Section: Ron Paul Institute (USA)
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...
War Watch: The Storm Cone
“This Is the midnight – let no star“Delude us – dawn is very far.“This is the tempest long foretold“Slow to make head but sure to hold.”Rudyard Kipling, England’s greatest poet of Empire, who then became the unwilling prophet and witness of that empire’s catastrophe and coming dissolution, published that frightening warning in 1932,...
The Wrong War: Trump Blames Kyiv for a Diesel Crisis His Own Iran War Triggered
On 14 September 2026, with American diesel having crossed six dollars a gallon for the first time in history, President Trump settled the question of blame in a single sentence posted to social media: “The World’s Diesel price rise is mostly caused by the Russia/Ukraine War, not Iran.” A day earlier, at his golf resort in Doonbeg, Ireland,...
The Crippling Effects of Unnecessary War
In California, gas stations are facing a unique challenge. The station signs are only configured to go up to $9.99 per gallon and at several stations the price of diesel has reached that maximum. Diesel prices are higher than they have ever been in history. Worse, according to some news reports the advertising of the maximum price of $9.99 per...
The Definition of Insanity
Albert Einstein is credited with saying, “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Whether he actually said it or not, the definition stands. This definition also very well describes the Trump Administration’s war with Iran. According to media reports, President Trump was...
The CIA’s John Ratcliffe Goes to Moscow
Last Monday the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director (DCI) John Ratcliffe and his retinue boarded a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster transport plane at Joint Base Andrews airfield in Maryland, stopped presumably to refuel at the Riga airport in NATO member Latvia, and then flew on to land at Vnukovo International Airport, one of the four...
Some Shattering Illusions of Our Declining Empire
Now that the lofty 250th-anniversary rhetoric about the greatness of our country has faded, it is time to face the reality of our country’s actual behavior. The US fashions itself as a generous and benevolent world leader enforcing the “rules-based order”—a deceptive construct used by globalist elites to bully other countries. The rules are...
Will Congress Reenact the McCarran Act?
Now that the Trump administration is telling America that communism, once again, poses a grave threat to US “national security,” the question naturally arises: Will the US government revive the programs that protected us from the Reds during the 45 years of the national-security establishment’s old Cold War racket? If so, right at the top...
