Neocon tears last week over the plight of the Kurds has turned to furious anger with news that yesterday a deal was inked between the Kurds and the Syrian government. Syrian Arab Army forces are rushing into formerly Kurd-held areas to stave off a Turk incursion into...
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Ron and Dan: Defending Saudi Arabia… Hardly Our Moral Responsibility!
President Trump’s decision to deploy more US troops (and more failed Patriot Missile batteries) signals the US Administration’s continuing determination to back Saudi Arabia in its aggressive war against Yemen. But what does it mean that the mighty US air superiority...
Ron and Dan: Can Trump Get Out of Afghanistan?
With a peace agreement between the US and the Taliban nearly completed, will President Trump be able to do what his two predecessors were unable to do – end the US military’s 18 year war on Afghanistan? Neocons at home are screaming that we must stay, Trump has...
68% Percent of Americans Would Reject Trump’s Mideast ‘Deal of the Century’
Grant F. Smith: To gauge U.S. public opinion about the “Peace to Prosperity” plan, IRmep put a national sample of American adults in the shoes of Palestinian refugees, notably the 750,000 forcibly expelled during Israel’s creation and their descendants living in Gaza,...
Episode 276: What Causes Poverty, and what Causes Prosperity w/ Per Bylund
58 Minutes Rated PG-13 Per Bylund returns to the show to explain why poverty is the default state, and how prosperity is the goal. He discusses the best ways to make prosperity happen and then answers some questions on what a truly free and open society would be like...
Ron and Dan: Venezuela Peace Talks Open In Norway; US Neocons Raging Mad!
Reprinted from the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. The last time negotiations were planned between Venezuelan government and opposition forces, opposition leader (and US puppet) Guaido launched his ill-fated coup and the talks were scuttled. Today a new...
Jacob Hornberger for President?
Jacob Hornberger appears to be laying the groundwork for a 2020 presidential run as a Libertarian. That is the subject of a Monday article at Independent Political Report that notes Hornberger, who is the president of the libertarian Future of Freedom Foundation...
Ron and Dan: Iraq Lies Redux: Trump Admin Claims Iran/al-Qaeda Alliance
In an astonishing Washington Times article this week, unnamed Trump Administration officials (who may or may not be called “John Bolton”) are claiming that Iran, which has been battling al-Qaeda in Syria for nearly four years, is actually secretly allied with al-Qaeda...
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Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...
