President Trump is suggesting the U.S. should change the name of the Department of Defense back to the “Department of War,” as his commerce secretary teases plans for the U.S. government to acquire equity stakes in top defense contractors. Trump may be claiming he’s...
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Neocons Responsible For Russian-Ukraine War
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Aug 27, 2025 | Featured Articles
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...
Trump as ‘Myth’ is Understood in Moscow. They Reciprocate
by Alastair Crooke | Aug 26, 2025 | Featured Articles
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...
Good for Woody Allen
by Adam Dick | Aug 25, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
As the United States and Russia governments have over the last decade-plus drifted into relations that bring to mind the cold war and that have brought forward the prospect of descent into nuclear war, there has been much effort from within America and other NATO...
Friedrich Merz Are You Nuts?
by William Dunkerley | Aug 25, 2025 | Featured Articles
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...
How The Ukraine War Could ‘End Tomorrow’ If The US Wanted: Jeffrey Sachs Addresses Ron Paul’s DC Conference
by Tyler Durden | Aug 20, 2025 | Featured Articles
Just the day after the historic Trump-Putin summit in Alaska to discuss finding peace in Ukraine, the famous economist and UN adviser Jeffrey Sachs made his first ever appearance before the Ron Paul Institute's (RPI) annual conference in Washington DC. Sachs' Saturday...
Will ‘Peace’ In Ukraine Also Bring a New Détente?
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 18, 2025 | Featured Articles
Some observers in the lead-up to last week’s meeting between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage Alaska hoped that a dialogue might be established where the broader issue of creating a new European security model that would reduce tensions...
Has Putin Learned the Lessons of the Battle of Debaltseve and Minsk II?
by Larry C. Johnson | Aug 10, 2025 | Featured Articles
I will answer my question right up front: Yes! The reaction of the West, especially that of Donald Trump, to Russia’s current offensive all along the line of contact, is reminiscent of the panic that seized the West in 2015 following Ukraine’s loss in...
Climbing Aboard the Titanic: Trump’s New Ukraine Policy
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Aug 6, 2025 | Featured Articles
When Donald Trump entered the White House for his second term as president, he had an excellent opportunity to extricate the United States from the quagmire war between Russia and Ukraine. His instincts–that continued involvement in that conflict was not in...
Russophrenia: the West’s Favorite Delusion about Russia
by Brian McDonald | Aug 6, 2025 | Featured Articles
There’s a peculiar affliction that’s gripped the Western commentariat for decades now. I first diagnosed it in June 2015 and gave it a name: Russophrenia. The tell-tale sign? That deep-set conviction that Russia’s about to keel over economically—then somehow...
The Secondary Sanctions Squeeze
by Moon of Alabama | Aug 6, 2025 | Featured Articles
US President Donald Trump is now largely following his predecessors hostile policy towards Russia. If the war in Ukraine continues on its current path Russia will end it with an outright victory. The US and its European vassals are trying to impose a ceasefire to...
Cold War 2.0 Heats Up
by Ron Paul | Aug 4, 2025 | Featured Articles
Last week the nuclear rhetoric between the US and Russia made some of us feel like we were transported back to 1962. Back then, Soviet moves to place nuclear-capable missiles 90 miles off our coast in Cuba led to the greatest crisis of the Cold War. The United States...
When the Bully Bluff Blows
by William Schryver | Jul 29, 2025 | Featured Articles
The United States wielded near-total hegemony from at least the early 1990s to 2014 or so, at which point the first big irreversible cracks began to form. Russia took back Crimea, and took the Donbass under its wing. China began to methodically divest itself of US...
NATO Expansion — The Root Cause of the War in Ukraine
by Larry C. Johnson | Jul 24, 2025 | Featured Articles
I know there is a lot of interest in the Jeffrey Epstein story and the new revelations from Tulsi Gabbard about Barack Obama and his team’s efforts to fan the flames of Russiagate. I have been all over the Russiagate matter since 2017. Here is the link...
The CIA Initiated an Intelligence and Terrorist War on Russia Based on a Lie
by Larry C. Johnson | Jul 21, 2025 | Featured Articles
Foreign Policy published an article last week by Tim Weiner, author of Legacy of Ashes, with the title, When the Threat Is Inside the White House: What CIA insiders make of the MAGA moles and toadies now in charge of U.S. national security. While...
World War III has Already Begun
by Dmitry Trenin | Jul 18, 2025 | Featured Articles
Many now speak of humanity’s drift towards World War III, imagining events similar to those of the 20th century. But war evolves. It will not begin with a June 1941 Barbarossa-style invasion or a Cuban Missile Crisis-style nuclear standoff. In fact, the new world war...
The Redheaded Stepsister Goes to the Ball
by William Schryver | Jul 16, 2025 | Featured Articles
Against the AGM-158 JASSM missile, has Russia’s Kerch Strait Bridge finally met its match? Talk of sending Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles to Ukraine commenced last year, during the later months of the Biden administration. It was reported...
CIA: Our Trump-Russiagate Claims Were Corrupt, Our Claims On Iran Are …
by Moon of Alabama | Jul 5, 2025 | Featured Articles
The CIA has published a "tradecraft review" of the 2016 "Intelligence Community Assessment" which had claimed that Russia had interfered in the 2016 presidential election. The review found what had been obvious to anyone. The 2016 assessment had not followed the...
Middle East in Crisis After US Bombing of Iran
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jun 25, 2025 | Featured Articles
The former President and Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev who is one of the most authoritative voices in the Kremlin, wrote on the Telegram channel on June 23 a critique on the Middle East crisis following the US attack on Iran’s three key...
The Silence of the Bears
by Alastair Crooke | Jun 10, 2025 | Featured Articles
Russia’s leadership is in “conclave” determining its riposte. Trump has been silent for two days. Unprecedented. In the last days, Ukraine and its facilitators attempted a massive attack on Russia’s strategic nuclear bomber-force; succeeded in collapsing two bridges...
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