Ron Paul on Escalation: US/Iran Exchange Fire As Yet Another ‘Breakthrough’ Announced

May 28, 2026

On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Is it really a breakthrough this time, or just more market manipulation? The pattern has been obvious: talk up a deal and oil drops then threaten “annihilation” and it rises. Is this diplomacy, saber rattling, or more market manipulation? Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.

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Double Standards of Diplomacy

May 28, 2026

On May 22, Russia accused Ukraine of deadly attack on student dormitory in the Luhansk region. More than 20 people were killed and about 40 were injured, many of them young women. All of this is painfully reminiscent of the deadly US missile attack on a school in Minab, Iran, in February 2026. The strike […]

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Ron Paul on a Silver Lining: Iran War Ends US Military Occupation of Middle East

May 27, 2026

On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: President Trump’s war of choice on Iran has been an unmitigated disaster. However for those of us opposed to the global US military empire the silver lining is that a US return to its military bases throughout the Middle East is extremely doubtful. Their vulnerability has been indisputably demonstrated […]

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John Mearsheimer on The Iran Roller Coaster

May 27, 2026

Reprinted from John’s Substack:  On 26 May 2026, I was on “Judging Freedom” talking with the Judge about Trump’s constantly changing rhetoric about whether he is going to re-start the bombing campaign against Iran or is about to sign a peace agreement with Tehran. We also talked about the downside of Trump conducting diplomacy in […]

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Global Sumud Flotilla Urges Probe of US Complicity in Members’ Abduction and Torture by Israel

May 27, 2026

Testimonies published Tuesday from activists, journalists, medical professionals, and others who took part in the latest international flotilla attempting to break Israel’s genocidal siege of Gaza called for an investigation into US complicity in their illegal high-seas abduction and alleged torture, sexual assault, and other abuse by Israeli forces. “As testimonies from the 428 participants […]

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William Astore on Tulsi Gabbard’s Resignation as DNI

May 26, 2026

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Right before Memorial Day Weekend, Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, announced her resignation. Her husband has a rare form of bone cancer, she said, which was the driver of her decision. President Trump praised her for her service. What are we to make of this? […]

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Is the Navy Over, and What Should We Do About It

May 26, 2026

On March 2nd of this year, an article 6,000 Souls, was posted in Antiwar.com blog speculating on what would happen if our Iranian enemy were able to fatally strike one of our aircraft carriers and send it to the bottom. This has not happened, and for a good reason. It does seem the navy knows […]

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Ron Paul on Israel’s Gaza-ization of Lebanon

May 26, 2026

On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Every time Trump talks peace with Iran, Israel intensifies its bombing of Lebanon. Parts of the country resemble Gaza, with all buildings flattened and civilians murdered. Trump “forbade” Israel from attacking Lebanon last month. Israel scoffed. Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.

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Rape, Assault, and Abuse Are Signature Israeli Government Values

May 26, 2026

It has been only 72 hours since our colleagues on the Gaza flotilla arrived in Istanbul, Turkiye to tell of the rape, assaults and abuse they endured from the Israeli military on their sailboats, security personnel on the prison ship, civilian police at the Ashdod processing center and guards at the notoriously abusive Ktzi’ot prison. […]

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Installing Peace in Washington State

May 26, 2026

On May 23rd, in Poulsbo, WA, hundreds of people joined several dozen pacifist Buddhist monks from the Japanese based Nipponzan Myohoji religious order to install a Peace Pagoda immediately adjacent to the Kitsap Bangor U.S. naval base. An estimated 1,700 Trident nuclear weapons housed at the base have an annihilatory capacity unimaginably more terrible than the destruction […]

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