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DEA Agent Kiki Camarena Died for Nothing

DEA Agent Kiki Camarena Died for Nothing

by | Mar 8, 2025 |

In a desperate attempt to placate President Trump in the hope of averting his imposition of a 25 percent tariff on her nation, Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum recently sent a Mexican citizen named Rafael Caro Quintero to Trump. Caro Quintero is alleged to have orchestrated the kidnapping, torture, and execution of a DEA agent named Enrique “Kiki” Camarena. For his part, Trump is claiming that his tariff plan is designed to combat drug cartels in Mexico, which are shipping fentanyl to the...

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Trump May Succeed Where Others Failed in Personnel Cutting

Trump May Succeed Where Others Failed in Personnel Cutting

by | Mar 6, 2025 |

Disclaimer: Then-Vice President Al Gore awarded my State Department team in Seoul in the mid-90’s a Hammer Award for helping “reinvent government.” Gore was in charge of the Clinton-era plan to create a government that costs less and works better. The plan mostly depended on us run-of-the-mill employees to come up with cost saving hacks and strategies within our own offices. The award, a mounted gold-painted hammer, was supposed to remind us of the expensive, wasteful procurements by the...

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Taking Rights Seriously

Taking Rights Seriously

by | Mar 6, 2025 |

“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion,and only one person were of the contrary opinion,Mankind would be no more justifiedIn silencing that one person,Than he, if he had the power,Would be justified in silencing mankind.” -- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) The world is filled with self-evident truths -- truisms -- that philosophers, lawyers and judges know need not be proven. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Two plus two equals four. A cup of boiling hot coffee sitting on a...

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NATO: The Case To Get Out Now

NATO: The Case To Get Out Now

by | Mar 5, 2025 |

See David Stockman in person at the Ron Paul Institute's Spring Conference! The case for getting out of NATO encompasses four fundamental propositions: First, the Federal budget has become a self-fueling fiscal doomsday machine, even as the Fed has run out of capacity to monetize the skyrocketing public debt. Second, the only viable starting point for fiscal salvation is slashing the nation’s elephantine Warfare State by at least $500 billion per year. Third, the route to that end is a return...

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Starmer’s Summit Gives Birth To A Mouse – It’s Stillborn.

Starmer’s Summit Gives Birth To A Mouse – It’s Stillborn.

by | Mar 4, 2025 |

A mountain was in labour, uttering immense groans,and on earth there was very great expectation.But it gave birth to a mouse. This has been written for you,who, though you threaten great things, accomplish nothing." Sundays meeting of selected European leaders in London reminded me of the above Aesop fable. Prime Minister Starmer's summit, called for in haste, has achieved nothing: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer rallied his European counterparts Sunday to shore up their borders...

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Suddenly, Leaving NATO is on the Table!

Suddenly, Leaving NATO is on the Table!

by | Mar 3, 2025 |

Over the weekend, President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk made quite a stir with just two words posted on his social media platform, X. Responding to a post that, “It’s time to leave NATO and the UN,” Musk replied, “I agree.” The comment immediately made the rounds on social media and also on mainstream and alternative media. Was this the Elon Musk who owns X speaking, or was it the Elon Musk who has become one of President Trump’s closest advisors? Does it even...

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Who Really Provoked the Ukraine War? Was It Russia?

Who Really Provoked the Ukraine War? Was It Russia?

by | Mar 3, 2025 |

Ukrainian “president” Vladimir Zelensky lied when he called Russia the aggressor. Since 2014 his military forces have been shelling their own civilians in the east of Ukraine, killing at least 14,000 people and arresting thousands more with the SBU, the Ukrainian secret police, a de facto Gestapo-like terror organization. Zelensky's regime prohibited the Russian language in schools, political opposition was outlawed, the Orthodox church was banned, and all Russian shows and programs from TV...

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The Press Falls to Another Record Low in Public Trust

The Press Falls to Another Record Low in Public Trust

by | Mar 1, 2025 |

We have previously discussed polling showing the media at record lows in public trust. Well, the latest survey from Gallup shows that the media hit another all-time low. What is most impressive is that plummeting readers, revenues, and layoffs have done little to convince the mainstream media that the problem is not the public but themselves. The only institution with a  lower level of public trust is Congress, and that says a lot. It is like beating Ebola as the preferred...

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NATO Is the Big Obstacle to Peace in Ukraine

NATO Is the Big Obstacle to Peace in Ukraine

by | Feb 28, 2025 |

During his recent campaign for president, Donald Trump repeatedly stated that he had a secret plan for settling the war in Ukraine. He suggested that he would be able to resolve the conflict within a day of so of taking office. That obviously was political hyperbole because the war is still going on. Trump and people in his administration are now talking to Russian president Vladimir Putin and Russian officials in an effort to find a way to end the war and possibly even normalize relations...

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Who Is Lew Rockwell?

Who Is Lew Rockwell?

by | Feb 27, 2025 |

This summary of Lew Rockwell’s contributions to the liberty movement will show that Lew has done more to spread libertarian ideas than anyone else not named Ron Paul. Lew was born in Boston in 1944. His father was an “Old Right” Republican who gave Lew a copy of Henry Hazlitt’s classic Economics in One Lesson for for his twelfth birthday! Lew would later edit Hazlitt while working as an editor for the conservative publisher Arlington House. Lew also edited Ludwig von Mises....

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America as Republic, Not as Empire – Europe’s ‘Sound and Fury’ After Jaw-Dropping Pivots in US Policy

America as Republic, Not as Empire – Europe’s ‘Sound and Fury’ After Jaw-Dropping Pivots in US Policy

by | Feb 27, 2025 |

The bits are falling into a distinct pattern – a pre-prepared pattern. Defence Secretary Hegseth at the Munich Security Conference gave us four “noes”: No to Ukraine in NATO; No to a return to pre-2014 borders; No to “Article 5” peacekeeper backstops, and “No” to US troops in Ukraine. And in a final flourish, he added that US troops in Europe are not ”forever” – and even placed a question mark over the continuity of NATO. Pretty plain speaking! The US clearly is cutting away from Ukraine. And...

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Donald Trump and Government by Experts

Donald Trump and Government by Experts

by | Feb 27, 2025 |

I have often thought that after Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson was our worst president. By worst is meant least faithful to the Constitution and most destructive of personal liberty. With the exception of Lincoln’s dictatorship -- during which the federal government used violence to crush the states’ natural right to secede from a union they had voluntarily joined, and instead brought about the systematic murder of 750,000 Americans, many civilians -- America from its founding to the early...

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Tough Times at Foggy Bottom

Tough Times at Foggy Bottom

by | Feb 26, 2025 |

The DOGE tsunami is about to strike the U.S. Department of State, as well as other agencies. Let’s see what that means. The day the music died was January 28, when nearly everyone at State, along with over two million other federal civilian employees, received an email referring to “A Fork in the Road.” The email offered qualifying diplomats and civil servants a choice ahead of planned Reductions in Force (RIFs, layoffs): resign now under a special program, don’t come to work for a...

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Trump Is Right – Cut Everything, Even Bloated Defense Budget

Trump Is Right – Cut Everything, Even Bloated Defense Budget

by | Feb 26, 2025 |

Don't miss John Duncan, Jr. at the Ron Paul Institute Spring Conference! President Trump made a very strong statement on Feb. 13 which will be revolutionary in nature if he can carry it out. He said there is no reason that we should be spending a trillion dollars a year on the military and that we should cut defense spending in half. He also said we should not be building any more nuclear weapons when we already have enough to destroy the world 50 or 100 times over. Trump added that he hoped...

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Silenced and Seized: How Ukraine’s War, Gaza’s Land Grab, and Europe’s Free Speech Assault Are Fueling a Global Fight for Liberty

by | Feb 26, 2025 |

In this episode I’m joined by Daniel McAdams, director of the Ron Paul Institute and co-host of the Ron Paul Liberty Report, we dissect three seismic issues shaking the globe: the war in Ukraine, speculative land grabs in Gaza, and Europe’s escalating assault on free speech. Our conversation offers a lens to analyze how these crises are not just geopolitical flashpoints but catalysts for a broader fight for individual liberty. Ukraine: A Neocon Legacy Meets a Resilient Adversary McAdams frames...

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Trump and Europe Fail to Realize that Russia Has a Vote

Trump and Europe Fail to Realize that Russia Has a Vote

by | Feb 25, 2025 |

I think Trump is sincere in wanting to broker a peace deal with Russia, but I do not think he has grasped the fact that Russia has no desire to end the war with Ukraine until it is defeated, along with NATO, or the United States accepts the conditions President Putin presented last June. Europe is a different matter entirely. The European Union bureaucrats and the leaders of France, Germany and the UK want to keep the war going. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergei Rybakov, provided a pithy...

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