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Latest Articles: Ron Paul
Whither the Anti-war Movement?
Post Date: 2017-12-16 07:10:21 by Ada
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The duopoly succumbed to the war machine, while organized resistance got pushed to the fringe. “Imagine there’s no heaven…and no religion too.” A more useful line when it comes to our current wars may be “Imagine there’s no duopoly.” It’s hard to fault John Lennon for his idealism, of course. In his day, many blamed religion on the wars of history. But a much bigger obstacle right now, at least in the U.S., is partisanship. The two major political parties, in power and out, have been so co-opted by the war machine that any modern anti-war movement has been completely subsumed and marginalized—even as American troops and killer drones continue ...
The Mainstream Media’s Deference to Authority in the JFK Assassination
Post Date: 2017-12-11 09:11:13 by Ada
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I just finished watching an interesting documentary film entitled The Searchers by Randolph Benson, who teaches at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. The film focuses on private researchers during the aftermath of the JFK assassination who have questioned and investigated the official narrative put out by the Warren Commission and the Washington, D.C., establishment. According to an interview of Benson, his work “has appeared on the Bravo Network and Canal Plus-France, and his film Man and Dog received several awards, including a Gold Medal from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Student Academy Awards.” According to its home page, The ...
The Enemy Within
Post Date: 2017-12-11 07:35:57 by Ada
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It’s called the “intelligence community” It was the Holy Grail of #TheResistance, the smoking gun they had been desperately searching for, solid evidence that Trump had colluded with the Russians to steal the presidency from its rightful owner: an email written and sent before WikiLeaks published the DNC material directing Trump’s attention to the data dump and even offering an “encryption key,” whatever that may be, so he could get a jump start on the news cycle. Collusion! Impeach! Gotcha! Except it wasn’t true. CNN, which initially reported the story, had the date of the email wrong: a 14 had somehow morphed into a 4. It turns out that CNN had ...
Stop Trying to Make Small Government Happen
Post Date: 2017-12-11 07:01:41 by Ada
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A proud Ron Paul voter explains why the battle against the state is lost. In a 112-page tract published by Intercollegiate Studies Institute, law professor Patrick M. Garry rails against “The False Promise of Big Government.” According to Garry, “big government” is a human evil that we should oppose by all means at our disposal. The author imagines he’s telling us something new, declaring that his “key points” have been “rarely heard.” Among other sins, “big government breeds cronyism,” caters to big power,” is “a tool of the elite,” “becomes its own end,” “backfires,” and “crowds out civil ...
Flynn's Sin Was Lying to Liars, Not Colluding with Russians
Post Date: 2017-12-08 06:51:48 by Ada
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Retired US Army Lieutenant General Michael Flynn’s sin was lying to liars, not colluding with Russians. When he spoke to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, following Donald Trump’s 2016 election, former National Security Advisor Flynn was discharging a perfectly legal and patriotic duty to the electorate. In a fit of pique, then-President Barack Obama had expelled Russian diplomats from the United States. K. T. McFarland, Flynn’s deputy in the Trump transition team, worried that Obama’s expulsion of the diplomats was aimed at “boxing Trump in diplomatically,” making it impossible for the president to “improve relations with Russia,” a promise he ...
The Loose Canon the Neocons Wanted in NATO
Post Date: 2017-12-08 06:20:53 by Ada
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President George W. Bush (of the U.S. and former Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia in Tbilisi in May 2005. (White House photo) Even interventionists are regretting some of the wars into which they helped plunge the United States in this century. Among those wars are Afghanistan and Iraq, the longest in our history; Libya, which was left without a stable government; Syria’s civil war, a six- year human rights disaster we helped kick off by arming rebels to overthrow Bashar Assad; and Yemen, where a U.S.-backed Saudi bombing campaign and starvation blockade is causing a humanitarian catastrophe. Yet, twice this century, the War Party was beaten back when seeking a clash with ...
An attempt to impeach Trump today failed 364-58
Post Date: 2017-12-07 19:24:22 by BTP Holdings
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An attempt to impeach Trump today failed 364-58 John Sexton Posted at 7:21 pm on December 6, 2017 There are really two ways to look at this effort. One is that this attempt to impeach President Trump got slapped down hard today. The other is that there are now 58 Democrats willing to attach their names to this desperate action which their own leadership is officially against, at least for the moment. In either case, Rep. Al Green promised yesterday he would bring this to a vote and today he made good on that promise. The result was a bust. From the Texas Tribune: U.S. Rep. Al Green’s effort to push the U.S. House to vote to impeach President Donald Trump quickly died Wednesday ...
The Curtain Rises On Trump Theater
Post Date: 2017-12-07 07:36:51 by Ada
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Trumpism as performance art The pundits are up in arms over President Trump’s announcement that he intends to “recognize” Jerusalem as the capital of Israel – and on the eve of the supposed renewal of the Israeli-Palestinian “peace process.” What, they cry, can he be thinking?! Is he crazy? (Of course he is!) Are we to be spared nothing? (Of course we aren’t.) Oh yes, the pundits are up in arms a lot these days: attacks of hysteria, on an almost daily basis, are one of the major symptoms of Trump Derangement Syndrome. And so when the President goes into one of his stream of consciousness riffs – will Joyce scholars ever recognize their literary ...
Matt Drudge zings Mueller probe: 'What is the punishment when the FBI lies to us?'
Post Date: 2017-12-03 14:47:20 by Ada
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In a flurry of tweets, stark against an otherwise empty Twitter page, Matt Drudge painted Robert Mueller and his Russia inquiry team as a farce. Matt Drudge, editor and founder of the Internet news powerhouse Drudge Report, put the special counsel probe on notice Saturday. In a flurry of tweets, stark against an otherwise empty Twitter page (Drudge has a habit of deleting his prior tweets), the influential but reclusive conservative figure painted Robert Mueller and his Russia inquiry team as a farce. "Mueller’s secretive grand jury made up of residence [sic] from DC, where 91% voted for Hillary...," he began, referring to the grand jury Mueller put together to ...
Donald Trump Blasts ABC ‘Fake News’ — Questions FBI Treatment of Mike Flynn vs Hillary Clinton
Post Date: 2017-12-03 08:27:52 by Ada
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President Donald Trump hit ABC News after they suspended one of their investigative reporters for a criticial reporting error on Mike Flynn’s decision to cooperate with the Russia investigation. “Congratulations to ABC News for suspending Brian Ross for his horrendously inaccurate and dishonest report on the Russia, Russia, Russia Witch Hunt,” Trump wrote. ABC executives suspended Ross for four weeks without pay, after first trying to “clarify” a false report that Flynn was expected to testify that as a candidate, Trump directed his former National Security Adviser to contact the Russians on his behalf. “More Networks and ‘papers’ should do the ...
Trey Gowdy confronts Jeff Sessions at Congressional hearing – after one question he asks…FIREWORKS
Post Date: 2017-12-01 10:11:03 by Ada
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South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy delivered an impassioned speech on the meaning of “justice” at the Jeff Sessions hearing that had the effect of being accusatory in its implications. Gowdy railed against the Obama administration’s political usage of the DOJ and called on Sessions to restore the American people’s trust in the department. “I want to start with something that’s very important to me,” Gowdy began, “and I think it’s important to all people in this country of good conscience, irrespective of their political ideation, and that’s the independence of the Department of Justice. In my judgment, 2016 and 2017 have been ...
How Hillary Clinton Screwed Honduran Democracy
Post Date: 2017-12-01 08:07:16 by Ada
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US meddling supported the military junta, undermined civilian rule Hillary Clinton’s legacy at the State Department lives on – and it isn’t pretty. Take a gander at the spectacle of slave auctions in Libya – a nation “liberated” by NATO at Hillary’s instigation: remember “We came, we saw, he died”? Behold the blood-soaked ruins of Syria, where her regime-change plans caused the US to fund the very jihadists we’re supposed to be fighting. Add to this the not-so-bright idea of Washington jumping on board the abortive “Arab Spring” bandwagon, and it all this adds up to the worst record of any Secretary of State in modern history. ...
Heritage Foundation + the War Industry: What a Pair
Post Date: 2017-11-30 07:27:24 by Ada
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Conservative think tank considers Lockheed fixture for its next president. According to recent reports, the Heritage Foundation, clearly the most established and many would say politically influential conservative think tank in Washington, is considering David Trulio, Lockheed Martin vice president and longtime lobbyist for the defense industry, to be its next president. While Heritage’s connection to Washington’s sprawling national security industry is already well-established, naming Trulio as its president might be seen as gilding the lily. If anything, reading this report made me more aware of the degree to which the “conservative policy community” in Washington ...
Is #TheResistance a CIA Front?
Post Date: 2017-11-27 16:36:13 by Ada
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History says “yes” In George Orwell’s classic dystopia 1984, the mutability of the past is a lethal weapon in the arsenal of tyranny: if history can be molded into whatever shape is required, all the better to serve the Party and Big Brother. Quite a feat, believable perhaps only as fiction, and yet this is surpassed by what our “liberals” have accomplished in real life: the abolition of history, at least in their own minds. As writer Yasha Levine shows here, the editors of Mother Jones – a magazine that has published the most “out there” “Russia-gate” tall tales – have completely forgotten their own history as the victim of ...
The U.S.-Saudi Starvation Blockade
Post Date: 2017-11-24 07:10:55 by Ada
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This holiday season, America is complicit in a humanitarian catastrophe. Our aim is to “starve the whole population—men, women, and children, old and young, wounded and sound—into submission,” said First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. He was speaking of Germany at the outset of the Great War of 1914-1918. Americans denounced as inhumane this starvation blockade that would eventually take the lives of a million German civilians. Yet when we went to war in 1917, a U.S. admiral told British Prime Minister Lloyd George, “You will find that it will take us only two months to become as great criminals as you are.” After the Armistice of November 11, ...
Who Is Jared Kushner: Trump Loyalist or 'Deep State' Kissinger Protege?
Post Date: 2017-11-23 10:41:31 by Ada
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Never before in the annals of US politics has a top presidential adviser had more of an inside track for influencing the White House than Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. And this could be just the ticket the Deep State ordered. Name any major event over the course of Trump's first year in office and you will undoubtedly find the doleful face of Jared Kushner lurking somewhere in the crowd, gazing on with rapt attention (or is it somber satisfaction?), a bit like a novice trapped in the floodlights of ultimate power. Beyond the question of Jared's omnipresence is his apparent knack for political survival. Although Trump tends to go through officials as rapidly as he ...
Patrick J. Buchanan: A Disunited, Unserious Nation, Squabbling About Trivialities
Post Date: 2017-11-21 11:18:14 by Ada
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How stands John Winthrop’s “city upon a hill” this Thanksgiving? How stands the country that was to be “a light unto the nations”? To those who look to cable TV for news, the answer must at the least be ambiguous. For consider the issues that have lately convulsed the public discourse of the American republic. Today’s great question seems to be whether our 45th president is as serious a sexual predator as our 42nd was proven to be, and whether the confessed sins of Sen. Al Franken are as great as the alleged sins of Judge Roy Moore. On both questions, the divide is, as ever, along partisan lines. And every day for weeks, beginning with Hollywood king ...
Why Are We Helping Saudi Arabia Destroy Yemen?
Post Date: 2017-11-21 06:54:29 by BTP Holdings
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Why Are We Helping Saudi Arabia Destroy Yemen? The tragedy in Yemen is the result of foreign military intervention in the internal affairs of that country Ron Paul | ronpaulinstitute.com - November 20, 2017 219 Comments Image Credits: Ahmed Farwan / Flickr. It’s remarkable that whenever you read an article about Yemen in the mainstream media, the central role of Saudi Arabia and the United States in the tragedy is glossed over or completely ignored. A recent Washington Post article purporting to tell us “how things got so bad” explains to us that, “it’s a complicated story” involving “warring regional superpowers, terrorism, oil, and an impending ...
BREAKING: Erdogan’s top Presidential aid says Turkey should consider withdrawing from NATO
Post Date: 2017-11-20 08:26:46 by Ada
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Turkey’s relations with the rest of NATO have deteriorated rapidly over the past year. Chief Adviser to the President of Turkey, Yalchin Topchu has told local media that Turkey should reconsider its NATO membership. Recently, Turkey’s President Erdogan withdrew troops from a would-be pan-NATO military exercise in Norway after Erdogan’s name along with that of Turkish Republic founder Ataturk, appeared on a poster of “enemies”. Topchu told journalists in Ankara, “It is time to reconsider our membership in NATO. We do not need an organisation that displays in every possible way its hostile attitude towards its member. The issue of our presence in that ...
Dennis Kucinich Discusses the ‘Permanent Government’ Behind US Foreign Intervention
Post Date: 2017-11-20 07:56:36 by Ada
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In a recent interview with host Wilmer Leon at the Inside the Issues show, former presidential candidate and United States House of Representatives Member Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) discussed how what Kucinich terms the “permanent government” has worked to ensure the United States continues pursuing destructive foreign interventions and to keep America “at the precipice of a much wider war” irrespective of who is president. “There’s an unbroken line going back over the last 30 years where American presidents have continued to proceed with an interventionism that has been counterproductive,” states Kucinich. This “continued commitment to a failed ...
Moscow Vetoes Security Council’s Resolution on Syria: Saving Credibility of United Nations
Post Date: 2017-11-19 08:43:39 by Ada
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On November 17, Russia vetoed a UN resolution that would extend the mandate of the Joint Investigative Mechanism, or JIM. The vote came one day after the Russian Federation blocked a US effort to extend the inquiry for one year. As usual, it triggered accusations from the United States. US Ambassador Nikki Haley was fiery and acrimonious, telling the Security Council that the veto "shows us that Russia has no interest in finding common ground with the rest of this council to save the JIM." "Russia will not agree to any mechanism that might shine a spotlight on the use of chemical weapons by its ally, the Syrian regime," she said. "It's as simple and sinful as ...
Zimbabwe Ruling-Party Leaders Gather to Decide Mugabe's Fate
Post Date: 2017-11-19 07:25:03 by BTP Holdings
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Zimbabwe Ruling-Party Leaders Gather to Decide Mugabe's Fate By Godfrey Marawanyika , Brian Latham , and Desmond Kumbuka November 19, 2017 4:11 AM CST Updated on November 19, 2017 5:32 AM CST President could be impeached if he still refuses to step down Mnangagwa seen as frontrunner to become nation’s next leader Demonstrators hold a placard reading "Mugabe Must Rest Now!" as they call for the resignation of president Robert Mugabe in Harare on Nov. 18. Source: Bloomberg Zimbabwe’s ruling-party elite are set to seal an end to ...
More Hillary Chronicles
Post Date: 2017-11-16 04:58:22 by Ada
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The Department of Justice will soon commence an investigation to determine whether there should be an investigation (you read that nonsense correctly) of a scandal involving the Clinton Foundation and a company called Uranium One. It appears that FBI decisions made during the time that Hillary Clinton was being investigated for espionage will also be investigated to see whether there should be an investigation to determine whether she was properly investigated. (Again, you read that nonsense correctly.) Only the government can relate nonsense with a straight face. Here is the back story. When President Donald Trump fired FBI Director Jim Comey last spring, the attorney general’s ...
Lies of Omission: New York Times Columnist Trashes Clinton Accuser Paula Jones
Post Date: 2017-11-15 17:30:27 by Ada
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Because it will no longer produce any political downside for Democrats, on Monday, New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg penned a cynical, self-serving, 25 years-too-late column, saying that she now believes Juanita Broaddrick’s claim that former-President Bill Clinton raped her. Using lies of omission, in that same column, Goldberg also trashed Clinton accuser Paula Jones. ‘[T]here are reasons to be at least unsure about Paula Jones’s claim that Clinton exposed himself to her and demanded oral sex,” Goldberg writes, adding that Jones was “championed by people engaged in what Ann Coulter once proudly called ‘a small, intricately knit right-wing ...
Bush 41 apologizes for groping of 16-year-old girl
Post Date: 2017-11-13 18:09:26 by BTP Holdings
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Bush 41 apologizes for groping of 16-year-old girl USA TODAY Jessica Estepa 4 hrs ago © David J. Phillip, AP Former president George H.W. Bush arrives for an NFL football game between the Houston Texans and the Indianapolis Colts, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017, in Houston. George H. W. Bush apologized Monday after another woman said the former president groped her during a 2003 photo op when she was 16 years old. Time magazine reported on Monday that Rosyln Corrigan is accusing Bush of groping her buttocks when she was standing next to him for a photo at a November 2003 event at a CIA office, which she attended with her parents. "My initial reaction was absolute ...
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