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Apply NOW: 2025 Ron Paul Scholars Seminar!

by | Jun 12, 2025 |

Attention Upper Division Undergrads and Grad Students! This year we will celebrate our SIXTH class of Ron Paul Scholars and that means if you are a student interested in peace and prosperity, a non-interventionist foreign policy, liberty, and in making contacts among like-minded peers, we welcome your application to be a 2025 Ron Paul Scholar! What is it? The Ron Paul Scholars Seminar is a one-day, interactive foreign policy and civil liberties “boot camp,” with lectures from some of the most...

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Ron Paul Rewind: Don’t Ban Flag Burning

by | Jun 12, 2025 |

In a Tuesday speech at Fort Bragg, President Donald Trump declared that “people that burn the American flag should go to jail for one year,” something Trump proceeded to state he is working with United States senators to bring about. Twenty-two years ago this month, members of the United States House of Representatives were debating on the House floor whether they should approve H. J. Res. 4, a proposed constitutional amendment that would have empowered the Congress to “prohibit the physical...

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Today Is the Anniversary of JFK’s Declaration of War

Today Is the Anniversary of JFK’s Declaration of War

by | Jun 11, 2025 |

June 10, is the anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s declaration of war against the national-security branch of the U.S. government. To be sure, he didn’t call it that. He simply was delivering a speech at the June 10, 1963, commencement exercises at American University. The speech has gone down in history simply as JFK’s “Peace Speech,” but in essence it was a declaration of war against the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA. JFK delivered his speech at the height of the Cold War, the...

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Can the Tyranny Be Soft-Landed?

Can the Tyranny Be Soft-Landed?

by | Jun 10, 2025 |

The excuse that this regime is better than it was, or might otherwise have been, only lasts so long.  Every transition government in history has deployed that trope. Think the Girondins in France, Kerensky in Russia, Weimar in Germany, the Second Spanish Republic, Chiang Kai-shek in China, and so on. In order, they were replaced by Robespierre then Napoleon, Lenin then Stalin, Hitler, Franco, and Mao.  In each of these cases, the transitional government was caught between and...

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The Silence of the Bears

The Silence of the Bears

by | Jun 10, 2025 |

Russia’s leadership is in “conclave” determining its riposte. Trump has been silent for two days. Unprecedented. In the last days, Ukraine and its facilitators attempted a massive attack on Russia’s strategic nuclear bomber-force; succeeded in collapsing two bridges onto civilian trains heading to Moscow; attacking the Kerch Bridge; and assassinating a Russian general via explosive body bomb. As Clausewitz noted two centuries ago, the point of military force is to compel an outcome: i.e. that...

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Can Trump and Musk Make Up?

Can Trump and Musk Make Up?

by | Jun 9, 2025 |

Last week’s dramatic blowout between President Trump and his one-time top collaborator Elon Musk was shocking yet predictable. According to media reports, a cold war had been brewing between Musk’s people and Trump’s appointees and it was bound to break out into the open. It was only a matter of time. On the campaign trail, Musk provided much energy and helped ramp up enthusiasm for Donald Trump. His support for Trump made him a lightning rod for Trump-haters and he saw his personal wealth...

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Rep. Thomas Massie Introduces US Gold Reserves Audit Bill

Rep. Thomas Massie Introduces US Gold Reserves Audit Bill

by | Jun 6, 2025 |

The United States government says it has about 261 million troy ounces of gold in its gold reserves. That is rather impressive, if true. The US government is not a great role model for honesty, though. So, it seems a good idea to put its gold claim to the test. President Donald Trump talked on occasion in the first couple months of his second term about traveling to Fort Knox where much of the gold is supposed to be held to check if it is really there. But, more recently, he has largely gone...

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The ‘Golden Dome’ is Pure Fantasy

The ‘Golden Dome’ is Pure Fantasy

by | Jun 6, 2025 |

Mutzig, France – First stop on my annual visit to France’s mighty Maginot Line forts is this lovely Alsatian town. Mutzig was built by the Germans 1893-1916 to defend against enemy approaches to the important city of Strasbourg. It was – and remains – the largest modern fortress in Europe. The vast fortress, which covers over 800 acres, was never attacked during World War I by the Germans or French. But as Europe’s first important fortress made of concrete and fully electrified, it was eagerly...

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Jake Tapper: Biden Cover-up ‘Worse Than Watergate’

Jake Tapper: Biden Cover-up ‘Worse Than Watergate’

by | Jun 5, 2025 |

For years, Jake Tapper, the leading newsreader for CNN, has been very unfair to and very biased against Republicans in general, and to President Trump in particular. Now, in an attempt to restore some of his lost credibility, he has written a new book with Alex Thompson of Axios about the Biden health cover-up. He apparently is embarrassed and/or feels guilty about all he did in a very partisan way to try to keep a very unhealthy Joe Biden in office as president, but I will give him credit for...

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The Right to be Left Alone

The Right to be Left Alone

by | Jun 5, 2025 |

Last week, the Trump administration announced the streamlining of access to illegally seized personal data from unsuspecting Americans, thereby making warrantless domestic spying easier for the spies. Here is the backstory. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to privacy. Like other amendments in the Bill of Rights, it doesn’t create the right; it limits government interference with it. President Joe Biden often misquoted the late Justice Antonin Scalia suggesting...

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The Deep State’s Drone Attack Was Aimed To Escalate The Ukraine War And Deny Trump His Nobel Peace Prize

The Deep State’s Drone Attack Was Aimed To Escalate The Ukraine War And Deny Trump His Nobel Peace Prize

by | Jun 4, 2025 |

POTUS better wake up. Quick. The Deep State is in the midst of f#cking him yet again. We are referring, of course, to Sunday's utterly reckless attack on Russia’s strategic nuclear deterrent, allegedly by the Ukrainian military. Yes, the one that’s so feeble and incompetent that thus far it has lost one-fifth of its territory—despite upwards 150,000 dead soldiers according to Col. Douglas Macgregor and more than $200 billion of US and European military and economic aid. That is to say, the...

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The Defeat of The West And Its Dislocation

The Defeat of The West And Its Dislocation

by | Jun 4, 2025 |

In 1976 the French anthropologist Emmanuel Todd predicted the down fall of the Soviet Union. In After The Empire, first published in French in 2001, he predicted the (relative) decline of the United States.  In his latest (and last) book, La Défaite de l’Occident (The Defeat of the West), he laments the West's inability to distinguish facts from wishes, as seen in its behavior during the war in Ukraine. Nihilism, a lack of values and of acceptance of reality,...

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Trump’s Palantir-Powered Surveillance Is Turning America Into a Digital Prison

Trump’s Palantir-Powered Surveillance Is Turning America Into a Digital Prison

by | Jun 4, 2025 |

Call it what it is: a panopticon presidency. President Trump’s plan to fuse government power with private surveillance tech to build a centralized, national citizen database is the final step in transforming America from a constitutional republic into a digital dictatorship armed with algorithms and powered by unaccountable, all-seeing artificial intelligence. This isn’t about national security. It’s about control. According to news reports, the Trump administration is...

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Trump Won’t Walk Away from Ukraine War

Trump Won’t Walk Away from Ukraine War

by | Jun 3, 2025 |

One of the mysteries of the Ukraine endgame is that President Donald Trump did not issue an executive order on January 20 withdrawing all support for Ukraine. That would have been the easiest way to end the war.  The conditions were propitious — Candidate Trump didn’t mince words that it was a hopeless war that cost the US dearly in treasure; he thought poorly of President Volodymyr Zelensky as a shameless free rider; he saw the war as impeding his foreign-policy priority of the US...

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‘One Quiet Early Morning in Beijing, the Dollar’s Crown Slipped’

‘One Quiet Early Morning in Beijing, the Dollar’s Crown Slipped’

by | Jun 3, 2025 |

“I believe we must start from the notion of defeat leading to revolution – to grasp the Trump revolution.” “The experience underway in the United States, even if we don’t know exactly what it will be, is revolution. Is it a revolution in the strict sense? Is it a counter-revolution?” So spoke the French historian and philosopher Emmanuel Todd in his April Moscow lecture, From Russia With Love. This [Trump revolution] is, in my opinion, linked to defeat. Various people have reported to me...

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After Three Years, Ukraine is a Grim Scene

After Three Years, Ukraine is a Grim Scene

by | Jun 3, 2025 |

We can see that the direction of Ukrainian military operations has placed serious doubts in the minds of many of the front-line regular troops, and especially over the past year or so their uncertainty has increased and their morale has diminished. It is impossible for the Ukraine military to successfully fight on a front which covers not only the whole east of the country, but is now also expanding in the north, an entire front whose length exceeds 1,000 km from the east and may include...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

A DOGE Switcheroo

A DOGE Switcheroo

by | Apr 4, 2025

Many actions associated with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have been met with support from advocates of reducing the size and power of the United States...

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