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Ron Paul Rewind: No War on Iran Without a Congressional Declaration of War

by | Jun 19, 2025 |

It is déjà vu concerning the United States going to war against Iran. Back in a February of 2012 Republican presidential nomination race debate, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) was asked about if the US should go to war against Iran because of the same purported threat that President Donald Trump is now using to support movement toward war on Iran — that Iran may soon have a nuclear weapon. In answer, Paul stood out from his three opponents at the debate, arguing that the US government should not take...

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Trump, War and the Constitution

Trump, War and the Constitution

by | Jun 19, 2025 |

Has the United States become what President Donald Trump recently condemned? 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 central to a debate over the U.S. involvement in Ukraine, Gaza and Iran. Sadly, there has been no great debate. The mainstream media are mouthing what the CIA is telling them, and only a few websites and podcasts are...

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Trump Orders ‘Unconditional Surrender’ by Iran. Who’s Listening?

Trump Orders ‘Unconditional Surrender’ by Iran. Who’s Listening?

by | Jun 18, 2025 |

Israel’s blitzkrieg against Iran five days ago is failing spectacularly. The Russian media reported that: i) Israel’s Rafael weapons complex has been destroyed; ii) Haifa oil refinery is in flames; iii) the Iron Dome has been breached; iv) and, Israel’s air dominance is a figment of imagination.  On Tuesday, Iran fired cruise missiles for the first time against Israel. Another wave of Iranian missile and drone attack targeted the Nevatim Airbase in southern Israel, where stealth fighter...

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Secret Deals, Endless Wars: The America First Betrayal in Iran?

Secret Deals, Endless Wars: The America First Betrayal in Iran?

by | Jun 18, 2025 |

Israel’s airstrikes on Iran and US involvement shatter the illusion that America First guides President Trump’s Middle East policy. The hijacking of “America First” for hawkish goals is clear as Trump treads the same failed interventionist path in the Middle East. Beyond policy, these attempts to co-opt the legacy of America First for the sake of the status quo discard key insights once associated with the label. The America Firsters of old would be appalled at the US government’s...

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The regime change maniacs are back: Iran is in their sights, and they’ve learned nothing

The regime change maniacs are back: Iran is in their sights, and they’ve learned nothing

by | Jun 18, 2025 |

In 2002, the Bush administration was met with scant resistance from the mainstream media or wider establishment as it drummed up the case for toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq. But there were a handful of dissenters, above all Brent Scowcroft. The two-time former national-security adviser (under Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush) urged the nation to consider the law of unintended consequences — and to open its imagination to nightmare scenarios. A similar imagination is desperately...

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Donald Trump Doubles Down on Crazy

Donald Trump Doubles Down on Crazy

by | Jun 17, 2025 |

Clean up in aisle five. Someone needs to tackle Donald Trump and confiscate his phone. He should not be allowed to post on Truth Social until some adult with a measure of common sense has a chance to review prospective Trump posts. Roughly sixteen million people live in the Tehran metropolitan area. Where would they go? This post by Trump has caused many around the world to take a hard gulp and wonder if Trump is serious. Telegram channels are spinning frantically with...

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Tame the ‘Rising Lion’ Before it Eats Us!

Tame the ‘Rising Lion’ Before it Eats Us!

by | Jun 17, 2025 |

Israel’s government, which has undertaken, with prevaricative impunity the illegal occupation and theft of Palestinian water sources, farmland, homes, property, and energy resources through ethnic cleansing and the execrable crimes of mass starvation and genocide in Gaza, has further escalated a world crisis by the preemptive bombing attack on Iran, through a self-proclaimed “Operation Rising Lion.” This deadly deceit is of monumental proportions that one must struggle with the horrific...

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America Last?

America Last?

by | Jun 17, 2025 |

In a landmark piece of reporting out this week in New York magazine, the journalist Suzy Hansen observes that, The Democrats allowed themselves to be dragged into lawlessness by Netanyahu and his virulently racist Cabinet members like [Finance minister Bezalel] Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir. Even as the U.S. undergoes a reckoning about [President] Biden’s age, few have asked how his senility affected his direction of U.S. policy in Gaza. Instead, administration veterans...

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America First – We Hardly Knew Ye

America First – We Hardly Knew Ye

by | Jun 16, 2025 |

The Donald called Fed Chairman Powell a “numbskull” last week and deservedly so. But to paraphrase an old adage, when the cap fits said numbskulls tend to wear it themselves. Surely, that’s where we are this morning upon Israel’s reprehensible attack on Iran’s civilian nuclear facilities and decapitation of its military and scientific leadership. Self-evidently, the attack was well known to Trump and tacitly greenlighted by him during the course of several conversations this past week with...

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Great Big Ugly Surveillance State

Great Big Ugly Surveillance State

by | Jun 16, 2025 |

On March 20, President Trump signed an executive order “Eliminating Information Silos.” The order directed heads of federal agencies to make sure officials designated by the president “have full and prompt access to all unclassified agency records, data, software systems, and information technology systems.” The executive order did not attract much attention until it was more recently revealed that the administration was working with tech company Palantir to create a database containing all...

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Slouching Toward Authoritarianism?

Slouching Toward Authoritarianism?

by | Jun 14, 2025 |

The deployment of California National Guard troops and active-duty U.S. Marines onto the streets of Los Angeles is an assault on federalism, violates federal law and manifests a dangerous pattern of governmental behavior in defiance of constitutional principles and the rule of law. None of this was the case until President Donald Trump, against the express wishes of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, federalized the CA National Guard, became their commander in chief, and ordered them to thwart both...

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The Silver Lining in the Dark War Cloud Over Iran

The Silver Lining in the Dark War Cloud Over Iran

by | Jun 14, 2025 |

Israel’s unjustified and unprovoked attack on Iran early Friday morning, marks the full-on start of a war that is likely to change the face of the region. I mince no words… this is war. But there is a silver lining of sorts — with Israel having to use its air squadrons to launch repeated attacks on Iran and to scramble fighters into the air to try to stop Iranian drones and missiles, the Palestinians in Gaza will get a respite from daily bombings. So, what is happening? Israel’s initial strike...

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US-Israeli Deception Gave Iran False Security Amid Washington Green Light

US-Israeli Deception Gave Iran False Security Amid Washington Green Light

by | Jun 13, 2025 |

Fresh reporting as well as new Friday statements by President Trump reveal that the US and Israel practiced deceptive diplomacy, as Israeli and American officials worked together to convince Iran that nuclear negotiations were progressing. Yet all the while an elaborate Israel attack on Iranian nuclear sites was being planned, and Tehran was given a false sense of security, and ill-prepared for its defense. Axios has reported that Tel Aviv was given "a clear US green...

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Apply NOW: 2025 Ron Paul Scholars Seminar!

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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