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Trump's Syria Envoy: 'War Will Continue'

President Trump's point man for Syria has said that the defeat of ISIS will not result in a US withdrawal from its illegal occupation of Syrian territory. In fact, he said, the US would continue to support the anti-Assad "vetted Syrian opposition" fighters.

The Green Bad Deal

By Ron Paul

The recently-proposed Green New Deal is proof that climate change is for progressive Democrats what terrorism is for neoconservative Republicans: a ready-made excuse to expand government and curtail liberty. This radical plan would authorize the US government to seize control of major sectors of the US economy, phase out gasoline-fueled cars, make buildings “energy efficient,” and even replace air travel with rail travel.

Supporters of the Green New Deal claim that the science regar...

Mueller Report Decimates 'Russiagate' Hoax - What's Next?

The two-plus year great hoax has come to an end. Trump is not Putin's puppet, as the vast majority of the mainstream media and Democrats have claimed. There was no "collusion" with Russia. So after so much wasted time and money, where do US/Russia relations stand and where should they be heading? What does it mean for the Venezuela regime change operation?

Ron Paul Classic: No War in Iraq

By Norm Singleton

This month marks when the war-hawks in both parties assured us that we would never see the 16th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Remember, this invasion was going to be a "cakewalk" and "we’d be greeted as liberators!"

To commemorate this sad anniversary, here is Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul’s speech opposing the “authorization of military force against Iraq.” This was not a declaration of war. Instead, it gave the President authority to launch a military act...

The Fed's In Over Its Head...And Chaos Is Mounting

With each passing month, we're greeted with more evidence of a fact that The Federal Reserve has no idea what it's doing. For many of us, this is not the least bit of a surprise. Central planning of the economy cannot work. Yet, never ones to admit that they're wrong, the main job of a central planner is to find just one more way to kick the can down the road. Eventually, they must run out of schemes. Ron Paul discusses on today's Liberty Report!

Healthcare Is a Good, Not a Right

By Ron Paul

[This article was originally published in 2009.]

Political philosopher Richard Weaver famously and correctly stated that ideas have consequences. Take for example ideas about rights versus goods. Natural law states that people have rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. A good is something you work for and earn. It might be a need, like food, but more “goods” seem to be becoming “rights” in our culture, and this has troubling consequences. It might seem harmless enoug...

'Shock & Awe'? 16 Years Later, Who Won The Iraq War?

This week marks 16 years since the US attacked an Iraq that had neither attacked nor threatened us. Claims that Iraq had WMDs were lies and the Bush Administration knew they were lies. So 16 years later who is coming out on top after the US attack? Here's a hint: the most unintended of consequences.

What Are Socialism’s Dirty Secrets That Must Be Kept From America’s Youth?

By Thomas DiLorenzo

Socialism has always and everywhere been an economic disaster, and every honest scholar knows this. After seventy years of socialism, the Soviet economy was barely 5% of the U.S. economy, despite the false assertions of pro-socialist economists like Paul Samuelson, who wrote in the 1988 edition of his famous textbook that the Soviet economy would exceed the U.S. economy by the year 2000.You cannot fix socialism with smarter government planners or plans. Socialism cann...

Trump Wants Brazil In NATO...To Help Oust Maduro?

Brazil's president Bolsonaro made an unprecedented visit to CIA headquarters as the first stop of his Washington visit. There he was briefed on Venezuela, according to press reports. Later, President Trump came out in favor of "major non-NATO ally" status for Brazil. What's really at play here? Invasion plans?

To Hate Profits Is To Not Understand Profits

By Chris Rossini

If you're walking around and talking about how you "hate profits," you might as well say that you "hate oxygen" too. The truth is that you really don't hate profits because you can't hate profits.

Every moment of your life, you're seeking to profit, and concomitantly are trying to avoid losses.

Every single moment!

Human life is a continuous sequence of single purposeful actions. The purpose of every one of our actions is to profit in some way, or exchange one end result for anot...