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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...

Will the Federal Reserve Interfere in the 2024 Election?

by Ron Paul | Aug 8, 2023 | Featured Articles, Politics

Early in 2017, Senator Chuck Schumer stated that then-newly elected President Donald Trump was dumb to be antagonizing the intelligence community because “they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you.” Senator Schumer seems to have been onto something, given the possible involvement of U.S. national security officials in the various attempts to remove President Trump from office and then sabotage his reelection campaign. As powerful as the intelligence agencies are, there is another secretive government institution that also has great ability to harm, or help, politicians: the Federal...

Is Your Child’s School ‘Woke’? Consider Homeschooling

by Ron Paul | Jul 25, 2023 | Featured Articles

“Woke” culture has become so prominent in the American education system that it would not be surprising to learn that schools were replacing the once popular rhyme “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” with “sticks and stones may break my bones but opinions I disagree with can make me feel unsafe so they must be silenced.” Take the case of 12-year-old Liam Morrison, a student at Nichols Middle School in Middleborough, Massachusetts. This March, Liam was told to change his shirt or be sent home. School staff are reported to have said his shirt targeted a...

Weaponization of Politics, an American Tradition

by Ron Paul | Jun 27, 2023 | Featured Articles, Politics

President Donald Trump is hardly the first political figure who has had the legal and policy processes weaponized against him. In fact, there is a long and shameful history of U.S. politicians and bureaucrats weaponizing governmental powers against their political opponents. The First Amendment was not even a decade old when fear of influence on America by French agents was used to support the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts. This outlawed “false, scandalous, and malicious writing” against the US government, Congress, or the president and made it illegal to conspire “to oppose any...

Our Country Desperately Needs a Peace President

by Ron Paul | Jun 20, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Most people agree that we are closer to nuclear war than at any time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Some would even argue that we are closer now than we were in those fateful days, when Soviet missiles in Cuba almost triggered a nuclear war between the U.S. and the USSR. In those days we were told that we were in a life-or-death struggle with communism and thus could not cede a square foot of territory or the dominoes would fall one-by-one until the “Reds” ruled over us. That crisis was very real to me, as I was drafted into the military in the middle of the U.S./USSR standoff over...

The Democrats vs. Trump: A Bad Horror Movie?

by Ron Paul | Jun 14, 2023 | Featured Articles, Politics

The Democrats and Donald Trump reminds me of a bad horror movie, where the hapless protagonists only make the monster stronger with each attempt to eliminate it. So goes the Democrats’ endless attempts to finally rid America of the “scourge” of Donald Trump. Thanks to the Durham Report we now know they started even before Trump was elected president. Hillary Clinton’s campaign—with the full knowledge of the candidate and the sitting president, Barack Obama—cooked up a “dirty trick” to portray Trump as an agent of Russia in their effort to deny Trump the White House. When that didn’t work...