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

South Korea – National Assembly Impeaches President Over Failed Putsch Attempt

South Korea – National Assembly Impeaches President Over Failed Putsch Attempt

by | Dec 15, 2024 |

On December 3 the President of South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol launched a coup against the opposition ruled National Assembly. He declared martial law and ordered military special forces and police units to block law makers from assembling. But the assembly members did win the race: Just 150 minutes after the presidential announcement 191 of the 300 members of the National Assembly voted to immediately end the martial law status. Troops and police entered the parliament but the vote...

read more
Abolishing Democracy in Europe

Abolishing Democracy in Europe

by | Dec 14, 2024 |

On 4 October I spoke to a meeting of the United European Left group of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Arriving a bit early, I sat though a presentation by a Moldovan judge, Victoria Sanduta, who was formerly the President of the Association of Judges in Moldova. She had recently been dismissed, along with other judges, after investigation by a committee set up by the President to vet judges. She said the “vetting” was openly political, and the purpose was to remove...

read more
Death of Syria

Death of Syria

by | Dec 13, 2024 |

What is clearly a joint US-Israeli plan to remake the Mideast map is now well underway. Changes will be seismic. The Biden administration, by now almost totally controlled by pro-Israel neocons, is making its final major moves by loosing a Parthian shaft into the heart of the Mideast. Syria – or what’s left of it – was divided up into zones – a third of the country with all its oil and gas fields is under the control of US military forces. Revenues from this oil and gas accounted for half of...

read more

Syria is disappearing

by | Dec 13, 2024 |

To all intents and purposes Syria has ceased to be a sovereign state and is in the process of being partitioned. A new international proxy war has been ignited in the region, with known terrorists empowered. When states disappear, so do people. CrossTalking with Stanley Cohen, Ashish Prashar, and Daniel McAdams.

read more
Benjamin Netanyahu’s Lies

Benjamin Netanyahu’s Lies

by | Dec 13, 2024 |

How can you tell when a politician is lying? His lips are moving. That joke is apropos for the new English language video monologue that Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released Thursday, and which Netanyahu said in his first words spoken is directed to the “people of Iran.” He managed to fit a bunch of lies in the under three minutes presentation. Netanyahu said Iranians’ “oppressors,” by which he apparently means the Iran government, “keep losing” in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria...

read more
One Agency That Trump Shouldn’t Nominate Anyone To Lead

One Agency That Trump Shouldn’t Nominate Anyone To Lead

by | Dec 12, 2024 |

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be the administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has withdrawn. This is one agency that Trump shouldn’t nominate anyone to lead. The selection of Florida Hillsborough County sheriff Chad Chronister was opposed by many Republicans. Chronister “has a long and sordid history of making the exact sort of decisions that have contributed to widespread distrust in law enforcement. He arrested a pastor who defied the lockdowns during the...

read more
Will Donald Trump Stop Domestic Spying?

Will Donald Trump Stop Domestic Spying?

by | Dec 12, 2024 |

During the course of an FBI written response to a Freedom of Information Act request asking about the trade names and suppliers of surveillance software the FBI had purchased, the government has yet again quietly acknowledged its antipathy to constitutional provisions that all of its employees have sworn to uphold. Since we are dealing with software used to spy on Americans in the U.S. and abroad, the constitutional right being transgressed is the right to privacy. This is the ancient natural...

read more
Al-Qaeda Rides Again…in Syria

Al-Qaeda Rides Again…in Syria

by | Dec 11, 2024 |

As Christians around the world prepare to celebrate Christmas, a hell has been unleashed inside Syria with the seizure of the country by the re-named "al-Qaeda in Syria" now called Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Its leader is a former deputy commander of ISIS, Abu Mohammed al-Julani.  While neocons and the mainstream media in the US and Europe celebrate the overthrow of the Assad government - a priority since the Obama Administration - as with previous US "liberations" in Libya and Iraq the...

read more
After US ATACMS Strike On Strategic Target Russia Announces To Retaliate

After US ATACMS Strike On Strategic Target Russia Announces To Retaliate

by | Dec 11, 2024 |

Just five days ago I postulated that the U.S. Has Stopped Ukrainian ATACMS Strikes On Russia. Today that claim turned out to have been premature: Status-6 @Archer83Able - 13:24 UTC · Dec 11, 2024 The remains of a US-made MGM-140 ATACMS ballistic missile lying on the street in the Russian city of Taganrog following Ukrainian strikes last night. Image AFAIK the target was the 325th Aviation Repair Plant located in the vicinity of the Taganrog-Tsentralny Air Base. Taganrog, on the...

read more
Cowboy Cartels and Drug-War Inanity

Cowboy Cartels and Drug-War Inanity

by | Dec 11, 2024 |

Having watched the great drug-war Netflix documentaries Narcos and Narcos Mexico and the excellent drug-war drama La Reina del Sur, I wasn’t too interested in watching another drug-war-related series. But when I realized that the Apple TV+ documentary “Cowboy Cartel” revolved around my hometown of Laredo, Texas, where I lived almost half my life and practiced law for 8 years, I couldn’t resist watching it. While I can recommend Narcos and Narcos...

read more
How the Neocons Won the Transition

How the Neocons Won the Transition

by | Dec 11, 2024 |

One of the least competent administrations in recent American history is now currently giving way to one of the least impressive presidential transitions. It is hardly a stretch to observe that the Trump transition, co-chaired by Howard Lutnick and Linda McMahon, seems to have set for itself the goal of ensuring that the incoming president will receive the narrowest range of policy alternatives possible. What is emerging is a far cry from either the conservative “America First” nationalism...

read more
Congressional Committee Condemns (Nearly) Every Feature of the Covid Response

Congressional Committee Condemns (Nearly) Every Feature of the Covid Response

by | Dec 10, 2024 |

Are there words in the English language that fully describe what happened during the Covid years that are not already overused? Calamity comes to mind. Disaster. Cataclysm. Ruin, devastation, catastrophe, unprecedented debacle, fiasco, and utter wreckage – all fine words and phrases but nothing quite captures it.  Given that, there is probably no report on the thing that can properly characterize the whole of it. On the other hand, it’s worth trying.  Meanwhile, the results of Covid...

read more
When Rights Become Privileges: Is the Constitution Becoming Optional?

When Rights Become Privileges: Is the Constitution Becoming Optional?

by | Dec 10, 2024 |

Disguising its power grabs in the self-righteous fervor of national security, the Deep State has mastered the art of the bait-and-switch. It works like this: first, the government foments fear about some crisis or threat to national security, then they capitalize on it by seizing greater power and using those powers against the American people. We’ve seen this play out over and over again. The government used its so-called War on Terror to transform itself into a police state. Then the police...

read more
Peace Plans, Schmese Plans: Key Path to Ukraine Peace Long Ignored by All

Peace Plans, Schmese Plans: Key Path to Ukraine Peace Long Ignored by All

by | Dec 10, 2024 |

Politico ran the headline, "Ukraine Peace Plans Galore." Ukraine, Russia, and China each have a peace plan. Trump is developing one. The Alliance of Democracies has one. It looks a lot like Ukraine's plan at first glance. There's talk of a Demilitarized Zone between Ukraine and Russia. There's also the suggestion of imposing a frozen conflict. They seem like an open invitation for continued stress between the countries, not real peace. So, what's the ignored key path to peace I'm talking...

read more
Winners and losers in Syria

Winners and losers in Syria

by | Dec 9, 2024 |

Iran and Russia are the two big losers in the ouster of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday by the Sunni Islamist groups affiliated to al-Qaeda. Assad fled in the nick of time  after giving orders that there be a peaceful handover of power. The likelihood is that he is in Russia. At any rate, a rollback of the Islamist takeover in Syria is out of the question. The Arab oligarchies of the Gulf region are full of trepidation over the surge of a variant of political Islam that may...

read more
‘This is Not the Time for Balance’: LA Times Columnist Resigns in Protest . . . Over Balanced Commentary

‘This is Not the Time for Balance’: LA Times Columnist Resigns in Protest . . . Over Balanced Commentary

by | Dec 9, 2024 |

When now President-Elect Donald Trump was convicted, the thrill-kill atmosphere around the courthouse and the country was explosive, but no one was more ecstatic than liberal columnist and former prosecutor Harry Litman. The then L.A. Times columnist told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace that it was a “majestic day” and “a day to celebrate.” A lawfare advocate, Litman excitedly laid out how Trump could be barred from office, declaring that the raid in Mar-a-Lago was the “whole...

read more

Peace & Prosperity Blog

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...

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