Get your tickets to RPI's "Blueprint for Peace" Conference on August 16, Washington, DC.

Hilton Washington Dulles Airport
Saturday, August 16 · 9:30am – 3:30pm EDT

Order Tickets

Featured Articles

The House of Representatives Won’t Stop Approving Government Expansions

The House of Representatives Won’t Stop Approving Government Expansions

by | Apr 30, 2025 |

The Republican-majority United States House of Representatives demonstrated this week, through votes on several relatively modest bills, that it will just keep demanding more US government spending and control. Republican representatives often claim to support limited government and frugality, but mostly they, and their Democratic Party colleagues, keep acting as government-loving spendthrifts. In May of last year, I wrote about the House Republican leadership putting on the House floor for...

read more
IMF and World Bank: Crony Covid Crackdown Enablers

IMF and World Bank: Crony Covid Crackdown Enablers

by | Apr 30, 2025 |

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained last week that the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are suffering from “mission creep.” But Bessent announced that Trump will be “doubling down” on supporting the largest foreign aid gushers on earth. “Far from stepping back, ‘America First’ seeks to expand U.S. leadership in international institutions like the I.M.F. and World Bank,” Bessent declared.  Bessent complained that the IMF “devotes disproportionate time and resources to work...

read more
Evasive Maneuvers

Evasive Maneuvers

by | Apr 30, 2025 |

(photo: The erstwhile USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75), now dubbed the USS Trembling Puppy for its multiple episodes of fleeing Yemeni missile strikes in a panic.) In the aftermath of the USS Trembling Puppy acknowledging the loss of yet another fighter aircraft in the midst of a Yemeni missile attack, many speculations have arisen regarding what actually happened. The "official" story is that an F/A-18 and its tow tractor were flung overboard while performing "evasive maneuvers" in the face of...

read more
The Uhuru Prosecution Brings Egg on the Face of the Justice Department – The Future of Freedom Foundation

The Uhuru Prosecution Brings Egg on the Face of the Justice Department – The Future of Freedom Foundation

by | Apr 29, 2025 |

In what can only be called one of the most ridiculous federal criminal prosecutions in U.S. history, the U.S. Department of Justice and, specifically, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Middle District of Florida, ended up with a massive amount of egg on its face. The case involved the criminal prosecution of Black rights activists affiliated with the African People’s Socialist Party and the Uhuru Movement, including the 82-year-old chairman of the Party, Omali Yeshitela, and some White allies,...

read more
The Kellogg Framework is a Disaster for Trump

The Kellogg Framework is a Disaster for Trump

by | Apr 29, 2025 |

Political warfare in Washington is endemic. But the body count at the Pentagon has started to rise precipitously. Three of Secretary of Defence Hegseth’s top advisors were placed on leave, and then fired. The war continues, with the Secretary now in the firing line. Why this matters is that the Hegseth attrition comes amid fierce internal debates in the Trump administration about Iran policy. Hawks want a definitive elimination of all Iran’s nuclear and weapons capabilities, whilst many...

read more
The Empire Strikes Back

The Empire Strikes Back

by | Apr 28, 2025 |

News this week that Elon Musk will soon be departing his “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) is a grim reminder of what happens when you challenge big spending DC. Unfortunately, the lesson once again is that when you challenge the empire, the empire eventually strikes back. President Trump rode into office with the help of Elon Musk’s ambitious plan to cut two trillion dollars in spending and slash useless and bloated government bureaucracies. Opinion polls demonstrated the huge...

read more
The Road to War in Ukraine — The History of NATO and US Military Exercises With Ukraine — Part 2

The Road to War in Ukraine — The History of NATO and US Military Exercises With Ukraine — Part 2

by | Apr 28, 2025 |

(Read part 1 here) The decade of 2000 marked the start of Ukraine becoming a de facto member of NATO. It not only participated in all of the main exercises, but it hosted many. In fact, between 2000 and 2010, Ukraine is ranked in the top six of countries that hosted a NATO or USEUCOM exercise. Ukraine and Georgia, who was ranked number seven, were not NATO members. What the hell? Two non-NATO countries hosted more NATO exercises than 22 of the member nations. This is prima facie evidence that...

read more
The Road to War in Ukraine — The History of NATO and US Military Exercises With Ukraine — Part 1

The Road to War in Ukraine — The History of NATO and US Military Exercises With Ukraine — Part 1

by | Apr 26, 2025 |

This is the first of a three-part series on the history of NATO and US European Command military exercises with Ukraine. This shows how the West, acting like a camel, slipped its big nose under the Ukrainian tent as part of a long-term strategy to defeat Russia. While many of these exercises were touted as peacekeeping in nature, the real purpose was to train and equip Ukraine with the ultimate goal of fighting and defeating Russia. In July 1998, for example, NATO’s Sea...

read more
A ‘Trump Deal’? Juggling War, ‘Easy War’ and Negotiation

A ‘Trump Deal’? Juggling War, ‘Easy War’ and Negotiation

by | Apr 26, 2025 |

Trump clearly is in the midst of an existential conflict. He has a landslide mandate. But is ringed by a resolute domestic enemy front in the form of an “industrial concern” infused with Deep State ideology, centred primarily on preserving U.S. global power (rather than on mending of the economy). The key MAGA issue however is not foreign policy, but how to structurally re-balance an economic paradigm in danger of an extinction event. Trump has always been clear that this forms his primordial...

read more
Gang Deportations Are a Fool’s Errand; Instead, End the Drug War

Gang Deportations Are a Fool’s Errand; Instead, End the Drug War

by | Apr 25, 2025 |

As part of its border strategy, the administration deported Venezuelan migrants to a notorious prison in El Salvador, claiming the deportees were Tren de Aragua gang members. Because of the nature of gang documentation, the claim that they are all violent gang members is dubious. The policy is more than a legal civil liberties nightmare; it is strategically ill-advised. Deporting suspected gang members will not stop gangs. Transnational gangs are a serious problem, but there is...

read more

Russia/Ukraine: Final Offer

by | Apr 25, 2025 |

Is Trump’s plan to end the Ukraine conflict a dead letter on arrival? A ceasefire is not peace. Freezing the conflict does not address security issues. Washington provoked this conflict. This is why Trump’s attempt to mediate is doomed to fail. CrossTalking with Daniel McAdams, Hall Gardner, and Alexandre Guerreiro.

read more
HHS – a Billy Club Enforcing Allegiance to the Israel Government

HHS – a Billy Club Enforcing Allegiance to the Israel Government

by | Apr 25, 2025 |

Supporters of liberty had much reason for hope due to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. becoming secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This man’s tenacity and eloquence in challenging the coronavirus crackdowns suggested great potential accomplishments for both liberty and health at HHS with him in the lead. Indeed, there are early signs that HHS under Kennedy’s oversight is seeking to roll back the dangerous to health and liberty extreme vaccine pushing mission the department...

read more
The Worst Pope in History

The Worst Pope in History

by | Apr 24, 2025 |

A little over a year ago, I spent a week living and studying at the Vatican as a guest lecturer at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, a university-like organization of scholars that explores ideas of interest to the Vatican. Last year, the Academy addressed the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas on the 750th anniversary of his death. This is not an esoteric subject. Aquinas taught that all rational persons are capable of discerning right from wrong and good from evil by the exercise of...

read more
War Dust and Collateral Inhalation: Israel Breathes in Gaza’s Dust

War Dust and Collateral Inhalation: Israel Breathes in Gaza’s Dust

by | Apr 23, 2025 |

Gaza is suffering the most intense bombing, per capita, of anywhere on earth, ever. Over 100,000 tons of bombs have been dropped on Gaza, an area slightly smaller than the City of Detroit, Michigan, resulting in the recorded deaths of at least 60,000 Gazans and injuries to hundreds of thousands.¹ It is impossible to overstate the effects of the abominable bombing war on Gazans, their lives, their families, their health, and their communities. What has escaped attention up until now is the...

read more
Stop the US Abuse of Cuba

Stop the US Abuse of Cuba

by | Apr 23, 2025 |

Amidst the horrific US abuse of foreigners through the use of tariffs and police-state enforcement of immigration controls, it’s easy to forget that the US government abuses foreigners in other ways, such as sanctions, embargoes, invasions, occupations, wars of aggression, torture, indefinite detention, and state-sponsored assassinations. Perhaps the longest-lasting, continuous example of this foreigner-abuse syndrome is the US government’s horrific abuse of the Cuban people, which has gone on...

read more
Israel – Killing  Ambulance Workers, Starving Little Children

Israel – Killing  Ambulance Workers, Starving Little Children

by | Apr 23, 2025 |

On Palm Sunday (April 13), Israeli bombs destroyed the surgery and intensive care sections of the “last fully functional hospital in Gaza City,” according to a report by the British Broadcasting Corporation. The hospital was run by the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, part of the Anglican Church. The bombs also struck surrounding buildings, including St. Philip’s Church. The Diocese said it was “appalled” at the bombing of the hospital and church “on the morning of Palm Sunday and the beginning...

read more

Peace & Prosperity Blog

US Military to Leave Iraq

US Military to Leave Iraq

by | Sep 8, 2024

In August, the news arrived that United States military forces and assets had been removed from Niger. Writing about this development, I opined on August 6 that “the US would be...

read more

Donate to The Ron Paul Institute Today!

Support our upcoming set rebuild. We plan to improve our reach by amplifying the message.

Donate Today