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Like Freedom? Then You Won’t Like the FREEDOM Act

by Ron Paul | Mar 24, 2020 | Featured Articles, Justice

Last Monday, a bipartisan group of Senators and a coalition including libertarian and progressive activists thwarted a scheme to ram through the Senate legislation renewing three provisions of the USA FREEDOM Act (previously known as the USA PATRIOT Act). The bill had already been rushed through the House of Representatives, and most expected it to sail through the Senate. But, instead, Senate leadership had to settle for a 77-day extension. Senate leadership was also forced to allow consideration of several amendments at a later date. Included is Sen. Rand Paul’s amendment that would forbid...

Trump’s Betrayal of Julian Assange

by Ron Paul | Feb 24, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

One thing we’ve learned from the Trump Presidency is that the “deep state” is not just some crazy conspiracy theory. For the past three years we’ve seen that deep state launch plot after plot to overturn the election. It all started with former CIA director John Brennan’s phony “Intelligence Assessment” of Russian involvement in the 2016 election. It was claimed that all 17 US intelligence agencies agreed that Putin put Trump in office, but we found out later that the report was cooked up by a handful of Brennan’s hand-picked agents. Donald Trump upset the Washington apple cart as...

Trump’s Budget: More Warfare, Slightly Less Welfare

by Ron Paul | Feb 20, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles

Listening to the howls from Democrats and the applause from Republicans, one would think President Trump’s proposed fiscal year 2021 budget is a radical assault on the welfare state. The truth is that the budget contains some minor spending cuts, most of which are not even real cuts. Instead they are reductions in the “projected rate of growth.” This is the equivalent of saying you are sticking to your diet because you ate five chocolate chip cookies when you wanted to eat ten. President Trump’s plan reduces the Department of Education’s budget by nearly 8 percent, leaving the department...

Democrats Ignore Trump’s Real Violations

by Ron Paul | Feb 11, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics

This week the latest Democratic Party attempt to remove President Trump from office – impeachment over Trump allegedly holding up an arms deal to Ukraine – flopped. Just like “Russiagate” and the Mueller investigation, and a number of other attempts to overturn the 2016 election. We’ve had three years of accusations and investigations with untold millions of dollars spent in a never-ending Democratic Party effort to remove President Trump from office. Why do the Democrats keep swinging and missing at Trump? They can’t make a good case for abuse of power because they don’t really oppose...

A Million Iraqis Asked Us to Leave. We Should Listen.

by Ron Paul | Jan 28, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

You wouldn’t know it from US mainstream media reporting, but on Friday an estimated million Iraqis took to the streets to protest the continued US military presence in their country. What little mainstream media coverage the protest received all reported the number of protesters as far less than actually turned out. The Beltway elites are determined that Americans not know or understand just how much our presence in Iraq is not wanted. The protesters were largely supporters of nationalist Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who opposes both US and Iranian presence in Iraq. Protesters held signs...

US to Iraq: ‘Vote All You Want, We’re Not Leaving!’

by Ron Paul | Jan 13, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

President Trump’s decision earlier this month to assassinate Iran’s top military general on Iraqi soil – over the objection of the Iraqi government – has damaged the US relationship with its “ally” Iraq and set the region on the brink of war. Iran’s measured response – a few missiles fired on an Iraqi base after advance warning was given – is the only reason the US is not mired in another Middle East war. Trump said his decision to assassinate Gen. Qassim Soleimani was intended to prevent a war, not start a war. But no one in his right mind would think that killing another country’s top...

Conservative Vets Group: ‘Bring Our Troops Home!’ Ron Paul interviews Dan McKnight

by Ron Paul | Jan 8, 2020 | Blog

A conservative veterans group dedicated to bringing US troops home from pointless overseas conflicts is making waves in the Republican Party. Bring Our Troops Home founder Dan McKnight joins today’s Liberty Report to discuss their recent successes in heavily red states. On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: https://youtu.be/2bx0TreiC44

Ron Paul asks: Why Was Soleimani Assassinated?

by Ron Paul | Jan 6, 2020 | Blog

President Trump and Mike Pompeo told us that Iranian Gen. Soleimani had to be assassinated when he was in Baghdad at the end of last week because he was on a mission to plan and implement attacks on US military and diplomatic personnel in the region. But their story is not holding up very well, as reports surface that he was on a peace mission and other US claims are not adding up. So…why was he killed? Watch today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: https://youtu.be/jkRSXW4swFk