The United States over the weekend denied travel to a former British ambassador, Craig Murray, who was also a British diplomat for some 30 years, and is the author of several books. Murray has stood twice for election to the House of Commons. He was...
Governments’ Fury Reflects Success of Telegram App’s Privacy Features
While everyone gives lip-service to protecting customers' privacy these days, many major US tech companies are known to be in bed with the NSA on wholesale surveillance. It's tough to know, then, how seriously to take security promises from such companies. A good rule...
War Pabulum: The Perils of War as a Master Narrative
I was reading the novelist Ursula K. Le Guin and came across the following commentary by her:“A hero whose heroism consists of killing people is uninteresting to me, and I detest the hormonal war orgies of our visual media … War as a moral metaphor is...
Colin Kaepernick’s Bold Stand
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has refused to stand during the playing of The Star Spangled Banner, traditionally played before most football games.Like Gabby Douglas’ “refusal” to put her hand over her heart during the playing of the United States’...
Some Hindsight: The Lies That Dumped America Into the Syrian War
Checking out the news these days, it might seem pretty clear why the U.S. is at war in Syria: destroy ISIS. That is almost certainly the way the two main presidential candidates will see it during their upcoming first debate, in a rare point of agreement.The funny...
The Ignorance of George P. Shultz
Here is an excerpt from George P. Shultz’s book, Learning from Experience, due this fall from Hoover Institution Press."They will be more effective if they are mostly Arab boots. The challenge is to develop a force in the region that, in coordination with us,...
Traveling To Cuba: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Yesterday history was made, with the first commercial flight from the US to Cuba in more than 50 years. Here is one real foreign policy achievement of President Obama, but in fact you cannot oppose an idea whose time has come. In today's Ron Paul Liberty Report we...
Homeland Security To Save Us From ‘Rigged Elections’?
The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly ready to announce that US elections are part of the "critical infrastructure" of the United States and thus under the Department's control. Part of the pretext for this move is news that voting registers in Arizona and...
Please Get Your Russia Conspiracies Straight
Another public hacking episode is in the news this week, and naturally, Russia is being blamed for it.Not that there appears to be much evidence as of yet that Russia is truly responsible. And such evidence is unlikely to be found, even if they did do it. Hacking...
Tickets Going Fast! Ron Paul’s Conference Update: September 10
Ron Paul and his Liberty Report co-host Daniel McAdams sat down to discuss some of the final preparations for the "Peace and Prosperity 2016" conference to take place on September 10th in Washington, D.C. What's the latest? Who will be speaking? What to expect? Watch...

