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The Hegseth Killings Must Stop
Last week the Pentagon, under “War Secretary” Pete Hegseth, carried out yet another military attack on a boat in the high seas that the Administration claims is smuggling drugs. That makes 23 boats blown up by the US military in the waters off Latin America – most...
Viva Venezuela!
A very close friend of mine in southern California used to listen to Fox News pretty much non-stop. The Venezuelan Communists, according to Fox, were planning to invade the USA, he warned me. Hordes of savage Venezuelans were about to ravage the lovely coast of...
Summarily Murdering Venezuelan ‘Narco-Terrorists’ is Profoundly Un-American
President Trump said on Tuesday that in addition to the airstrikes on Venezuelan boats suspected of trafficking drugs to the United States, the U.S. military would begin hitting targets on land. Not only are all these strikes unconstitutional by any...
Hegseth In Hot Seat As ‘Murder-gate’ Picks Up Steam
‘Who Ordered The Second Strike?’
Ah, Good Old War Propaganda
Just as the news breaks that Trump has issued Maduro an ultimatum to leave Venezuela immediately if he wants to escape with his life, the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal has published an amazingly brazen war propaganda piece titled “How Venezuelan Gangs...
Total War! Trump Prepares MASSIVE Attack on Venezuela, Tells Maduro ‘Get Out Now’
RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins the Redacted podcast to discuss President Trump and Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth's "kill 'em all" policy toward any survivors of US airstrikes on ships in the Caribbean. Will the extra-judicial killings pose legal problems for Trump...
Trump Pardons Drug Smuggler, Threatens Venezuela
Trump’s South America policy is getting more ridiculous by the day. Yesterday he announced a pardon for the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, who is serving a 45-year sentence for partnering with drug traffickers who had allegedly shipped...
Venezuela Could be the Neocons’ Ticket Back to Power
MAGA is riding high these days, convinced they've finally exorcised the neoconservatives who controlled the Republican Party for decades. Supposedly gone are the days of endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the trillion-dollar boondoggles sold as "spreading...
War with Venezuela Won’t Solve America’s Economic Woes
In April 1939, American unemployment reached 20.7 percent. For Henry Morgenthau Jr., Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Secretary of the Treasury, this was bad news. In a private meeting he confessed to two senior congressmen: “We are spending more than we have ever spent before...
Poll Finds the Majority of Americans Are Not Buying the Trump Administration’s Excuse for Military Action Against Venezuela
A CBS poll conducted November 19-21 has found that 70 percent of polled Americans oppose the United States government taking military action in Venezuela. This result is in line with polling earlier in November by Reuters/Ipsos that found that only 21 percent of...
War and Peace w/ Daniel McAdams
RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins the popular geopolitical podcast The Duran to discuss the latest Russia/Ukraine peace deal, Venezuela, US politics and Congress, and more...
Urging Republican US House Members to Oppose War on Venezuela
Former Republican House of Representatives Member John J. Duncan, Jr., in a Thursday editorial published at the Miami Herald, urged current Republican members of the House to oppose impending war against Venezuela just as he and five other Republican members voted in...
Legal Nonsense to Justify Non-Judicial Killings
Many years ago, when I was practicing law in Texas, I learned that there were, generally speaking, two types of lawyers when it came to being asked for a legal opinion by a client who wished to pursue a certain course of action. The first type of lawyer would...
Americans Say ‘No’ to US Military Aggression Against Venezuela
Since September, the presidential administration of Donald Trump has been directing the United States military to blow up boats and kill their occupants in the Caribbean and Pacific, claiming to be thus countering Venezuela government supported “narco-terrorism.” At...
Justice Department Office Which Justified Torture Now Argues For Killing
In 2003 the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Legal Council (OLC) issued a memo which declared the use of torture in ‘authorized military interrogations’ as legal when done under the ‘president’s constitutional authority to direct a war’. The memo was...
Trump and His Tariffs – With RPI’s Daniel McAdams
Ron Paul Institute Director Daniel McAdams joins Judge Andrew Napolitano's popular Judging Freedom podcast to discuss Trump's tariffs, his designs on Venezuela, his bizarre letter to the president of Israel, Ukraine, and more:
Congressional Republicans Must Stand Up to the President on Venezuela!
I recall when then-President Barack Obama was planning to send troops to enforce his “Assad must go” policy in Syria, many Republican US Senators passionately argued that the US President must come to Congress for approval before sending US troops into combat...
As Trump Continues Military Build-up, Republicans Sour On Venezuela Invasion
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