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Apply TODAY: 2026 Ron Paul Scholars Seminar!

by | Jul 2, 2026 |

Attention Upper Division Undergrads and Grad Students! This year we will celebrate our Seventh 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 2026 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...

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July 4, 2026

July 4, 2026

by | Jul 2, 2026 |

Which is better -- to be ruled by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants one mile away? -- Rev. Mather Byles (1706-1788) Does it really matter if the instrument curtailing liberty is a monarch or a popularly elected legislature? This conundrum, along with the witty version of it put to a Boston crowd in 1775 by the little-known colonial-era preacher with the famous uncle -- Cotton Mather -- addresses the age-old question of whether liberty can long survive in a democracy. Byles was a...

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FBI Boss Robert Mueller Conned America to Ravage Our Rights

FBI Boss Robert Mueller Conned America to Ravage Our Rights

by | Jul 2, 2026 |

When former FBI director Robert Mueller died in March, the New York Times eulogized him as a “button-down, lockjawed, rock-ribbed exemplar of a vanishing caste.” Media tributes poured in as if Mueller was the law-enforcement version of Mother Theresa. Mueller’s abuse of power goes way back But tell that to the Liberty City Seven, victims in a landmark case in the war on terror that should have defined Mueller’s legacy far more than his photo ops at congressional hearings. The FBI...

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Gen Z Is Tired of War

Gen Z Is Tired of War

by | Jul 2, 2026 |

On September 5, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order which revived the original name for the Department of Defense, “The Department of War.” While technically the name remains the Department of Defense for legal purposes (as only an act of Congress can officially change the name), the Trump administration has done everything else in its power to rebrand the institution in this regard, claiming the original name is “woke” and that the change ensures the...

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The Unfinished Revolution: When Rights Become Privileges

The Unfinished Revolution: When Rights Become Privileges

by | Jul 1, 2026 |

What exactly are Americans celebrating this Fourth of July? Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all people possess inalienable rights, we now live under a government that increasingly behaves as though rights belong to the government to distribute, restrict and revoke as it sees fit. Freedom has become conditional. Constitutional rights have become political bargaining chips. Government now claims the authority to decide which religious beliefs...

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Americans Want Peace, Israel Wants War

Americans Want Peace, Israel Wants War

by | Jul 1, 2026 |

America wants peace. Israel wants war. The great majority of Americans want an end to the war against Iran. The great majority in Congress just want more contributions from the Israel Lobby and its supporters. Now, most members of Congress are really squirming. They know that most of their constituents are fed up with foreign wars and want this stupid war in Iran over, the sooner the better. But they are afraid to criticize Israel’s war for fear of the Israel Lobby steering big campaign...

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Russia Hearing the European Clamor for War, Announces it is Ready

Russia Hearing the European Clamor for War, Announces it is Ready

by | Jun 30, 2026 |

The de-escalation framework that unfolded in the US-Iran Lucerne talks largely stayed true to the original Iranian 10-point plan. Meanwhile, President Trump and Vice-President Vance deliberately muddy the waters, claiming that Iran has already agreed to IAEA inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities (a claim repeatedly denied by Iran): Vance announced that the IAEA could have begun inspections this week. No – – the “Framework” only refers to the possible IAEA supervision of the dilution to the...

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Virginia’s New Gun Laws are Already Costing Jobs 

Virginia’s New Gun Laws are Already Costing Jobs 

by | Jun 30, 2026 |

Newly elected Gov. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va, and her Democratic-controlled state legislature set their sights firmly on the Second Amendment after taking office earlier this year. The Governor signed a litany of bills into law including a ban on the sale and manufacturing of so-called “assault weapons,” including the wildly popular AR-15, and a ban on magazines with a capacity of fifteen or more rounds which criminalized most modern sporting rifle (MSR) magazines and some pistol...

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FARA Docs: Israel is Spying On Millions Of Christian Americans In Their Churches

FARA Docs: Israel is Spying On Millions Of Christian Americans In Their Churches

by | Jun 30, 2026 |

If you are a Christian living in the Western United States, you have almost certainly been targeted with pro-Israel, anti-Palestine propaganda, paid for directly by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu. Your searches, location, and internet activity is being monitored by Israel, and your algorithms and search results across multiple platforms are being manipulated by Israeli government in what its American partner calls the “largest geofencing and targeted Christian digital campaign ever.”...

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Are There Really Iran-US Peace Talks?

Are There Really Iran-US Peace Talks?

by | Jun 29, 2026 |

No week goes by in Washington without another display of Trumpism, i.e. the expressed desire by the president to turn our constitutional republic into an expression of Trump-world that honors and glorifies, as he put it recently, “me.” Trumpean conceit has included his Tr(i)ump(hal) Arch in Arlington, his bid to rename the Kennedy Center, his takeover of the Institute of Peace, his seizure of the District of Colombia’s public golf courses, and a declaration two weeks ago that he continues...

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War Crimes, War Powers and American Sovereignty: The USA + Israel = The Department of Forever War

War Crimes, War Powers and American Sovereignty: The USA + Israel = The Department of Forever War

by | Jun 29, 2026 |

Against the horrific high- and low-tech butchery of Palestinians and Lebanese by Israeli ethno-nationalist psychopathic killers, this week there will be an effort in Congress to formally merge or integrate the military of Israel and the United States at the most advanced levels. Section 219 (formerly Section 224) of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act of 2027, provides for an unprecedented unification. The nearly $4 billion in the NDAA for Israel’s offensive efforts pales next to...

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The Fiat Money Maestro

The Fiat Money Maestro

by | Jun 29, 2026 |

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan passed away last week at the age of 100. Greenspan chaired the Fed from 1987 through 2006. Despite being a lifelong Republican, Greenspan refused to lower interest rates, though doing so may have helped George H.W. Bush’s 1992 reelection campaign. However, he did tailor monetary policy to support President Clinton’s 1993 budget, as well as the 1997 bipartisan budget deal. Greenspan’s handling of monetary policy was widely credited as responsible...

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Do I Look like a ‘Radical Left Lunatic’ Vandal?

Do I Look like a ‘Radical Left Lunatic’ Vandal?

by | Jun 26, 2026 |

I blundered on Saturday by failing to check the latest updated terrorist profile before visiting Washington, DC. How was I to know that National Guard troops would be on the lookout for 60ish bicyclists who are too damn curious about algae? I went riding around downtown Washington to check the latest Trump administration efforts to make Washington “safe and beautiful” for the 250th birthday celebration next month. Across from the White House, Lafayette Square—the site of many famous protests...

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The Imperative of a US Conviction in the Maduro Case

The Imperative of a US Conviction in the Maduro Case

by | Jun 26, 2026 |

Having illegally attacked Venezuela in an effort to kidnap the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and transport him to the United States to stand trial for supposed violations of US drug laws, US officials have placed themselves in a position in which they are now compelled to secure a conviction. After all, how is it going to look if Maduro is acquitted of such charges and walks out of US District Court a free man? What then? Needless to say, Maduro’s defense lawyers are challenging the...

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War and Constitutional Indifference 

War and Constitutional Indifference 

by | Jun 25, 2026 |

Since its inception, the government of the United States has inexorably exceeded its powers under the Constitution. All three branches have been complicit in a consistent pattern of constitutional indifference. Congress has regulated in areas of governance nowhere articulated in the Constitution. Its general regulatory powers were granted to address interstate commerce, but during the FDR years, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress can regulate events that affect interstate commerce. This has...

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‘Israel Picking up the Pieces of its Deep-Seated Hubris’

‘Israel Picking up the Pieces of its Deep-Seated Hubris’

by | Jun 24, 2026 |

The Iran-US de-escalation framework has been signed. As always, getting a framework agreed is one thing, but preserving it from disruptive actors or malicious distortion of the text is quite another. Who knows how long it will survive intact? The MoU nonetheless constitutes an important phase – albeit one leg – in a long journey ahead for Iran. The Agreement however, may also prompt wider geo-economic “plate” shifts. Iran has succeeded in pushing a reluctant Trump to cross the Rubicon. Danny...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

Greenland or Bust

by | Jan 21, 2026

Greenland or bust. Who would have thought Donald Trump’s drive to acquire Greenland would become a defining issue for the Global North and the trans-Atlantic alliance. Who would...

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The Ruble Is Far From Rubble

The Ruble Is Far From Rubble

by | Dec 25, 2025

On March 26, 2022, then United States President Joe Biden boasted in a speech in Poland that “unprecedented sanctions” targeting Russia that had been put in place over the last...

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