Section: Ron Paul Institute (USA)
Much Ado About Russia
Right-wing and left-wing interventionists and interventionist mainstream-press commentators are up in arms over President Trump’s decision to ease economic sanctions against Russia in connection with the Russian government’s agreement to supply diesel fuel to the United States. The notion is that nothing — not even the midterms — must...
Europe’s Diesel Winter Is Coming, and Washington Is About to Make It Worse
Saudi Arabia went looking for allies against Ansar Allah, and so far it has gotten statements of support. Egypt has declared its readiness to back the Kingdom, but its statement does not commit to any military involvement. Pakistan and Turkey have pledged troops under the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement signed in August, but both governments say...
Tucker Carlson—A Really Courageous Journalist
Tucker Carlson is the most courageous journalist on the national scene in this Country today. He has marched to the beat of a different drum on Covid, the January 6th protests, genocide in Gaza, immigration, the wars in Iraq, Iran and Ukraine and lately has taken on the President of the United States, and has been right in every instance. In the...
Vice President J.D. Vance’s Deceptive ‘Antiwar’ Campaign Speech
J.D. Vance is approaching the halfway point of his term as vice president in an administration that has committed the United States to wars in locations from Ukraine to Venezuela to Somalia to Iran and beyond. All the while, the administration has threatened sending the military into other places across the world including Mexico, Greenland, and...
Trump’s Fact-free Diatribe on the Price of Oil
Another day and another fact-free diatribe by the president of the United States. Trump went on his Truth Social (where truth is a rare commodity) and said Democrats have closed down the nation’s refinery capacity, and this is the reason diesel and gas prices are skyrocketing. Here’s what Trump didn’t tell you: recent closures...
Britain Leads Western Media’s Demise Through ‘Fear Porn’ Narrative
Ian Proud’s arrest by secret police at a London airport marks a new low in how far the deep state can go to control a false narrative. But it also shows a new level of fear. As mad as it sounds, it does appear that Western European nations at least are preparing themselves to go to war with Russia at some point in the not-too-distant...
American Soul-Searching after the Iraq Withdrawal
In March 2003, the US Empire invaded and occupied Iraq under the rubric of “Operation Iraqi Freedom.” Last week, twenty-three years later, the last US troops have been withdrawn from Iraq. I think almost every American would agree with one thing about that particular foreign war: It did not bring freedom to the Iraqi people, at least not freedom...
The Rise And…Rise Of ‘Color Revolutions’
It’s rather forgotten today how Washington’s post-9/11 imperial adventurism was not restricted to military intervention. A core component of the Bush administration’s “Freedom Agenda” – under the auspices of which calamitous wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere were waged – was overt sponsorship of civil society-led coups...
The Faulty Premises Underlying Europeans’ ‘War on Russia’ Hyperventilation
Past days have seen the European political classes turning up the volume to maximum on clearly concerted – and shared – speaking-notes: “War with Russia is coming; Russia intends to strike NATO; we must prepare; stock up on bottled water, tinned food, and be ready to offer your children to military conscription” – “Many will die; but it is their...
Trump’s Ukraine Peace Push: Why There’s No Need to Negotiate Crimea and Donbas
President Trump’s emissaries shuttled from Moscow to Kyiv seeking a way to end the Ukraine war. Afterward, Trump negotiator Jared Kushner explained, “…the hardest issue is still territory.” That dispute centers on Crimea and Donbas. These areas have been points of territorial intransigence for Ukraine and Russia. However, there is a way to...
