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Pro-War Lobby Attacks Russian Influencers

Pro-War Lobby Attacks Russian Influencers

by | Sep 10, 2024 |

In recent weeks, there has been a surge of allegations that Moscow has long orchestrated an illegal campaign to influence U.S. public opinion. On September 4, 2024, the Justice Department charged two Russian media executives with an alleged scheme that authorities say illegally funneled millions of dollars to a Tennessee-based company [Tenet] to create and publish propaganda videos that racked up millions of views on U.S. social media. In a separate legal action, prosecutors seized...

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The First Steps Toward a Liberty Platform

The First Steps Toward a Liberty Platform

by | Sep 9, 2024 |

Last weekend several hundred of us gathered in Washington, DC, at the Ron Paul Institute conference to again proclaim our dedication to the cause of liberty and our opposition to constant US government assaults on that liberty. Our collaborators included old friends like Judge Andrew Napolitano, who explained that the Bill of Rights was not added to the Constitution to grant Americans liberties, but to recognize liberties already existing for all persons – regardless of nationality – by virtue...

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Trump Winning the Presidential Debate May Be No Big Deal

Trump Winning the Presidential Debate May Be No Big Deal

by | Sep 7, 2024 |

When Donald Trump debated Joe Biden in June in their one and only debate of this year’s presidential contest, the outcome was monumental. Biden’s very diminished state shone through clearly, leading to him being forced out of the race by people in his own party. It is important to understand that Biden’s withdrawal did not follow alone from Trump winning the debate. Just about everyone expected that Trump would win the debate. The key additional issue was whether Biden would perform at a level...

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The 2024 Ron Paul Peace and Prosperity Conference: The Liberty Platform Revealed

The 2024 Ron Paul Peace and Prosperity Conference: The Liberty Platform Revealed

by | Sep 7, 2024 |

For two days it felt like heaven was a place on earth: I was at the Ron Paul Institute (RPI) for Peace and Prosperity Conference. More than 300 liberty-loving individuals from all over America and beyond – for example, London – ranging in age from senior citizens to a crying baby – gathered at the event. The conference was held 20+ miles from where the Pentagon plots its wars and the rest of the federal government violates the Constitution and Bill of Rights. In this presidential election...

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John Mearsheimer & Ron Paul Invade Washington, Blast Permanent War State: ‘Social Engineering At The End Of A Rifle Barrel’

John Mearsheimer & Ron Paul Invade Washington, Blast Permanent War State: ‘Social Engineering At The End Of A Rifle Barrel’

by | Sep 6, 2024 |

The man who for decades had been an almost lone Congressional advocate of non-interventionism in American foreign policy is former Congressman Ron Paul. When he ran for president in 2008, he took what the late Justin Raimondo called "libertarian realism" to the masses in the famous moment wherein he tangled with Rudy Giuliani on the GOP debate stage. Paul described that "blowback" resulting from Washington militarism and adventurism abroad was a contributing cause of 9/11....

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‘How I Got Fired From The CIA’: Career Ops Officer Tells All

‘How I Got Fired From The CIA’: Career Ops Officer Tells All

by | Sep 6, 2024 |

Americans are by now familiar with a handful of whistleblowers who after spending years employed by the US intelligence community (IC) eventually saw enough to make them angry and throw away the safety of their future government careers by exposing state secrets to the public. Names like Snowden, Manning, Kiriakou or John Stockwell, William Binning and Thomas Drake (both of NSA whistleblower fame) are well-known, especially in independent and alternative media circles.  But lesser known...

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Children of Big Brother: What It Means to Go Back-to-School in the American Police State

Children of Big Brother: What It Means to Go Back-to-School in the American Police State

by | Sep 5, 2024 |

It’s not easy being a child in the American police state. Danger lurks around every corner and comes at you from every direction, especially when Big Brother is involved. Out on the streets, you’ve got the menace posed by police officers who shoot first and ask questions later. In your neighborhoods, you’ve got to worry about the Nanny State and its network of busybodies turning parents in for allowing their children to walk to school alone, walk to the...

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Now, the Feds Are Spying on Congress

Now, the Feds Are Spying on Congress

by | Sep 5, 2024 |

“Those who have sown the wind shall reap the whirlwind.”-- Hosea 8:7 The federal antipathy to compliance with the Constitution is well known and well documented. Presidents have declared war in contravention of the constitutional command that only Congress may do so. Congress itself has enacted legislation in areas that the drafters of the Constitution reserved to the states -- and it has done so using some of the more absurd linguistic contortions thinkable. In one infamous case where the...

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Tyranny Is Closer Than You Realize

Tyranny Is Closer Than You Realize

by | Sep 5, 2024 |

It is strange that there is no discussion of it, but in two weeks and one day on September 18 Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for president in the November election in two months, is scheduled by a corrupt Democrat “judge” to be sentenced for 34 felony counts pulled out of thin air by a corrupt Democrat prosecutor for how Trump’s accountants reported an expense. Trump’s accountants reported the expense as a legal expense, which was a reasonable classification of the expense, but the...

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TSA Tyranny Goes Cutesy

TSA Tyranny Goes Cutesy

by | Sep 3, 2024 |

In the glorious age of the Kamala Ascendency, the TSA is no longer restraining its contempt for American travelers. After squeezing millions of butts and boobs and never catching a terrorist, TSA decided to have fun by taunting its victims.  After a traveler asked online, “Why does TSA need social media anyways?” TSA’s Instagram account taunted: “Idk Kyle, why do your friends keep bringing stuff they shouldn’t in their carry-on?” Almost 40,000 people liked that post (slightly fewer than...

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Robert Reich Calls for the Arrest of Elon Musk for Resisting Censorship

Robert Reich Calls for the Arrest of Elon Musk for Resisting Censorship

by | Sep 3, 2024 |

We have previously discussed the anti-free speech views of Clinton’s former Labor Secretary, Robert Reich, who has tried to sell citizens on the perfectly Orwellian view that more freedom means tyranny when it comes to the freedom of expression. He also demanded that former president Donald Trump be banned from ballots as a “traitor” — all in the name of protecting democracy from itself. Last week, Reich wrote a column declaring Elon Musk “out of...

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Russia Updating Nuclear Weapon Doctrine Due To Western ‘Escalation’ Of Ukraine War

Russia Updating Nuclear Weapon Doctrine Due To Western ‘Escalation’ Of Ukraine War

by | Sep 3, 2024 |

In the latest worrisome saber-rattling sparked by the US-led proxy war in Ukraine, Russia announced it's revising its doctrine on the use of nuclear weapons, saying a change has been necessitated by "escalation" initiated by the country's Western adversaries.  Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told TASS that the update was precipitated by an analysis of  "recent conflicts" including "Western adversaries’ escalation course" in the Ukraine...

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The First Steps Toward a Liberty Platform

Trump and Harris Ignore a Great Danger Facing America

by | Sep 2, 2024 |

The Penn Wharton Budget Model, a think tank headquartered at the University of Pennsylvania, recently released a study claiming former President Donald Trump’s economic plans would add about four trillion dollars to the national deficit over ten years while Vice President Kamala Harris’s economic plans would add about two trillion dollars.Vice President Harris would increase the deficit largely through expanding refundable tax credits such as the child tax credit. Low-income Americans can...

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Technofascism: The Government Pressured Tech Companies to Censor Users

Technofascism: The Government Pressured Tech Companies to Censor Users

by | Aug 29, 2024 |

“Internet platforms have a powerful incentive to please important federal officials, and the record in this case shows that high-ranking officials skillfully exploited Facebook’s vulnerability... Not surprisingly these efforts bore fruit. Facebook adopted new rules that better conformed to the officials’ wishes, and many users who expressed disapproved views about the pandemic or COVID–19 vaccines were ‘deplatformed’ or otherwise injured.”—Justice Samuel Alito, dissenting in Murthy v....

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Searching for Monsters

Searching for Monsters

by | Aug 29, 2024 |

“America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy …She might become the dictatress of the world,But she would no longer be the ruler of her own spirit.”-- John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) In the middle of his term as Secretary of State, the future president John Quincy Adams addressed a joint session of Congress. What prompted this unusual event? The United States had just fought Britain to a draw in the War of 1812. It was fought almost entirely in Canada. Some historians believe the...

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Democrats Lose Effort to Block Cornel West from Michigan Ballot

Democrats Lose Effort to Block Cornel West from Michigan Ballot

by | Aug 27, 2024 |

For months, we have been discussing the concerted effort of Democrats to bar challengers to President Joe Biden from primary ballots and block third-party candidates like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Cornel West from appearing on the November ballots. As both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris insisted that “Democracy is on the ballot,” their allies sought to deny the ability of voters to cast their ballots for other candidates. Now, a state judge has issued a stinging denial of the...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

New Jersey Eliminates a Tax

New Jersey Eliminates a Tax

by | Jul 16, 2022

New Jersey has a reputation as a high tax state. This month, something happened that should pare back that reputation some: The state eliminated its sales tax on medical...

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The Republic of Texas, Part Two

The Republic of Texas, Part Two

by | Jun 21, 2022

Texas was its own nation independent of any other for ten years between gaining its independence from Mexico in 1836 and joining the United States in 1846. Nearly 180 years...

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