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Rep. Thomas Massie Targeted for Defeat

Phillip M. Baily reported Wednesday at the Louisville Courier Journal on a apparent effort by national Republican Party figures to defeat United States House of Representatives Member Thomas Massie (R-KY) in the 2020 Republican primary.Why the effort to defeat Massie? Maybe it is because Massie has been a strong advocate for nonintervention overseas and respect for liberty in America since he won election to the House in 2012.Want an introduction to why powerful people behind the scenes would...

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Goodbye Dollar, It Was Nice Knowing You!

Goodbye Dollar, It Was Nice Knowing You!

Over the past two years, the White House has initiated trade disputes, insulted allies and enemies alike, and withdrawn from or refused to ratify multinational treaties and agreements. It has also expanded the reach of its unilaterally imposed rules, forcing other nations to abide by its demands or face economic sanctions. While the stated Trump Administration intention has been to enter into new arrangements more favorable to the United States, the end result has been quite different,...

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Fourth of July Should Celebrate Liberty, Not Politicians Like Trump

Fourth of July Should Celebrate Liberty, Not Politicians Like Trump

President Donald Trump’s plan to give an Independence Day televised address from the Lincoln Memorial has outraged many pundits and plenty of normal Americans, too. There has rarely been a shortage of political buncombe on July Fourth but Trump could, as usual, break all records. For Trump’s extravaganza, the Pentagon is bringing out of mothballs some World War II-era Sherman tanks. Though the gun turrets look impressive, Allied soldiers nicknamed Sherman tanks “Ronsons” because they were...

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On Eve Of 4th Of July Parade US Attempts To Lure Iran Into Shooting Down Another US Plane

On Eve Of 4th Of July Parade US Attempts To Lure Iran Into Shooting Down Another US Plane

Today a manned US reconnaissance plane entered Iranian airspace in a clear attempt to provoke Iran into shooting it down. Such an incident would have created an occasion for Trump to give the American people a special 4th of July fireworks. On July 3 1988 the guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes shot down the civil Iranian Flight 655 with 290 people on board. The US claimed that the plane's transponder was signaling an Iranian military identification code, that it was seemingly attacking the...

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Donald’s Fourth: Sherman Tanks and Other Death Machines

Donald’s Fourth: Sherman Tanks and Other Death Machines

Once upon a time, the Fourth of July was about liberty and the Declaration of Independence. Now it’s about grilled burgers, beer, and fireworks made in China. For President Trump, the upcoming “holiday” is about showing off the latest death merchant gizmos, including fighter jets and tanks. Trump said this week's #July4th celebration will feature brand new tanks and "the best fighter jets in the world.""Gotta be pretty careful with the tanks because the roads have a tendency not to like to...

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Libya…War Crimes on Both Sides?

Libya…War Crimes on Both Sides?

A major escalation of the Libyan war has commenced. On Monday 1st July, Libyan National Army (LNA) Commander Mohamed Manfour announced the beginning of a new aerial bombardment campaign after "traditional means" to "liberate Tripoli" had been exhausted. Rumours abounded two weeks ago that the militias of Tripoli were beginning to show signs of buckling under the pressure from Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar’s LNA. The LNA Airforce’s looked like it had achieved air superiority over Tripoli, then...

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Announcing the Ron Paul Scholars Seminar!

***Apply Here***The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity is pleased to announce the launch of a new program exclusively focused on university students. It has long been our intent to create programs for the next generation of liberty leaders who will carry forth the message of peace and prosperity. This year will see the realization of our plans thanks to a group of generous supporters.The Ron Paul Scholars Seminar will be an all-day intensive series of lectures designed to be both...

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SHOCKER: Charles Koch and George Soros to Team Up and Form Foreign Policy Institute

SHOCKER: Charles Koch and George Soros to Team Up and Form Foreign Policy Institute

George Soros and Charles Koch are joining to finance a new foreign-policy think tank in Washington D.C., reports the Boston Globe. The claim is that it will promote an approach to the world based on diplomacy and restraint rather than threats, sanctions, and bombing. It will be called the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, an homage to John Quincy Adams, who in a seminal speech on Independence Day in 1821 declared that the United States “goes not abroad in search of monsters to...

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US Government Tops All for Creating Refugees

US Government Tops All for Creating Refugees

On June 19th, Statistica headlined “Number of forcibly displaced people reaches new high”, and when one looks at the data, one finds an even bigger story which stands behind those numbers:This new report from the United Nations documents Statistica’s headline, and it proves that America’s regime-change operations have actually created around half of the world’s refugees. It proves that America’s penchant for invading and trying to overthrow the governments that its billionaires want to replace...

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Media and Politicians Ignore Oncoming Financial Crisis

Media and Politicians Ignore Oncoming Financial Crisis

The mainstream media was too busy obsessing over Russiagate to notice that, according to an annual Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees report, the Social Security trust fund will run out of money by 2035. The trustees also reported that the Medicare Hospital Insurance trust fund will be empty by 2027.The trustees’ report is actually optimistic. Social Security is completely funded, and Medicare is largely funded, by payroll taxes. Therefore, their revenue fluctuates depending on...

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Washington’s Infatuation with the MEK

Washington’s Infatuation with the MEK

Inarguably, Washington has a long history of supporting terrorists. As General William Odom, President Reagan’s former National Security Agency (NSA) Director wrote in his 2007 article “American Hegemony, How to Use It, How to Lose It”: “[T]errorism is not an enemy. It is a tactic. Because the United States itself has a long record of supporting terrorists and using terrorist tactics…”. Despite this long-standing use of tactic, there is no record of terrorists operating but a stone’s throw...

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Bullies Like Me

Bullies Like Me

Harvard revoked a Parkland student’s admission, a survivor kid who supported the Second Amendment. Two former Central Park 5 prosecutors lost their jobs 30 years after the case, because of a Netflix movie released last week called “When They See Us.” By the time you read this, the Left will have forced another voice off Twitter, and bullied another small business for offending their rules on gender and cake. I learned about bullying in a small Ohio high school you never heard of, both by being...

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How Sen. Rick Scott Became Big Oil’s Point Man on Venezuelan Regime Change

How Sen. Rick Scott Became Big Oil’s Point Man on Venezuelan Regime Change

While National Security Advisor John Bolton, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Florida Senator Marco Rubio have helped drive the Trump administration’s maximum pressure-style campaign against Venezuela, Rubio’s counterpart, Senator Rick Scott, has been every bit as fanatical about regime change in Caracas. Speaking to a packed house of former government officials, oil executives, and lobbyists at a June 20th Atlantic Council event entitled “Russian Influence in Venezuela: What Should the...

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Marijuana Legalization: Where We’ve Been, Where We Are, And Where We Are Going

From last month's Ron Paul Institute confernece, Deputy Director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, Paul Armentano, gives a full history of marijuana in 20th century America. From early hysteria and racism to a huge shift back to legalization of the plant. Don't forget to get your tickets to our next conference in August in Washington DC!

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Demasking the Torture of Julian Assange

Demasking the Torture of Julian Assange

I know, you may think I am deluded. How could life in an Embassy with a cat and a skateboard ever amount to torture? That’s exactly what I thought, too, when Assange first appealed to my office for protection. Like most of the public, I had been subconsciously poisoned by the relentless smear campaign, which had been disseminated over the years. So it took a second knock on my door to get my reluctant attention. But once I looked into the facts of this case, what I found filled me with...

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Trump To Unleash Hell On Europe: EU Announces Channel To Circumvent SWIFT And Iran Sanctions Is Now Operational

Trump To Unleash Hell On Europe: EU Announces Channel To Circumvent SWIFT And Iran Sanctions Is Now Operational

With the world waiting for the first headlines from the Trump-Xi meeting, the most important and unexpected news of the day hit moments ago, when Europe announced that the special trade channel, Instex, that will allow European firms to avoid SWIFT and bypass American sanctions on Iran, is now operational. Following a meeting between the countries who singed the Iran nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which was ditched by US, French, British and German...

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