As the great Ron Paul once said, "Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country." There is plenty of evidence to support this, yet the State Department has recently announced an additional $150...
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Here’s How We Protect U.S. Troops in Syria…
by Ron Paul | Mar 28, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Last week saw a sharp increase in attacks on U.S. troops occupying northeastern Syria, with a drone strike against a U.S. base blamed on “pro-Iran” forces and a U.S. counter-strike said to have killed at least 19 people. After the U.S. retaliation, another strike by...
Ukraine’s Pro-Peace Minority Feels Intimidated: An On the Ground Report
by Michael Holmes | Mar 27, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Kiev. Sirens wail. I jump up in bed and try to shake my friend Alex awake. “Wake up! Air alert. Let’s get to the shelter! Hurry up!" He turns away. "Let me be! This shit alarm is constant." I dress hastily. He sighs, wearily grabs his cell phone and checks a warning...
Big Tech, As Brought To You By the Federal Reserve
by Norman Singleton | Mar 27, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
New York Times Technology writer David Streitfeld recently examined the role the Federal Reserve’s easy money policies played in the rise and, if not fall then at least slippage, of many technology companies. Immediately after the bursting of the housing bubble (which...
Foreign Aid Doesn’t Need Oversight, It Needs To Be Abolished
by Laurence Vance | Mar 27, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In an interview with ABC News last month, after it was noted that U.S. aid to Ukraine now totals at least $113 billion, President Joe Biden was told that “many” Americans were asking, “How long can we spend like this?” His response was to first question the number of...
Was the Iraq War the Biggest Con of the 21st Century?
by Jim Bovard | Mar 23, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Iraq War was spawned by a deadly combination of political depravity and media complicity. Unfortunately, on the twentieth anniversary of the war, both elements of that conspiracy are being whitewashed. Instead, politicians and their pundit accomplices are...
Arizona State Senate Passes ‘Defend the Guard Act’
by Michael Maharrey | Mar 22, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
[Yesterday], the Arizona Senate narrowly passed the Defend the Guard Act, a bill to require the governor to stop unconstitutional foreign combat deployments of the state’s National Guard troops. Passage into law would take a big step toward restoring the founders’...
Reapers and Red Lines: The Downing of an American Drone
by Ted Snider | Mar 22, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On March 14, A Russian jet collided with an American drone, leading to the downing of the drone in the Black Sea. The United States says that the drone was flying in international airspace when two Russian Su-27 fighter jets made nineteen high-speed passes near the...