By Ron Paul Ron Paul Institute June 11, 2018 Trump/Kim Meeting Shows Value of Policy Over Politics When President Reagan met with Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland, on October 11, 1987, it helped put into motion events that would dramatically change the global system. A line of communication was fully opened with an enemy […]
By Ron Paul Ron Paul Institute May 29, 2018 America’s Incredible Shrinking Influence Just two weeks after President Trump pulled the US from the Iran nuclear agreement, his Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, issued 12 demands to Iran that could never be satisfied. Pompeo knew his demands would be impossible to meet. They were […]
By Adam Dick Ron Paul Institute April 26, 2018 David Stockman Enters Hostile Territory to Support Nonintervention and Oppose Increased Military Spending Investing and current affairs writer David Stockman found himself in hostile territory this week in an interview at the Fox Business show Mornings with Maria. In the often-tense interview, Stockman seems to […]
By Tho Bishop Mises Institute April 25, 2018 How Neocons Destroyed a Chance for Peace with Iran After 9/11 While most of the headlines the Trump administration has made on foreign policy have tended to focus on Syria and North Korea, the President’s approach to Iran may end up being the most important. The […]
By Patrick J. Buchanan LewRockwell.com April 18, 2018 Trump: Prisoner of the War Party? “Ten days ago, President Trump was saying ‘the United States should withdraw from Syria.’ We convinced him it was necessary to stay.” Thus boasted French President Emmanuel Macron Saturday, adding, “We convinced him it was necessary to stay for […]
By Philip Giraldi Strategic Culture Foundation March 22, 2018 Hawks Resurgent in Washington One of the most discouraging aspects of the musical chairs being played among the members of the White House inner circle is that every change reflects an inexorable move to the right in foreign policy, which means that the […]
By Ron Paul Ron Paul Institute March 19, 2018 Pompeo and Haspel are Symptoms of a Deeper Problem President Trump’s recent cabinet shake-up looks to be a real boost to hard-line militarism and neo-conservatism. If his nominees to head the State Department and CIA are confirmed, we may well have moved closer to war. […]
By Steven MacMillan Activist Post March 9, 2018 is the Next Major Battleground for the Neoconservative War Machine Africa is set to become a major theatre of war in the near future, as the scale of US military involvement will continue to increase on the resource-rich continent. In October of last year, the […]
By Daniel McAdams Ron Paul Institute March 6, 2018 Trump Is Right On Iraq Over the weekend, President Trump told an audience at a fundraiser that the US attack on Iraq was the “worst decision ever.” As we approach 15 years since the launch of “shock and awe,” the truth of Trump’s words are […]
By Patrick J. Buchanan LewRockwell.com February 14, 2018 Is US Being Sucked Into Syria’s War? Candidate Donald Trump may have promised to extricate us from Middle East wars, once ISIS and al-Qaida were routed, yet events and people seem to be conspiring to keep us endlessly enmeshed. Friday night, a drone, apparently modeled […]
By Jeff Deist and Daniel McAdams Mises Institute February 5, 2018 Daniel McAdams on the Real Cost of “Defense” Daniel McAdams from the Ron Paul Institute joins Jeff Deist for an unbridled discussion of the true costs of war. We know the US spends more on “defense” than many big countries combined, but what are […]
By Darius Shahtahmasebi The Anti-Media January 6, 2018 US Threatens to Cut Aid to Pakistan Amid New Chinese Plan to Dump the Dollar As much of the world’s focus is fixed on the current unrest rocking Iran, Donald Trump is using the heralding of the new year to publicly attack another Middle Eastern country: […]
