At 4am on April 14, the United States, France and the United Kingdom executed a strike on Syria. The Syrian Free Press reported: US Navy warships in the Red Sea and Air Force B-1B bombers and F-15 and F-16 aircraft rained dozens of ship- and air-launched cruise missiles down on the Syrian capital of Damascus, an airbase outside the city, a so-called chemical weapons storage facility near Homs, and an equipment-storage facility and command post, also near Homs. B1-Bs are typically armed with...
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Will Republicans Have The Courage To End Welfare For Ukraine?
With polls suggesting a Republican victory in the House and Senate today, the mother of all battles seems to be brewing between old-guard Republican leadership which favors...
Will Republicans Have The Courage To End Welfare For Ukraine?
With polls suggesting a Republican victory in the House and Senate today, the mother of all battles seems to be brewing between old-guard Republican leadership which favors...
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Navalny Reporting Shows Western Media Clueless on Russia
Ron Paul Institute Academic Board Member John Laughland appeared on France 24 recently to discuss the Alexei Navalny trial in Russia. Dr. Laughland was outnumbered on the panel,...
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photo: Gerald R. Ford School of Public PolicyFormer director of the CIA and NSA, General Michael Hayden, oversaw the early construction of the NSA's warrantless wiretapping...
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photo: U.S. Consulate VladivostokAs Bradley Manning finds his escape routes from a life sentence for his whistle-blowing quickly shut down by judges who are closely tied to the...
Goodbye, Janet
photo: U.S. Embassy Tel AvivAs Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano departs her post for the fairer climes of the University of California, she leaves behind a government...
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At the Ron Paul Institute, our job is to look critically at US foreign policy and point out the disasters of successive interventionist and empire-building administrations. But...
A ‘Salafi Shindig’: Obama’s Middle East Disaster
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Reflections on the Egyptian Coup
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Congress to Obama: Punish Iranians!
The House Foreign Affairs Committee plays hide and go seek with Iran's imaginary nuclear weapons programs this week, demonstrating the utter futility in hoping for any sort of...
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