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The Politics of Fear: Laying the Groundwork for Fascism, American-Style

The Politics of Fear: Laying the Groundwork for Fascism, American-Style

by | Oct 29, 2024 |

America is in the midst of an epidemic of historic proportions. The contagion being spread like wildfire is turning communities into battlegrounds and setting Americans one against the other. Everywhere you turn, those on both the left- and right-wing are fomenting distrust and division. You can’t escape it. We’re being fed a constant diet of fear: fear of terrorists, fear of illegal immigrants, fear of people who are too religious, fear of people who are not religious enough, fear of...

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Israel’s ‘zugzwang’ Moment with Iran

Israel’s ‘zugzwang’ Moment with Iran

by | Oct 28, 2024 |

A senior US official told Washington Post that the toned-down early morning Israeli strike Saturday on military targets in Iran was a “proportional strike,” which “was moderate enough to quiet the conflict without provoking Iran into a counterattack.”  However, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted in a speech on Sunday: “We hit hard Iran’s defence capabilities and its ability to produce missiles that are aimed at us. The attack in Iran was precise and powerful, and it...

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Government Gaslights People about the Economy

Government Gaslights People about the Economy

by | Oct 28, 2024 |

Public opinion polls consistently show the economy is one of the top issues, if not the top issue, for American voters. This may strike some as odd, since official government statistics show low unemployment and declining price inflation, suggesting the Federal Reserve has engineered a “soft landing” bringing down inflation without causing a recession. So why the concern over the economy? One reason is more people are realizing government economic figures hide the truth about the economy....

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The Kims Are Coming!

The Kims Are Coming!

by | Oct 26, 2024 |

This article first appeared as an exclusive for Ron Paul Institute subscribers. Subscribe for free here. After a few cat and mouse days of Defense Secretary Lloyd "Raytheon" Austin's denials, the Pentagon finally yesterday affirmed that there was evidence of a North Korean military presence in Russia. Asked what they were doing in Russia, Austin replied, “What exactly they are doing? Left to be seen. These are things that we need to sort out.” For days, South Korea (no conflict...

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I Have Video Evidence that Iran Stymied Israel’s Attack

I Have Video Evidence that Iran Stymied Israel’s Attack

by | Oct 25, 2024 |

Social media is lit up like Times Square on New Year’s Eve with reports that Israel, finally, delivered on its vow to attack Iran. And attack it did. Here is the video. Ok. I sent this to my brother-in-law and he asked, “Are you fu*king with me?” No, not really. Yes, that is a clip from the Matrix Reloaded, but it is an accurate representation of the failure of Israel’s attack. The explosions heard around Tehran reportedly came from the Russian-supplied air defense systems, which launched and...

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American Healthcare Workers Plead For End To Gaza Bombing

American Healthcare Workers Plead For End To Gaza Bombing

by | Oct 24, 2024 |

On October 3, 2024, 99 American healthcare workers in Gaza released an open letter to the White House pleading for an end to Israel’s bombing of little children. The letter was sent by American physicians, surgeons, nurse practitioners, and nurses who had volunteered a combined five years to treat the besieged people of Palestine. The letter said: “Every day that we continue supplying weapons and munitions to Israel is another day that women are shredded by our bombs and children are murdered...

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War and the Constitution

War and the Constitution

by | Oct 24, 2024 |

Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses? Are there constitutional and legal requirements that must first be met before war is waged? These questions should be addressed in a national debate over the U.S. military involvement in Ukraine and Israel. Sadly, there has been no debate. The media are mouthing what the CIA is telling them, Congress is in lock-step, and only a few websites and podcasts -- my own, “Judging Freedom” on YouTube, among them -- are...

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Joe Biden Allowed His Friend Bibi to Destroy His Presidency and Legacy

Joe Biden Allowed His Friend Bibi to Destroy His Presidency and Legacy

by | Oct 23, 2024 |

In 2020, amid lockdowns, Joe Biden prevailed in the election, running his campaign from his home. Biden was clearly experiencing significant cognitive decline, so the American people were presented with a carefully choreographed message that a vote for Biden was a return to normalcy. Since Donald Trump descended the golden escalator, Americans have been subject to a non-stop barrage from establishment media and politicians wailing that we are in an existential battle for our country's soul. We...

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India and China Declare Truce — a Lesson in Diplomacy for the West

India and China Declare Truce — a Lesson in Diplomacy for the West

by | Oct 23, 2024 |

Ahead of the BRICS summit in Russia, India and China announced an end to the four-year military standoff between the two countries along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh. The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping will have their first official bilateral meeting in five years! India and China have reached an agreement on patrolling arrangements along the LAC and the border areas. This has led to a disengagement and resolution of the issues that...

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The Draft Is Antithetical to Liberty, Even if It Is Never Used

The Draft Is Antithetical to Liberty, Even if It Is Never Used

by | Oct 23, 2024 |

Fall may finally have arrived in DC, but one discussion that never seems out of season is pontificating on a need for a return of military conscription. While the leaves may have turned, the substance of the case from those who advocate for conscription remains the same: blending arguments of geopolitical necessity and socio-cultural improvement, arguing that such an institution “would contribute to maintaining the integrity of our domestic political life.” As radical as such an idea...

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The Neo-Liberal Consensus Is Coming Apart

The Neo-Liberal Consensus Is Coming Apart

by | Oct 22, 2024 |

The global Covid response was the turning point in public trust, economic vitality, citizen health, free speech, literacy, religious and travel freedom, elite credibility, demographic longevity, and so much more. Now five years following the initial spread of the virus that provoked the largest-scale despotisms of our lives, something else seems to be biting the dust: the postwar neo-liberal consensus itself.  The world as we knew it only a decade ago is on fire, precisely as Henry...

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The Danger Is Real: The Deep State’s Plot to Destabilize the Nation Is Working

The Danger Is Real: The Deep State’s Plot to Destabilize the Nation Is Working

by | Oct 22, 2024 |

If the three-ring circus that is the looming presidential election proves anything, it is that the Deep State’s plot to destabilize the nation is working. The danger is real. Caught up in the heavily dramatized electoral showdown between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, Americans have become oblivious to the multitude of ways in which the government is goosestepping all over our freedoms on a daily basis. Especially alarming is the extent to which those on both sides are allowing...

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Neocons Circling a Surging Trump…Will He Bite?

Neocons Circling a Surging Trump…Will He Bite?

by | Oct 21, 2024 |

Weekend news that "Neocon Nikki" Haley is in talks to hit the campaign trail for Donald Trump should raise red flags to everyone cautiously optimistic that Trump 2.0 will avoid some of the personnel disasters that Trump 1.0 fell into time and time again. Haley was nicknamed "birdbrain" by Trump in the primaries and he swore that anyone supporting her campaign would be "permanently barred" from Trump's MAGA camp. For her part, Haley accused Trump of being "unhinged," "just toxic," and "lacking...

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Government Gaslights People about the Economy

Why Should We Fight Wars for Ukraine and Israel?

by | Oct 21, 2024 |

When you take on the role of the world’s policeman, don’t be surprised when countries who cannot fight their own wars call “911.” That is exactly what is happening to the United States on two fronts and it is bankrupting our country, depleting the military that should serve our own national interest, and threatening to drag the US into World War III. Last week, Ukraine’s “president” Vladimir Zelensky publicly presented his “Victory Plan.” It was delusional: immediate NATO Membership for...

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Ukraine – Threat Of North Korean Soldiers Is Based on US Info Campaign

Ukraine – Threat Of North Korean Soldiers Is Based on US Info Campaign

by | Oct 19, 2024 |

Earlier this week I pointed to a Ukrainian (South Korean, US) propaganda campaign which claims that thousands of North Korean soldiers will soon fight with on the Russian side against Ukraine: To have North Koreans fighting in Russia against the Ukrainian incursion in Kursk would make little sense. That incursion is for one already mostly defeated. Besides that the language and cultural problems would make the integration of such forces into Russian military operations nearly impossible. I am...

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Kamala Harris Sounds Like Forrest Gump’s Friend Bubba in Effort to Run Out the Clock in Difficult Interview

Kamala Harris Sounds Like Forrest Gump’s Friend Bubba in Effort to Run Out the Clock in Difficult Interview

by | Oct 18, 2024 |

Kamala Harris, notorious for avoiding anything but the friendliest interviews during her truncated presidential campaign, found herself in a pickle in her Wednesday interview with Bret Baier at Fox News. Baier was asking questions Harris did not want to answer and then following up on them in response to Harris’s evasive replies. What to do? Harris decided to employ, among other strategies, one that brings to mind a scene from the movie Forrest Gump. When Forrest Gump, whose life is the focus...

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Cornel West Says End the Wars

Cornel West Says End the Wars

by | Jul 25, 2023

Cornel West was well known and liked by many before he made his early June announcement that he is running for president. That has given West’s Green Party presidential campaign...

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