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Congress’ ‘Gift’ to America This Christmas

by Ron Paul | Dec 19, 2023 | Uncategorized

Just before leaving town for Christmas break, the U.S. House gave Americans a last-minute holiday gift: a nearly trillion dollar military spending bill filled with lots of goodies for the special interests and the military-industrial complex. Unfortunately, the rest of America got nothing but coal in its stockings. With Constitutionalists like Rep. Thomas Massie on the House Rules Committee, Speaker Johnson made the unusual move of bringing the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) under suspension of the rules, which bypasses the Rules Committee but requires two-thirds of the House to...

The Real Problem With Our Foreign Policy…

by Ron Paul | Dec 6, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Over the weekend Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin explained to the American people what’s really wrong with U.S. foreign policy. Some might find his conclusions surprising. The U.S. standing in the world is damaged not because we spent 20 years fighting an Afghan government that had nothing to do with the attacks on 9/11. The problem has nothing to do with neocon lies about Iraq’s WMDs that led untold civilian deaths in another failed “democratization” mission. It’s not because over the past nearly two years Washington has taken more than $150 billion from the American people to fight a proxy...

Separate Tech and State

by Ron Paul | Nov 28, 2023 | Featured Articles

Some libertarians dismiss concerns over social media companies’ suppression of news and opinions that contradict select agendas by pointing out that these platforms are private companies, not part of the government. There are two problems with this argument. First, there is nothing unlibertarian about criticizing private businesses or using peaceful and voluntary means, such as boycotts, to persuade businesses to change their practices. The second and most significant reason the “they are private companies” argument does not hold water is the tech companies’ censorship has often been done at...

A Short ‘Continuing Resolution’ Will Not Fix Big Problems

by Ron Paul | Oct 4, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Politics

Federal spending is so out of control that it only took three months for the federal debt to increase by one trillion dollars to over 33 trillion dollars. In contrast, it took almost 200 years for the federal debt to reach one trillion dollars. So the federal government racked up more debt in the last three months than it did from the ratification of the U.S. Constitution until Ronald Reagan’s first term! There will be even more shocking increases in the future since, according to some experts, federal debt is increasing by approximately 14 billion dollars a day. Those tempted to blame the...

Don’t Tread on Homeschoolers

by Ron Paul | Sep 20, 2023 | Featured Articles

A 12-year-old Colorado boy became a victim of “woke” education when he was taken out of class and told he could not return unless he removed a Gadsden flag, or “Don’t Tread on Me,” patch from his backpack. The school backed down after a video went viral in which a school official told the boy and his mother that the problem with the patch is that the Gadsden flag’s origin is related to slavery and the slave trade. The school was criticized by individuals from across the political spectrum for seeming ignorance of the role the Gadsden flag played in the American Revolution. Among the critics...

Why Are We in Niger?

by Ron Paul | Sep 13, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

The July military coup in the west African country of Niger has once again brought attention to the fact that the U.S. government runs a global military empire that serves Washington’s special interests, and not the national interest. Before the coup made news headlines, most Americans—including many serving in Congress—had no idea the U.S. government maintains more than 1,000 troops stationed on several U.S. bases in Niger. But it’s even worse than that. A recent report in The Intercept suggests the Pentagon repeatedly misled Congress about the extent and the cost of the U.S. presence in...

Will BRICS Smash the Dollar?

by Ron Paul | Sep 6, 2023 | Featured Articles

Donald Trump’s legal troubles, the possibility that Joe Biden will face an impeachment inquiry, and other stories related to the upcoming presidential election, caused the American media to miss a story of potentially greater significance. This was the decision of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), who formed their alliance to challenge U.S. political and economic dominance, to induct six new countries into their group: Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. One way the BRICS hope to achieve its goals is to undermine the...

America’s Debt Remains Our Biggest Threat

by Ron Paul | Aug 23, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles

Congress’ top priority this fall will be passing legislation funding the government and avoiding a “shutdown.” As of this writing, it appears unlikely that the Republican-controlled House will be able to make a deal with President Biden and the Senate Democrats on a long-term spending bill. Instead, they will likely pass a short-term funding bill to give themselves more time to reach agreement on a longer-term bill. Any bipartisan agreement is unlikely to reduce government spending or begin to pay down, or stop the growth of, the over $32 trillion national debt, which the Congressional...

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