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What Donald Trump Doesn't Know About Military Planners

By Robert Wenzel

President-elect Donald Trump is in love with military planners. He said recently during a FOX interview that he likes Generals. He has already named/nominated three to key positions in his incoming Administration to former Generals.

Gary North has a different view about military planners:

The main problem with military planners is they are central planners. They think through their plans from the top down. They assume that they can coordinate the intricate complexity of life. Th...

Congressman behind WikiLeaks-Russia claims destroyed in interview

By Chris Rossini

Promoters of the "Russian hacking" claims are adopting a modern form of George W. Bush's "you're either with us, or against us" canard.

Tucker Carlson resoundingly checkmates a Congressman who is on the Intelligence Committee, only to be told that it is Carlson himself who carries water for Putin and should move his show to RT!

Watch this:

Congressman behind WikiLeaks-Russia claims destroyed in interview #PodestaEmails pic.twitter.com/DboNvUtfg0https://t.co/pjX9tmfINt

— WikiLeaks...

Election 'Hack' - Do We Believe Snowden And Assange...Or McCain And Graham?

According to MSM outlets like the Washington Post and NY Times, the CIA has concluded that the Russians hacked last month's presidential election to put Trump in charge. The evidence? It's secret. Who to believe? Let's look at who has what to gain...

War on ‘Fake News’ Part of a War on Free Speech

By Ron Paul

A major threat to liberty is the assault on the right to discuss political issues, seek out alternative information sources, and promote dissenting ideas and causes such as non-interventionism in foreign and domestic affairs. If this ongoing assault on free speech succeeds, then all of our liberties are endangered.

One of the most common assaults on the First Amendment is the attempt to force public policy organizations to disclose their donors. Regardless of the intent of the...

Wait...Wasn't Hillary Supposed To Be The Goldman Sachs Candidate?

By Chris Rossini

To paraphrase a very old saying: "the bankers rule the world." Those who have followed Ron Paul over the years know that the saying holds up quite well. Presidential administrations may come and go, but theDeep Stateremains, of which The Federal Reserve and big banks play a major role. The Fed, after all, is the financier of all things authoritarian.

But Donald Trump promised us something different. He railed against the crony banksters while campaigning just a few short months...

Myth-Busters: Common Sense From a Labor Secretary?

President-elect Trump will nominate Andy Puzder, who runs the popular fast-food chains Carl's Jr. and Hardee's as Labor Secretary of the incoming administration. Pudzer has some very promising views, that if acted on can actually improve working conditions in the United States. Ron Paul discusses on this week's Myth-Busters!

Entrepreneurship in Cuba

By Peter G. Klein

The death of Fidel Castro has brought to light thecatastrophic failureofCuban socialism. Cuba, whose standard of living wasamong the highest in the region in 1959, is now one of the world’s poorest countries (questionable statson education, healthcare, and even cigars notwithstanding). And, of course, as is obvious to anyonenot named Trudeau, the Castro regime was one of the world’s most dictatorial and brutal.

And yet, even in a totalitarian state, human creativity, ing...

Will Gen. Kelly Re-Militarize The Drug War?

Trump's pick for Homeland Security, Gen. John Kelly, comes back to government fresh off his last assignment as commander of the US military's Southern Command (SOCOM). Will he bring his experience using the US military to fight the drug war in Central and South America to the drug war at home?

Panic Time?...Washington Post Walks Back its 'Fake News' Claim

By Daniel McAdams

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Dear Friends of the Ron Paul Institute:

Wow! It was so great to hear back from so many of you when I asked what we should do about the Washington Post's scurrilous and defamatory article claiming that the Ron Paul Institute -- along with other major sites such as Drudge, ZeroHedge, David Stockman's Contra Corner, Counterpunch, and others -- were...

FDR's Pearl Harbor Bait

By Jacob G. Hornberger

On October 30, 1940, during his campaign for an unprecedented third term as president, Franklin Roosevelt told an audience in Boston,

And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. They are going into training to form a force so strong that, by its very existence, it will keep the threat of war far away...