William Astore

August 25, 2019

I recently read an article on Rocky Bleier’s return to Vietnam, the subject of a documentary on ESPN. Rocky Bleier played on the Pittsburgh Steelers football team in the 1970s, when the Steelers were at their finest. Before that, he was drafted into the Army and was wounded in combat in Vietnam. Doctors thought he’d […]

Daniel Larison

August 22, 2019

Originally appeared at The American Conservative. Trump repeated his outrageous anti-Semitic statement yesterday: President Trump said Wednesday that Jewish Americans who vote for Democratic candidates are “very disloyal to Israel,” expanding on his remarks from the previous day and dismissing criticism that his remarks were anti-Semitic. “I think if you vote for a Democrat, you […]

Eric Garris

August 20, 2019

Veterans are coming home from the War on Terror and suffering from the horrific effects of burn pits. Instead of receiving support from the VA—America’s veterans have found they need to fight a new battle at home with an unexpected enemy—bureaucracy. Free the People sat down with Kelley Beaucar Vlahos of The American Conservative, who […]

Daniel Larison

August 19, 2019

Originally appeared at The American Conservative. Matt Lee reports on the Trump administration obsessive use of sanctions: Call it the diplomacy of coercion. The Trump administration is aggressively pursuing economic sanctions as a primary foreign policy tool to an extent unseen in decades, or perhaps ever. Many are questioning the results even as officials insist […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

August 19, 2019

Departing Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats sent Congress a letter requesting that several features of the misnamed USA FREEDOM Act be made permanent, allowing the US government to spy in Americans in perpetuity. The Trump Administration wants to be able to intercept phone calls and text messages as well as snoop into business records […]

Dave DeCamp

August 19, 2019

Abby Martin and Mike Prysner of the Empire Files teamed up with Palestinian journalists on the ground in Gaza to produce Gaza Fights For Freedom. The documentary covers the Great March of Return protests at the Gaza border that have been going on since March 2018. Martin does an excellent job as the narrator and […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

August 15, 2019

The US government claim that US sanctions do not affect medicines and humanitarian assistance to Iran is a bold-faced lie. They make the manufacture of medicines in Iran nearly impossible and they make the cost of medicines beyond the reach of Iranians by disrupting the supply chain of raw materials. US sanctions policy kills innocents […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

August 14, 2019

The 2011 US attack on Libya to “save the people” from Gadaffi was an entirely manufactured narrative with Hillary Clinton’s weaponized State Department, a chief author of the lies. Libya’s population continues to suffer endless war and terrorism from a US intervention that only benefited al-Qaeda and gun runners to Syria and beyond. On today’s […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

August 13, 2019

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 promised a departure. And election season is […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

August 12, 2019

Trade war with US, Hong Kong protests showing no signs of slowing – is China on the verge of a collapse? If the collapse does come, what next? Are America’s fingerprints on the protests, as China claims? Former Reagan Administration official and former Tune in to today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Reprinted from The Ron […]