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Did ‘Toria’ Jump…Or Was She Pushed?

Did ‘Toria’ Jump…Or Was She Pushed?

by | Mar 8, 2024 |

(This was first published as an update exclusive for Ron Paul Institute subscribers. Subscribe for free here.) The sudden retirement announcement by State Department Deputy Secretary for Political Affairs Victoria "Toria" Nuland earlier this week left many US foreign policy watchers - your author included - trying to read the tea leaves to see what was actually going on. There are plenty of theories and speculations as to what motivated someone like Nuland - whose entire professional career...

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The End of the End of Ideology

The End of the End of Ideology

by | Mar 7, 2024 |

In 1960, Harvard sociologist Daniel Bell published a book called The End of Ideology. It argued that it was time to put aside all our ridiculous arguments of the past – socialism, fascism, liberalism, anarchism, technocracy, etc. – and just recognize that elites like him have it all under control. They had already established the building blocks of the administrative state so that real experts could be in charge and rule society with a steady hand.  The rest of us need just to work hard, pay...

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Taking Rights Seriously

Taking Rights Seriously

by | Mar 7, 2024 |

“If all mankind minus one were of one 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. The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. These examples, of...

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Is Ground Beneath Biden’s Russia Policy Shifting?

Is Ground Beneath Biden’s Russia Policy Shifting?

by | Mar 6, 2024 |

The resignation of the US Undersecretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, the third highest ranking diplomat in the Biden administration, came as a bolt out of the blue on Monday.  An easy explanation could be that it rankles that she was overlooked for promotion as Deputy Secretary, a job she coveted in 2021 as the Biden presidency began, and instead Kurt Campbell, President Biden’s key advisor on China, recently moved in.   The effusive praise Secretary of...

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Ukraine Has Received Mega-Billions From US, Other Countries

Ukraine Has Received Mega-Billions From US, Other Countries

by | Mar 6, 2024 |

As of mid-January, global aid to Ukraine has reached what the Kiel Institute for the World Economy described as the “staggering” amount of $278 billion. This means that Ukraine has actually had more money than Russia has been able to spend on this war. Russia’s total GDP of $1.8 trillion is just slightly over California’s GDP and only about eight percent of the total U.S. GDP of over $23 trillion. The Congress has previously committed $114 billion to the Ukrainian war effort, and far too many...

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The Great Election Fraud: Manufactured Choices Make a Mockery of Our Republic

The Great Election Fraud: Manufactured Choices Make a Mockery of Our Republic

by | Mar 6, 2024 |

The U.S. Supreme Court was right to keep President Trump’s name on the ballot. The high court’s decree that the power to remove a federal candidate from the ballot under the Constitution’s “insurrectionist ban” rests with Congress, not the states, underscores the fact that in a representative democracy, the citizenry—not the courts, not the corporations, and not the contrived electoral colleges—should be the ones to elect their representatives. Unfortunately, what is...

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Murder in Gaza

Murder in Gaza

by | Mar 6, 2024 |

Good work, Mr. President Biden. You have managed to do what America’s enemies have not – creating widespread hatred for the United States around the globe. Your destruction of the Gaza refugee camps has inflamed antisemitism everywhere. There is widespread disgust and anger at the US government over your decision to give Israel’s new far right government carte blanche to massacre rebellious Palestinians in the open prison of the Gaza Strip. The death toll is now over 31,000 killed and at least...

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What Did the CIA Know and When Did it Know it?

What Did the CIA Know and When Did it Know it?

by | Mar 6, 2024 |

As Ukraine careens toward a political and military disaster it is time to ask why did the CIA fail to predict this. “Wait a minute,” you might say, “how do you know the CIA did not?” Fair question. I no longer have access to classified information, but I can read the public statements of DOD and State Department officials as well as remarks by various members of Congress. At no time during the past two years — since the start of the Special Military Operation — have we heard a single...

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‘Untenable Positions’ – Warning Signs Abound

‘Untenable Positions’ – Warning Signs Abound

by | Mar 5, 2024 |

“Tuesday’s local elections were a flashing warning light for Israel. The ultra-Orthodox parties, the religious Zionist groups, and the far-right, racist parties – organized in a few communities and scored gains that are disproportionate to the true size of the groups they represent. Conversely, the democratic camp [largely secular liberal Ashkenazi], which for nearly a year turned out weekly for giant demonstrations on Tel Aviv’s Kaplan Street and dozens of locations around the country, failed...

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The Tyranny of Domestic Highway Checkpoints

The Tyranny of Domestic Highway Checkpoints

by | Mar 5, 2024 |

Many years ago, I traveled to Cuba, which, as most Americans recognize, is governed by a dictatorial regime. One day I took a cab from Havana to a small town named Trinidad. The drive  took several hours and I arrived at dusk. I paid the cab driver and he returned to Havana. There were no hotels in Trinidad, but people would rent a room in their house. When I attempted to rent a room, the owner asked to see my passport. The regime required her to keep track of who stayed in her...

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Putin’s nuclear warning is direct and explicit

Putin’s nuclear warning is direct and explicit

by | Mar 4, 2024 |

The spectre of Armageddon has been raised often enough during the 2-year old war in Ukraine that the reference to it in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s state of the union address on Thursday had a familiar ring about it. Therein lies the risk of misjudgement on the part of the western audience that Putin was only “crying wolf”.   Three things must be noted at the outset. First, Putin has been explicit and direct. He is giving advance notice that he is obliged to respond with...

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Federal Reserve Responsibility for Consumer and Government Debt Crises

Federal Reserve Responsibility for Consumer and Government Debt Crises

by | Mar 4, 2024 |

According to the Federal Reserve, credit card delinquencies increased by 50 percent in 2023, while consumer debt grew to 17.5 trillion dollars. A recent survey by Clever Real Estate found that three in five Americans have credit card debt and that 23 percent of Americans increase their credit card debt every month. The survey also found that 48 percent of Americans (including 59 percent of millennials) use credit cards for essential living expenses. The overreliance on credit cards and the...

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Forward, into the breach

Forward, into the breach

by | Mar 2, 2024 |

Leaders make choices in moments of crises which can either lead to enhanced security or catastrophe for their nations, with the lives of innocents often hanging in the balance. Immediately after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, I went to the floor of the House of Representatives and warned against the U.S. lashing out blindly in response to the devastating attacks which killed over 3,000 persons.   Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, as recounted by Bob Woodward...

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‘This ONE Thing Will Fix Our Broken Foreign Policy And Broken Political System’ – RPI’s Daniel McAdams on the Kim Iversen Show

by | Mar 1, 2024 |

RPI Director Daniel McAdams joined the Kim Iversen show today for a wide-ranging, hour-long provocative discussion on what is wrong the the US political system, what is wrong with our foreign policy, what is wrong with current US culture...and how we can fix it. Though much of the talk is on the issues, there is plenty of fun banter and off-topic discussion to round out the program:

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MSNBC Legal Analyst: Free Speech Could Be America’s ‘Achilles Heel’

MSNBC Legal Analyst: Free Speech Could Be America’s ‘Achilles Heel’

by | Mar 1, 2024 |

We have been discussing the alarming shift in higher education in favor of censorship and speech regulations. These voices have been amplified on media platforms like MSNBC which has championed efforts to censor people and groups on social media and other forums. The most recent example is the interview of University of Michigan Law Professor and MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade by Rachel Maddow. In the interview, McQuade explains how the First Amendment is the “Achilles...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

Hybrid War

by | Nov 19, 2021

There is no shortage of growing tensions in eastern Europe. There is the growing EU-Belarus standoff over illegal migration. There are western reports that Russia is amassing...

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No Peace Dividend Again

No Peace Dividend Again

by | Nov 10, 2021

Back when the Soviet Union fell apart, there was much talk of a peace dividend — a big reduction in the United States government’s spending on militarism. The peace dividend did...

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