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A Mainstream Dose of Reality on Iraq

By Jacob G. Hornberger

Ever since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, we have been hit with a multiplicity of bromides, myths, falsehoods, and deceptions by U.S. officials and the mainstream media. “Saddam was coming to get us with his WMDs.” “Mushroom clouds were going to start appearing over U.S. cities.” “The troops in Iraq are defending our freedoms.” The troops are bringing freedom and democracy to Iraq.” “Occupation Iraqi Freedom is going to produce a paradise of freedom and prosperity.”

A...

Four Major Famines - Unintended Consequences Of US Foreign Policy

The UN has identified four countries where major famines are underway: Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen. What do these four countries have in common? Years of US foreign interventionism.

Big Military Spending Boost Threatens Our Economy and Security

Press Play to hear Ron Paul deliver his Weekly Update:By Ron Paul

On Friday the House overwhelmingly approved a massive increase in military spending, passing a $696 billion National Defense Authorization bill for 2018. President Trump’s request already included a huge fifty or so billion dollar spending increase, but the Republican-led House found even that to be far too small. They added another $30 billion to the bill for good measure. Even President Trump, in his official statement, expres...

Ron Paul On The Coming Dollar Crash, Cashless Society & False Flags

By Liberty Report Staff

The push to eliminate cash is a sign that the rickety financial system is weakening. Authoritarians squeeze hard when their power is slipping.

Ron Paul discusses this and more below:

Banks Have Helped To Bankrupt America

By Liberty Report Staff

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon had some harsh words for the DC Swamp this week. However, Dimon is merely focusing on the symptoms of our problems rather than the cause.

Central Banks in general, and The Federal Reserve specifically, have buried us in mountains of credit that they've created out-of-thin-air. No one should ever have the legal power to counterfeit currency.

Jamie Dimon has been a long-time participant in this "system," and has profited handsomely from it.

We...

The Part-Time Critics of Central Banks

By Mark Spitznagel

There seems to be no shortage today of investors and pundits criticizing the market interventions of the world’s central banks. Monetary stimulus in the form of artificially low interest rates and bloated central bank balance sheets ($18.5 trillion, to be exact), the argument goes, have created another dangerous financial bubble (evidenced by ubiquitously bubbly stock market valuation ratios) that ultimately threatens the financial system yet again. The author shares wholehe...

Myth-Busters: Rick Perry's Economic Claim About Coal ... Was He Right?

This week, Rick Perry suggested an economic principle, specifically Say's Law on Markets. Was Perry's thinking sound? Did he deserve many of the criticisms that he received? Ron Paul weighs in on today's Myth-Busters.

Tucker Carlson Bulldozes A Pair of Neocons

By Liberty Report Staff

Tucker Carlson may not be a pure non-interventionist, but he did the world a lot of good this week by bulldozing several neocons on his show.

It's impossible to calculate the damage that neoconservatives (i.e., neocons) have done to both America and the world with their foreign policy ideas of Empire.

The more that neocons are exposed for their never-ending disasters, the better chance we have at someday adopting a sane foreign policy of peace.

Watch Tucker take down Ralph...

Trump's Cutting Off Our Nose To Spite Our Face

By Liberty Report Staff

Protectionism and the erecting of tariffs are equivalent to "cutting off the nose to spite the face."

When President Trump imposes tariffs on another country, it's another way of saying that he's raising taxes on Americans!

After all, it's the American consumer that pays for the tariff, not the foreign country. The U.S. government has no taxing power over foreign nations.

We Americans, on the other hand, are not as fortunate. We are the ones who must suffer with a further...

Can Tillerson Referee The Qatar/Saudi Crisis?

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has returned from a trip to the Middle East empty-handed. He sought to diffuse the growing crisis between Qatar and Saudi Arabia and its allies. Demands have been made, sanctions and blockades have followed. President Trump initially appeared to take the Saudi side, then backtracked. Is there a way out of this crisis and what should the US role be?