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Report From “Blueprint for Peace”

Report From “Blueprint for Peace”

by | Aug 30, 2025 |

Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity’s 9th annual conference, “Blueprint for Peace” was held Saturday, August 16th, a day after a possibly promising new start to the end of the US-NATO-Russia war in Ukraine, at a time where the world remains seconds away from nuclear destruction, due to accident or imperial malpractice. August 16th featured lively and passionate set of speakers, to a room literally packed with great minds intent on tackling the great and urgent problems that Americans...

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Donald Trump Still Does Not Understand the Russia’s Position Regarding Ukraine

Donald Trump Still Does Not Understand the Russia’s Position Regarding Ukraine

by | Aug 29, 2025 |

I continue to believe that it is more important to watch what Donald Trump does rather than focus on what he says. However, his remarks during the meeting of his cabinet earlier this week regarding negotiations to end the war in Ukraine are alarming and merit attention. When asked about Sergei Lavrov’s comment that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is not legitimate, Donald Trump dismissed the statement, saying: It doesn’t matter what they say. Everybody’s posturing. It’s all bullshit,...

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RPI ‘Blueprint for Peace’ Conference Speeches Available Online!

RPI ‘Blueprint for Peace’ Conference Speeches Available Online!

by | Aug 29, 2025 |

This update first appeared exclusively to Ron Paul Institute subscribers. Subscribe for free here. Our ninth annual Ron Paul Institute DC Conference is really one for the record books. It is also our nineteenth total conference in our 12 years of existence. With your help and support and participation we have brought thousands of people together to continue to preserve and grow Ron Paul's message of Peace and Prosperity. And most importantly to pass it down to future generations! This...

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There will be no peace in Ukraine until Washington admits to itself it has lost the war

There will be no peace in Ukraine until Washington admits to itself it has lost the war

by | Aug 28, 2025 |

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told NBC’s Kristen Welker of Meet the Press that no meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is currently in the works. The Russian diplomat indicated his government is not interested in such a meeting until a “presidential agenda” was agreed upon that included certain Russian demands, including an agreement Ukraine will not seek membership in NATO and will discuss ceding some territory to Russia. “When...

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The States and the Presidency

The States and the Presidency

by | Aug 28, 2025 |

It is (my) intention to ... demand recognition of the distinctionbetween the powers granted to the Federal Governmentand those reserved to the States or to the people.All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Governmentdid not create the States; the States created the Federal Government.- President Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1981 When I heard President Ronald Reagan utter the words above, my heart leapt with joy. I couldn’t imagine a modern-day president recognizing...

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Giving Ukraine a US Security Guarantee Risks National Suicide

Giving Ukraine a US Security Guarantee Risks National Suicide

by | Aug 27, 2025 |

Too much of the talk about the recent Alaska summit meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin focuses on the wrong issue.  The key question is not whether an eventual peace accord ending the fighting in Ukraine will require Kyiv to accept Moscow’s continued possession of Crimea and at least a portion of Ukraine’s Donbas region.  Anyone with a modicum of realism understands that such territorial concessions are unavoidable if the bloody war...

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Neocons Responsible For Russian-Ukraine War

Neocons Responsible For Russian-Ukraine War

by | Aug 27, 2025 |

On August 16, my wife, Vickie, and I attended a conference at the Dulles Airport Hilton just outside Washington, D.C. It was titled “A Blueprint For Peace” and was hosted by the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. This institute was started by Rep. Paul at the end of his last year in Congress in 2012. I participated in the founding press conference, and I am still on the advisory board. This year’s conference had several outstanding speakers, such as Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Judge...

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Burning the Flag or Torching the Constitution: Only One Destroys Freedom

Burning the Flag or Torching the Constitution: Only One Destroys Freedom

by | Aug 26, 2025 |

Cancel culture—political correctness amped up on steroids, the self-righteousness of a narcissistic age, and a mass-marketed pseudo-morality that is little more than fascism disguised as tolerance—has shifted us into an Age of Intolerance. Nothing illustrates this more clearly than President Trump’s latest executive order calling for criminal charges for anyone who burns the American flag—a symbolic act long upheld by the Supreme Court as protected political expression. This push is...

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Trump as ‘Myth’ is Understood in Moscow. They Reciprocate

Trump as ‘Myth’ is Understood in Moscow. They Reciprocate

by | Aug 26, 2025 |

Trump’s ascent to a portion of the “Mythic” has become only too evident. As John Greer has observed: It’s becoming difficult even for the most dyed-in-the-wool rationalist to go on believing that Trump’s political career can be understood in the prosaic terms of ‘politics as usual’. Trump the man, of course, is in no way mythic. He’s an elderly, slightly infirm, American real estate oligarch, with lowbrow tastes and an unusually robust ego. “The ancient Greek word muthos originally meant...

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President Trump Should Return to an ‘America First’ Foreign Policy

President Trump Should Return to an ‘America First’ Foreign Policy

by | Aug 25, 2025 |

After four years of unnecessarily confrontational foreign policy under President Biden, Americans elected Donald Trump in part for his promise to put America first at home and overseas. He promised a war-weary America that he would start no new wars and would get us out of the existing ones. Eight months into his second Administration it appears his promise remains to be fulfilled, as his approval rating continues to slip. On Ukraine, President Trump wisely observed coming into office that the...

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In an age of lies, truth is extreme

In an age of lies, truth is extreme

by | Aug 25, 2025 |

The late columnist, Joe Sobran, diagnosed America’s political malaise with scalpel-like precision: If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist. By this clinical standard, the forgotten American qualifies as a dangerous extremist—and it is high time people like this...

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Friedrich Merz Are You Nuts?

Friedrich Merz Are You Nuts?

by | Aug 25, 2025 |

Do you know what German Chancellor Merz did? Amidst serious negotiations to end the bloody and destructive Ukraine war, this guy's putting up a veritable roadblock right in front of progress. Here's what it is: Merz was in Washington along with several other European leaders for a Ukraine meeting with President Trump. When it came Merz's turn to talk he expressed, "I can't imagine that the next meeting would take place without a ceasefire." Clearly no one in the world with a heart would like...

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Why The US Government Stake in Intel is Fascism, not Communism

Why The US Government Stake in Intel is Fascism, not Communism

by | Aug 23, 2025 |

With the government buying stocks in private companies, such as the US government's newly-announced purchase of ten percent of technology giant Intel, it's important to know why this is fascist and not communist. There is a difference between the two. With communism, government owns all of the capital outright. There is no private ownership of business or industry. Communism always collapses very quickly because there are no market prices. With government being the only owner of capital, you...

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Dutch Caretaker Govt Fragments as Dutch Right Splits on Israel

Dutch Caretaker Govt Fragments as Dutch Right Splits on Israel

by | Aug 23, 2025 |

Dutch parliament is fiercely divided on whether it should take more measures which add teeth to recent actions calling out Israel for the mounting civilian death toll and starvation conditions in the Gaza Strip. Just last month, the hardline Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, who actively assist in Jewish settler expansion in the West Bank, were formally declared persona non grata in the Netherlands. On Friday, following a five-hour parliamentary debate which...

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Is Trump, Like Biden, Politicizing Intelligence?

Is Trump, Like Biden, Politicizing Intelligence?

by | Aug 23, 2025 |

If you thought that Donald Trump had learned the importance of keeping politics out of intelligence in light of how the intelligence community was used as a tool to attack and subvert his Presidency, think again. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired a general whose agency’s initial intelligence assessment of U.S. damage to Iranian nuclear sites angered President Donald Trump, according to two people familiar with the decision and a White House official. Lt. Gen. Jeffrey...

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The US Government Is Waging Psychological War on Its Citizens: Inside the Deep State’s PsyOps Machine

The US Government Is Waging Psychological War on Its Citizens: Inside the Deep State’s PsyOps Machine

by | Aug 23, 2025 |

“Have you ever wondered who’s pulling the strings? … Anything we touch is a weapon. We can deceive, persuade, change, influence, inspire. We come in many forms. We are everywhere.”— U.S. Army Psychological Operations recruitment video From viral memes to military-grade influence operations, the government is waging a full-spectrum psychological war—not against foreign enemies but against its own citizens. The goal? Compliance. Control. Conformity. The battlefield is no longer physical—it...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

The Ten Seconds Census

The Ten Seconds Census

by | May 27, 2025

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is in the news for claiming it has eliminated several Census Bureau surveys and that it will be reviewing others in turn. That may...

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Lawless Cops

Lawless Cops

by | May 12, 2025

Cops enforce laws. On first impression that may seem a good thing as one considers long in place laws, such as against assault, murder, and theft, that can help protect...

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