposing a worldwide network of thousands of journalists, all working to promote U.S. interests in their home countries. In...
‘Listen Carefully it’s Actually Much Darker’: How the Left is Framing Free Speech as a Front for Fascism
by Jonathan Turley | Feb 19, 2025 | Featured Articles
The defense of free speech by Vice President J.D. Vance in Munich, Germany, has led to open panic on the left in fighting to maintain European censorship and speech criminalization. The response of the American press and pundits was crushingly familiar. From CBS News...
US ‘Democratic’ Allies Are Becoming Increasingly Authoritarian
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Feb 18, 2025 | Featured Articles
U.S. officials have a long history of portraying Washington’s allies and clients as democratic, even when their behavior is blatantly authoritarian. Such cynical hypocrisy was at its zenith during the Cold War, but it is surging again. A similar trend...
Secret Terror Blueprints for US NSC to ‘Help Ukraine Resist’ Exposed
by Kit Klarenberg | Feb 18, 2025 | Featured Articles
Explosive leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone show how a shady transatlantic collective of academics and military-intelligence operatives conceived schemes which would lead to the US “helping Ukraine resist,” to “prolong” the proxy war “by virtually any means...
Can We Really Cut Half of The Military Budget? You Bet!
by Ron Paul | Feb 17, 2025 | Featured Articles
The wailing sound you heard last Thursday was the chorus of the Beltway warmongers shrieking in despair at President Trump’s suggestion that there was no reason for the United States to be spending one trillion dollars on “defense.” “…[O]ne of the first meetings I...
Will Donald Trump Punish the UK for its Meddling in Two US Presidential Elections?
by Larry C. Johnson | Feb 17, 2025 | Featured Articles
Ok. Sorry for the lengthy article, but the substance is important. If the Brits are laboring under the fantasy that they enjoy a special relationship with the United States, it is time for my British cousins to wake up. My thesis is simple: Donald Trump and...
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