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War Drums Beating For Venezuela?

Late last week President Trump threatened US military action against Venezuela because "people are dying" there. CIA director Mike Pompeo amplified Trump's statement by claiming that Venezuela is a threat to the US because the Cubans, Russians, Iranians, and Hezbollah are all there. Why are they ramping up the war propaganda?

When The Bankers Rob The Bank

By Liberty Report Staff

Most people, when they "deposit" their paychecks into a bank, think that they're keeping the money in safe storage. After all, if you stored your money somewhere else, someone could steal it, right?

Well, you're actually making a loan to the bank. On the bank's books, they "owe" you the money back. Your money becomes the bank's money, and you become an *unsecured* creditor.

Oh you can get "your" money out ... up to a certain point. Ask for too much, and you're automatical...

A Visual Guide for President Trump

By Liberty Report Staff

The U.S. Constitution is not very complex. It was designed to "chain down" government.

After all, government is the most violent and vicious institution on the planet. Most people have to keep learning that the hard way.

The natural tendency of government is to constantly expand its scope. It wants no limitations on the violence that it inflicts, and it surely doesn't want to be "chained down" by anyone or anything.

All politicians in the United States swear to uphold the...

Social Security requires a bailout that’s 60x greater than the 2008 emergency bank bailout

By Simon Black

A few weeks ago the Board of Trustees of Social Security sent a formal letter to the United States Senate and House of Representatives to issue a dire warning: Social Security is running out of money.

Given that tens of millions of Americans depend on this public pension program as their sole source of retirement income, you’d think this would have been front page news…

… and that every newspaper in the country would have reprinted this ominous projection out of a basic journalist...

Venezuela's Lessons For The United States

By Jacob G. Hornberger

Lesson 1: Socialism doesn’t work. Free schooling. Free health care. Free retirement. Free welfare. Free everything. It just doesn’t work. Taking from the rich and giving to the poor ultimately makes everyone poor—i.e., the total equality of wealth that leftists love. Socialism produces economic crises, which then produce calls for more socialism and interventionism, which produce more crises. The cycle continues until there is a complete government takeover of economic a...

Myth-Busters: Debt Ceiling For Deadbeats

See those people over there? They've racked up $20 Trillion in debt. You should really loan them your hard-earned money. Their debt is considered "the world's safest financial asset." Sound like a good deal? Ron Paul on the world's biggest deadbeat, today on Myth-Busters!

US 'Greatest Threat To World Peace'? With Lew Rockwell

According to a recent Pew Poll, the United States is viewed by the rest of the rest of the world as the greatest threat to world peace. Is the rest of the world tiring of the US global military empire, and how might it end? With special guest, Mises Institute Founder Lew Rockwell. For tickets to the Ron Paul Institute conference: RonPaulInstitute.org/conference

This $5 Trillion Time Bomb Will Devastate Americans

By Nick Giambruno

Over 3,000 millionaires have fled Chicago in recent months.

This is the largest outflow of wealthy people from any US city right now. It’s also one of the largest outflows of wealthy people in the world.

But it’s not just millionaires… Every five minutes someone leaves Illinois.

In a recent poll, 47% of people in Illinois said they want to leave the state. Over the last decade, more than half a million people have done just that.

This is the largest outflow of people from any sta...

The Whitewashing of Socialism In America

By Chris Rossini

Governments have been the biggest murderers in mankind's history. No private gang, club, organization, mafia, or cabal can possibly come close.

A major reason for this is the fact that government legally steals its revenues. So there really is no choice for taxpayers in financing government's wars.

You may not like government invading Iraq, or Syria, or Libya, but you're paying for it nevertheless. We can't say: "I'm not paying my taxes because I don't want it used to destroy in...

Fire And Fury...And Profits! Korea Crisis Great For The War Industry

Yesterday's nuclear brinkmanship between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un may have terrified much of the rest of the world, but the military industrial complex rubs its hands with glee. Profits are way up since the first Korean long-range missile test in July.