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We Should Listen to the Iraqi Parliament

By Ron Paul

This month marks the 15th anniversary of the US war on Iraq. The “shock and awe” attack was launched based on “stove-piped” intelligence fed from the CIA and Pentagon through an uncritical and compliant US mainstream media. The US media was a willing accomplice to this crime of aggression committed by the George W. Bush Administration.

Despite the lies we were constantly bombarded with, Iraq never presented a threat to the United States. Iraq never had the weapons of mass destructio...

Trump Is Right On Iraq

Over the weekend, President Trump said that the US attack on Iraq was like "throwing a brick at a hornet's nest." He called it a massive mistake. He's right, but what's he going to do about it? We take a look at the Iraq war at 15 years...

Trump on Tariffs: Punish China By Taxing Americans

Every special interest has a pitch on how to get government benefits at the expense of everyone else. This week we get the steel industry pitch. Americans are supposedly going to "Beat China" by paying a tax to the U.S. government. With enough propaganda, Americans will go along with it. But Ron Paul will tell the truth instead.

'Take The Guns First' - Trump's War On The Second Amendment

At a press conference yesterday, President Trump dismissed the idea of due process before police confiscate private firearms. He even suggested that police ignore restrictions on such gun grabs. Will government use the latest "crisis" to grab more of our liberties?

Silicon Valley Joins War On Cash: Tim Cook Seeks "Elimination Of Money"

By Tyler Durden

Apple CEO Tim Cook has one big hope for the future - that he lives to see the end of money.

"...I'm hoping that I'm still going to be alive to see the elimination of money."

Speaking at a meeting for Apple shareholders in Cupertino, California earlier this month, Cook made it clear that he is firmly on the side of the war-on-cash establishment.

"Because why would you have this stuff! Why go through all the expense of printing this stuff and then some people steal it, and you've go...

Behind The State Department's $40 Million Troll Farm

The Pentagon announced last week that it was sending $40 million to the State Department's "Global Engagement Center" to "counter foreign disinformation." Much of the money will go to creating US disinformation, to meddling in the internal affairs of other countries, and to more jobs at neocon NGOs pushing pro-war propaganda. It's a massive rip-off and worse -- we are the targets.

Ron Paul Wins a Stosscar!

By Adam Dick

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences missed its opportunity to award libertarian communicator Ron Paul an Oscar after his small roles in the 2014 movies Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt? and Alongside Night. But, on Tuesday — a week before the awarding of this year’s Oscars — Paul did receive a Stosscar for “Lifetime Achievement.”

The Stosscars, a creation of libertarian commentator John Stossel, are awarded to politicians. As Stossel notes in explaining his awards, “po...

Gun Rights Don't Come From The Second Amendment

By Jacob G. Hornberger

Whenever there is a gun massacre, statists inevitably respond that it’s time to repeal the Second Amendment. The idea is that if the Second Amendment is gone, so will be the right to own guns in the United States.

There is just one big problem with that position: It’s wrong. The Second Amendment, like the First Amendment, doesn’t give anyone any rights. Instead, it prohibits the federal government from infringing on rights that are natural and God-given and that preexist...

Socialism & War Will Not Prevail

Ron Paul is traveling today. Please enjoy this speech that was delivered back in 2016 at a Mises Institute even held in Houston, TX.

Is the (Tea) Party Over?

By Ron Paul

The recently-passed big-spending budget deal’s failure to generate significant opposition from the “tea party” has led some to pen obituaries for this once-powerful movement. These commentators may have a point. However, few of them understand the true causes of the tea party’s demise.

The movement commonly referred to as the tea party arose in opposition to the 2008 bank bailouts. The tea party grew as its focus shifted to opposition to President Obama’s policies, particularly his...