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Are We Fighting Terrorism, Or Creating More Terrorism?

By Ron Paul

When we think about terrorism we most often think about the horrors of a Manchester-like attack, where a radicalized suicide bomber went into a concert hall and killed dozens of innocent civilians. It was an inexcusable act of savagery and it certainly did terrorize the population.

What is less considered are attacks that leave far more civilians dead, happen nearly daily instead of rarely, and produce a constant feeling of terror and dread. These are the civilians on the receiving...

Myth-Busters: The Hysteria Over Budget "Cuts"

An American businessman is elected to head a bankrupt government. Instead of using business sense, the new president decides to increase both government spending and debt! Meanwhile, even though spending is increasing, his opponents are hysterically up in arms about "unconscionable cuts"! Ron Paul speaks truth about the insanity on today's Myth-Busters.

Do The Biggest Surveillance States Need More Surveillance Powers?

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NSA Spying On Americans 'Widespread' - Let Sec. 702 Expire!

The NSA admitted last October that its monitoring of Americans was far more widespread than believed. Even the normally compliant FISA Court was shocked. Will "reform" do the job? Or should the authority to spy on us without a warrant be totally removed?

A Question For Every Parent: Is U.S. Foreign Interventionism Worth It?

By Jacob G. Hornberger

The latest terrorist attack in England, which has killed or injured dozens of teenagers, raises a question for every British, French, and American parent: Is continued interventionism in the Middle East and Afghanistan worth it?

In 1996 Leslie Stahl of CBS’s 60 Minutes, asked that question of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright.

We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is...

Ben Franklin Was Right - When You Give Up Liberty For Security, You End Up With Neither

By Liberty Report Staff

It's well known that the United Kingdom is the number one surveillance state in the West. They recently passed a bill that was labelled as "the most sweeping surveillance powers in the western world." Virtually everything is monitored in the U.K.

Yet, despite this extraordinary surveillance, look at the tragedy that occurred in Manchester:

1) The UK police and intelligence services both knew about the suicide bomber.
2) Family members in the UK warned officials that he was...

Was Manchester Blowback?

The Manchester bomber greatly benefitted from the chaos and Islamist extremism that resulted from the US/UK "liberation" of Libya and destabilization of Syria using proxy Islamist forces. He travelled to both countries and reportedly even trained in Syria. Blowback?

Trump Heaps Praise on Ruthless Duterte

By Liberty Report Staff

Yesterday, President Trump held a telephone conversation with the president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte.

Duterte’s government has been gunning down drug suspects in the streets, by the thousands.

No arrests. No trials.

While affairs in the Philippines are not the business of the U.S. federal government, it is nevertheless very degrading to us Americans to find out that our President actually heaps praise on such ruthless brutality. According to a transcript of the...

Manchester Bomber Was Product of West's Libya/Syria Intervention

By Daniel McAdams

Here's what the media and politicians don't want you to know about the Manchester, UK, suicide attack: Salman Abedi, the 22 year old who killed nearly two dozen concert-goers in Manchester, UK, was the product of the US and UK overthrow of Gaddafi in Libya and "regime change" policy in Syria. He was a radicalized Libyan whose family fled Gaddafi's secular Libya, and later he trained to be an armed "rebel" in Syria, fighting for the US and UK "regime change" policy toward the...

BIG NEWS: Gold & Silver Now Treated As Money In Arizona!

By Liberty Report Staff

Undermining the Federal Reserve received a major boost yesterday. Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed into law a bill that eliminates capital gains taxes on gold and silver, thus allowing Arizona residents to use precious metals as currency instead of Federal Reserve notes.

Currency competition against the monopolist Fed is starting to unfold. Let's hope that other states follow in Arizona's heroic footsteps. There's no reason to wait for another severe financial crisis t...