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The NGOs Pushing A New Syria War. With Guest Vanessa Beeley

There is a new push for US and allied intervention in Syria. There is a vast propaganda network of NGOs pushing cooked up documentaries and providing "expert" witnesses all aimed to mobilize opinion in favor of a renewed war on the Syrian government. The White Helmets are a key part of this propaganda campaign. Syria expert Vanessa Beeley joins the Liberty Report to debunk their lies...

Lawrence Wilkerson: Trump’s Iran War Push is a Replay of Bush’s Iraq War Push

By Adam Dick

The Trump administration “is using much the same playbook to create a false choice that war is the only way to address the challenges presented by Iran” as the George W. Bush administration used to gain support for the Iraq War. College of William & Mary Professor Lawrence Wilkerson presents this argument, along with abundant supporting evidence, in a Monday New York Times editorial.

Wilkerson should know. In the lead-up to the Iraq War, Wilkerson was chief of staff for United Stat...

Infrastructure Spending Won't Make America Great Again

By Christopher Westley

This past Tuesday afternoon, I was speaking with a reporter who was interested in the positive effects of infrastructure spending that occurred in the form of fiscal “stimulus” in my part of the country, back during the dark days of the Great Recession, around 2009 and 2010. How did this help our region, he wanted to know? 

My answer: It didn’t help very much, and that if it did, then (a) it didn’t matter because the growth was not sustainable — it would have stopped when...

FISA Spying Abuses - Are You Really Shocked? With Guest Jim Bovard

We are supposed to believe that abuses of the FISA process uncovered in the House Intelligence Committee memo are something new. As special guest Jim Bovard tells us today, FISA was born from abuses and it has perpetuated abuses. The problem is not bad eggs in government. The problem is a government that spies on its own citizens without warrant or any justification.

What the FBI/FISA Memo Really Tells Us About Our Government

By Ron Paul

The release of the House Intelligence Committee’s memo on the FBI’s abuse of the FISA process set off a partisan firestorm. The Democrats warned us beforehand that declassifying the memo would be the end the world as we know it. It was reckless to allow Americans to see this classified material, they said. Agents in the field could be harmed, sources and methods would be compromised, they claimed.

Republicans who had seen the memo claimed that it was far worse than Watergate. They s...

Debt Or Taxes? How To Win Elections? NAFTA? #AskRonPaul

Welcome to another episode of #AskRonPaul, where Liberty Report Host Ron Paul answers viewer questions....

Daniel McAdams on the Real Cost of "Defense"

By Liberty Report Staff

Daniel McAdams from the Ron Paul Institute joins Jeff Deist of The Mises Institute for an unbridled discussion of the true costs of war. We know the US spends more on "defense" than many big countries combined, but what are the actual numbers? How long can the federal budget sustain empire and entitlements?

Will rising interest rates finally force Congress to stop expanding wars, building bases, buying useless weapons systems, and meddling around the world? And is Trump...

The Infrastructure Boondoggle: Corporatism With More Debt

A trillion dollars here…A trillion dollars there... It’s all music to crony corporation ears. Consumers are fickle, always wanting a better deal, and quick to jump to a competitor. The free market is hard, which is why it's so hated by Big Business. It so much easier to milk the taxpayer in lieu of satisfying customers. Ron Paul discusses the marriage of corporation and state, and why there needs to be a divorce.

Ron Paul On Donald Trump and The Deep State

By Liberty Report Staff

Ron Paul joins WeAreChange to discuss the rhetoric that Donald Trump used to get elected versus his actual policies, as well as the bright future of the ideas of Liberty, despite the machinations of the Deep State.

The John Baeza Files: Detective Blows Whistle on Drug War, Prison System

By David Gornoski

Before he was Ron Paul and Rand Paul's head of security, John Baeza was a cop's cop. Coming from a family tradition of public servants, Baeza started his career as a corrections officer in New York's infamous Sing Sing prison. He later became an undercover narcotics detective in Manhattan during the height of the 80s crack craze. It was there that Baeza had a Road to Damascus experience: after almost losing his life in an undercover drug buy, he realized the futility of the d...