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Socialized medicine update: Britain cancels 50,000 surgeries as NHS hospitals face winter crisis

The British government-run National Health Service has abruptly canceled 50,000 nonemergency surgeries due to overcrowding at hospitals this winter. (AP Photo)By Philip Klein

American liberals such as Sen. Bernie Sanders like to tout socialized healthcare systems such as Britain's for spending less and covering everybody, but here's a reality check you shouldn't expect to hear in any of his fiery speeches: the British government-run National Health Service has abruptly canceled 50,000 nonemerg...

Iran Protests: Convenient Pretext To Kill The Nuclear Deal?

Protests in Iran have cropped up just as President Trump has the opportunity to kill the Iran deal by failing to waive sanctions by the January 13th deadline. The protests are providing a convenient pretext to justify killing the deal - long a Trump goal. Coincidence?

Trump's "Economic Miracle" Is An Illusion

By Liberty Report Staff

Back when campaigning for president, Donald Trump was 100% correct to criticize the Fed for creating yet another massive bubble.

Today, the President calls it a miracle economy.

The truth is that the "miracle" is no more real than the bubbles that Bill Clinton & Al Gore took credit for in the late 90's. The boom is built on the same house of cards that the housing bubble stood on back in 2008.

As with all Fed bubbles, it has to burst...with each successive one being more e...

Koreans Agree To Talk To Koreans...Nikki Haley Furious!

The North and South Koreans have moved closer to starting direct negotiations aimed at defusing the high tension levels on the peninsula. Instead of cheering an opening to diplomacy, however, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has warned that the US will not support such talks unless North Korea gives up its nuclear program first...

Iran Protests...CIA Fingerprints?

Is it just a coincidence that the biggest protests since 2009 have hit Iran shortly after a secret agreement was revealed between Washington, Tel Aviv, and Riyadh to destabilize Iran? And shortly after a new Executive Order was issued by President Trump allowing him to seize US assets of anyone he deems a "human rights abuser" ...or anyone who aids a designated "human rights abuser"?

A New Year’s Freedom Resolution

By Jacob G. Hornberger

Here’s a great New Year’s resolution for the American people: To redouble our efforts to achieve a free, prosperous, peaceful, and harmonious society, one that can serve as a model for the world.

Sounds good, right?

But not that easy. This resolution actually requires some deep and critical thinking, specifically relating to two important questions.

The first question is: What does it really mean to be free?

Unless one comes up with the correct answer to that question, there...

Despite Setbacks, Liberty Will Prevail in 2018

By Ron Paul

Happy New Year! We always approach a new year with anticipation, hope, and also some worries. Last year was one of the strangest political years I have seen in some time. A new Republican president spent his first year pursuing more or less the same foreign policy as his Democratic predecessor and the Democratic Party spent the year looking under every rock in the US for a “Russian connection” or any other reason to see him impeached over it.

The neocon-dominated foreign policy esta...

Will Gold Shine When The QE Bubble Bursts?

Governments and Central Bankers have been scheming for centuries to get away from gold as money. Gold limits big government, and they want no limits to their warfare and welfare financing. Ultimately though, they're going reach into their hat to find that there are no rabbits left. Is the current QE bubble their final act?

New Trump Executive Order: Good Move Or Global Asset Forfeiture?

President Trump has signed a new Executive Order allowing the US government to freeze the US assets of individuals or corporations worldwide who are determined by the US Administration to have violated "human rights" or engaging in corruption. What about due process? What about jurisdiction?

Heaven Forbid! China Sells Oil To North Korea!

A recent US spy satellite photo showing Chinese ships selling oil to North Korean ships in violation of UN Security Council resolutions is supposed to infuriate us. But sanctions are immoral, they hurt the most vulnerable, and the never work.