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Ron Paul is a member of the House of Representatives from Texas and a former presidential candidate, for the GOP and also for the Libertarian parties. His latest book is End The Fed
(43 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 7, 2012 U.S. Moving Towards War in Syria
The United States has no business at all being involved in the Syrian civil war. In the 1980s we supported a resistance movement in Afghanistan that later gave birth to elements of al-Qaeda and the Taliban. When will we learn our lesson and stop intervening in conflicts we don't truly understand, conflicts that have nothing to do with American national interests?
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 27, 2012 How to End the Tragedy in Gaza
US foreign policy being so one-sided actually results in more loss of life and of security on both sides. Surely Israelis do not enjoy the threat of missiles from Gaza nor do the Palestinians enjoy their Israel-imposed inhuman conditions in Gaza. But as long asIsrael can count on its destructive policies being underwritten by the US taxpayer it can continue to engage in reckless behavior.
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, September 7, 2015 The Real Refugee Problem -- And How To Solve It
The reason so many are fleeing places like Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, and Iraq is that US and European interventionist foreign policy has left these countries destabilized with no hopes of economic recovery. This mass migration from the Middle East and beyond is a direct result of the neocon foreign policy of regime change, invasion, and pushing "democracy" at the barrel of a gun.
(64 comments) SHARE Monday, April 25, 2022 The Ukraine 'War Is a Racket'
They call it aid but it is actually corporate welfare. Washington sending billions to arms manufacturers for weapons sent overseas.
(29 comments) SHARE Friday, November 16, 2012 Ron Paul's farewell address to Congress
At the end of the year I'll leave Congress after 23 years in office over a 36 year period. My goals in 1976 were the same as they are today: promote peace and prosperity by a strict adherence to the principles of individual liberty.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 5, 2012 War Drums for Syria?
First, we were told that the killings were caused by government shelling, but then it was discovered that most were killed at close range with handgun fire and knives. No one has explained why government forces would take the time to go house to house binding the hands of the victims before shooting them, and then retreat to allow the rebels in to record the gruesome details.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 21, 2020 Ron Paul - Be Wary Of Over-Reaching Government Responses To Covid-19
It is ironic to see the same Democrats who tried to impeach President Trump last month for abuse of power demanding that the Trump Administration grab more power and authority in the name of fighting a virus.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 26, 2019 The Real Bombshell of the Impeachment Hearings
Vindman did not witness any crimes, he just didn't think the elected President of the United States had any right to change US policy toward Ukraine or Russia!
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 19, 2012 Unconstitutional Uses of Drones Must Stop
The use of drones overseas may have become so convenient, operated as they are from a great distance, that far more "collateral damage" has become acceptable. Collateral damage is a polite way of saying killing innocent civilians. Is the ease of drone use a slippery slope to disregard for justice, and if so what might that mean for us as they become more widely used on American soil against American citizens?
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, June 7, 2019 Hey Trump: Remember Wikileaks?
More than seven years ago Assange was granted asylum from the government of Ecuador over fears that espionage charges were being prepared against him by Washington. He spent those years in a small room in the Ecuadorian embassy in London without sunlight. Without fresh air. Without exercise. Without medical treatment.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 20, 2019 Are Recessions Inevitable?
The only way to end the boom-and-bust cycle and restore peace, prosperity, and liberty is to end the welfare-warfare state, repeal the Sixteenth Amendment, and audit then end the Fed.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 15, 2021 Fauci On Your Phone?
If the government can monitor and control something as fundamental as our health care choices then no part of our lives is off limits to the nanny state.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, July 8, 2019 Frog-Marching Trump Toward War on Iran
President Trump has a very serious decision to make. He is being frog-marched into war by his neocons and his Middle East "partners."
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, October 7, 2019 Federal Reserve's Latest Bailouts More Proof Bad Times Ahead
WE can create the critical mass necessary to force Congress to cut spending, repeal the legal tender laws to restore a free market in money, and audit, then end, the Fed.
(11 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 23, 2011 Obama's Orwellian Logic in Libya
10 Congressmen from opposite ends of the political spectrum are suing the President over the illegal war in Libya. In a remarkable act of chutzpah, the administration responded, in a nutshell, that the War Powers Resolution is not relevant because US armed forces are not actually engaged in hostilities because Libya is so militarily weak it cannot fight back!
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, February 24, 2020 Trump's Betrayal of Julian Assange
Trump loved it when Wikileaks exposed the criminality of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party as it cheated to deprive Bernie Sanders of the Democratic Party nomination.
(23 comments) SHARE Monday, December 20, 2021 Omicron - The Lockdowners' Last Stand
The timing of omicron's emergence was perfect. The variant was first discovered in South Africa with the US and European media running endless scare stories.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, March 9, 2020 Central Banking Is Socialism
Lowering interest rates punishes people for saving, thus encouraging consumers and businesses to spend every penny they make. This may give the economy a short-term boost.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 2, 2019 "Impeachment" - or CIA Coup?
Brennan openly called on "patriotic" Republicans to act against this "traitor." Brennan and his deep state counterparts James Comey at the FBI and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper launched an operation using what we now know is the fake Steele dossier to spy on the Trump presidential campaign.
SHARE Monday, January 6, 2020 Why I Don't Trust Trump on Iran
Trump and the neocons like Pompeo have been lying about Iran for the past three years in an effort to whip up enough support for a US attack. The US Administration has fed us a steady stream of lies for three years because they are obsessed with Iran.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, April 5, 2021 Why Is the Biden Administration Pushing Ukraine to Attack Russia?
Why is it any of our business whether Crimea is part of Ukraine or part of Russia? Why is it any of our business if the Russian-speaking population of eastern Ukraine prefer being aligned with Russia?
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 25, 2019 Boxed in by Neocons and the Media, Will Trump Launch Iran War?
President Trump is in a bind and it is of his own making. Iran has shown that it is not willing to take its marching orders from Washington, which means "maximum pressure" from the US will not work. He has two options remaining in that case: risk it all by launching a war or make a gesture toward peace.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, October 23, 2017 Trump's Fed Picks? More of the Same!
Trump would do well to appoint a Fed chair who follows the teachings of the Austrian school of economics and thus understands that the only thing the Fed can do to "fix" the economy is allow the correction to run its course. He should also use his bully pulpit to pass Audit the Fed and legislation legalizing competing currencies.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, June 10, 2019 The War Crimes That Don't Get Punished
While participating in the first "Battle of Fallujah" in early 2007, by Hunter's own account he and his fellow soldiers killed hundreds of innocent civilians, including women and children. They fired mortars into the city and killed at random.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, June 22, 2020 The Federal Reserve Is Getting Desperate
The Fed's purchase of individual corporate bonds enables select corporations to pursue projects for which they could not otherwise have obtained funding.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 24, 2020 Like Freedom? Then You Won't Like the FREEDOM Act
The path to liberty, peace, and prosperity starts with eliminating all unconstitutional laws and returning to a system of limited government, free markets, individual liberty, sound money, and a foreign policy that seeks peaceful commerce and friendship with all instead of seeking new monsters to destroy.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, May 30, 2022 Don't Trade Real Liberty for Phony Security
Expanding the police state to "monitor" right-wing extremism and giving the government new powers to deny law-abiding individuals access to firearms make us less safe and less free.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 21, 2018 Pompeo and Haspel are Symptoms of a Deeper Problem
Before being chosen by Trump to head up the CIA, Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo was one of the most pro-war Members of Congress. He has been militantly hostile toward Iran, and many times has erroneously claimed that Iran is the world's number one state sponsor of terror. The truth is, Iran neither attacks nor threatens the United States.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, March 7, 2022 Is Putin the New Coronavirus?
The Ukraine-Russia conflict is replacing COVID as a ready-made excuse for their failures and a justification for expanding their power.
(8 comments) SHARE Monday, March 14, 2022 Is Washington Fighting Russia Down to the Last Ukrainian?
It sounds an awful lot like the Biden Administration intends to fight Russia down to the last Ukrainian. The only solution for the United States is to get out.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 28, 2021 The Biggest Federal Reserve Scandal
Imagine what a full audit would find. It is time to end the scandal of allowing a secretive central bank to have so much power over the economy and our liberty. It is time to audit and end the Fed.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 12, 2019 President Starts a War? Congress Yawns. Threatens to End One? Condemnation!
Congress has the Constitutional responsibility and obligation to declare war, but this has been ignored for decades. The president bombs far-off lands and even sends troops to fight in and occupy foreign territory and Congress doesn't say a word. But if a president dares seek to end a war suddenly the sleeping Congressional giant awakens!
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, November 8, 2021 Great News: Biden's Vaccine Mandate Is Falling Apart!
From first responders to truck drivers to everyone in-between the message is clear. Many thousands are willing to be fired from their jobs rather than be forced to take a medical procedure they do not want.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 23, 2018 Why Can't We Sue the TSA For Assault?
Perhaps airline passengers should start keeping a list of troublesome TSA agents. The list could include those who forced nursing mothers to drink their own breast milk, those who forced sick passengers to dispose of cough medicine, and those who forced women they found attractive to go through a body scanner multiple times.
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, October 26, 2020 'Iraq War Diaries' At Ten Years - Truth Is Treason
On the Iraq war we have punished the truth-tellers and rewarded the criminals. People who knowingly lied us into the war like Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, the Beltway neocon "experts," and most of the media, faced neither punishment nor professional shaming for their acts.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 4, 2021 Resist the Unique Patient Identifier!
The result of the identifier will be a medical caste system where those who refuse to follow the mandates or advice of the "experts" are denied opportunities to work, receive an education or even go to church or enjoy a night out on the town.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 20, 2015 Blame America? No, Blame Neocons!
I don't blame America. I am America, you are America. I don't blame you. I blame bad policy. I blame the interventionists. I blame the neoconservatives who preach this stuff, who believe in it like a religion -- that they have to promote American goodness even if you have to bomb and kill people. I don't blame America; I blame neocons.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 22, 2021 Big Government and Big Inflation
Republican complaints about Biden's big spending ring hollow given their support for Presidents Donald Trump and George W Bush's spending increases and Republicans' proposals to spend billions on infrastructure.
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, January 24, 2022 America's Most Dangerous Unknown Man
I don't often agree with Senator Warren but I do agree with her assessment that Powell is "dangerous."
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 27, 2018 The Saudis Keep Changing Their Story on the Murder of Khashoggi. What Should We Do?
The Saudi version of the disappearance and murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi seems to change every day or so. The latest is the Saudi government claim that the opposition journalist was killed in a "botched interrogation" at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Or was it a fist-fight?
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, April 18, 2022 Blame Powell, Not Putin or 'Greedy' Corporations for Price Hikes
Increasing prices are the direct result of the Fed's policies. The Fed is planning to try to tame prices by increasing interest rates and reducing its balance sheet. This will likely tip the economy into a recession.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 13, 2022 Europe Commits Suicide-by-Sanctions
European sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine earlier this year will likely go down in history as a prime example of how sanctions can result in unintended consequences
(11 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 4, 2021 Will Special Interests Allow America's 'Longest War' to Finally End?
War has made the Beltway bomb factories and think tanks rich. As Brown University's Cost of War Project has detailed the US has wasted $2.26 trillion dollars on a generation of war on Afghanistan.
(13 comments) SHARE Monday, November 16, 2015 Paris and What Should Be Done
It may not be popular to say this as emotions run high and calls ring out for more bombing in the Middle East, but there is another way to address the problem. There is an alternative to using more military intervention to address a problem that was caused by military intervention in the first place. That solution is to reject the militarists and isolationists.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 14, 2021 Twenty Years On, We've Learned Nothing from 9/11
What was the real message of 9/11 to Americans? Give up your freedoms for the false promise of security. It's OK for the government to spy on all of us. It's OK for the TSA to abuse us for the "privilege" of traveling in our own country.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, December 8, 2014 House Chooses New Cold War With Russia
Last week the US House voted overwhelmingly in favor of an anti-Russia resolution so full of war propaganda that it rivals the rhetoric from the chilliest era of the Cold War. Ironically, much of the bill condemns Russia for doing exactly what the US government has been doing for years in Syria and Ukraine!
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, March 28, 2022 Biden's Disastrous European Tour
Speaking of Russian President Putin, he told the audience near the border of Ukraine, "for God's sake this man cannot remain in power."
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 1, 2020 Trump Must Back Iraq Withdrawal Promise with Action
After a relentless barrage of lies about former US ally Saddam Hussein having "weapons of mass destruction," the US attack and destruction of Iraq did not bring the peace and prosperity promised by the neocon war promoters.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 16, 2021 Federal Reserve Failure
What do the Federal Reserve and neoconservatives have in common? They both refuse to admit that their policies - the neocons' promotion of perpetual war and the Fed's manipulation of the money supply - are complete failures.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, July 5, 2021 It's Saigon in Afghanistan
Trillions of dollars wasted and millions either killed or displaced from their homes. For nothing. The lessons of Afghanistan are simple: bring all US troops home, defend the United States as necessary and leave the rest of the world to its own business.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, April 4, 2022 Biden's Big Government Centrism
America's ham-fisted intervention in the Ukraine-Russian conflict has caused more countries to seek alternatives to the dollar.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, November 14, 2016 Memo to the Next Administration: Defense Spending Must Be For Actual Defense
The military budget is something very different from the defense budget. The military budget is the money spent each year not to defend the United States, but to enrich the military-industrial complex, benefit special interests, regime-change countries overseas, maintain a global US military empire, and provide defense to favored allies.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, February 28, 2022 It All Comes Back to NATO
NATO should be disbanded not expanded. In the meantime expansion should be off the table. The risks do not outweigh the benefits!
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, May 23, 2022 What's Biden's End Game in Ukraine?
Biden's neocons are fighting a war with Russia but once again Congress has no interest in voting on a war declaration or even in debating whether war with Russia 30 years after the end of the Cold War is a good idea.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, January 17, 2022 Washington's Bi-Partisan Russia-Bashers Are Determined to Start a War
NATO is a Cold War relic that should have been disbanded along with the Warsaw Pact. It serves no purpose and its constant saber-rattling puts us at risk in conflicts that have nothing to do with US national security.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, March 21, 2022 End the Fed and Get More Doritos
Ending the era of the welfare-warfare state and fiat currency can lead to a transition to a new era of liberty, peace, prosperity, and full bags of Doritos.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 1, 2021 Reduce Expectations of Government
The entire unconstitutional surveillance machine created after 9-11 has done nothing to increase our safety but has done much to decrease our liberty.
The trillions spent on foreign wars make Americans less safe by increasing resentment of American foreign policy.
SHARE Tuesday, October 26, 2021 Will Biden Start Nuclear War With China Over Taiwan?
If the United States would come to the defense of Taiwan should it come under attack by the Chinese mainland, he replied, "Yes, we have a commitment to do that."
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, January 10, 2022 We Need a Revolution
I am not speaking of a violent revolution that replaces one form of authoritarianism with another but a peaceful revolution of ideas.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, December 2, 2013 You Cannot Negotiate With Iran?
Even as US negotiators were reaching agreement with their Iranian counterparts, US representatives and Senators were drafting legislation to increase sanctions on Iran. Instead of listening to the American people, many in Congress seem attached to special interests like the Israel and Saudi lobbies, which oppose anything less than full Iranian capitulation.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, December 28, 2020 The Real Scandal of the Spending Bill
Hopefully the anger people are expressing instead of just disappearing once people receive their checks will strengthen the movement to return to free markets and limited constitutional government.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 23, 2020 The War on Assange Is a War on Truth
We cannot have a self-governing society as was intended for our Republic if the government with the complicity of the mainstream media decides that there are things we are not allowed to know about it.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 20, 2020 Troops Coming Home from Afghanistan? Depends on Who You Ask
Robbing Middle America to enrich the millionaires in the military-industrial complex seems to be the one issue universally supported in Washington. But it is not at all what the American people want.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 30, 2019 Why is Maria Butina in Prison?
Russian gun rights activist and graduate exchange student Maria Butina was sentenced to 18 months in prison last week for "conspiracy to act as a foreign agent without registering." Her "crime" was to work to make connections among American gun rights activists in hopes of building up her organization, the Right to Bear Arms, when she returned to Russia.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 17, 2020 Will Biden Listen to the Science?
The evidence regarding lockdowns is so overwhelming that even the World Health Organization (WHO) has been forced to admit the truth: lockdowns do more harm than good.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, October 5, 2015 I Wish Nobody Was Bombing Syria
The neocon solution to this failure to overthrow Assad and "degrade and destroy" ISIS is to increase the bombing and lead a ground invasion of Syria. The confusing policy of fighting Assad and also fighting his enemies does not seem to bother the neocons. They want us to forget all about their recent failures in Libya and Iraq and to try the same failed strategy one more time.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 16, 2019 Julian Assange: Political Prisoner
Last week's arrest of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange by the British government on a US extradition order is an attack on all of us. It is an attack on the US Constitution. It is an attack on the free press. It is an attack on free speech. It is an attack on our right to know what our government is doing with our money in our name. Julian Assange is every bit a political prisoner.
SHARE Tuesday, January 25, 2011 Real Respect for the Constitution
There is no authority in the Constitution for warrantless searches, for the TSA, for the War on Drugs, for secret prisons or detention without trial. When will we reverse this vast, invasive expansion of Federal powers?