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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

Trump Stumbling Into Neocon Trap In Iraq

by Ron Paul | Jan 3, 2020 | Blog, Foreign Policy

President Trump is swallowing the neocon line on the Iraqi protests at the US embassy in Baghdad, blaming the whole incident on Iran. Suddenly everyone who doesn't want the US military to continue to occupy Iraq - nearly 17 years after an invasion based on lies - is an "Iranian proxy." Will Trump continue to take the neocon bait and stumble his way into a war on Iran? Starting a war based on neocon lies is likely the only thing that would prevent his re-election. Watch today's Liberty Report: https://youtu.be/08jf1O5OoGI Reprinted from the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity....

Should Racists Get Health Care?

by Ron Paul | Jan 2, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics

Political correctness recently took a dangerous turn in the United Kingdom when the North Bristol National Health Service Trust announced that hospital patients who use offensive, racist, or sexist language will cease receiving medical care as soon as it is safe to end their treatment. The condition that treatment will not be withdrawn until doing so is safe seems to imply that no one will actually suffer from this policy. However, health-care providers have great discretion to determine when it is “safe” to withhold treatment. So, patients could be left with chronic pain or be denied...

Afghanistan War – The Crime of the Century

by Ron Paul | Dec 17, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

“We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan. We didn’t know what we were doing.” So said Gen. Douglas Lute, who oversaw the US war on Afghanistan under Presidents Bush and Obama. Eighteen years into the longest war in US history, we are finally finding out, thanks to thousands of pages of classified interviews on the war published by the Washington Post last week, that General Lute’s cluelessness was shared by virtually everyone involved in the war. What we learned in what is rightly being called the “Pentagon Papers” of our time, is that hundreds of US Administration...

Schizophrenia! US Now Says Yemen NOT Iran Proxy War

by Ron Paul | Dec 13, 2019 | Blog, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism

In a sudden “about face,” the Trump Administration now claims that Iran is NOT behind the Houthis in Yemen. Has Washington suddenly decided to recognize reality? Not likely. More likely is that the US is trying to help the Saudis out of a lost war. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of innocents were killed in the Saudi war of aggression with US support. Will anyone answer for it? On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: https://youtu.be/9ZPO2hYgn-g Cross-posted at Antiwar.com.