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Taking Sides: Pompeo Declares Israeli Settlements Legal

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reversed US policy on Israeli settlements on Palestinian land. While long considered illegal in international law, Pompeo has declared them "legal," citing the need to "advance peace."

Federal Reserve: Enemy of Liberty and Prosperity

By Ron Paul

Lost in the media’s obsession with the impeachment circus last week was Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s testimony on the state of the economy before the Joint Economic Committee. In his testimony, Chairman Powell warned that when the next recession inevitably occurs, the US Government’s over $23 trillion debt would prevent Congress from increasing spending to revive the economy.

Powell also said that the Fed’s current low interest rate policies would p...

Catastrophe! $6.4 Trillion Wasted On 20 Years Of War!

A new report by Brown University's Costs of War Project now estimates that by the end of fiscal year 2020, the US will have "spent" $6.4 trillion on a global "war on terror" in which more than three million people have died. And what do we have to show for it? And what will happen when payment is actually due (i.e. the Fed can no longer hide the costs by printing money)?

Restoring Sound Money to America

By Jacob G. Hornberger

The U.S. Constitution states:

Article 1, Section 8
1. The Congress shall have Power …
5. To coin Money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin….
6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting … current coin of the United States.

Article 1, Section 10No state shall … emit Bills of Credit and make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts.
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Ignoring It Won't Make It Go Away: The Fed's Bubble Will Burst

It's almost impossible to find a kernel of truth in the Empire of Lies. As is always the case, the outlook from the Federal Reserve is sunshine and rainbows. The President has the same erroneous view. But ignoring the biggest bubble that the Fed has ever created will not make it go away.

Trump To Steal Syria's Oil - Sowing The Seeds Of Blowback?

President Trump again swore yesterday that the US was in Syria to take its oil. Even as his staff scrambles for a more legal justification for the presence of US troops in the country. Meanwhile a new conservative veterans group is lobbying Washington with a simple demand: Bring Our Troops Home! Who will come out ahead?

The Fed's Perpetual Optimism ... U.S. Interference In Hong Kong ... Kangaroo Court Impeachment

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Impeachment Hysteria! Washington Crippled, The World In Flames!

As Washington seizes up in impeachment fever, Hong Kong and Bolivia (among others) go up in flames. Washington's foreign policy is creating chaos worldwide while the kangaroos are holding court on Capitol Hill.

Total Power Is Utopian ... Total Liberty Is Not

By Chris Rossini

A utopia is an imagined place in which everything is perfect. 

One can say that the universe we live in is perfect. Whether it's the movement of atoms, solar systems, protons or galaxies --- everything happens by natural law and with perfect precision.

We're able to observe and discover this precision. We can explain it to ourselves with words, numbers and symbols. We can learn the natural laws with sciences like mathematics and physics, among many others.

But one cannot say that living and conscious indiv...

Bolivia Coup: Is Washington Pulling The Strings?

Does it seem like we've seen this movie before? Populist Latin American leader on the outs with Washington finds himself facing a coup? This time it's Bolivia's Evo Morales, who resigned the presidency on Sunday and was granted asylum by Mexico. Is Washington involved? And why bother with relatively unimportant Bolivia?