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War on Cash intensifies: Citibank to stop accepting cash at some branches

By Simon Black

Less than a week after India’s surprise move to scrap its highest denomination cash notes, another front in the War on Cash has intensified down under in Australia.

Yesterday, banking giant UBS proposed that eliminating Australia’s $100 and $50 bills would be “good for the economy and good for the banks.”

(How convenient that a bank would propose something that’s good for banks!)

This isn’t the first time that the financial establishment has pushed for a cashless society in A...

Rand Paul Warns Some Trump Cabinet Candidates Are 'Unfit' For Government

By Steve Watson

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has warned that some of Donald Trump’s likely picks for positions within his Presidential cabinet are ‘unfit’ for government.

Paul, who ran against President elect Donald Trump for the GOP nomination, but ultimately failed to elicit enough popular support, specifically referred to former US ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Referring to Giuliani, Paul said it was “Worrisome” that he is being considered for...

For A Libertarian Foreign Policy: Five Key Fixes

If you could change just five key aspects of US foreign policy to realign it toward the Founders' vision, what would you pick? How to make the other broken parts of our policy fall into place? Here are our top five fixes. Watch The Liberty Report LIVE
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Stock Market Not Anticipating The Trump Administration Being A Peaceful One

By Chris Rossini

In this past election, it was widely believed that under a Hillary Clinton Administration, we would get more wars. Because of her horrendous war record, it was considered a given. Trump, on the other hand, has no war record, and his campaign rhetoric (for the most part) was not one of belligerence.

Placed side-by-side with Hillary, Trump was considered the peace candidate. This is always a smart move for a politician, as people naturally do not want war. Modern day Americ...

China And Middle East Hot Spots: Diplomacy Or Militarism?

Ambassador Charles Freeman, a highly decorated US diplomat, joins the Liberty Report to discuss what the next Administration's foreign policy might look like...and what it should look like. Watch The Liberty Report LIVE
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Trump Names Neocon as Senior Adviser on National Security?

By Chris Rossini

When Trump supporters chanted "Drain The Swamp," one naturally comes to the conclusion that they were looking for a change. They wanted Trump to dismiss the failed ideas and political players who espoused them. This makes Donald Trump's selection of James Woolsey as a Senior Advisor on National Security look like a very curious move.

A few months agoThe Interceptdid a profile on Woolsey. Here are some key excerpts:

Woolsey, who left the CIA in 1995, went on to become one...

Obama Hands Trump Keys To A Car That's Running On Fumes

By Chris Rossini

It shouldn't be this way, but The Federal Reserve "runs" the economy. America is not a free market, but has a group of central planners that manipulates our economic lives. The Fed sets into motion artificial booms and busts by counterfeiting dollar bills and meddling with interest rates. As the wild swings take place, presidents who happen to be in power during the booms pat themselves on the back as geniuses, while those in power during the busts are forced to grin and...

Assad Must Stay: US Policy Shift In Syria?

The White House announced last week that it was shifting its approach on Syria. From now on it would target al-Qaeda in Syria instead of backing them to overthrow Assad. Watch The Liberty Report LIVE
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Memo to the Next Administration: Defense Spending Must Be For Actual Defense

By Ron Paul

In a disturbing indication of how difficult it would be to bring military spending in line with actual threats overseas, House Armed Services Chairman Rep. Mac Thornberry (R – TX) told President Obama last week that his war funding request of $11.6 billion for the rest of the year was far too low. That figure for the last two months of 2016 is larger than Spain’s budget for the entire year! And this is just a “war-fighting” supplemental, not actual “defense” spending! More US...

NATO Chief Implores Trump To Stay In The Obsolete Alliance

By Chris Rossini

NATO has been obsolete for a long time. It should have been dissolved when the Cold War ended. After all, the Warsaw Pact was dissolved, and thank goodness for that. It would be quite unnerving were the Warsaw Pact still around and gobbling up countries that border the United States. Americans would rightfully be concerned about the motivations behind such actions.

But the West "won" the Cold War, and NATO bureaucrats sought to find a reason to keep their jobs in existenc...